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2010 New Book Releases

Books Coming in 2010

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2010 has been an excellent year for books. Check out the titles released this year in each of the months below, and be sure to check out our Best Books of 2010 list below.

January 2010 Book Releases

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde© Penguin
Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey takes place in a society in which the perception of color denotes social standing; In Joshua Ferris' The Unnamed, a successful lawyer and family man may lose everything to a bizarre illness; plus T.C. Boyle returns with a new book of short stories.

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February 2010 Book Releases

Point Omega by Don DeLillo© Simon & Schuster
In The Infinities, Man Booker Prize winning author John Banville mixes the affairs of humans with those of the gods, while Don DeLillo returns with Point Omega, a novel about a secret war adviser and a young filmmaker.

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March 2010 - New Releases

The Ask by Sam Lipsyte© Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A new Walter Mosley mystery, a Chang-Rae Lee historical fiction that begins during the Korean War, House Rules by Jodi Picoult, and The Ask, a new novel from Sam Lipsyte (Home Land) are forthcoming in March.

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April 2010 - New Releases

Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel© Spiegel & Grau

Yann Martel's follow-up to Life of Pi, new novels from Anne Lamott and Isabel Allende, entomologist E.O. Wilson's Anthill, a new biography (in five days) of David Foster Wallace, and more.

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May 2010 - New Releases

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson© Knopf

A long-awaited new novel from Martin Amis, Philip Pullman's controversial The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, the final book in Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy, and more coming to hold us rapt and fill our idle hours in May.

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June 2010 - New Releases

'Imperial Bedrooms' by Bret Easton Ellis© Doubleday

Bret Easton Ellis' sequel to Less Than Zero, an historical epic from the author of Cloud Atlas, Ann Brashares (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) new adult novel, and a post-apocalyptic, science fiction blockbuster that is being compared to Stephen King's The Stand are some of the great books we'll be reading in June 2010.

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July 2010 - New Releases

'The Four Fingers of Death' by Rick Moody© Little, Brown & Company

July's offerings include futuristic absurdist comedies from both Rick Moody and Gary Shteyngart, literary offerings from Allegra Goodman and Ayelet Waldman, and Science magazine reporter Sam Kean's memoir of the Periodic Table of the Elements.

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August 2010 - New Releases

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen© FSG Books

New books in August 2010 include new historical fiction from Phillipa Gregory and Per Petterson, a fascinating work of suspense from Karin Fossum, Rosencrans Baldwin's (The Morning News) poignant debut novel, and a brand new scientific investigation from my favorite popular science author, Mary Roach. Oh yeah, and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom.

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September 2010 - New Releases

Dogfight by Matt Burgess© Knopf Doubleday

New novels from Sara Gruen and Scarlett Thomas, humor from David Sedaris and David Rakoff, science fiction you've come to love from WIlliam Gibson, and new, experimental work from 5 under 35 winner, Charles Yu.

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October 2010 - New Releases

Upcoming Books in October 2010© Riverhead

Nicole Krauss and Dinaw Mengestu were both selected for The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 list, "twenty young writers who capture the inventiveness and the vitality of contemporary American fiction," and both have new novels in October, as does Philip Roth. Nonfiction books in October include must-reads from Oliver Sacks, Bill Bryson, and Steven Johnson.

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November 2010 - New Releases

The Instructions by Adam Levin© McSweeney's

New releases in November include novels from Walter Mosley, Paul Auster, Salman Rushdie, Gunter Grass, and Orhan Pamuk, a posthumous novel from Jim Carroll, and The Instructions, perhaps the best novel McSweeney's has ever published. 

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