Best of '06 part 3

I've read quite a few books this year for business and pleasure. But this list just deals with my favourite fiction of 2006:

1. The Wolf of Helocene by Mark Taylor. Arrogant? Moi? Well, I wrote it so IMHO it's quite good.

2. The Religion by Tim Willocks. Quite simply jaw-on-the-floor stunning. War as poetry.

3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Relentlessly bleak and heart-wrenching, but impossible to put down.

4. The Terror by Dan Simmons. Shouldn't be in the list as it's just come out, but it's so good...

5. Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore. Read it last year and re-read it again this year. Probably one of the best-written novels in the universe.

6. Eisenhorn (Eisenhorn Omnibus) by Dan Abnett. Okay, it's pulp - but *really* good pulp.

7. Relics by Pip-Vaughn Hughes. Pretty decent literary period thriller.

8. Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle (Baroque Cycle 1) by Neal Stephenson. Quite a slog to finish, but an amazing achievement (by the author, not me) nonetheless.

9. The Prestige by Christopher Priest. Watch the film then read this - it's better.

10. Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter. The definitive collection by the mistress of the subverted fairy-tale.

Posted by monoman at 05:43 PM on February 15, 2007