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Cannonball Read 2009/2010: The Best of the Best

These are the absolute best fifteen books out of the hundred I read.  It took me a day and a half (and four tries) to make this list.  These are must-reads.  No particular order.

  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)
  • World War Z (Max Brooks)
  • The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell)
  • Shades of Grey (Jasper Fforde)
  • Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (Lydia Millet)
  • Lunar Park (Bret Easton Ellis)
  • Downtown Owl (Chuck Klosterman)
  • The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)
  • The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
  • The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
  • The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)
  • The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
  • God is Dead (Ron Currie, Jr.)
  • Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry (Leanne Shapton)
  • The History of Love (Nicole Krauss)
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Posted 1 year ago

Cannonball Read 2009/2010: The Runners-Up

These are the fifteen books out of the hundred I read that just barely didn’t make the cut. Not the best of the best, but not to be left out.  Though I wouldn’t classify these as MUST-reads, I obviously enjoyed them.  You should probably go ahead and read them anyways.  No particular order.

  • Hell (Robert Olen Butler)
  • Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver)
  • Tender Morsels (Margo Lanagan)
  • The Children’s Hospital (Chris Adrian)
  • Icelander (Dustin Long)
  • Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
  • The Frog King (Adam Davies)
  • City of Thieves (David Benioff)
  • The 19th Wife (David Ebershoff)
  • Little Children (Tom Perrotta)
  • A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
  • The Cheese Monkeys (Chip Kidd)
  • Zeitoun (Dave Eggers)