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Best of 2007 -- Your Input, Please!
November 28, 2007
Yesterday I had the delightful opportunity to spend three hours
interviewing booksellers about their top picks for 2007. (I am a fortunate woman indeed to get paid to talk about books, and I try not to forget it... ).
My favorite thing? Although I spoke to three different people, there were only three books that were on more than one list. Not only did each of them choose different books -- each book chosen was truly worthy. While we're living in challenging times for book lovers, we are fortunate indeed to also live in times that see so many excellent books available to so many people (having just finished
Ken Follett's World Without End, I am acutely aware that this was not always the case -- one 14th-century character returns from a decade in Florence with a notebook made out of a curious new invention: paper).
Of course, now that I have heard about thirty-odd "best of 2007" choices, my intent-to-purchase list has grown exponentially. Among books I need to read
right away:
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano,
The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb,
What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe, and
Travels with Herodutus Ryszard Kapuscinski.
But my purpose today is to compile a reader-centric Best of 2007 list, so I'd like to ask you each to give me a list of up to and no more than your top five books of the year. (The more people who respond, the better this will be... ). If, say, more than three of you do respond, I'll then compile the list. I think it will be really interesting -- and I hope that it will give others a few books they need to read
right away.
Posted by Bethanne Patrick on November 28, 2007 | Comments (16)
