In light of the totally boring, completely predictable, and remarkably similar "official" lists of the best books of 2007, I thought it might be interesting for people from Books & Booze--The Best Damn Book Club in Brooklyn--to chime in.If you have a minute, put your fav books that you read last year (doesn't matter when it was published) in the comments. I'd be really interested to hear what they are.
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Mine are (in no particular order):
-Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy
-Bearing the Body by Ehud Havazelet
-Spaceman Blues (DUH)
-Random Family by Adrian LeBlanc
-No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
-The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel
As an added bonus, my biggest disappointment in a book: Unhooked by Laura Sessions Stepp
Since I barely checked my internet addiction this year, I didn't read so many books, and barely any that came out this year. So here's the ones I liked the most, even if some of them are 2000 years old:
Shortcomings - Adrian Tomine
I'd just like to say that Andrew hates this guy and I don't care.
Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
One last hurrah with everybody's favorite author in college for three months.
Black and Blue: The Golden Arm, the Robinson Boys, and the 1966 World Series That Stunned America = Tom Adelman
Entrant in the "Totally Lame Book About Sports" category.
Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon
Thanks, book club!
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil - George Saunders
Runs out of steam, but while it's chugging it's amazing.
100 Years of Solitude - Marquez
Yeah, what's next, Shek? Tropic of Cancer?
Ami, I too loved Random Family.
My other top books I've read this year off the top of my head:
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki Ha'Penny by Jo Walton (follow up to 2006's also excellent alternate history, Farthing)
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (Mormons!)
and World War Z by Max Brooks (Zombies!)
Alexis W. checking in here...it is a bit frightening when I look back at this year, and I realize how few (real, published, bound and printed) books I have actually read. Anyway, the good ones are:
Then We Came to The End by Joshua Ferris (I read it before the hype! And it is really good!)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Wow. Just wow.)
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (See, you think it would be phenomenally irritating, but it was actually a great read and very smart.)
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Crime Fiction meets British domestic drama. Brilliant.)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Better than I expected it to be, even.)
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