Little surprised at only one vote for White Teeth, guess she's never been an ILX fave (I haven't read).
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 15 October 2021 09:54 (two years ago) link
Same here, thought there would be more.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 15 October 2021 10:16 (two years ago) link
The Human Stain is a pretty troubling book but it has a superb closing set piece on the ice that comes to mind fairly often.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 15 October 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
Didn't see this on the list but Popular Music from Vittula is GREAT, not so great it makes me regret my vote for Kelly Gang, but seriously, people, read this really good traditional coming-of-age novel set in Northern Sweden, it's just plain good
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 15 October 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link
Love Smith but she got much better after White Teeth, On Beauty will be a serious contender for me depending on what it's up against
thankfully the other Beauty novel is from the previous year
― imago, Friday, 15 October 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
i like white teeth a lot, probably would have voted for it if it came out in a different year than last samurai
― flopson, Friday, 15 October 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
i haven’t read anything else of hers but i once read an interview where she says that she was embarrassed by white teeth and how young and naive and reckless she was when she wrote it and how brazenly she assumes the voices of all these different perspectives and my rxn like nooo that’s what was so good about it
― flopson, Friday, 15 October 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link