{"id":15922,"date":"2008-11-18T08:55:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T13:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=15922"},"modified":"2014-10-05T17:42:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T21:42:18","slug":"best-of-the-best-of-the-year-book-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/18\/best-of-the-best-of-the-year-book-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Best of the Year Book Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Marginal Revolution<\/i><\/a>, Tyler Cowan, professor of economics at George Mason University and at the Center for the Study of Public Choice,  has aggregated the various year&#8217;s best lists which have started to pop up online.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the four titles he&#8217;s dioscovered appearing most frequently:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>2666<\/i>, by Roberto Bola\u00f1o<\/p>\n<p><i>Nothing to be Frightened Of<\/i>, by Julian Barnes<\/p>\n<p><i>The Forever War<\/i>, by Dexter Filkins.  <\/p>\n<p><i>The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel<\/i>, by David Wroblewski<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2008\/11\/meta-list-of-th.html\" target=\"_blank\">You can find him snarking on them all here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s best lists which have started to pop up online. Here are the four titles he&#8217;s dioscovered appearing most frequently: 2666, by Roberto Bola\u00f1o Nothing to be Frightened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15923,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922\/revisions\/15923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}