selected reading from 2005
here are some of my favorite fiction reads of this past year. a list of crappy fiction reads may follow... or not. or maybe a best of non-fiction? i don't know.
in no particular order, and with the occasional notation and rating, but if it made this list it was loved by me:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by D. Eggers... The Virgin Suicides by J. Eugenides (whose Middlesex is truly amazing)...The Known World by E.P. Jones (shelve next to 100 Years of Solitude, brilliant! easily best of 2005)... The Fortress of Solitude by J. Lethem... American Woman by S. Choi (outstanding)... Letting Go by P. Roth... Waiting by H. Jin (so subtle and yet so gut-wrenching)... Echo House by W. Just... You Are Not A Stranger Here by A. Haslett... White Noise by D. DeLillo... The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by M. Chabon... Chronicle of a Death Foretold by G.G. Marquez