El prestigioso diario británico hace pública su personal lista con lo mejor del panorama literario aparecido en los últimos diez años.
Los primeros puestos son para:
1. The Road (La carretera), de Conrad McCarthy (2006).
2. Persepolis, de Marjane Satrapi (2003).
3. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, de Barack Obama (2004).
4. Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers, de Robert Bringhurst (2002).
5. Suite Française (Suite Francesa), de Irène Némirovsky (2006).
A continuación dejo los demás puestos, numerados del peor al mejor y directamente sacados de la página web del periódico – ¡Es que son 100!-. He añadido los títulos en español de los que conozco o al menos me suenan. También los enlaces a los que he leído –más bien poquitos- y a los autores de los que he reseñado algo, aunque sea otra de sus obras.
100 The Position by Meg Wolitzer (2005)
99 The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah (2008)
98 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2007)
97 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (2007)
96 The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (2006)
95 The Emperor’s Babe by Bernardine Evaristo (2001)
87 The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall (2007)
86 District and Circle by Seamus Heaney (2006)
85 Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor (2002)
84 Unless by Carol Shields (2002)
83 This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2008)
94 Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (2005)
93 The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (2008)
92 Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower (2009)
91 My Father and other Working-Class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach (2005)
90 Twilight (Crepúsculo) by Stephenie Meyer (2005)
89 The Enchantress of Florence (El encantador de Florencia) by Salman Rushdie (2008)
88 Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr (2006)
82 Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel by Gordon Burn (2008)
81 The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud (2006)
80 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (2008) Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2008,
79 Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (2000) The bleak,
78 Giving up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel (2003)
77 Collected Poems by Michael Donaghy (2009)
76 England in Particular: A Celebration of the Commonplace, the Local, the Vernacular and the Distinctive by Sue Clifford and Angela King (2006)
75 The Damned Utd by David Peace (2006)
74 War Music by Christopher Logue (2001)
73 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Sauce cuego, mujer dormida) by Haruki Murakami (2005)
72 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2001)
71 Experience by Martin Amis (2000)
70 The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson (2000)
69 My Name is Red (Mi nombre es Rojo) by Orhan Pamuk (2001)
68 Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (2005)
67 The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (2009)
66 Cloud Atlas (El Atlas de las Nubes) by David Mitchell (2004)
65 Peeling the Onion by Günter Grass (2007)
64 Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times edited by Neil Astley (2002)
63 The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker (2002)
62 Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (2002)
61The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
60 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2005)
59 Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith (2005)
58 Dart by Alice Oswald (2002)
57 Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin (2004)
56 If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor (2002)
55 Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad’s Green Zone by Rajiv
54 Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (2003)
53 Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver (2004)
52 Youth by J. M. Coetzee (2002)
51 Home by Marilynne Robinson (2008)
50 No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein (2000)
49: The Ghost by Robert Harris (2007)
48 A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Una breve historia de casi todo) by Bill Bryson (2003)
47 Collected Poems of Ted Hughes (2003)
46 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)
45 London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd (2000)
44 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by
43Thursbitch by Alan Garner (2003)
42 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2006)
41 The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (2008)
40 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight trans Simon Armitage (2007)
39 Runaway by Alice Munro (2005)
38 The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression by Andrew Solomon (2001)
37 William Trevor: The Collected Stories (2009)
36 How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (2004)
35 The Arrival by Shaun Tan (2006)
34 Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (2001)
33 Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan (2004)
32 Everything is Illuminated (Todo está iluminado) by Jonathan Safran Foer (2002)
31 The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (2006)
30 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003)
29 The Accidental by Ali Smith (2005)
28 The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (2007)
27 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
26 Bad Blood by Lorna Sage (2000)
25 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche) by Mark Haddon (2003)
24 Never Let Me Go (Nunca me abandones) by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
23 The 9/11 Commission Report (2004)
22 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (2000)
21 The Plot Against America (La conjura contra América) by Philip Roth (2004)
20 White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2000)
19 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)
18 Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (2008)
17 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter y las reliquias de la muerte) by J. K. Rowling (2007)
16 Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy (2005)
15 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (2006)
14 Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (2003)
13 Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald (2001)
12 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (2000)
11 War and Peace (Guerra y paz) by Leo Tolstoy, in a new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (2007)
10 The Da Vinci Code (el código Da Vinci) by Dan Brown (2003)
9 Atonement (Expiación) by Ian McEwan (2001)
A foolish act of bravado and a simple act of conceit at a 1930s house party combine to
8 Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood (2008)
7 Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2002)
6 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (La clave del éxito) by Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
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