Saturday, November 01, 2014

PW's Top 10 Books



PW published their annual list of the 10 best books of the year, a selection that includes three works in translation:

Nonfiction
On Immunity: An Inoculation, Eula Biss (Graywolf)
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David, Lawrence Wright (Knopf)
Limonov, Emmanuel Carrère, trans. by John Lambert (Farrar, Straus)
The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison (Graywolf)
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
Héctor Tobar (Farrar, Straus)

Fiction
The Corpse Exhibition, Hassan Blasim, trans. by Jonathan Wright (Penguin)
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante, trans. by Ann Goldstein (Europa)
A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James (Riverhead)
Bark, Lorrie Moore (Knopf)
The Dog, Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon)

via Publishers Lunch

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