Tis' the Time for Lists!

Continuing the trend of lists, here's another called The Top 100 Notable Books of 2010 from the New York Times!

I didnt want to include all of them here but just hand-picked a few that I'd love to sink my teeth into:

THE IMPERFECTIONISTS. By Tom Rachman. (Dial, $25.) This intricate novel is built around the personal stories of staff members at an improbable English-language newspaper in Rome, and of the family who founded it in the 1950s. --This should be interesting given how English has become so prevalent...wonder if we'd have to go through something similar when say, Swahili becomes the go-to language for the world.

ANGELOLOGY. By Danielle Trussoni. (Viking, $27.95.) With a smitten art historian at her side, the young nun at the center of this rousing first novel is drawn into an ancient struggle against the Nephilim, hybrid offspring of humans and heavenly beings. --Coz we've all got a little bit of an angel within each of us :)


THE LOST BOOKS OF THE ODYSSEY. By Zachary Mason. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24.) The conceit behind the multiple Odysseuses here (comic, dead, doubled, amnesiac) is that this is a translation of an ancient papyrus, a collection of variations on the myth. --As an ode to the Black Ships ;)