Here are The 10 Best Books: Fiction, list. (taken from Time Magazine December 24, 2007)
The 10 Best Books: Fiction
By Lev Grossman
#1 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (By Junot Diaz)
A massive, heaving, sparking tragicomedy starring Oscar, a Dominican American nerd beaten down by the lingering curses of the old country, the alien demands of New Jersey and the depredations of his hopelessly romantic heart.
#2 Then We Came to the End (By Joshua Ferris)
Life in the office of a Chicago ad agency, complete with stolen desk chairs and illicit affairs.
#3 A Thousand Splendid Suns (By Khaled Hosseini)
Two extraordinary but very different women live through 30 years of violent Afghan history.
#4 Out Stealing Horses (By Per Petterson)
A chance encounter forces a retired man to think back 50 years to the moment that changed his life.
#5 Tree of Smoke (By Denis Johnson
A massive, swirling novel of the Vietnam War as a ruinous drug that Americans soldiers can't kick.
#6 The House of Meetings (By Martin Amis)
This searing, blackly funny account of life in a Stalin-era gulag examines men at their worst.
#7 No One Belongs Here more Than You (By Miranda July)
The lives of misfits told in quirky, almost unbearably intense short stories.
#8 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (By J.K. Rowling)
Harry's last dance is dense with Rowling's ruling themes: love and death.
#9 Like You'd Understand, Anyway (By Jim Shepard)
Wildly inventive tales of cosmonauts' and Victorian explorers' secret lives.
#10 The Post-Birthday World (By Lionel Shriver)
A woman is tempted to chest. Should she? Yes and no: shriver explores the same story two ways.
*taken from Time Magazine December 24, 2007 Vol. 170, No. 25 | 2007, page 38-39
*books screenshot is taken from www.goodreads.com
#2 Then We Came to the End (By Joshua Ferris)
Life in the office of a Chicago ad agency, complete with stolen desk chairs and illicit affairs.
#3 A Thousand Splendid Suns (By Khaled Hosseini)
Two extraordinary but very different women live through 30 years of violent Afghan history.
#4 Out Stealing Horses (By Per Petterson)
A chance encounter forces a retired man to think back 50 years to the moment that changed his life.
#5 Tree of Smoke (By Denis Johnson
A massive, swirling novel of the Vietnam War as a ruinous drug that Americans soldiers can't kick.
#6 The House of Meetings (By Martin Amis)
This searing, blackly funny account of life in a Stalin-era gulag examines men at their worst.
#7 No One Belongs Here more Than You (By Miranda July)
The lives of misfits told in quirky, almost unbearably intense short stories.
#8 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (By J.K. Rowling)
Harry's last dance is dense with Rowling's ruling themes: love and death.
#9 Like You'd Understand, Anyway (By Jim Shepard)
Wildly inventive tales of cosmonauts' and Victorian explorers' secret lives.
#10 The Post-Birthday World (By Lionel Shriver)
A woman is tempted to chest. Should she? Yes and no: shriver explores the same story two ways.
*taken from Time Magazine December 24, 2007 Vol. 170, No. 25 | 2007, page 38-39
*books screenshot is taken from www.goodreads.com
