Best Adult Books

National Book Award

The Sojourn

Andrew Krivák

National Book Award Finalist

The Surrendered

Chang-rae Lee

Pulitzer

Swamplandia!

Karen Russell

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Edgar

The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time

Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer and John-Henri Holmberg

Edgar Awards Finalist

National Book Award

The Tiger's Wife

Téa Obreht

National Book Award Finalist

National Book Award

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010

Adrienne Rich

National Book Award Finalist

Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men

Mara Hvistendahl

Hugo

The Unwritten (Volume 4): Leviathan

Mike Carey and Peter Gross

Hugo Awards Finalist

What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems

Ruth Stone

The 100 Best African American Poems

Kwame Alexander

Hugo

Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

Neil Gaiman

Hugo Awards Finalist

Best African American essays 2010

Chris Abani

National Book Award

Birth of a World

Waldo Frank

National Book Award Finalist

Break the Glass

Jean Valentine

National Book Award

By the Numbers

James Richardson

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline

Nancy Springer

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

Caught

Harlan Coben

Edgar Awards Finalist

Cheever: A Life

Blake Bailey

The Common Man

Maurice Manning

The Complete Lord of the Rings Trilogy

J.R.R. Tolkien

Edgar

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Tom Franklin

Edgar Awards Finalist

Hugo

Cryoburn

Lois McMaster Bujold

Hugo Awards Finalist

Hugo

Dark Universe

Daniel F. Galouye

Hugo Awards Finalist

Nebula

Echo

Jack McDevitt

Nebula Awards Finalist