Sooner one of This Magazine's 'Best Books of the naughty era'

Darryl Whetter's article in This Magazine assembles a list of 'recommended reading from the first decade of our century,' and Margaret Christakos is on it. Whetter calls Sooner an 'innovative work that leaps around on the page and nibbles on your inner ear.'

Also mentioned are Alice Munro's Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage and The Love of a Good Woman, Krista Bridge's The Virgin Spy, Charlotte Gill's Ladykiller, Don McKay's Camber, Dan Chaon's Among the MIssing, Richard Ford's A Multitude of Sins, James Salter's Last Night, Victor Lodato's Mathilda Savitch, Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Peter Carey's Theft and Trevor Cole's The Fearsome Particles.