More international best of the year lists, as two French ones have now appeared:
- Lire's traditional Les 20 meilleurs livres de l'année has twenty books in twenty categories -- with Donald Ray Pollock's The Devil all the Time their choice for book of the year (get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk). La noche de los tiempos by Antonio Muñoz Molina was named best foreign novel, and The Submission by Amy Waldman the best foreign debut. And Oulipo-man Paul Fournel's Anquetil tout seul was their choice for best sports book.
- les inRocKuptibles offer 2012: les 25 meilleurs livres de l'année -- and two of the top five are under review at the complete review: Némésis by Philip Roth, and Pourquoi être heureux quand on peut être normal ? by Jeanette Winterson.
- Lire's traditional Les 20 meilleurs livres de l'année has twenty books in twenty categories -- with Donald Ray Pollock's The Devil all the Time their choice for book of the year (get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk). La noche de los tiempos by Antonio Muñoz Molina was named best foreign novel, and The Submission by Amy Waldman the best foreign debut. And Oulipo-man Paul Fournel's Anquetil tout seul was their choice for best sports book.
- les inRocKuptibles offer 2012: les 25 meilleurs livres de l'année -- and two of the top five are under review at the complete review: Némésis by Philip Roth, and Pourquoi être heureux quand on peut être normal ? by Jeanette Winterson.