The Best of the Best: 2008 Books

This blog post creates a sort of meta-analysis of the best books of 2008 and ranks them in terms of the number of votes they got from all the best of the year lists that went around. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is on the thriller/mystery list.

NY Times Review of Blindness

This review (of the book, not the recent movie) contains many spoilers, so you may want to hold off reading it until you've finished the book.

Link here.