This is a slight variation of the list at my own site (the list at TMFTML is: a) longer (i.e., includes more than ten items); b) more extensive; and c) includes books only published thus far in the U.K. I don't necessarily consider the books I listed here superior to the ones that I left out, but given the constraints of the format here, I narrowed this list down the titles published in the U.S. during 2002, and one excellent collection that should probably be in every home). Now that those caveats are out of the way, these are ten of my favorite books this year:
BAD BLOOD, Lorna Sage
BRITAIN IN REVOLUTION, 1625-1660, Austin Woolrych
ESSAYS, George Orwell
FRAGRANT HARBOR, John Lanchester
GOULD'S BOOK OF FISH, Richard Flanagan
PARIS 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, Margaret MacMillan.
SAMUEL PEPYS: THE UNEQUALLED SELF, Claire Tomalin
THE ROTTERS' CLUB, Jonathan Coe
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, W. S. Merwin
SPIES, Michael Frayn
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