Good Reads

The National Book Critics Circle has polled its members (I’m one), to come up with their Winter Collection of Good Reads.  If you’ve got a Good Read (last fall to the the present) to share, let us know in the comments.

Fiction

1. Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke
2. Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
3. J.M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year
4. Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book
5. Steve Erickson, Zeroville

Nonfiction

1. The Rest Is Noise, by Alex Ross
2. Brother, I’m Dying, by Edwidge Dantica
3. In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan
4. Musicophilia, by Oliver Sacks
5. The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein

Poetry

1.  Elegy, by Mary Jo Bang 
2. Time and Materials, by Robert Hass
3. Gulf Music, by Robert Pinsky
4. The Collected Poems, 1956–1998, by Zbigniew Herbert
5. Sharp Teeth, by Toby Barlow

1 Comment

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  By shortbus, February 7, 2008 @ 4:41 pm

  Why-oh-why are my teenage vampire love story books not on this list?

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