Salon asked 18 authors — including Dave Eggers, James Frey, Tao Lin, and Laura Hillenbrand — to name the book they enjoyed most this year and used the results to create a fantastic slideshow. But don’t read it yet! We’ve got a little quiz for you first. See if you can match each author on the list with his or her favorite read of 2010. Highlight the blacked-out boxes under the book titles to check your answers.
The authors: 1. James Fallows 2. Dave Eggers 3. David Grann 4. James McBride 5. Curtis Sittenfeld 6. Laura Lippman 7. George Pelecanos 8. Anthony Shadid 9. Maud Newton 10. Wes Moore 11. Ted Conover 12. Karen Valby 13. Elizabeth Kolbert 14. Tao Lin 15. James Frey 16. Rebecca Traister 17. Laura Hillenbrand 18. Shalom Auslander
Their picks:
Karen Valby
George Pelecanos
Laura Hillenbrand
Maud Newton
Dave Eggers
Elizabeth Kolbert
Anthony Shadid
James Frey
David Grann
Shalom Auslander
James McBride
James Fallows
Wes Moore
Curtis Sittenfeld
Ted Conover
Tao Lin
Rebecca Traister
Laura Lippman