Top 30 Signed Books on AbeBooks in 2010
2010 saw a mixture of established writers and some relatively little known authors share the limelight. The clear leaders in the signed books category were Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell. Both novels were acclaimed by the literary critics with Franzen also receiving a hefty plug from Oprah Winfrey. Other established names on the list include Peter Carey, Ian McEwan, Philip Pullman, Joe Hill and Bret Easton Ellis.
The popularity of The Passage by Justin Cronin grew and grew as the year continued. Emma Donoghue’s Room also captured the imagination of many readers with its Joseph Fritzl -inspired plot. The bestselling non-fiction book was Just Kids by Patti Smith, which also won a National Book Award in November. The signed list is dominated by fiction but The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett, a story of theft in the rare book world, is the other notable non-fiction book to make an appearance.
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Top 30 Signed Books on AbeBooks in 2010
1. Freedom
Jonathan Franzen
2. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
David Mitchell
3. The Passage
Justin Cronin
4. Matterhorn
Karl Marlantes
5. Solar
Ian McEwan
6. Room
Emma Donoghue
7. C
Tom McCarthy
8. The Swan Thieves
Elizabeth Kostova
9. Parrot & Olivier in America
Peter Carey
10. Black Swan Green
David Mitchell
11. The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson
12. Just Kids
Patti Smith
13. Our Kind of Traitor
John le Carré
14. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
Allison Hoover Bartlett
15. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley
16. The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
17. Imperial Bedrooms
Bret Easton Ellis
18. Angelology
Danielle Trussoni
19. The Pregnant Widow
Martin Amis
20. The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Reif Larsen
21. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Philip Pullman
22. Horns
Joe Hill
23. Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane
24. The Man From Beijing
Henning Mankell
25. Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann
27. Nemesis
Philip Roth
28. The Glass Rainbow
James Lee Burke
29. Spies of the Balkans
Alan Furst
30. Noah's Compass
Anne Tyler
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