Readers’ Bloc 2009
Every year we ask our Readers’ Bloc to list their favorite reads of the last 12 months (The books need not have been published that same year).
This week we’re doing our 2009 lists, beginning with poet and novelist R. Zamora Linmark, aka Zack.
Zack’s Top Ten
1. Harold Pinter, Old Times
2. Louise Gluck, A Village
3. Merlin Holland, The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde
4. Sherman Alexie, War Dances
5. Marianne Villanueva, The Lost Language
6. Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
7. Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
8. Roberto Bolano, Nazi Literature in the Americas
9. Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
10. Geoff Dyer, Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It
Zack’s next book is the novel Leche.
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