BEST:

• the year of the flood by margaret atwood
• oryx and crake by margaret atwood
• black swan green by david mitchell
• drown by junot díaz
• this is how you lose her by junot díaz
• the ghost writer by philip roth
• after the quake by haruki murakami
• autobiography of red by anne carson
• help, thanks, wow by anne lamott
• in watermelon sugar by richard brautigan

WORST:

• mariana by susanna kearsley
• sweet tooth by ian mcewan
• the thirteenth tale by diane setterfield
• holidays on ice by david sedaris