Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

Best books of 2010

November 2010

  • detail of illustration by Kate Slater

    2010 in review
    Books of the year

    Jonathan Franzen's family epic, a new collection from Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin's love letters, a memoir centred on tiny Japanese sculptures ... which books most excited our writers this year?

  • Bookshop browsers in Hay

    Books blog
    Open thread: what's your favourite book of 2010?

    Which are your books of the year? With hundreds of thousands of titles published over the last 12 months, which did you enjoy the most? Deep in the middle of the Christmas recommendation season - with the Observer collecting a fistful of thumbs-up for Jonathan Franzen's Freedom and a nod for Tony Blair's A Journey, and with critics from Hilary Mantel to Wiliam Boyd giving us their recommendations in tomorrow's Guardian Review - we'd like to hear from you. What about the books that didn't receive wall-to-wall coverage? And how will all our lists compare? Join our editors and bloggers below the line to discuss which titles should make the cut

  • Christmas gift guide 2010
    The 25 best cookbooks of 2010

    Observer Food Monthly's picks of the year: perfect presents for the foodie in your life. Compiled by Ian Tucker

  翻译: