Best Books of 2005

[verbminx]

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.

Comments

[audesapere.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd like to read more Ishiguro...although what I have read of him just didn't do much for me. Eh.

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

Which did you read? I really can't get through some of his books, and I'm less the kind of person to like them than I used to be. (Ex: "Remains of the Day" was like my fave book in 12th grade. I am a good deal more lively now, kind of an art-damaged prig then.)