From the New York Times, here’s the list of each of three book reviewers ten favorites.
Specifically NOT the books they were assigned to review, Janet Maslin tells us that these books are the critics’ personal favorites. “These are the books that are disappointing only because they have to end. They’re the ones we mention to friends. They’re the ones worth taking on vacation, and they are well executed, whatever their genre or subject matter. They are what we’d read even if Michiko Kakutani, William Grimes and I weren’t designated readers.”
Among books reviewed by Michiko Kaktani, a favorite was House of Meetings by Martin Amis, Janet Maslin recommends Christine Falls by Benjamin Black and William Grimes includes the second in “The Liberation Trilogy”; The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson.
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