verbminx ([personal profile] verbminx) wrote2005-11-30 12:31 am
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Best Books of 2005

It being nigh-on December, the Best Books of 2005 lists are starting to come out. They're posting them at Bookslut as they find them, and I'm going to compile 'em right here.

Book that seems to pop up often or most (but that wasn't one of the Booker nominees) is Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black... it's on my "to read" list but quite a lot is ahead of it. Maybe I should bump it higher on the list. Also want to read Barnes's Arthur and George.

The New York Times Notables

London Times

The Guardian *

Christian Science Monitor


* note annoying pretentiousness of Chuck Palahniuk contribution. I Am Jack's Complete Lack of Surprise.

[identity profile] brocade-city.livejournal.com 2005-11-30 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I've heard good things about Mitch Cullin's "Slight Trick of the Mind" (on the subject of holmes fiction).