I just posted, on Amazon, Jack O’Connell’s fascinating list of favorite books read in 2008. Here’s the list. Visit the post for the full description.

Amazon SF/F Top 10′s Jack O’Connell’s Own Top 10
by Jeff VanderMeer on January 07, 2009
Jack O’Connell’s surreal noir novel The Resurrectionist made Amazon’s Top 10 Science Fiction/Fantasy Books of 2008. O’Connell is one of the best writers of dark fiction I know, often mixing noir with strange elements that skirt the edge of fantasy and horror. There’s really no fiction writer quite like him. I thought it would be interesting to ask him for his own top 10 books read in 2008. I’ll be posting more such lists over the next week. For more from O’Connell, check out this link to some blogging he did this past summer. – Jeff V

Criminal by Ed Brubaker, art by Sean Phillips

The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley

Melville: His World and His Work by Andrew Delbanco

What the Dead Men Say by Ed Gorman

A Story that Ends with a Scream by James Leo Herlihy

The Fever Kill by Tom Piccirilli

2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck

A James Sallis Reader by James Sallis

Prime Green by Robert Stone

Hawthorne by Brenda Wineapple