The 10 books are: Claire Messud: The Emperor‘s Children. John Barth: The Sot-Weed Factor. Daniel Kehlmann: Measuring the World. Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Bill Bryson: The Lost Continent. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway. Zadie Smith: White Teeth. Julian Barnes: Arthur & George. Colm Toibin: The Master. Philip Roth: The Plot against America.

Friday, January 5, 2007

Why did I pick these books (10 of 10)?

If you search for "White Teeth" in Google Images, the Zadie Smith novel comes up first only at position 16. Why the book's title, I am wondering for the first time?
Suspicious about the commercial success of White Teeth, I postponed reading it, but became an instant convert by the author's On Beauty, which I had read because of E.M. Forster's Howards End.

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