My Besta

Everyone has been doing their “Best of 2010″ thing.  So I figured I’d weigh in.  Here are the ones that did me in.

1. Reality Hunger by David Shields
2. Mean Free Path by Ben Lerner
3. Black Life by Dorothea Lasky
4. Daddy’s by Lindsay Hunter
5. Ghost Machine by Ben Mirov
6. New York Tyrant 8
7. Burning Your Boats: The Collected Stories of Angela Carter
8. Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder
9. Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever by Justin Taylor
10. Monkeybicycle 7
11. My Prizes / The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard
12. The Best European Fiction 2010 ed. Alexander Hemon
13. Selected Poems by Mary Ruefle
14. Microscripts by Robert Walser
15. Notes on Sontag by Phillip Lopate
16. Nox by Anne Carson
17. The Agriculture Reader 4
18. Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey
19. Antwerp by Roberto Bolaño
20. Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

(Obviously, not all of these came out in 2010.  But whatevs.)