The best books may not be bestsellers. What they have in common is their ability to inspire.

The Shenzhen Reading Month, a literary festival held annually in November, chose its list of the top 10 best books published in China in 2010 after a public poll and consulting a panel of experts. The popular Japanese writer Haruki Murakami unsurprisingly featured on the list with his new novel 1Q84, but a notable omission was 1988: I Want to Talk with the World by Chinese bestselling author Han Han.

 The Red Wheel (《红轮》)

The Red Wheel is a cycle of novels by Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The work explores social revolution in Russia from the opening of the World War I in 1914 to the end of the World War II in 1945. At nearly 10 million words, it is one of the lengthiest treatments of historical events in world literature.

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