2007's 100 most notable books

[vicki]

The New York Times has published its list of the year's 100 most notable books (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/books/review/notable-books-2007.html?_r=1&oref=slogin).

I've only read one of them (Harry Potter)! :o But I thought very seriously about reading many others! :D

I really would like to read the Perotta, the Chabon and the Supreme Court one, among others.

[Kiyomi]

Harry Potter was the only book on that list that I've read. I often wonder how they come up with these lists. It always seems like I haven't even heard of most of the books listed. A one off book I really enjoyed reading is Yume Kira Dream Shoppe which is a serious of hearwarming fairytale like tales in the form of a one volumne manga. The catch phrase is 'You can have anything you want if you give up something dear to you'. In each story someone gives up something very important, sometimes their lives but, in true fairytale fashion, being willing to give up everything for the one you love can lead to an unexpectedly happy ending.

[vicki]

Wow--that Yume Kira Dream Shoppe sounds cool!

These kinds of "notable book" lists, at least as far as fiction is concerned, tend very heavily toward literary fiction, almost to the point of excluding anything that smacks of genre. Not that there's anything wrong with literary fiction, but I generally prefer to read genre books, so I kind of wish they'd include more of those in the lists.

[Elizabeth Chase]

Well, that is indeed interesting! Again Deathly Hallows was the only one I'd read and I was sure there would be at least one non-fiction that I would have read, but no!!:confused:

[vicki]

Yah, I would have thought I'd have read *something* there, fiction or non-fiction, but nada! My RL book-club usually reads a few fairly high-falutin' books each year, but they're almost always at least a couple of years old--we avoid hardbacks because of the expense.