The Hare with Amber Eyes
2010 · 368 pages
A maid hid 264 Japanese carvings in her mattress while the Nazis stripped the Vienna palace of the Ephrussi bankers. De Waal, their descendant, follows the objects through his family's rise and ruin.
★ 6.7
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Washington
A Life
2010 · 928 pages
The marble Washington was a performance: Chernow finds a man of hot temper, sharp ambition, and constant calculation underneath, and follows him from surveying to Mount Vernon's slave quarters to the presidency.
★ 6.3
The Emperor of all Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
2010 · 571 pages
Cancer gets a full biography, traced from an Egyptian physician's papyrus to the leukemia ward where Mukherjee treats a young kindergarten teacher. He makes the invention of chemotherapy read like a war.
★ 5.5
Just Kids
2010 · 320 pages
Patti Smith and the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe met in 1967 New York, broke and twenty, and held each other to the promise of becoming artists. She wrote it at his dying request.
★ 5.3
The Map and the Territory
2010 · 288 pages
Jed Martin, an artist, makes his name photographing Michelin road maps and painting people at their trades. Houellebecq writes himself into the novel, has himself murdered, and gives Jed a dying father.
★ 5.0
The Big Short
2010 · 291 pages
Michael Burry, a one-eyed doctor turned investor, read the mortgage documents no one else opened and bet against American housing. Lewis turns credit default swaps into a thriller about who saw it coming.
★ 4.7