Holiday Post 2010: The Reader's Edition

We continue our series of posts for the holiday season here at The Itinerant Librarian. As a librarian and avid reader, I feel it is essential to make an end-of-year post about reading and books. I will be posting my end-of-year reading list and commentary right after the end of 2010. I am trying to squeeze in one or two books more to the tally before the year ends. So, here we go:

Book lists: The Usual Suspects

• The New Yorker's Book Department has a "Holiday Gift Guide 2010." It also includes reading paraphernalia and accessories, but there are some interesting books too. 
• The New York Times Book Review has its "100 Notable Books of 2010." 
• The Guardian has its "Best Books of 2010" list. 
• The Economist also has a 2010 Best Books list. You can find fiction and nonfiction here.
• The Financial Times has its "Fiction Round-up."
• Bob Sutton's Good Boss, Bad Boss book was featured in various business book lists. I am linking to the post because it includes links to various business book lists.
• Largehearted Boy has a large aggregation of book lists from the usual suspects (Amazon, NYT, etc.) as well as some less known lists. This is basically "one-stop shopping" for book lists. 

More Book Lists: Things not as easy to find but just as cool

• For manga readers, and I happen to be one of them, here is The Manga Critic's 2010 Holiday Gift Guide.  The author also rounded up "The Best Manga of 2010." Via The Manga Critic.
• Lambda Literary has book lists for LGBT readers (and by this I mean not only LGBT folks, but those of us who enjoy LGBT literature as well). Their 2010 guide features "75+ Books for every LGBTQA Person in Your Life." They even have a list for comics and graphic novel readers. There is a lot of stuff in here that I want to read at some point. 
• The folks at Guys Lit Wire discuss "Graphic Novels-- notes from a Top 10 List."

 Miscellaneous

• This is not really a holiday list, but if you are into books-- you like reading about books; you collect books, etc.-- there this list of "50 Books About Books" may be of interest. Via Fine Books and Collections magazine. 
• Britannica has its "Top 10 Most Read Articles for 2010." 
• ABE Books lists its "Most Expensive Sales in 2010." Check out what some rare books sold for last year. 
• And a bit of book humor. Awful Library Books has its list of favorite books for 2010.