Consensus

Publishers Weekly daily newsletter lists the consensus best books of 2002 based upon a survey of the Atlantic Monthly, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and the Village Voice:

Fiction:

Atonement by Ian McEwan (Doubleday/Nan Talese, $26) — eight times
mentioned

Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan (Grove, $27.50) — three
times mentioned

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (FSG, $27) — twice mentioned

Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros (Knopf, $24) — twice mentioned

Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett (Norton, $24.95) — twice
mentioned

Nonfiction:

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
(Knopf, $35) — five times mentioned

Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by Janet Brown (Knopf, $37.50) —
three times mentioned

Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival by Carl Safina
(Holt, $27.50) — twice mentioned

Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan, $24) — twice mentioned

In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth
Norton (Knopf, $30) — twice mentioned

I would love to hear any Blogcritic’s thoughts on any of these books – I am a perfect 0/10.