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| Are you busy working on your New Year's resolution to read 25, 50, 100 books in 2009? Or catching up on the books you wanted to read last year? You can narrow down that "planning to read" list by checking out what genres were popular last year and what's popular in 2009. |
Most popular tags in 2008 |
- Fiction
also see Pulitzer Prize and Contemporary Fiction - Fantasy
also see Alternate Reality and Fairy Tales - Non-Fiction
also see Behavioral Economics and Biography - Mystery
also see Whodunnit and Intrigue - Romance
also see Paranormal Romance and Romantic Suspense | - Series
also see Epic Fantasy and Quest - Young Adult
also see Teens and Coming of Age - Historical Fiction
also see Biographical Fiction and Historical Novel - Classic
also see 18th Century and Comedy of Manners - Humor
also see Comics and Satire |
Popular Shelfari books in January  | "Brilliant book. Everyone made such a fuss over Jonathan Safran Foer's debut novel ('Everything Is Illuminated', which I dutifully read first), but I much preferred this, his second novel. It is hilarious and touching. It deals with the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks on New York City in a profoundly beautiful manner. Of course someone had to write a novel about one of the many children who lost a parent (in this case a father) in the attacks, it seems so obvious now. What better way to get at the core of the emotional fall-out than to examine it through the eyes of a child? Little Oskar Schell is a wonderful character, perfectly drawn. I didn't want the book to end, to be honest..." ~K W |  | "Uncompromisingly brutal. Yates incisively dissects the shallowness behind the American intelligentsia class; rebellion for the sake of rebellion never felt so empty and self-deluding. And yet you want these characters to find their own paths because one sees oneself in them, even as they make one's skin crawl. The only weakness is in plotting. It's episodic and lacks focus; as a road it meanders, but the realism is incredible." ~Drew J |  | "A moving story about a nine year old boy named Bruno whose family moves to Poland when his dad is transferred to work at a concentration camp. Bruno has no idea what his dad does or who the people in the striped pajamas on the other side of the fence are. We see the holocaust from the innocent point of view of a little boy who makes a best friend among the thousands living inside the camp..." ~Chulabird54 |  | "My 10 year old cousin recommended this book to me and has checked to see if I've read it almost every day. This is a big deal. She doesn't particularly like to read. I've mentioned her before in some of my other reviews/discussions. I usually have to present something as a gimmick in order to get her to read it. This is the first book she's asked me to read. ...Sure Greg Heffley's got a bad attitude, but he's hilarious and besides the occasional 'gonna', he 'writes' pretty well. I found myself laughing out loud on more than one occasion. Greg's completely clueless and that is what makes him so endearing." ~HemingwayHeroine |  | "...Marked is the first novel in this series and at first I had a bit of trouble getting into the plot of the story but once I got a couple of chapters in I was definitely hooked. Zoey Redbird is one unique teenager and her world of having vampyres always existing is a fascinating world. Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird has just been Marked as fledgling vampyre and joins the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult vampire..." ~Phoebe Jordan | |
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