The Top 10 Books of the Year
It’s official: The New York Times has decreed my Christmas list again.
Except: gasp! I actually already read one and own another one of the Top 10 Books of 2008! That never happens!
In fact, I thought I was still slogging my way through last year’s list. Out of ten selections, in the entire year since it came out, I have read Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris and Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. I do own Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson and The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño, who made this year’s list as well. Either I got them both for Christmas or I bought them with a gift card to Barnes & Noble, I can’t remember.