via the new york times book review:

1. both ways is the only way i want it, by maile meloy

2. chronic city, by jonathan lethem

3. a gate at the stairs, by lorrie moore

4. half broke horses: a true-life novel, by jeannette walls

5. a short history of women, by kate walbert

6. the age of wonder: how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science, by richard holmes

7. the good soldiers, by david finkel

8. lit: a memoir, by mary karr

9. lords of finance: the bankers who broke the world, by liaquat ahamed

10. raymond carver: a writer’s life, by carol sklenicka