The New York Times just released its list of 100 Notable books of 2007. Out of the hundred, I’ve read exactly one - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It appears that I should probably choose this one from the list next:
HOW TO TALK ABOUT BOOKS YOU HAVEN’T READ. By Pierre Bayard. Translated by Jeffrey Mehlman. (Bloomsbury, $19.95.) A French literature professor wants to assuage our guilt over the ways we actually read and discuss books.
lapazfarm said,Yep. Me too. Harry Potter is the only one on the list I’ve read. Probably since it is the only kids lit on the list. Now, if they only listed more picture books…
CamianAcademy said,Deathly Hallows is the only one on the list I’ve read. It’s also the only fiction one I’ve heard of. I’ve at least heard of a few of the non-fiction ones and wouldn’t mind reading some of those.
floridamom said,Well you’ve done better than me. I haven’t read any of them! I do question what makes some of them notable though.
paradisefound said,Oh, wow. I was feeling like such a loser - glad to hear that it’s not just me! Floridamom, I agree - why ARE these so notable?
tribeofautodidacts said,Yep — me too. Harry Potter is it. I saw lots of books there I’d like to read, though.
carrie said,I’m almost done listening to Long Way Gone on audiobook, and it’s very good. I also read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but that’s it for me, too.
There are two kids’ lit books on the list, I think, and I’ve read both — Deathly Hallows and “Little Heathens” by Millie Kadish (non-fiction), which I enjoyed a lot. But that’s it. Those are the only two I’ve read.
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Tim said,
November 27, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
I’ll have to read that book, too!
But does the list say more about *you* . . . or about what the NYT thinks counts as “Notable”?