100 Notable Books of the Year

O New York Times publicou a sua lista dos 100 melhores livros do ano. Podem encontrar a lista aqui. Quanto aos 10 melhores livros do ano, essa está aqui.

Eu para começar vou atrás do último da Zadie Smith (On Beauty)!

Romances da Zadie Smith:

White Teeth (2000)

Her first novel White Teeth is built around three families - the British and Jamaican Joneses, the Bangladeshi Iqbals and the Jewish Catholic Chalfens - and presents several races, religions, generations and locations. It has won the Whitbread First Novel Award 2000, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. In 2002 the story of White Teeth was made into a short TV series for Channel 4.

The Autograph Man (2002)

Her second novel, The Autograph Man, was published in 2002. The main character of the second novel is a Jewish/Chinese Londoner named Alex-Li Tandem, who buys and sells autographs for a living. Smith's second novel won the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize 2003.

On Beauty (2005)

Her third novel, On Beauty, was published in September 2005. A short article in the Guardian has described it as a transatlantic comic saga. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize on September 8, 2005. She gave a preview reading of her third novel at this year's Oxford Literary Festival in April 2005.