Capsule Reviews: Catching Up
February 8, 2007 (12:09 AM) ( link )

From the past year, here are the books I'm not going to review. I will, however, categorize them roughly according to my opinion of them.

Good
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Stanislaw Lem, Tales of Pirx the Pilot
David Simon & Edward Burns, The Corner
Michael Lewis, Moneyball
Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong, The Brethren
Jack Vance, The Dragon Masters

OK
James Tiptree, Jr., Ten Thousand Light Years from Home
Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander
Herman Wouk, City Boy
Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist
Michael Moorcock, Gloriana
Haruki Murakami, Underground
Tad Williams, The War of the Flowers
Elmore Leonard, Glitz
John Le Carre, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Philip Roth, The Human Stain

Bad
E.L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
Jeff VanderMeer, Shriek: An Afterword
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
China Mieville, King Rat
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
Michael Swanwick, The Iron Dragon's Daughter