I Can't Believe It's That Time Already

But PW has their list of the Best Books of 2008 online already.

It’s a huge list, but the fiction section includes some real gems. My personal favorites are:

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Chilean-born novelist Bolaño (1953–2003), beautifully translated by Natasha Wimmer, deliriously tracks Mexico City poets Arturo Belano (Bolaño’s alter ego) and Ulysses Lima as they travel the globe over 20-plus years.

Remainder by Tom McCarthy (Vintage)
In McCarthy’s haunting fiction debut, a semi-amnesiac London everyman uses newfound wealth to re-enact his memories in exacting detail.

White Walls: Collected Stories by Tatyana Tolstaya (NYRB)
Beautiful, imaginative and disconcerting, the Russia of Tolstoy’s great-grandniece is a labyrinth of eras, treasures and horrors: past and present, shabby and brutal, magical and otherworldly.

I’m a sucker for year-end lists (especially those on VH1), but I always have such a hard time coming up with these. If I were to make one for 2008 works of literature in translation, I’d definitely include the Bolano, Fogwill’s Malvinas Requiem, and Enrique Vila-Matas’s Montano’s Malady. That’s all I can think of right now . . . Anyone else have any good suggestions?