This article has the table in a bit more legible format:
http://r-spec.org/node/118

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:55 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Title                       Author                         # of lists
> Anathem                     Neal Stephenson     17
> Little Brother  Cory Doctorow   15
> Matter                      Iain M. Banks       9
> The Graveyard Book      Neil Gaiman     7
> Tender Morsels  Margo Lanagan   6
> The Quiet War   Paul McAuley    6
> Implied Spaces  Walter Jon Williams     6
> City at the End of Time Greg Bear               5
> The Gone Away World     Nick Harkaway   5
> Sly Mongoose    Tobias S. Buckell       4
> Toll the Hounds Steven Erikson  4
> The Shadow Year Jeffrey Ford    4
> Pandemonium     Daryl Gregory   4
> The Steel Remains       Richard Morgan  4
> Liberation                          Brian Francis Slattery      4
> The Dragons of Babel    Michael Swanwick        4
> Flood                       Stephen Baxter      3
> Ink and Steel   Elizabeth Bear  3
> All the Windwracked Stars       Elizabeth Bear  3
> The January Dancer      Michael Flynn   3
> The Temporal Void       Peter F. Hamilton       3
> How to Make Friends With Demons Graham Joyce    3
> The Night Sessions      Ken MacLeod     3
> Last Dragon     J.M. McDermott  3
> The Devil’s Eye Jack McDevitt   3
> House of Suns   Alastair Reynolds       3
>
> >
>



-- 
Dave Henn
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