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Written by Matthew Treon Friday, 13 January 2012 13:44

Even in death, David Foster Wallace doesn’t fail to impress. A great literary loss, indeed.

1. John Sayles | A Moment in the Sun (McSweeney’s)

2. David Foster Wallace | The Pale King (Little, Brown and Co.)

3. Alex Ross | Listen to This (Picador)

4. James Gleick | The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Pantheon)

5. Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe | Miles: The Autobiography (Simon & Schuster)

6. Chad Harbach | The Art of Fielding (Little, Brown and Co.)

7. Joshua Foer | Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Penguin Press HC)

8. Denis Johnson | Train Dreams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

9. Kate Beaton | Hark! A Vagrant (Drawn and Quarterly)

10. Jo Nesbo | The Leopard (Knopf)