This year’s books
I've developed a standing pattern of reporting each year on which books I've read from the NY Times list of notable books.
This year, I've read:
- A Most Wanted Man
- Unaccustomed Earth (don't seem to have blogged about this one, but I liked it a lot)
- Predictably Irrational (having read even more books about behavioral economics, this one stands out as particularly good)
- Trillion Dollar Meltdown (an important book, but not the most readable one)
I started reading The Lazarus Project, but couldn't get into it and so have given up on it. I'm also still in the middle of Nixonland.
This year, from the 2007 list I read The Abstinence Teacher and The Maytrees.
So many books, so little time.
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 pm
I have usually never read any of them, because I rarely read books in hardback! But here’s what I read from last year’s list:
Bridge of Sighs, HP and the Deathly Hallows, Then We Came to the End, What is the What, Yiddish Policemen’s Union, The Argument, Edith Wharton.
All of them were excellent in different ways.
December 6th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Did you like The Abstinence Teacher? I thought that it was great fun, but no one in my bookgroup liked it.