Consensus Best of the Year Novels

Member Steve Carper posted this information to the R-SPEC Google group. Here it is with the table it contains in a slightly more readable format:

My friend Bob Sabella went though a large number of lists of the best books of 2008 and created a composite listing of the most mentioned titles for his apazine. I'm sure he won't mind my copying the list here. It sort of formats for me, so I hope it's not too unreadable once Google does the usual horrible things it does to text. Three of the top four books are Hugo nominated. The other two nominess, Charles Stross (Saturn's Children) and John Scalzi (Zoe's Tale), don't make even 3 best lists. I'm sure that says something or other about popularity and those darn intellectual critics who have been ruining the field since 1965.