Top Debut Novels
Paste offers up this list of the Top 10 Debut Novels of the Decade:
- Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
- Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Zadie Smith – White Teeth
- Arthur Phillips – Prague
- Alice Sebold - Lovely Bones
- Joshua Ferris - And Then We Came to the End
- Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
- Hillary Jordan – Mudnbound
- Marisha Pessl - Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- Rivka Galchen – Atmospheric Disturbances
I might reshuffle the deck a little. I might also ditch the two I haven’t read (Lovely Bones and Prague) and replace with Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts, Katie Kitamura’s The Longshot, Michael Fitzgerald’s Radiant Days – just off the top of my head. Which would give me a top 11 list. I know that I am overlooking other excellent debut novels over the past 10 years. Who makes your list? Who would drop from Paste’s list?
November 23, 2009 9:49 am 2 Comments
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By Rich, November 23, 2009 @ 2:03 pm
I’d have to add Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell to that list. I’m predictable.
By Clara, November 23, 2009 @ 7:13 pm
I’d definitely leave Prague on the list (wonderful novel) and definitely remove Mudbound (ok novel, but the subject’s been done much better elsewhere).