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Sunday 29 November 2009

Have you read any on The List?

100 Notable Books of 2009

Since I rarely read fiction (and the few titles I do consume are typically of the fantasy/science fiction genre, which don’t appear to be well represented in this list), a big fat zero on that side of the slate.

And though I am a prodigious reader — completing at least 3 or 4 books per week — I can only claim one off the nonfiction half of the list — Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God, which was a freebie and though much ballyhooed and lauded, I found to be a poor survey of the topic matter.

But I tallied 5 on the 2008 list :

  • The Big Sort
  • The Drunkard’s Walk
  • The Forever War
  • Nixonland
  • Predictably Irrational

All nonfiction, and unlike the sole 2009 entry, excellent reads.

 

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