The Year's Best Books

[bekah]

At 8:46 AM -0500 12/18/06, Jasper Fidget wrote:
>According to the SF Chronicle:
>
>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/17/RVGM1MV63R1.DTL&feed=rss.books
>
>AtD comes in under "notable" instead of "best".
>Is AtD anyone's best around here?  If not, then what?

Someone enlighten me -  why is Orhan Pamuk's "The Black Book" on that 
list?   It's not 2006 book - it's a 1995 book reprinted after he got 
the Nobel (I think).   Was it retranslated?  Does that count as a new 
book?  (eeks)

Meanwhile,  on my personal list AtD is the best new work of fiction 
published in 2006.  The best book I read in 2006 was Europe Central 
by Vollman but it was published in 2005 so I guess it doesn't count. 
Also published in 2006,  The Road was very good,  but I guess I was 
spoiled by the lushness of Blood Meridian.  I really should reread 
The Road.   I didn't read any of the other novels listed in the top 
10 on the sfgate site.

On the "notable" fiction list I also  read The Accidental  by Ali 
Smith, (yes!)  Arthur & George by Julian Barnes, (so-so)  The 
Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (pretty good)  and Talk Talk by 
T.C. Boyle (??? nah) .    I also read several of the non-fiction 
books listed.


And  on my overflowing tbr pile are The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran 
Desai,  Black Swan Green by David Mitchell and The Black Book by 
Orhan Pamuk (I've read most of his others).

Bekah
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