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@JanetGS Here is the top ten list http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704263.html 18 days ago |
PW’s Top Ten
EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection —
PW has released their “first ever” list of the top ten books of 2009 (the list is also featured in USA Today’s “ Book Buzz ” column). Not missing a beat, Connie Ogle of the Miami Herald asks why ALL the books are by men. Really, PW ? No women wrote great books in 2009? Not Margaret Atwood, not A.S. Byatt? Hmmmm. Makes me skeptical. She acknowledges that, in a press release, PW had noted that the list is not “politically correct,” but said “the balance of our top 100 reflects a remarkable diversity.” That list will appear next week. Below are the top ten — ...
Top Ten Titles of 2009
Isak —
... Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer (Pantheon); Lost City of Z by David Grann (Doubleday); Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford (Penguin Press); and Stitches by David Small (Norton). I'm particularly happy to see Victor LaValle and David Small's books on the list. And although this treasure of an essay still rings in my mind, I do hope to read Blake Bailey's biography of John Cheever soon... See PW's reviews of the top ten books here. ...
Best of the best ...
Books, Inq. — The Epilogue —
... as Publishers Weekly sees it:Our take on the year's best. ...
Publishers Weekly's 2009 top 10
the Literary Saloon —
Publishers Weekly's has announced their top 10 best books of 2009 (a year that I thought wasn't even 5/6ths over ...), and now offer a page that includes their reviews of all ten titles. ...
More Bests: Publishers Weekly Top 10 of 2009
Omnivoracious —
... While we've been counting down our top 100 books of 2009 toward our top 10, Publishers Weekly went in the other direction: they are announcing their top 100 books next week, like we are, but earlier this week they revealed their top 10 choices. It's the first time they've narrowed their usual longer list of picks to 10 favorites, and while they weren't quite sporting enough to rank their 10, we like that their list will provide an even more direct comparison (or complement) to ours (as well as other upcoming top 10s, like the NYT's.) Here they are: ...
That Time Already?
A True Reality —
... PW's list (which notably has no female Top 10 authors) includes David Small's Stitches. I haven't read it, but only one of my students has checked it out, and she said it was "good but sad." There just hasn't been much interest in this book, although I might be able to drum up a little more if I let them know it's a true story. ...
PW’s Top 10 of 2009
The Millions —
... Publisher’s Weekly has released a Top 10 adult books list for 2009, fiction and non-fiction. Click here for the (perhaps surprising) list, including reviews. ...
The Drawbacks of Diversity in Book Lists
BookFox —
... A lot of people have been complaining about the lack of women on the Publisher's Weekly top ten list. For commentary, check out the ...
And the Winner Is...
The Outfit: A Collective of Chicago Crime Writers —
... why an increasing proportion of the crime fiction I am sent to review features male perpetrators and almost invariably female victims — series of them. Each psychopath is more sadistic than the last and his victims' sufferings are described in detail that becomes ever more explicit, as young women are imprisoned, bound, gagged, strung up or tied down, raped, sliced, burned, blinded, beaten, eaten, starved, suffocated, stabbed, boiled or buried alive. Side-by-side with this comes PW's list of the 10 best books of 2009 . It's not just that all ten were written by men, but many ...
