Notable Books Challenge

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Last year I participated in the NYT Most Notable Challenge and discovered some really great books. Notably (hee hee), The Road, Suite Française, and Half of a Yellow Sun, which all ended up in my top twenty of 2007. My worst book of the year, Everyman, also came from last year’s NYT list.

This year’s challenge is going to work a little bit differently in that we are permitted to select from several ‘best-of’ lists including ALA, Publisher’s Weekly, and more. Yay for more choice! I chose to read 10 books last year, but this year I’m going to commit to 6 and hope to read 8.

I’ll choose at least 6 titles; these are the leading contenders:

1. The Cloud of Unknowing by Thomas H. Cook
2. After Dark by Murakami
3. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
4. The Gathering by Anne Enright
5. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
6. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
7. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
8. Breath by Tim Winton
9. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

If I have time:

• The Whistling Season by Doig
• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
• The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
• Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
• The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville
• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

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