What’s the best novel you read this year? Share it in the comments and we’ll add it to our new literary mixtape of the Best Novels of 2010.
This GalleyCat editor makes an annual mixtape (CD actually, but the idea is the same) collecting his favorite songs from the year–allowing his friends and family to sample some of the year’s best music.
We love reading “Best Books of …” lists, but we want to build a lists focused exclusively on sample chapters. Using your suggestions, we will create a giant directory linking to sample pages from your favorite novels from 2010–allowing readers to sample the books like a literary mixtape.
Check out our Best YA Books of 2010 as well. Share your favorite novel in the comment section. We’ll add it to our list and link to a free sample (if available). Excellent cassette tape photo via Kumar McMillan.
GalleyCat Readers Pick the Best Novels of 2010: A Literary Mixtape with Links to Free Book Excerpts
The Vaults by Toby Ball
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman
The Glass Rainbow by James Lee Burke
Take the Monkey and Run by Karen Cantwell
The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton
Our Burden’s Light by Patrick Thomas Casey
Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Room by Emma Donoghue
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
The Hilliker Curse by James Ellroy
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Heidegger’s Glasses by Thaisa Frank
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
Bloodroot by Amy Greene
Vampire Empire by Clay & Susan Griffith
Deep Creek by Dana Hand
31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan
Blame by Michelle Huneven
Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani
Misadventure by Millard Kaufman
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
The Instructions by Adam Levin
The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart
The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
The Unidentified by Rae Mariz
Matterhorn By Karl Marlantes
C: A Novel by Tom McCarthy
Terminal Policy by Liam McCurry
Solar by Ian McEwan
Driving on the Rim by Tom McGuane
Kraken by China Mieville
The Rafters by AC Montgomery
The Sweep of the Second Hand by Dean Monti
Walking to Gatlinburg by Howard Frank Mosher
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
Nemesis by Philip Roth
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
Little Green by Loretta Stinson
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Heretic’s Wife by Brenda Rickman Vantrease
The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
True Confections by Katharine Weber
Pike by Benjamin Whitmer
Savages by Don Winslow
The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai by Ruiyan Xu