BOOKS.OF.THE.YEAR

I was asked by The Guardian to pick my favourites of 2000. I picked:

By the Month: Jan. Michael Lewis, The New New Thing; Feb. William Sutcliffe, The Love Hexagon; Mar. George Eliot, Middlemarch; Apr. Graham Greene, Ways of Escape; May. Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood; Jun. Saul Bellow, Ravelstein; Jul. Cyril Connolly Enemies of Promise; Aug. Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; Sep. Mark Z Danielewski, House of Leaves; Oct. Naomi Klein, No Logo; Nov. Malcolm Bradbury, To the Hermitage; Dec. Lawrence Norfolk, In the Shape of a Boar. Of the Year: No Logo.Because it might just change things.

I was told I couldn't pick so many. I picked again:

Non-fiction: no question, no contest, it has to be No Logo. Naomi Klein has managed to turn a non-subject into the subject. Fiction: Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein. Finally I see why other people rave about him. And approximately halfway in-between the two (but oscillating wildly): Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.