The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies
Falling Man - Don DeLillo
The Gathering - Anne Enright
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
Cheating at Canasta - William Trevor
Everyone is making up their best lists right now, the NZ Listener this week has pages and pages devoted to the best books under various categories. I have read four of the six titles above, missed those by Don DeLillo and Denis Johnson.
Perhaps we should run our own Best Of? Anyone want to have a go?
Coincidentally Adam Mars-Jones reviewed Tree of Smoke in The Guardian overnight. Read it here.
By the way I notice that Tree of Smoke also made the New York Times best novels of 2007 list. Must get hold of a copy.
Hi
ReplyDeleteChristchurch City Libraries has a "best of the year" page - anyone can make their suggestion, plus we link to "best ofs" on the web. It is at http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/GoodReads/2007sbest/
We'd love you and your readers to add your suggestions
ReplyDeleteSix good books that I've read this year that come straight to mind are :
ReplyDeleteMr Pip by Lloyd Jones (NZ)
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
Secret of lost things /Sheridan Hay
Ocean roads /James George (NZ)
The invention of Hugo Cabaret by Brian Selznik
Some of these were published last year I think but I'm always catching up!
And I hated On Chesil Beach. But loved Atonement so there you go.
Lee
woops that should be Hugo Cabret, not cabaret...!
ReplyDeleteI have a very mixed bag of favourites this year: Gold by Dan Rhodes was funny and quirky and moving. And about pub quizzes. An unexpected find was Undressing Emmanuelle by Sylvia Kristel. She has an unusual poetic writing style. Imperial Life in the emerald city: inside Iraq's green zone has deserved all the awards attention it has garnered - it's utterly riveting. And finally I'd recommend They call me naughty Lola to anyone who wants to laugh out loud. It is a compendium of personal ads from The London Review of Books.
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