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Best of the Best of the Year Book Lists

Posted by: Scott    Tags:      Posted date:  November 18, 2008  |  No comment


Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowan, professor of economics at George Mason University and at the Center for the Study of Public Choice, has aggregated the various year’s best lists which have started to pop up online.

Here are the four titles he’s dioscovered appearing most frequently:

2666, by Roberto BolaƱo

Nothing to be Frightened Of, by Julian Barnes

The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel, by David Wroblewski

You can find him snarking on them all here.





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