Yay for more notable choices in 2008! I chose to read 10 books last year, but this year I'm going to commit to 6 and hope to read 8.
I'll choose at least 6 titles; these are the leading contenders:
- The Cloud of Unknowing ***1/2 by Thomas H. Cook
- After Dark ***1/2 by Murakami
- On Chesil Beach *** by Ian McEwan
- The Gathering **** by Anne Enright
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret ****1/2 by Brian Selznick
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ***1/2 by J.K. Rowling
- Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
- The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
- The Whistling Season by Doig
- Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
- Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
- The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
- The Secret River by Kate Grenville
- The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
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