Best Novel, 2010 (tie)

The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi (opens in a new tab)

Hardcover, 361 pages · First published by Night Shade Books

In a drowned, plague-ridden Bangkok where calories are currency, a company agent hunts for the kingdom's hidden seed bank and meets an engineered woman built to obey.

Best Novel, 2010 (tie)

The City & the City

China Miéville (opens in a new tab)

Hardcover, 312 pages · First published by Del Rey

A detective investigates a murder in two cities that occupy the same streets, whose citizens are trained from birth not to see each other.

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