Invisible Man, The Bonfire of the Vanities, or The Age of Innocence?

Sam Anderson's top 10 books of 2010.

The surprisingly parallel lives of George Washington and Jay-Z.

An insane tale of WWII survival. Starring an Olympian and an ungodly number of sharks.

The artists who flowed so fine they turned Old School rhymes into poetry.

A language dork finally falls in love with rap.

Flaubert’s obsessive masterpiece finally gets the obsessive translation it deserves.

Roald Dahl—the storyteller as benevolent sadist.

Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom illustrates, crankily, the joys of the old-timey literary novel.

Movie star, conceptual artist, fiction writer, grad student, cipher—he’s turned a Hollywood career into an elaborate piece of performance art. But does it mean anything? A critical investigation, with bathroom break.