Best Books of the Year Countdown: 60 to 41
Yesterday's twenty brought us a morning-after report from a lifelong party, exuberant youthful letters from a writer who couldn't go on but did, two graphic profiles of fictional lives, a novel written on the NYC subway, a book arguing that the greenest place in America is Manhattan, and one showing what that island borough looked like it when it was actually green.
Today's twenty:
60. The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
59. The Kids Are All Right, Liz, Diana, Amanda, and Dan Welch
58. The Lost City of Z, David Grann
57. How Rome Fell, Adrian Goldsworthy
56. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, Lydia Davis
55. Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, James McManus
54. Zeitoun, Dave Eggers
53. The Vagrants, Yiyun Li
52. The Magicians, Lev Grossman
51. Wicked Plants, Amy Stewart
50. Last Night at Twisted River, John Irving
49. Genesis, Bernard Beckett
48. Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, Susan Jane Gilman
47. Blood's a Rover, James Ellroy
46. The Scarecrow, Michael Connelly
45. A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert
44. Tinkers, Paul Harding
43. Lords of Finance, Liaquat Ahamed
42. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
41. The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Coming on Thursday: #40 to #21. --Tom
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