James Hynes’s Next and Atsuro Riley’s Romey’s Order were chosen from our short lists of books of fiction and poetry (published in the March/April issue and accessible online at believermag.com here and here, respectively) selected by the editors of the Believer. We also asked our readers to fill out a survey card included in the January 2011 issue indicating which they thought were the three strongest works of fiction and poetry published in 2010. The top twenty most represented titles in each category we received from readers follow.

POETRY

1. Come On All You Ghosts—Matthew Zapruder
2. Nox—Anne Carson
3. The Cloud Corporation—Timothy Donnelly
4. One With Others—C. D. Wright
5. The Network—Jena Osman
6. Mean Free Path—Ben Lerner
7. The Best of It—Kay Ryan
8. Nick Demske—Nick Demske
9. Rough Honey—Melissa Stein
10. People Are Tiny in Paintings of China—Cynthia Arrieu-King
11. Thin Kimono—Michael Earl Craig
12. The Book of Frank—CAConrad
13. Romey’s Order—Atsuro Riley
14. R’s Boat—Lisa Robertson
15. Ghost Machine—Ben Mirov
16. Crash Dome—Alex Phillips
17. Crave Radiance—Elizabeth Alexander
18. We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough—Mike Young
19. The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House—Nick Lantz
20. Raptus—Joanna Klink

FICTION

1. Freedom—Jonathan Franzen
2. A Visit from the Goon Squad—Jennifer Egan
3. The Instructions—Adam Levin
4. Citrus County—John Brandon
5. The Ask—Sam Lipsyte
6. Super Sad True Love Story—Gary Shteyngart
7. Room—Emma Donoghue
8. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet—David Mitchell
9. The Imperfectionists—Tom Rachman
10. Skippy Dies—Paul Murray
11. The Orange Eats Creeps—Grace Krilanovich
12. Long, Last, Happy—Barry Hannah
13. C—Tom McCarthy
14. All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost—Lan Samantha Chang
15. Pee on Water—Rachel B. Glaser
16. The Four Fingers of Death—Rick Moody
17. Sunset Park—Paul Auster
18. The Passage—Justin Cronin
19. The Lost Books of the Odyssey—Zachary Mason
20. The Pregnant Widow—Martin Amis