This 691- page tome, we reckon, is the best political bio of 2010. Despite the former British PM’s penchant for clichés and obvious lines, his memoir is thoroughly engaging and moves along at a cracking pace. A Journey focuses on Blair’s prime ministership from 1997 to 2007. As LA Times critic Tim Rutten wrote on the day it was released in September, “As a book, it’s unusual because he wrote it himself, which makes this volume unique among the English-speaking world’s recent political autobiographies. It also gives A Journey a disarming frankness that a professional collaborator almost certainly would have manicured away, along with anecdotes that are unintentionally self-revealing.’’