Wednesday, November 30, 2005

The Times's books of the year

Today's New York Times lists the paper's ten best books of 2005. If you're looking for a list of suggested reading, you could do worse.

Of the three books I read, I loved one (Murakami's Kafka on the Shore), liked another (Zadie Smith's On Beauty), and viscerally despised the third (Ian McEwan's Saturday). Leave it to the Times to love Saturday, an effete novel with an elitist view of the world and an adolescent viewpoint on the build-up to the Iraq War.

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