1. This one came from Creative Spark, an Oz in Singapore.
Category Archives: 2007 in review
2007 in review: #1 — Best reads of 2007: fiction
There’s a tag for that so if you hit it you’ll find them all duly noted. Just as well, as I would never have remembered them all.
However, cutting out a couple of eccentric entries, I have pared the list down to a First Fifteen.
Author | Title | Post |
Janette Turner Hospital | Orpheus Lost |
Welcome to our nightmare |
Elmore Leonard | La Brava |
Contrasts in my recent reading and viewing |
Andrew McGahan | Underground |
The novel Andrew Bolt hates and Zadie Smith’s 21st century classic |
Zadie Smith | On Beauty |
Easily the best novel I have read so far this year* |
Dai Sijie 戴思杰 | Mr Muo’s Travelling Couch |
Sino-Gallic firecrackers |
Kate Grenville | The Secret River |
May have been, very possibly… |
Anne Holt | What Is Mine |
Promised review catch-up |
Reginald Hill | The Death of Dalziel |
More reviews of good stuff from Surry Hills Library |
Alexander McCall Smith | Blue Shoes and Happiness |
Two very different works of crime fiction |
Robert Drewe | Grace |
Robert Drewe Grace (2005) |
Michael Nava | Rag and Bone |
Book and DVD backlog |
Andrew O’Hagan | Be Near Me |
Negotiating dangerous ground |
Salman Rushdie | Shalimar the Clown | as above |
Milan Kundera | Ignorance |
Milan Kundera Ignorance (2002) |
Karin Fossum | When the Devil Holds the Candle |
Two crime fiction novels |