Best Books Of 2010: The Complete List

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Use the list below to browse NPR's Best Books of 2010 recommendations. Each critic's list is presented separately. Click on the article names to read our critics' comments about the books.

'2010's Best Cookbooks: Real-Life Labors Of Love'
Recommended by T. Susie Chang

In the Kitchen With a Good Appetite, by Melissa Clark, hardcover, 464 pages, Hyperion & Co., list price: $27.50

Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes From My Home to Yours, by Dorie Greenspan, hardcover, 544 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, list price: $40

One Big Table: 600 Recipes From the Nation's Best Home Cooks, Farmers, Fishermen, Pit-Masters, And Chefs, by Molly O'Neill, hardcover, 880 pages, Simon & Schuster, list price: $50

Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge: The Ultimate Guide to Mastery, With Authentic Recipes and Stories, by Grace Young, hardcover, 336 pages, Simon & Schuster, list price: $35

Flour: Spectacular Recipes From Boston's Flour Bakery + Cafe, by Joanne Chang, hardcover, 320 pages, Chronicle Books, list price: $35

The Gourmet Cookie Book: The Single Best Recipe From Each Year 1941-2009, by Gourmet magazine, hardcover, 176 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, list price: $18

The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century, by Amanda Hesser, hardcover, 932 pages, W.W. Norton & Co., list price: $40

Nigella Kitchen: Recipes From the Heart of the Home, by Nigella Lawson, hardcover, 512 pages, Hyperion & Co., list price: $35

The Food Substitutions Bible: More Than 6,500 Substitutions for Ingredients, Equipment And Techniques, by David Joachim, paperback, 696 pages, Robert Rose, list price: $24.95

'People Are Talking...About These Five Books'
Recommended by Heller McAlpin

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, hardcover, 576 pages, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, list price: $28

So Much For That by Lionel Shriver, hardcover, 448 pages, Harper, list price: $25.99

Room by Emma Donoghue, hardcover, 336 pages, Little, Brown and Co., list price: $24.99

36 Arguments For The Existence Of God by Rebecca Goldstein, hardcover, 416 pages, Pantheon, list price: $27.95

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, hardcover, 384 pages, Crown, list price: $26

'Oh, To Be Young: The Year's Best Teen Reads'
Recommended by Gayle Forman

The Sky Is Everwhere by Jandy Nelson, hardcover, 288 pages, Dial, list price: $17.99

The Thing A Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt, hardcover, 256 pages, Wendy Lamb Books, list price: $16.99

Anna And The French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins, hardcover, 384 pages, Dutton Juvenile, list price: $16.99

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver, hardcover, 480 pages, HarperCollins, list price: $17.99

The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney, hardcover, 352 pages, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, list price: $16.99

'Best Books Of Winter: Alan Cheuse Makes His List'
Recommended by Alan Cheuse

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans, hardcover, 240 pages, Riverhead Hardcover, list price: $25.95

20 Under 40: Stories From The New Yorker edited by Deborah Treisman, hardcover, 448 pages, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, list price: $16

Life Times: Stories, 1952-2007 by Nadine Gordimer, hardcover, 560 pages, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, list price: $30

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff, hardcover, 384 pages, Little, Brown and Company, list price: $29.99

The Poets Laureate Anthology by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt, hardcover, 762 pages, W. W. Norton & Company, list price: $39.95

Man In The Woods by Scott Spencer, hardcover, 320 pages, Ecco, list price: $24.99

'Best Gift Books: Art, Nature, Cute Canines'
Recommended by John McAlley

Natural History: The Ultimate Living Guide To Everything On Earth by Dorling Kindersley, hardcover, 648 pages, DK Publishing, list price: $50

Finishing The Hat; Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines And Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim, hardcover, 480 pages, Knopf, list price: $39.95

Decade by Aemmon McCabe and Terrence McNamee, hardcover, 512 pages, Phaidon Press, list price: $39.95

40: A Doonesbury Retrospective by G.B. Trudeau, hardcover, 696 pages, Andrews McMeel Publishing, list price: $100

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century by Peter Galassi, hardcover, 376 pages, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, list price: $75

Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe, hardcover, 256 pages, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, list price: $30

I Lego N.Y. by Christoph Niemann, hardcover, 32 pages, Abrams Image, list price: $14.95

I Found This Funny: My Favorite Pieces Of Humor And Some That May Not Be Funny At All by Judd Apatow, hardcover, 224 pages, McSweeney's, list price: $25

The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film by David Thomson, hardcover, 963 pages, Knopf, list price: $24.95

Barbara Kruger by Barbara Kruger, hardcover, 307 pages, Rizzoli, list price: $65 Copyright 2010 National Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

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