Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Have You Read?

Now that we are more than half way through 2008, have you read any of the 10 best books of 2007 (New York Times list)? Here is the list:
FICTION
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas*
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson*
Savage Detectives by Robert Balafio
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris*
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson*

NONFICTION
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Little Heathens: Hart Times & High Spirts on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish*
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by J. Toobin*
Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley*
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Rosa*

*Available in the Goodwin Library. The other two are available through interlibrary loan.

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