One corrective to the American mass-media best-of-the-year book lists is something like in lieu of a field guide's list of The year's best: any list that has Peter Weiss' The Aesthetics of Resistance in the top spot (and an Abe Kōbō novel in second) is my kind of list.
But strictly speaking these aren't books of this year, so one has to look elsewhere for relief; fortunately Steve Donoghue obliges by offering his list of the Worst Books of 2012 - Fiction ! at his stevereads weblog.
Once again, I haven't seen nine of the ten titles (I did borrow Nell Freudenberger's The Newlyweds from the library, but was too sorely disappointed to review it); I assume he'll be getting a lot of angry mail re. his number one selection.
Entertainment Weekly apparently also does a Best and Worst selection, but only the best is up .....
Once again, I haven't seen nine of the ten titles (I did borrow Nell Freudenberger's The Newlyweds from the library, but was too sorely disappointed to review it); I assume he'll be getting a lot of angry mail re. his number one selection.
Entertainment Weekly apparently also does a Best and Worst selection, but only the best is up .....