Our weekly geek task this week: Dewey is asking us to list our favorite books that were published in 2008 (you, dear readers, will have a chance to participate in some future post). By the end of the year the results will be compiled; Dewey thinks "it’ll be interesting ... to see a list of what book bloggers choose as their favorite books rather than what a newspaper decides or what the top sellers were." Great idea!So here's my list to date (this may change by the end of the year since I have several new books yet to read). This is pretty much in order of my preferences.
Fiction:
- The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- Sorry by Gail Jones
- Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
- Gardens of Water by Alan Drew
- Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
- Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
- Life Class by Pat Barker
- The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
- The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
- Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
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11 comments:
I so badly want to read Mudbound. It is not available in India as of now.
Do check my short list
I have Mudbound and the Potato Peel books on my shelf. I know I'll love them - must read soon! A great list and I can't wait to see the final result on Dewey's site.
Terri your fiction list has all the books I still have on my TBR list (except Mudbound, which I did read). And I included The Translator on my list.
I have Potato Peel on my stacks and Mudbound is on my wish list. I checked and I'm something like #420 out of 700 on Mudbound. Maybe I'll have to give in and buy it. LOL
Life Class didn't thrill me, but Pat Barker has a unique writing style that I love. I'm hoping to read her Regeneration series, some day.
Gautami - I hope you get a chance to read Mudbound one day soon, it is wonderful.
Jill - yes, it will be interesting to see what the "common folk" come up with rather than the NYT and all those book "experts." I think we have the real scoop!
icedream - you have a lot to look forward to!
bookfool - maybe it will be out in paper soon; the author is on Library Thing, you can send her a note, she's very friendly! Life Class was toward the bottom of my list, it was good but like you didn't thrill me. I also want to read the trilogy, have heard such good things about it.
Oh, I see some that will make my list :)
Loved In Defense of Food. Haven't seen too many nonfictions on these lists yet
Melanie - I used to read a lot of nonfiction, but this last year has been almost all fiction. I think I need to escape from the reality of the world for now!
This is really killing my wishlist! Great list - Dear American Airlines and the Potato book are tops on my to buy mission this week.
Potato Peel and American Airlines are on my wishlist too!
I hadn't heard about Not Quite What I Was Planning - it sounds like fun!
Mudbound is on my list, too, and I'm about to read the Potato Peel Society.
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