Bookslut offers five books for the Best Foreign Fiction of 2008. 2666 makes the cut, unsurprisingly, as well as Metropole, by Ferenc Karinthy.
The Millions has their annual “Year in Reading.”
If you want a slightly different take on the Fiction 2008 lists, try the Financial Times book suggestions. (via)
The TLS has authors suggest their favorite books of 2008 — including Junot Diaz’s favorite.
And the Wall Street Journal offers exactly the opposite of what all these “Best of” lists are trying to get you to do: an article encouraging you to read books that you already own.
