FUNNY, RUEFUL, RIDICULOUS, and wise memoir of one woman’s love affair with Russian literature and culture. A MINUS

THE POSSESSED: ADVENTURES WITH RUSSIAN BOOKS AND THE PEOPLE WHO READ THEM
Farrar Straus Giroux
2010

ENGAGING, CLEARLY PRESENTED, witty overview of quantum physics and other complex fields for non-scientists. A MINUS

THE MATCHBOX THAT ATE A FORTY-TON TRUCK: WHAT EVERYDAY THINGS TELL US ABOUT THE UNIVERSE
Faber & Faber
2010

SHAKESPEARE’S TEMPEST REIMAGINED as dystopian steampunk in an intense multivocal mashup. Amazing first novel. A MINUS

THE DREAM OF PERPETUAL MOTION
St. Martin’s Press
2010

TOUCHING, GRACEFUL memoir by a veteran writer who became a live-in grandparent after his daughter’s death. A MINUS

MAKING TOAST
Ecco
2010

TAUT, STYLISH crime caper focuses on the Scottish art world. Ian Rankin brilliant as ever, even without Rebus! A MINUS

DOORS OPEN
Reagan Arthur Books
2010

MARVELOUSLY WRITTEN memoir tells an engrossing inside story of search-and-rescue dogs and their human partners. A MINUS

SCENT OF THE MISSING: LOVE AND PARTNERSHIP WITH A SEARCH-AND-RESCUE DOG
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2010

MASTERFUL WESTERN with a noir sensibility and a memorable antihero from the always great Loren D. Estleman. A MINUS

THE BOOK OF MURDOCK (PAGE MURDOCK SERIES #8)
Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
2010

TAUT, COMPELLING CRIME caper novel is also a complex character study of a young man marked by tragedy. A MINUS

THE LOCK ARTIST
St. Martin’s Press
2010

PITCH-PERFECT TALE of a teenage boy discovering his nerdy best friend’s weird superpowers is funny, sad, real. A MINUS

THE BOY WHO COULDN’T SLEEP AND NEVER HAD TO
Vintage Books USA
2010

GLASGOW’S UNDERWORLD is at the center of this gritty, brilliantly plotted police procedural from Denise Mina. A MINUS

STILL MIDNIGHT
Reagan Arthur Books
2010