RSSRemainder features among the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year 2007 (2 December 2007): “In this debut, a Londoner emerges from a coma and seeks to reassure himself of the genuineness of his existence”.
Remainder is also one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year (5 November 2007): “In McCarthy’s haunting fiction debut, a semi-amnesiac London everyman uses newfound wealth to re-enact his memories in exacting detail”.