Karen Joy Fowler chooses March by Geraldine Brooks as her best work of fiction for the year in "The Washington Post".
Margo Lanagan's story collection Black Juice has been selected as one of the Horn Book Fanfare books of the year for Young Adults.
Markus Zusak gets listed amongst the Best Children's Fiction Books of the year in Publisher's Weekly for I am the Messenger.
"The Australian" published its collection of the year's best books last week, using the technique of asking a bunch of their critics to do it for them.
In "The Daily Telegraph", Gideon Haigh's Ashes 2005: The Greatest Test Series is selected as one of the year's best Sports books.