Archive for December 24th, 2009:
Looking Back at the Decade’s Mysterious Sleepers
posted December 24, 2009
Posted by Erin Brown in books publishing
‘Tis the season for editors and bloggers everywhere to weigh in on what they believe to be the best books of the year. Some are even taking the opportunity to size up the whole literary decade. The most interesting list I’ve seen is The decade’s best unread books, compiled by the Guardian.
“While people are busy ranking the hit books of the last 10 years,” the Guardian says, “many a publishing insider is quietly mourning a volume that unaccountably never made the ‘best of’ or bestseller lists, but should have. Here publishers, agents and translators speak up for the ones that really shouldn’t have got away.”
It’s fascinating to get this behind the scenes perspective on books that were expected to do well but didn’t.
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