The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot topped Amazon.com's picks for Best Books of 2010. Amazon's top 10 editors' picks for the year are:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - Faithful Place: A Novel by Tana French
- Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
- To the End of the Land by David Grossman
- Just Kids by Patti Smith
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis