Powell’s Books polled their customers to pick the best book of the last decade. Guess what won??? Yep, The Road. It also won for the Staff Favorite category. Sweet.
Some of my other customer favorites that made the list were The Shadow of the Wind, A Fine Balance, American Gods, Oscar Wao, Outlander, Water for Elephants, and many of the Harry Potter novels. Yes, points must be deducted for including Twilight and the Kite Runner (I duck the shoes thrown at my head) but there are a lot of ideas for what to dip into next.
What were some of your favorites?
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Sweetness.
Posted by Mary at 10:30 AM
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Okay, I'm not reading "The Road." Sorry, but Cormac McCarthy just bores me to tears. Enough said. As for the rest, I've read "Shadow of the Wind," "A Fine Balance" (which I recommended last year), "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" and "Water for Elephants," all of which were quite good. I think "A Fine Balance" tops the list there, though. It's quite stunning, and although it's hefty, it read very quickly.
Among my favorites of the decade are "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova, "The Way the Crow Flies" by Ann-Marie McDonald (whose novel "Fall on Your Knees" is also excellent, but doesn't qualify as it was written in 1996), "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" by Mark Haddon, "What is the What" by Dave Eggers, and "I Was Told There'd Be Cake" by Sloane Crossley, among many others that I'll no doubt remember later!
I have copies of most of these, if anyone wants to borrow them. :)
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