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Magill's Literary Annual 2010
Table of Contents

A
A. Lincoln: A Biography
    — Ronald C. White, Jr.
The Age of Wonder
    — Richard Holmes
All Other Nights
    — Dara Horn
American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone
    — D. D. Guttenplan
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
    — Adam Gopnik
The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
    — Jean Hatzfeld
The Anthologist
    — Nicholson Baker
Arctic Chill
    — Arnaldur Indridason
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution
    — Denis Dutton

B
Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the R.A.F.
    — Stefan Aust
Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock
    — Pete Fornatale
Bad Mother
    — Ayelet Waldman
The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography
    — Robert Crawford
The Believers
    —  Zoë Heller
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
    — Timothy Egan
Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience
    — Jeremy Mynott
Blame
    — Michelle Huneven
Blood's a Rover
    — James Ellroy
The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys
    — Lilian Pizzichini
The Book of Samuel: Essays on Poetry and Imagination
    — Mark Rudman
The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World
    — Paul Collins

C
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
    — Timothy R. Pauketat
Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems
    — John Felstiner
The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal
    — Julie Greene
Castle
    — J. Robert Lennon
Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero
    — Peter Morris
Cheever: A Life
    — Blake Bailey
Chronic
    — D. A. Powell
Chronic City
    — Jonathan Lethem
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
    — Bill Streever
Collected Poems
    — C. P. Cavafy
Columbine
    — Dave Cullen
The Cradle
    — Patrick Somerville
Crossers
    — Philip Caputo

D
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
    — Morris Dickstein
Darwin's Sacred Cause
    –Adrian Desmond and James Moore
Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
    — Christopher Andrew
Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South
    — Lacy K. Ford
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
    — Amiri Baraka
Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto
    — Mark Helprin
Don't Cry: Stories
    — Mary Gaitskill
The Dynamite Club
    — John Merriman

E
Eating Animals
    — Jonathan Safran Foer
The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
    — Chinua Achebe
1848: Year of Revolution
    — Mike Rapport
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
    — Gordon Wood
Endpoint, and Other Poems
    — John Updike
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England
    — Keith Thomas
Every Man Dies Alone
    — Hans Fallada
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
    — Wells Tower
Evidence
    — Mary Oliver

F
The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food
    — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking in California
    — Jonah Raskin
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
    — Brad Gooch
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
    — Greg Grandin
The Future of Liberalism
    — Alan Wolfe

G
Gabriel García Márquez: A Life
    — Gerald Martin
A Gate at the Stairs
    — Lorrie Moore
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China
    — Jay Taylor
Generosity: An Enhancement
    — Richard Powers
Genesis
    — Bernard Beckett
The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
    — Joan Roughgarden
Good Book
    — David Plotz
A Good Fall: Stories
    — Ha Jin

H
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
    — Tracy Daugherty
The Hindus: An Alternative History
    — Wendy Doniger
Homer & Langley
    — E. L. Doctorow
Horse Soldiers
    — Doug Stanton
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
    — William D. Cohan
The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
    — Jonathan Lyons
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War
    — Alexander Waugh
The Housekeeper and the Professor     –Yoko Ogawa
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
    — Adrian Goldsworthy
How to Paint a Dead Man
    — Sarah Hall
The Humbling
    — Philip Roth

I
Important Artifacts
    — Leanne Shapton
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
    — Daniyal Mueenuddin
In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-Wu
    — Wei Ying-Wu
Inherent Vice
    — Thomas Pynchon
Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia
    — Jonathan Brent
Invisible
    — Paul Auster
It Will Come to Me
    — Emily Fox Gordon
Italian Shoes
    — Henning Mankell

J
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
    — Geoff Dyer
Judas: A Biography
    — Susan Gubar
A Jury of Her Peers
    — Elaine Showalter

K
The Kindly Ones
    — Jonathan Littell
King's Dream
    — Eric J. Sundquist
Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling
    — Charles Allen
Koestler
    — Michael Scammell

L
Laish
    — Aharon Appelfeld
Lark and Termite
    — Jayne Anne Phillips
Last Night in Twisted River
    — John Irving
Last Rites
    — John Lukacs
Laura Rider's Masterpiece
    — Jane Hamilton
Le Cid and The Liar
    — Pierre Corneille; Richard Wilbur, trans.
Leaving India
    — Minal Hajratwala
Leavings
    — Wendell Berry
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940
    — Samuel Beckett
Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone
    — Lucas John Mix
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
    — Peter Singer
Lit: A Memoir
    — Mary Karr
The Little Stranger
    — Sarah Waters
Lords of the Sea
    — John R. Hale
The Lost Art of Gratitude
    — Alexander McCall Smith
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
    — David Grann
The Lost Symbol
    — Dan Brown
Love and Summer
    — William Trevor
Lowboy
    — John Wray

M
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
    — Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham
Manhood for Amateurs
    — Michael Chabon
Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
    — Tristram Hunt
The Mechanics of Falling, and Other Stories
    — Catherine Brady
Mercury Dressing
    — J. D. McClatchy
Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary
    — Miri Rubin
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
    — Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
The Museum of Innocence
    — Orhan Pamuk
My Father's Tears, and Other Stories
    — John Updike

N
Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity
    — Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor
Nature's Ghosts
    — Mark V. Barrow, Jr.
A New Literary History of America
    — Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, eds.
Nine Dragons
    — Michael Connelly
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
    — Dan Baum
Nobody Move
    — Denis Johnson

O
On Moving
    — Louise DeSalvo
Once on a Moonless Night
    — Dai Sijie
Once the Shore: Stories
    — Paul Yoon
One D.O.A., One on the Way
    — Mary Robison
One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict
    — Benny Morris
The Original of Laura
    — Vladimir Nabokov
Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation
    — Ludovico Ariosto; David Slavitt, trans.
Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue
    — William Logan

P
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
    — Rebecca Solnit
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
    — Martha A. Sandweiss
Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
    — Flora Fraser
Poems, 1959-2009
    — Frederick Seidel
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
    — Terry Teachout
Practical Water
    — Brenda Hillman
The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger
    — Alec Wilkinson

Q
A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq
    — Mark Moyar

R
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life
    — Carol Sklenicka
The Reason for Crows: A Story of Kateri Tekakwitha
    — Diane Glancy
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
    — Christopher Caldwell
Rhyming Life and Death
    — Amos Oz

S
Sag Harbor
    — Colson Whitehead
The Scarecrow
    — Michael Connelly
The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon
    — Veronica Buckley
The Seven Deadly Sins, and Other Poems
    — David R. Slavitt
Shop Class as Soul Craft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
    — Matthew B. Crawford
A Short History of Women
    — Kate Walbert
The Siege
    — Ismail Kadare
The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels
    — Janet Soskice
The Skating Rink
    — Roberto Bolaño
Slang: The People's Poetry
    — Michael Adams
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
    — Patrick Radden Keefe
The Song Is You
    — Arthur Phillips
South of Broad
    — Pat Conroy
The Spartacus War
    — Barry Strauss
Stone's Fall
    — Iain Pears
A Strange Eventful History
    — Michael Holroyd
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
    — Graham Farmelo
Strength in What Remains
    — Tracy Kidder
Summer World: A Season of Bounty
    — Bernd Heinrich
Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson
    — Wil Haygood

T
Talking About Detective Fiction
    — P. D. James
The Tanners
    — Robert Walser
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
    — Alexander McCall Smith
The Thing Around Your Neck
    — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tiepolo Pink
    — Roberto Calasso
To Be Read in Five Hundred Years
    — Albert Goldbarth
Too Much Happiness: Stories
    — Alice Munro
The Tourist
    — Olen Steinhauer
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
    — Keith Waldrop
Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary
    — Bertrand M. Patenaude
True Compass: A Memoir
    — Edward M. Kennedy
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
    — Kevin Wilson

U
The Unfinished Poems
    — C. P. Cavafy
Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
    — Robert J. Norrell

V
The Vagrants
    — Yiyun Li
A Very Brief History of Eternity
    — Carlos Eire
A Village Life
    — Louise Glück

W
Wanting
    — Richard Flanagan
Wedlock
    — Wendy Moore
When China Rules the World
    — Martin Jacques
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
    — Jon Krakauer
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
    — Benjamin Moser
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
    — Douglas Brinkley
The Winter Vault
    — Anne Michaels
The Women
    — T. Coraghessan Boyle
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West
    — Anthony Grafton

XYZ
The Year of the Flood
    — Margaret Atwood
Zeitoun
    — Dave Eggers


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