RTH 2010 (Tie): ‘The City & the City’ by China Miéville ★★★★

an equally deserving nominee was robert charles wilson's masterful julian comstock a book unlike anything else wilson has ever done

at just over 300 pages the city and the city was meieville's shortest book at the time and also his most efficiently constructed and fast-paced and the sociopolitical themes it explores make it doubly rewarding

paulo patrick loopy's the windup girl a very different and much more divisive novel but one that i consider excellent in its own right