Tuesday, December 04, 2007

THE BOSTON GLOBE PICKS ITS BEST SIX FICTION TITLES FOR 2007

The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies

Falling Man - Don DeLillo

The Gathering - Anne Enright

Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson

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.

5 comments:

Kebabette said...

Hi

Christchurch 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/

Kebabette said...

We'd love you and your readers to add your suggestions

Anonymous said...

Six good books that I've read this year that come straight to mind are :

Mr 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

Anonymous said...

woops that should be Hugo Cabret, not cabaret...!

Kebabette said...

I 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.