Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2010

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I haven't read The Finkler Question, and don't set much store by Goodreads ratings, but at 2.8 it is by some distance the lowest rated Booker Winner. (I have read his next book J and it was staggeringly bad.)

namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 10:25 (two years ago) link

I started The Finkler Question and it was bad enough that I never finished it and had zero guilt.

Jaq, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link

All I've read was Goon Squad and that was bad.

hocus pocus, alakazam (PBKR), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link

I know I read Kraken but it left no impression. Super Sad True Love Story I recall enjoying so it gets my vote.

Jaq, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Thursday, 25 November 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link

Do wonder if I ever read books from a current year or just not popular novels.
Still don't seem to have read many or any of these recent years ones. Maybe I read music histories and biographies when they come out and fiction I tend to pick up in sales or charity shops.
Think I have read other things by a few writers but not the books from.the year given. Of course you can never make a poll using all books from a given year even if you stick to fiction.

Stevolende, Thursday, 25 November 2021 07:49 (two years ago) link

Actually have read the Prague Cemetery by Eco cos I think I've read all of his novels. That's the one about the protocols of the Elders of Zion isn't it. Looking into its actual history as fiction in a fictional way? & I think I read a library copy back around the time or closer to it. I think it takes a while for libraries to get copies of things.

Stevolende, Thursday, 25 November 2021 07:55 (two years ago) link

i liked goon squad a lot!

haven't read anything else. not voting.

adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 25 November 2021 08:34 (two years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Friday, 26 November 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link

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Daniel_Rf, Friday, 26 November 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link

Missed this one. Really liked HHhH and this would have been the highbrow choice, but I cannot lie, Freedom made me feel more and I would have voted for it. I, like others above, started The Finkler Question on the strength of the Booker and quickly abandoned it when I found it was lousy.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 27 November 2021 00:28 (two years ago) link

I haven't read any of these.

o. nate, Sunday, 28 November 2021 00:44 (two years ago) link


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