Kirkus Reviews Picks the Best of '06
Maybe this is the last of the year-end round-ups? (Here's what I previously thought was the last, and the one before that.)
Kirkus Reviews, the noted trade magazine, has put out a spiffy round-up of the year's best books, in several categories. (That link is a PDF, though not an immensely large one.)
Their "sci-fi" list contains ten titles:
- Shadows in the Starlight, Elaine Cunningham
- A Grey Moon Over China, Thomas A. Day
- The Crippled Angel, Sara Douglass
- Eifelheim, Michael Flynn
- Stamping Butterflies, Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- Bridge of Souls, Fiona McIntosh
- The Toyminator, Robert Rankin (available in the SFBC omnibus Eddie Bear, Private Detective)
- Greywalker, Kat Richardson
- Sun of Suns, Karl Schroeder
- In the Night Garden, Catherynne M. Valente
It's probably the most idiosyncratic list so far -- good for them, keeping things interesting and not listing the same books everyone else liked.
[link via a private e-mail from the agent Joshua Bilmes, who has seen more Borders stores than any other sane man]
Comments
"Maybe this is the last of the year-end round-ups?"
Well, we're still waiting on the Locus Recommended Reading list ...
Posted by: Niall | January 10, 2007 03:01 PM
Niall: You're right; I did forget Locus's annual list, which will be coming with their February issue. Of course, the Locus list includes nearly everything worth reading published in the previous year, so maybe "best" isn't quite the right word there.
The best four hundred books of the year!
(Doesn't have the same ring to it...)
Posted by: Andrew Wheeler | January 10, 2007 04:48 PM
Are they kidding?
Sorry, but I can't take seriously any list that puts the drivel Fiona McIntosh writes in a "best of" category.
There are so many better books out there.
Posted by: Andrew Garey | January 11, 2007 09:01 PM
Well, one of the books on the Kirkus list being mine, I think it's a pretty damn good list!
Posted by: Thomas A. Day | January 13, 2007 01:10 AM