Last week, the National Book Critics Circle announced its winners for 2008.According to their website, the National Book Critics Circle "is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns."
So if you're looking for a good (and fairly serious) book to read, you might want to check out one of these:
Fiction - 2666 by Roberto Bolaño.
General Nonfiction - The Forever War by Dexter Filkins.
Biography - The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French.
Autobiography - My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar.
Poetry (2 Awards) - Half the World in Light by Juan Felipe Herrera and Sleeping It Off in Rapid City by August Klienzahler.
Criticism - Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer.
No comments:
Post a Comment