OK, I know, enough with the books of the year lists. But I just stumbled across one more list. The New York Times has just named their ten best books of the year. I think this list comes pretty close. (In fact they listed my choice, Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton.
The List:
Gilead, a novel by Marilynne Robinson
The Master
The Plot Against America, a nove by Phillip Roth
Runaway, a novel by Alice Munro
Snow, a novel by Orhan Pamuk
War Trash, a novel by Ha Jin
Alexander Hamilton, a biography by Ron Chernow
Chronicles Volume I, a memoir by Bob Dylan
Washington’s Crossing, history by David Hackett Fischer
Will in the World, How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, a biography by Stephen Greenblatt
