Top five of oh ten
It’s that time of year again, when it is acceptable for elitists to boast of their hipster cred. Of course, I am referring to the Top (number) Lists of the year. I’m going to squeeze into my skinny jeans, wrap a scarf around my non-coated body, and crack open a PBR while I compile my best books of 2010 list.
The top five
Rationale: these are my five favorite books that were published in 2010. Of course, disclaimers apply; I couldn’t read every book published, I may not have given some books equal attention, and on and on. However, I can still cull a few favs from the admittedly too-short stack of 2010 books I read. And here they are, in no particular order.
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Honorable Mentions
Rationale: these may not have made it to my top five, but they deserve some page space, dammit.
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High Hopes
Rationale: these could have been on the list, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to read them yet. These are books that have been taunting me from my to read shelf. I’ve heard so much praise about these books that I feel bad for not yet giving them the time they deserve.
How They Were Found by Matt Bell
Working Backwards from Worst Moment of My Life by Rob Roberge
C by Tom McCarthy
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
The Wraith by Goodloe Byron
It Came From Del Rio by Stephen Graham Jones
Good list. I’ve always said you had excellent taste, Caleb. Which doesn’t explain my book, but…
You damn well better have my book on yer list of runner ups, at least Caleb or otherwise I was gonna have to find where you live and throw a bomb in your house. And that’s real!
…actually that’s just an excerpt from my new two volume novel: “Maybe Having To Find Where Caleb J. Ross Lives Because I’ll have To Put A Bomb In His House, a reverie”. Available late 2013 from Gonna Get That Bastard Caleb Books an imprint of Brown Paper Publishing.
Congrats on the third upcoming release, by the way. Look at you, you’re gonna have to stop being humble, soon.
I think you have a winner of a title there. Though, you may want to replace the name “Caleb J. Ross” with something more sell-able (stop being humble? Never!)
Hey thanks for the nod, Caleb. I’m honored!
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