Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2009

I recall enjoying 1Q84 but can't remember why it needed to be almost 1000 pages long. On reflection it probably didn't. The City & The City, like most Miéville post The Scar, is a great idea in search of a point. Er, that's all I've read! Which is two more than the 2008 list so at least I get to vote this time.

oh i’ve read my struggle book one and have never felt the need to read the rest. it was pretty good still

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead vs Wolf Hall with Plow just winning out.
1Q84 is the only murakami book I don't like.

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My Struggle book one is really great - I have read most of the others, enjoyed them all, but the first is clearly the best

I finished My Struggle, is the best I can say about it.

The Fat Years is an interesting alternate history of China (post Tiananmen) which is very informative about the actual pre Tiananmen history.

I'm also dithering between Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and Wolf Hall but going for the latter.

that name again is Mr Plow...

only one i've read 8(

(and then only last year)

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Lots of voters this time, good.

I love Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead, it's my favourite of his; a great book about music, food, adolescence. As I was reading it, it really reminded me of Richard Ford: it has that feel of a writer setting out to document in detail the everyday events of a few characters over a few weeks. I've since learned of the history between Whitehead and Ford, so the comparison is pretty screwed.

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2010