Out of the over 100 books I read in 2009, only 7 garnered 4.5 points on my 5-point scale. Only 3 were perfect 5's. For those of you looking for last-minute holiday gifts, any of these books would be a great choice. Or you can use your holiday gift cards to get yourself a gift. Here's the list of the best books I read this year (the 5's, the 4.5's and five runners up). Click on the title to view the review.The Perfect 5’s:
- Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda
- Little Bee by Chris Cleave
- Love and Summer by William Trevor
The 4.5's:
- The Collector of Worlds by Iliya Troyanov
- A Country Called Home by Kim Barnes
- Effigy by Alissa York
- Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
- The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
- Rupert by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
- The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- Passing Strange by Martha A. Sandweiss
- Vilnius Poker by Ricardas Gavelis
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
5 comments:
I haven't read any of these, but I have several in my TBR pile.
I liked "Death in Spring" (probably not quite as much as you, but it was a very good book), and I just got "Vilnius Poker", so I'm looking forward to that as well. Yours is a very interesting and diverse list - I need to remember to look several of these books up.
I remember quite a few of these reviews and since reading them have put a handful of these books on my wish list. Glad to see that you had good experiences with these, I hope I like them as well.
THe only one on your list I've read is THe Housekeeper and the Professor, and it made my best of 2009 list, too. Thanks for the list.
Thx for the list. I loved The White Tiger and will try to read all of the others in your list as well! A. Hollis
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