Spring 2008 "Good Reads" List

The latest list of recommended new books from the National Book Critics Circle has just been posted.

FICTION

1. Richard Price, LUSH LIFE, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

(Bloomsbury NZ$38)

2. Jhumpa Lahiri, UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, Knopf

3. Steven Millhauser, DANGEROUS LAUGHTER, Knopf*

4. Charles Baxter, THE SOUL THIEF, Pantheon*

4. Peter Carey, HIS ILLEGAL SELF, Knopf*

4. J. M. Coetzee, DIARY OF A BAD YEAR, Viking*

4. James Collins, BEGINNNER'S GREEK, Little, Brown*

4. Brian Hall, FALL OF FROST, Viking*

4. Roxana Robinson, COST, Farrar, Straus & Giroux*

4. Owen Sheers, RESISTANCE, Nan A. Talese: Doubleday* tied for this position

For the full list including non-fiction and poetry go to the Arts Journal site here.

And for a review of Lush Life from the New York Times link here. And from the LA Times link here.