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.
