2010 Jambalaya Winners

The most interesting books I read for the first time in 2010 (in order of reading) (and always subject to change):


I Am Not Sidney Poitier -- Percival Everett

The Spare Room -- Helen Gardner

The Spellmans Strike Again -- Lisa Lutz

Summertime -- J.M. Coetzee

The Way We Live Now -- Anthony Trollope

The Age of Wonder -- Richard Holmes

A Visit From the Goon Squad -- Jennifer Egan

When Will There Be Good News? -- Kate Atkinson

How to Live: or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer -- Sarah Bakewell

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Diaz



Honorable Mention

The Innocence of Father Brown -- G.K. Chesterton

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them -- Elif Batuman

Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It -- Geoff Dyer

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet -- David Mitchell

After Claude -- Iris Owens

The Gentlemen's Hour -- Don Winslow