1. The Tiger's Wife, by T茅a Obreht, Random House
2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, Vintage
3. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, Berkley
4. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer, Mariner
5. Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell, Vintage
6. A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan, Anchor
7. The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson, Vintage
8. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John le Carr茅, Penguin
9. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese, Vintage
10. A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness, Penguin
11. Sarah's Key, by Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin
12. Room, by Emma Donoghue, Back Bay
13. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson, Random House
14. The House at Tyneford, by Natasha Solomons, Plume
15. Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen, Picador
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17. Smut: Stories, by Alan Bennett, Picador
Bennett explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people鈥檚 public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories.
