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Most Popular Reviews - 2010


     Here are the reviews that attracted the most interest at the complete review in 2010, first the top 50 for the year and then the top 15 each month of the year.

2010

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
  2. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
  3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
  4. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee
  5. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  6. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
  7. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
  8. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  9. Atonement, Ian McEwan
  10. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
  11. The Children's Book, A.S.Byatt
  12. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  13. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
  14. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
  15. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
  16. Snow, Orhan Pamuk
  17. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki
  18. Q & A, Vikas Swarup
  19. Saturday, Ian McEwan
  20. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki
  21. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki
  22. Solar, Ian McEwan
  23. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild
  24. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie
  25. Proof, David Auburn
  26. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
  27. The Colorado Kid, Stephen King
  28. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  29. The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell
  30. 'Art', Yasmina Reza
  31. Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier
  32. 2666, Roberto Bolaño
  33. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
  34. Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
  35. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard
  36. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
  37. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa
  38. The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick
  39. The Girl who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
  40. My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
  41. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat
  42. The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard
  43. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
  44. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin
  45. Spies, Michael Frayn
  46. Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk
  47. The Housekeeper and the Professor, Ogawa Yoko
  48. The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
  49. In Defense of Globalization, Jagdish Bhagwati
  50. The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett

      Previous month's position given in brackets.
      Not applicable ("n.a.") indicates book is new.
      "-" indicates book was not among top 50 reviews.

December, 2010

  1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (1)
  2. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen (2)
  3. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (7)
  4. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (3)
  5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (4)
  6. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (9)
  7. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (5)
  8. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (6)
  9. Atonement, Ian McEwan (8)
  10. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (17)
  11. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (11)
  12. The Wittgenstein House, Bernhard Leitner (25)
  13. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (10)
  14. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (19)
  15. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (12)

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November, 2010

  1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (3)
  2. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen (1)
  3. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (4)
  5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (5)
  6. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (9)
  7. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (6)
  8. Atonement, Ian McEwan (11)
  9. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (7)
  10. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (14)
  11. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (10)
  12. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (18)
  13. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (22)
  14. Wetlands, Charlotte Roche (-)
  15. Proof, David Auburn (15)

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October, 2010

  1. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen (n.a.)
  2. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (4)
  3. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (1)
  4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (2)
  5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (6)
  6. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (3)
  7. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (7)
  8. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (5)
  9. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (11)
  10. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (9)
  11. Atonement, Ian McEwan (12)
  12. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (39)
  13. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (22)
  14. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (15)
  15. Proof, David Auburn (21)

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September, 2010

  1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (2)
  2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (1)
  3. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (9)
  4. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (5)
  5. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (3)
  6. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (7)
  7. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (13)
  8. C, Tom McCarthy (68)
  9. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (8)
  10. The Colorado Kid, Stephen King (6)
  11. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (10)
  12. Atonement, Ian McEwan (17)
  13. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell (4)
  14. The Children's Book, A.S.Byatt (15)
  15. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (14)

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August, 2010

  1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (1)
  2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (3)
  3. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (11)
  4. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell (n.a.)
  5. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (4)
  6. The Colorado Kid, Stephen King (2)
  7. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (5)
  8. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (6)
  9. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (42)
  10. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (10)
  11. The Wittgenstein House, Bernhard Leitner (7)
  12. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson (8)
  13. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (19)
  14. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (20)
  15. The Children's Book, A.S.Byatt (24)

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July, 2010

  1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (2)
  2. The Colorado Kid, Stephen King (22)
  3. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (4)
  4. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (1)
  5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (5)
  6. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (8)
  7. The Wittgenstein House, Bernhard Leitner (6)
  8. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson (n.a.)
  9. Shivaji, James Laine (n.a.)
  10. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (7)
  11. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (10)
  12. The Girl who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson (17)
  13. I Curse the River of Time, Per Petterson (n.a.)
  14. Absence of Mind, Marilynne Robinson (20)
  15. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki (16)

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June, 2010

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (1)
  2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (2)
  3. Logicomix, Apostolos Doxiadis (-)
  4. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (4)
  5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (6)
  6. The Wittgenstein House, Bernhard Leitner (8)
  7. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (3)
  8. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (7)
  9. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (15)
  10. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (5)
  11. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (13)
  12. Atonement, Ian McEwan (9)
  13. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (14)
  14. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (34)
  15. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (11)

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May, 2010

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (1)
  2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (2)
  3. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (6)
  4. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (3)
  5. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (9)
  6. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (5)
  7. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (7)
  8. The Wittgenstein House, Bernhard Leitner (29)
  9. Atonement, Ian McEwan (10)
  10. The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard (8)
  11. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (19)
  12. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie (31)
  13. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (13)
  14. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (18)
  15. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (23)

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April, 2010

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (4)
  3. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (3)
  4. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (1)
  5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (5)
  6. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (6)
  7. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (10)
  8. The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard (45)
  9. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (9)
  10. Atonement, Ian McEwan (8)
  11. Proof, David Auburn (16)
  12. Solar, Ian McEwan (7)
  13. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (22)
  14. Purge, Sofi Oksanen (n.a.)
  15. The Infinities, John Banville (-)

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March, 2010

  1. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (1)
  2. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  3. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (14)
  4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (4)
  5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (3)
  6. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (7)
  7. Solar, Ian McEwan (11)
  8. Atonement, Ian McEwan (12)
  9. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (8)
  10. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (6)
  11. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (10)
  12. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (9)
  13. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (13)
  14. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (5)
  15. The Solitude of Prime Numbers, Paolo Giordano (n.a.)

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February, 2010

  1. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (1)
  2. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  3. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (3)
  4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (4)
  5. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (5)
  6. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (6)
  7. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (8)
  8. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (7)
  9. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (9)
  10. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild (41)
  11. Solar, Ian McEwan (n.a.)
  12. Atonement, Ian McEwan (10)
  13. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (13)
  14. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (12)
  15. Proof, David Auburn (26)

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January, 2010

  1. Enter a Free Man, Tom Stoppard (1)
  2. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  3. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (9)
  4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (7)
  5. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (4)
  6. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (8)
  7. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (3)
  8. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (6)
  9. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (5)
  10. Atonement, Ian McEwan (12)
  11. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (10)
  12. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (20)
  13. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (23)
  14. The Children's Book, A.S.Byatt (11)
  15. Saturday, Ian McEwan (16)


     (See also the current bestseller list, and for annual and older lists, see the 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, and 2009 lists.)

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