The Believer is now accepting votes from its readers for the best books of 2007, which will be published in the May 2008 edition. Timely, eh? In the interest of transparency, here’s my slate of candidates:
The NBCC is also taking votes for its quarterly (?) Good Reads recommendations. I chose the novel How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet as best read of early 2008 (Fiction). The Winter Good Reads recommendations can be found here.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:18 pm
My first quarter vote for fiction:
L.A. Outlaws by T. Jefferson Parker.
No books read in other categories during this period.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
[...] is developed by polling the members of the NBCC and tallying the results. (I am a member, and here’s how I voted.) An interesting side note: As imperiled as book reviewing is supposed to be, membership in the [...]