best book list yet

The White Plains News has published the most interesting and encompassing best books list I've seen yet this year (granted I don't pay that much attention to these things, but). It has something to do with format:

So for the second straight year, we're turning our best books package over to 70 of the writers who made the year so exciting. We asked each of them to tell us about a book they enjoyed this year; the answers span the centuries and genres.

Seventy writers pretty much ensures a variable list, but the most interesting thing is that it isn't specified who is making the individual recommendations. They are blind and that makes it better. Now, I have a feeling this may just be a function of the transfer of the content to the web losing the names, but still. Interesting is interesting.

Must read Samantha Hunt's The Seas. Must not forget.

(Via Largehearted Boy.)