Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Good Places Remix Stems

query results Letralia" "The best books of the decade"

Last August, the magazine Letralia opened a consultation on "Best books of the decade." Today, those who responded to this initiative have received this email with the results query:

Of the 144 valid responses received, the first ten places were for these titles:

With 28 votes :
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolaño (1998)

With 12 votes :
2666, Roberto Bolaño (2004)

With 6 votes :
The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa (2000)
Soldiers of Salamis, Javier Cercas (2001)

With 3 votes:
Delirio, Laura Restrepo (2004)
Universal History of the destruction of books , Fernando Báez (2004)
Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2002)
Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias (2002, 2004)

With 2 votes:
Sefarad, Antonio Muñoz Molina ( 2001)
Mischief The Bad Girl, Mario Vargas Llosa (2006)

We have published a report with review of these ten books, the overall results of the consultation (mentioning other 76 titles selected by our readers) and the views of public on selected books. All this as a digital book:
http://www.letralia.com/ed_let/decada

If you prefer to download this ebook in PDF format, you can click here:

http://www.letralia.com/ed_let/pdf/decada.pdf
I think I voted for The Savage Detectives.

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