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2007 in review: #1 — Best reads of 2007: fiction

There’s a tag for that so if you hit it you’ll find them all duly noted. Just as well, as I would never have remembered them all.

However, cutting out a couple of eccentric entries, I have pared the list down to a First Fifteen.

 

Author	Title	Post
Janette Turner Hospital	Orpheus Lost	Welcome to our nightmare
Elmore Leonard	La Brava	Contrasts in my recent reading and viewing
Andrew McGahan	Underground	The novel Andrew Bolt hates and Zadie Smith’s 21st century classic
Zadie Smith	On Beauty	Easily the best novel I have read so far this year*
Dai Sijie 戴思杰	Mr Muo’s Travelling Couch	Sino-Gallic firecrackers
Kate Grenville	The Secret River	May have been, very possibly…
Anne Holt	What Is Mine	Promised review catch-up
Reginald Hill	The Death of Dalziel	More reviews of good stuff from Surry Hills Library
Alexander McCall Smith	Blue Shoes and Happiness	Two very different works of crime fiction
Robert Drewe	Grace	Robert Drewe Grace (2005)
Michael Nava	Rag and Bone	Book and DVD backlog
Andrew O’Hagan	Be Near Me	Negotiating dangerous ground
Salman Rushdie	Shalimar the Clown	as above
Milan Kundera	Ignorance	Milan Kundera Ignorance (2002)
Karin Fossum	When the Devil Holds the Candle	Two crime fiction novels

 

The top five? Ignorance, The Secret River, On Beauty, Orpheus Lost, The Death of Dalziel.

COMPARE:

Best reads 2006, summarised here.

Best reads 2005