Comments on: Decade’s Books

By: Shotts

Shotts — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:14:20 +0000

Here are a few more from me (again, no particular order):

5. The Echomaker–Richard Powers
6. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely–Claudia Rankine
7. The Road–Cormac McCarthy
8. Maximum City–Suketu Mehta
9. Gilead–Marilynne Robinson
10. The Corrections–Jonathan Franzen

And I believe Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf was right at 2000, so I would count that too. I’ve limited my response to literary titles, but certainly many parenting and birthing books were invaluable in the last two years or so.

Ned, I would recommend Hass’s Time and Materials. I believe the title comes from Gerhard Richter, in fact.

By: Ned

Ned — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:30:27 +0000

C’mon J.E. I’m waiting to see your list. Peters and Toby too. And the rest of Jeff’s, though I already want to check out Robert Haas, Time and Materials – sounds like the artist’s dilemma to me.

By: Shotts

Shotts — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:23:51 +0000

Impossible to consider. I will keep it to books I know were first published in the 2000s. Great to see Ned’s list, and I look forward to others’.

In no real order:

1. Out Stealing Horses–Per Petterson
2. Time and Materials–Robert Hass
3. Speak Low–Carl Phillips
4. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City–Nick Flynn

That’s as far as I got before Beckett called.

By: Ned

Ned — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:59:16 +0000

Off the top of my head. (which is the only way to do a thing like this). I’m sure I missed something.

1 Mountains Beyond Mountains – Kidder
2 The Shape of a Pocket – Berger
3 Gilead – Robinson
4 River of Shadows OR Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics – Solnit
5 When We Were Orphans – Ishiguro
6 Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone – Smith
7 The Arrival – Tan
8 Everything That Rises: A Book of Covergences – Weschler
9 The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Selznick
10 Three Cups of Tea – Mortenson
11 Out Stealing Horses – Petterson
12 The Serpent Came to Gloucester – Anderson
13 An Aquarium: Poems (thanks Jeff this was really a good pick for me). – Yang

By: Ned

Ned — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:42:10 +0000

You just keep coming with this stuff.