best books of the year: fiction

Peter Beagle — We Never Talk About My Brother

Best American Short Stories-2010

Jesse Kellerman — The Executor

China Mieville — Kraken

Lydia Millet — Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

James Morrow — Shambling Towards Hiroshima

Patrick Ness — The Knife of Never Letting Go\The Ask and the Answer\Monsters of Men

Philip Roth — Nemesis

Alan Warner — The Stars in the Bright Sky

Leslie What — Crazy Love

In alphabetical order. Not all these books were published in 2010. It's just my top books I read for the first time in 2010.