New York Times Notable Books of 2007
It is always fun to go through the New York Times Notable Books and see how many one has read. The list of the 10 most notable just came out. It includes the following:
FICTION
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas "This first novel explores the fragmented personal histories behind four desperate days in a black writer's life."
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson "In this short yet spacious Norwegian novel, an Oslo professional hopes to cure his loneliness with a plunge into solitude."
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano "A craftily autobiographical novel about a band of literary guerrillas."
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris "Layoff notices fly in Ferris's acidly funny first novel, set in a white-collar office in the wake of the dot-com debacle."
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson "The author of Jesus' Son offers a soulful novel about the travails of a large cast of characters during the Vietnam War."
NON-FICTION
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran "The author, a Washington Post journalist, catalogs the arrogance and ineptitude that marked America's governance of Iraq."
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression (920 K14) by Mildred Armstrong Kalish "Kalish's soaring love for her childhood memories saturates this memoir, which coaxes the reader into joy, wonder and even envy."
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin "An erudite outsider's account fo the cloistered court's inner workings."
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linds Colley "Colley tracks the 'compulsively itinerant' Marsh across the 18th century and several continents."
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross "In his own feat of orchestration, The New Yorker's music critic presents a history of the last century as refracted through its classical music."
(Annotations are from the New York Times.)
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