{"id":1664,"date":"2007-12-08T20:03:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T02:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2007-12-08T21:36:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T04:24:35","slug":"ntys-10-best-books-of-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"NTY’s 10 Best Books Of 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the NYT<\/a>:<\/p>\n

MAN GONE DOWN<\/a>
\nBy Michael Thomas. Black Cat\/Grove\/Atlantic, paper, $14.<\/span> This first novel explores the fragmented personal histories behind four desperate days in a black writer’s life.<\/p>\n

OUT STEALING HORSES<\/a>
\nBy Per Petterson. Translated by Anne Born. Graywolf Press, $22.<\/span> In this short yet spacious Norwegian novel, an Oslo professional hopes to cure his loneliness with a plunge into solitude.<\/p>\n

THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES<\/a>
\nBy Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.<\/span> A craftily autobiographical novel about a band of literary guerrillas.<\/p>\n

THEN WE CAME TO THE END<\/a>
\nBy Joshua Ferris. Little, Brown & Company, $23.99.<\/span> Layoff notices fly in Ferris’s acidly funny first novel, set in a white-collar office in the wake of the dot-com debacle.<\/p>\n

TREE OF SMOKE<\/a>
\nBy Denis Johnson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.<\/span> The author of “Jesus’ Son” offers a soulful novel about the travails of a large cast of characters during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

\nNonfiction<\/span><\/p>\n

IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone<\/a>.
\nBy Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95; Vintage, paper, $14.95.<\/span> The author, a Washington Post journalist, catalogs the arrogance and ineptitude that marked America’s governance of Iraq.<\/p>\n

LITTLE HEATHENS: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression.<\/a>
\nBy Mildred Armstrong Kalish. Bantam Books, $22.<\/span> Kalish’s soaring love for her childhood memories saturates this memoir, which coaxes the reader into joy, wonder and even envy.<\/p>\n

THE NINE: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court<\/a>.
\nBy Jeffrey Toobin. Doubleday, $27.95.<\/span> An erudite outsider’s account of the cloistered court’s inner workings.<\/p>\n

THE ORDEAL OF ELIZABETH MARSH: A Woman in World History<\/a>.
\nBy Linda Colley. Pantheon Books, $27.50.<\/span> Colley tracks the “compulsively itinerant” Marsh across the 18th century and several continents.<\/p>\n

THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century<\/a>.
\nBy Alex Ross. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.<\/span> In his own feat of orchestration, The New Yorker’s music critic presents a history of the last century as refracted through its classical music.<\/p>\n

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From the NYT: MAN GONE DOWN By Michael Thomas. Black Cat\/Grove\/Atlantic, paper, $14. This first novel explores the fragmented personal histories behind four desperate days in a black writer’s life. OUT STEALING HORSES By Per Petterson. Translated by Anne Born. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}