The NYT, apparently following the Giller Prize's lead of showering praise on the obscure, the unorderable, and the absurdly expensive, coughs up its Best-of-the-Year list for 2010. (With one brief concession to popular taste).
The Guardian has a longer and much more interesting list. Unsurprisingly, that Franzen guy is on it, too.
The PFB Best-of-2010 list isn't really objective or scientific, but here it is anyway:
John Valliant, The Tiger
Lydia Davis (trans.), Madame Bovary
Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
Michael Lewis, The Big Short
Daniel Clowes, Wilson
Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?
Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad
Most of these are here on the shelves right now.
