Category: Best Books of 2010s
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2011 Novels
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. These are shorter reviews of good reads published in 2011. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (2011) The notorious hired killers, the Sisters brothers, set out on one last job to track down and kill a gold miner and…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Embassytown by China Mieville
The is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Embassytown by China Miéville (2011) Avice is a human colonist on a planet at the farthest edge of navigable space populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, who returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: 11/22/63 by Stephen King
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Jake Epping, an ordinary high school teacher, discovers a portal to the past and sets out to change history by preventing the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Stephen King’s novel, 11/22/63, is not what you might expect from the master…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (2010) Jacob de Zoet is a trader with the Dutch East India Company who has come to the trading post Dejima, in the harbor of Nagasaki, Japan, in the eighteenth century.…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (2011) After learning that her colleague has died of a “fever” in the Amazon jungle, Dr. Marina Singh follows in his footsteps to learn more about the cause of his death and locate the reclusive…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (2011) Set in a wandering circus in a fantasy of the Victorian era, two master magicians pit their young protégés against each other in deadly competition. This was a simply lovely book, so carefully…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell (2010) It’s hard to believe that someone could come out with a fresh and different take on the zombie apocalypse novel, but Bell has done it here. He seamlessly combines Southern gothic tropes…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Passage by Justin Cronin
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Passage by Justin Cronin (2010) The United States is overrun by vampire-like beings infected by a genetically engineered virus. The vampires in The Passage are monsters, pure and simple — monsters with a tiny glimmer of humanity trapped deep inside.…
Shannon Turlington 