The South China Morning Post included The Year of Fog in its year-end roundup of “ultimate recession-proof gifts:”
An unusually imaginative novel of family, loss and hope, The Year of Fog tackles mysteries of time, memory and the human heart. ~Stephen McCarty

Having spent a month in Hong Kong back in 1998, and having vivid memories of combing the English-language bookshop near one of the ferry terminals in Kowloon for something to stave off the heat and loneliness of a Hong Kong summer, it was quite a treat for me to come across this item in the SCMP.

You need a subscription to read the article, but the list of fifty books includes such varied fare as China Witness (“a tenaciously researched oral history of 20th-century China”); Chagall: Love and Exile by Jackie Wullschlager; 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die by Tom Moon; The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages, 1851-2008 ; Penguin’s new complete translation of The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights; and On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition by Charles Darwin.

Comprised primarily of nonfiction and heavily weighted toward Chinese history and culture, the list includes six novels:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Chicago by Alaa Al Aswany
The Year of Fog
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The House of Night series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast