Barnes & Noble’s online Review magazine–which has commissioned a lot of quality reviewing this year–lists their top 10 fiction and 20 nonfiction picks: FictionThe Anthologist, by Nicholson BakerWolf Hall, by Hilary MantelFinch, by Jeff VandermeerThe Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, by Lydia DavisWhite Is for Witching, by Helen OyeyemiAsterios Polyp, by David MazzucchelliBlame, by Michelle HunevenFlying, by Eric KraftEvery Man Dies Alone, by Hans FalladaBrothers, by Yu Hua Click through for the nonfiction
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Their fiction list includes three collections of poetry: FictionThe Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Anthologist by Nicholson BakerThe Book of Genesis Illustrated” by R. CrumbAsterios Polyp by David MazzuchelliBoth Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile MeloyThe City & The City by China MievilleThe Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia DavisEverything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr.The Financial Lives of the Poets: A Novel by Jess WalterInherent Vice by Thomas PynchonIt’s Beginning to Hurt by James LasdunLark & Termite by Jayne Anne PhillipsLove and Summer: A Novel by William TrevorLove in Infant Monkeys by Lydia MilletThe […]
NYT Book Review's Top 10, Plus CSM Fiction Picks and Amazon's Consensus Mash-Up
Take three Michiko Kakutani picks, two Janet Maslin favorites (Richard Holmes made PW’s top 10 as well), and none from Dwight Garner’s list (or the National Book Awards, or Amazon’s 10 Best, or…) and you have the NYT Book Review’s ten best of the year: FictionBOTH WAYS IS THE ONLY WAY I WANT IT, By Maile MeloyCHRONIC CITY, By Jonathan LethemA GATE AT THE STAIRS, By Lorrie Moore [K]HALF BROKE HORSES: A True-Life Novel, By Jeannette WallsA SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN, By Kate Walbert NonfictionTHE AGE OF WONDER: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, By […]