Also, for those interested, our book list for the previous year was the following:

• Bluebeard's Egg, Mararet Atwood
• The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Michael Chabon
• Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit, Daniel Quinn
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner