People Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2010

A Readerlist submitted in December 2010 by BookMan, based on the list of titles in People Magazine's year-end December 27, 2010 issue. You can see other Readerlists and submit your own reading/viewing/listening recommendations at the Readerlists page on BookGuide!

Room
by Emma Donoghue






The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebececca Skloot [Biography Lacks]






Freedom
by Jonathan Franzen






Life
by Keith Richards [Music 781.66 Richards]






I Remember Nothing
by Nora Ephron [305.244 Eph]






A Visit From the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan






Unbroken
by Laura Hillenbrand [Biography Zamperini]






Just Kids
by Patti Smith [Music 781.66 Smith]






Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1
by Mark Twain [Biography Clemens]






One Day
by David Nicholls

New Readerlist - Time's Top 10 Books of 2010

Library user BookMan, submitted a new Readerlist today via the Readerlists page on BookGuide.

He suggested that a list be posted of Time Magazine's recently released Top 10 Fiction and Non-Fiction Books of 2010. Click the link to see what Time considered the best of this past year, and jump straight to our catalog to request those titles owned by the libraries!

New York Times Book Reviews' 10 Best Books of 2009

In their December 13th, 2009 issue, the New York Times Book Review listed their Ten Best Books of 2009.

The list included five fiction and five non-fiction titles, of which the Lincoln City Libraries own most. Here's the list, with hotlinks into the library catalog for the titles already owned. The others will be ordered!

Fiction

Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert

Non-Fiction

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka

New Reader List - People Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2008

Another new Reader List recently submitted to BookGuide:

People Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2008
submitted in December by BookMan

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch [158.1 Pau]
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher [Biography Fisher]
The Snowball by Alice Schroeder [Biography Buffet]
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan [Not currently owned by Lincoln City Libraries]
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris [817 Sed]
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

People Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2007

People Magazine, in their issue of January 7, 2008, released a list of what their book critic(s) considered to be the Top 10 Books of 2007. Here they are, hotlinked into the library catalog, so that you can check on their immediate availability:

The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown [B D541b]

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah [966.404 Bea]

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis [B Sch75m]

A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd

Away by Amy Bloom

What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling