Continuing with my search for the Best Book Club Books…  Here is a list of Time magazine’s top 10 works of fiction…

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First, Time‘s picks for the best fiction of 2007 — I loved two, couldn’t finish two, and plan to read them all in the next few months.

1. The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Waiting patiently on the library’s list for this one…).

2. Then We Came to the End: A Novel by Joshua Ferris (I only sludged through about 50 pages of this — too self-consciously funny and quirky, and felt very much like a first novel — I thought it tried too hard to do what The Office does effortlessly).

3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Broke publishing records…  quite a good read, in my opinion).

4. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (One of my very favorites from 2007 — beautifully written, even in translation…  subtle, moving, definitely worth your time).

5. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (Really tried with this one, but I quickly realized that I have reached my limit of disturbing, graphic Vietnam fiction…  can’t do it any more… but this received tremendously positive critical reviews).

6. The House of Meetings by Martin Amis (I’ll try this eventually…)

7. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (Haven’t heard of this one… I think its a collection of stories).

8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

9.Like You’d Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard (another collection of stories I haven’t experienced yet…)

10. The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver (Quite interesting… Here’s my review of Shriver’s latest).

Next week…  Time’s top 10 works of non-fiction from 2007…

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