Posted by Joffre on 13/10/2009, 12:44:35
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When are we supposed to start thinking about this? Is it a little early? Anyway, I threw these lists together last night. I'm sure I've missed some books, but you all... oh, who am I kidding?... y'all can add those I missed.
2010 will be the 10th anniversary of:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - M. Chabon
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
Gertrude and Claudius - John Updike
The Human Stain - Phillip Roth
Ignorance - Milan Kundera
A Portrait of the Artist, as an Old Man - Joseph Heller
Ravelstein - Saul Bellow
When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
the 25th anniversary of:
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Illywacher - Peter Carey
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
The Old Gringo - Carlos Fuentes
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
The Prague Orgy - Phillip Roth
Queer - William Burroughs
White Noise - Don DeLillo
the 50th anniversary of:
The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis
No Longer at Ease - Chinua Achebe
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
The Sot Weed Factor - John Barthes
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O'Connor
The Winners - Julio Cortazar
the 100th anniversary of:
Howard's End - E.M. Forster
The Notebooks of Maulte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Maria Rilke
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
Psmith in the City - P.G. Wodehouse
the 150th anniverary of:
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
Gryll Grange - Thomas Love Peacock
The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
the 200th anniversary of:
Nothing; 1810 was a bad year.
Some of this years prize winners:
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel - the Booker
Man Gone Down - Michael Thomas - IMPAC
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill - Pen Faulkner
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Stout - Pulitzer
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