Thursday, January 1, 2009

2008 Jambalaya Award Winners

most interesting books read and finished for the first time in 2008:

The Deadly Percheron -- John Franklin Bardin

Cutter and Bone -- Newton Thornberg

Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound Of The Baskervilles -- Pierre Bayard

The Lost Dog -- Michelle de Kretser

Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States -- George R. Stewart

Elective Affinities -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Man In The High Castle -- Philip Dick

Out Stealing Horses -- Per Petterson

Cakes and Ale -- W. Somerset Maugham

The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox -- Stephen Budiansky

The Curse of The Spellmans -- Lisa Lutz

All About H. Hatterr -- G.V. Desani

The Savage Detectives -- Roberto Bolano

Diary of A Bad Year -- J.M. Coetzee

in reverse order of reading

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