Washington Post's Best Books of 2007

[vicki]

The Washington Post's Best Books of 2007 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2007/holiday-guide/gifts/book-world-holiday-issue/index.html), divided into several lists.

It would be really interesting to compare these lists with the NY Times 100 most notable books list, noting discrepancies. I'll have to assign that task to one of the many clones I need to get all my stuff done. Anyone have a cloning machine? <Looks around hopefully>

[Kiyomi]

There should be a way to sort for matches in excell but it is too early in the morning for me to remember how and I'm at work. Excell is great for sorting bits of data.

I appriciate the this list being in ABC order, that makes it so much easier to scan. I don't believe any of the non-fiction I read this year was published in 2007, but in fiction I've read-

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling
Making Money, by Terry Pratchett

This gives me a grand total of 2 books!(My husband just wishes I had only bought 2 more books this year, with all the books I own I'd still have several thousand without new purchases.)

[jtb1951]

Among the fiction selections there were only three that I have read:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Terror by Dan Simmons (one of my favorite authors)
Spook Country by William Gibson (one of my most favorite authors!)

I'm afraid the rest of the list passed me by.:).

P.S. These darn authors persist in writing fine books faster than I can read them!

John.

[Kiyomi]

P.S. These darn authors persist in writing fine books faster than I can read them!

Tell me about it! Being an adult is entirely too much work! I went from reading an average of 2 novels a day to a couple a week, and this week due to working entirely too much overtime haven't even had a chance to read the one magazine I subscribe to much less the new Alex Rider and Mercedes Lackey books I bought.

[parcourir]

The books that appear on both lists (I tried various ways to give you the actual Excel file, but alas, the files are all too big.):

After Dark
Agent Zigzag
Alexis de Tocqueville
American Creation
Bridge of Sighs
Brother, I'm Dying
Call Me By Your Name
Cultural Amnesia
Dancing to "Almendra"
Edith Wharton
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
In the Country of Men
Legacy of Ashes
Mothers and Sons
On Chesil Beach
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
The Art of Political Murder
The Bad Girl
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Collected Poems 1956-1998
The Diana Chronicles
The House That George Built
The Maytrees
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Rest Is Noise
The Savage Detectives
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Thomas Hardy
Time and Materials: Poems
Tree of Smoke
Two Lives

Happy Reading!

[2bnallegory]

The Only one from the list that I've read is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, at first it seemed pitiful but then I have several lifetimes worth of books to read and sticking to just one years new comers is limiting.

[tangential1]

Let's see...I think the only book on the list that I've read is HP7. However, I have A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Children of Hurin sitting on my shelf (along with several others that I have yet to read); I just haven't had time to pick them up.

I seem to be receiving gifted books a lot faster than I can work my way through them... (not a bad problem, though!)

[Bachi]

The Washington Post's Best Books of 2007 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2007/holiday-guide/gifts/book-world-holiday-issue/index.html), divided into several lists.

Finn is listed as one of the 10 best books of 2007 and in my oponion that is troublesome!