Published 9 December 20089 December 2008 · Main Posts lists for 2008 admin For some reason, the production of ‘best of’ lists seems to start earlier in the USA than Australia. Both the New York Times and Salon have given their top tens for 2008, which are duly listed below. The NYT list goes like this: FICTION DANGEROUS LAUGHTER: Thirteen Stories By Steven Millhauser. MERCY By Toni Morrison. NETHERLAND By Joseph O’Neill. 2666 By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. UNACCUSTOMED EARTH By Jhumpa Lahiri. NONFICTION THE DARK SIDE: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals By Jane Mayer. THE FOREVER WAR By Dexter Filkins. NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF By Julian Barnes. THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING Death and the American Civil War By Drew Gilpin Faust. THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul By Patrick French. Alfred A. Knopf, $30. Salon‘s version runs: FICTION 2666 by Roberto Bolaño A Person of Interest by Susan Choi The Likeness by Tana French Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher NONFICTION Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order by Joan Wickersham admin More by admin › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 8 November 20248 November 2024 · Poetry Announcing the final results of the 2024 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers Editorial Team After careful consideration, judges Karen Wyld and Eugenia Flynn have selected first place and two runners-up to form the final results of this year’s Nakata Brophy Prize! 4 October 202418 October 2024 · Main Posts Announcing the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers 2024 longlist Editorial Team Sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and supporters, the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, established in 2014 and now in its ninth year, recognises the talent of young Indigenous writers across Australia.
