Top Tens
Over on my other blog, I just posted my top ten list for music for the year. Thus, my mood is currently fixated on top ten lists -- but I'm not sure that I've read enough books released this year to put together something with any degree of authority. What I can do, though, is point to a few other "best of" lists. Slate's, for instance, which makes me want to read Walter Kirn's Mission to America that much more. (It's on my Christmas list.)
One of the most interesting top ten lists I've seen comes from Stephen King -- it's idiosyncratic as hell, which may explain its attraction: The Godfather Returns coexists with Saturday and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It's also piqued my interest to keep an eye out for A.M. Homes's next book, and to pick up Kate Atkinson's Case Histories; for the last few years, I've inexplicably purchased a book a day or so before Christmas for reading on Christmas Eve, and Atkinson's looks to be about the right size for that.
Seeing King's name also reminded me to pick up his novel The Colorado Kid, which Jenny Davidson, writing in the Village Voice, called "a small masterpiece".
Actually, while we're mentioning the Voice, why not mention their Best of 2005 list as well?
One of the most interesting top ten lists I've seen comes from Stephen King -- it's idiosyncratic as hell, which may explain its attraction: The Godfather Returns coexists with Saturday and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It's also piqued my interest to keep an eye out for A.M. Homes's next book, and to pick up Kate Atkinson's Case Histories; for the last few years, I've inexplicably purchased a book a day or so before Christmas for reading on Christmas Eve, and Atkinson's looks to be about the right size for that.
Seeing King's name also reminded me to pick up his novel The Colorado Kid, which Jenny Davidson, writing in the Village Voice, called "a small masterpiece".
Actually, while we're mentioning the Voice, why not mention their Best of 2005 list as well?
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