Notable Books: The 2010 Selection of Titles

Since 1944, the Notable Books Council has annually selected a list of 25 very good, very readable and at times very important fiction, nonfiction and poetry books for the adult reader. Books may be selected because they possess exceptional literary merit; expand the horizons of human knowledge; make a specialized body of knowledge accessible to the non-specialist; have the potential to contribute significantly to the solution of a contemporary problem; and/or present a unique concept. In this postmodern indictment of the biotech industry, a student's unnerving happiness seems to hold the key to banishing despair from the human genetic code. First Second. $29.95 (ISBN 978-1-596-43375-5).