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The New York Times
The New Yorker
The Washington Post
Publisher's Weekly
And I have read
ZERO
Not a single book. Ouch! Not that this is unusual for me--I tend to run a year or two behind the times, assuming I get there at all. One of my personal top ten books of 2019 was Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, which made lists in 2017!
I give myself a tiny pat on the back for actually having bought ONE of the listed books for this year, Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernadine Evaristo, which is also the co-winner of the Booker Prize. It is, in fact, next up on my reading list.
There were others that piqued my interest; The Club, by Leo Damrosch, a nonfiction book about Boswell and Johnson; Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, another nonfiction, this one about Northern Ireland and the Troubles; Black Leopard, Red Wolfe by Marlon James, a fantasy novel inspired by African mythology; Strangers and Cousins, a comedic novel by Leah Hager Cohen; and The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy.
I won't take bets on whether I'll get to any of them any time soon, but they will at least be on my radar.
REDS and readers, I challenge you! Have you read any of these listed books, or books from other BEST lists? If you have, what do you recommend? And if not, do any tempt you?
(I haven't dared look at the MYSTERY lists. I'm afraid I would bury my head under my to-read pile...)
