The Guardian’s Top 10s: Illustrated Books

As the editor of Hang the DJ, and a man, I’m obviously a fan of lists, but this is one of the better features that they regularly run on the Guardian’s book pages, and worth a slot in Saturday’s Review if you ask me. Anyway, it’s a long while since I’ve thought about Carter USM or Jim Bob – in fact the thought of it now brings back pretty bad school memories of baggy longsleeved t-shirts and unwashed hair – but he shows pretty immaculate taste here in his list of Top Ten Illustrated Books for Adults, including a nicely worked in top spot, two mentions for Hartlepool’s answer to Cormac McCarthy (!), and my favourite book by Douglas Coupland. And it might be a couple of years off yet, but roll on that Top Ten Books by Willy Vlautin list…

Jim Bob’s Top 10 Illustrated Books for Adults at guardian.co.uk.

Angus Cargill is editor of Hang the DJ: A Book of Alternative Music Lists.

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