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| Amazon.com Editors' Picks | |
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| 1. |
The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion |
| 2. |
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer |
| 3. |
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner |
| 4. |
Encyclopedia Of An Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal |
| 5. |
My Friend Leonard by James Frey |
| 6. |
Oh The Glory Of It All by Sean Wilsey |
| 7. |
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 8. |
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss |
| 9. |
The Complete Calvin And Hobbes by Bill Watterson |
| 10. |
The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman |
| Boston Globe | |
|---|---|
| FICTION: (alphabetical by title) | |
| A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby | |
| On Beauty by Zadie Smith | |
| The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich | |
| Rules For Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey | |
| Saturday by Ian McEwan | |
| The Sea by John Banville | |
| NONFICTION: (alphabetical by title) | |
| 1776 by David McCullough | |
| The Assassins' Gate by George Packer | |
| Collapse by Jared Diamond | |
| The Encyclopedia Of New England Edited by Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters | |
| Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills | |
| The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr | |
| The Rise of American Democracy by Sean Wilentz | |
| Team Of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion | |
| Chicago Sun-Times | |
|---|---|
| (alphabetical by title) | |
| Beyond Glory by David Margolick | |
| Courtroom 302 by Steve Bogira | |
| The Lighthouse by P.D. James | |
| The March by E.L. Doctorow | |
| Mirror To America by John Hope Franklin | |
| On Beauty by Zadie Smith | |
| Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow | |
| Saturday by Ian McEwan | |
| Spook by Mary Roach | |
| The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion | |
| Chicago Tribune | |
|---|---|
| (alphabetical by title) | |
| Acts Of Faith by Philip Caputo | |
| American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin | |
| And They All Sang by Studs Terkel | |
| Bury The Chains by Adam Hochschild | |
| Dream Boogie by Peter Guralnick | |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling | |
| The March by E.L. Doctorow | |
| Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow | |
| Small Island by Andrea Levy | |
| The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion | |
| Christian Science Monitor | |
|---|---|
| FICTION: | |
| 1. |
The Ha-Ha by Dave King |
| 2. |
My Jim by Nancy Rawles |
| 3. |
Pearl by Mary Gordon |
| 4. |
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry |
| 5. |
Tilting At Windmills by Julian Branston |
| 6. |
March by Geraldine Brooks |
| 7. |
Ireland by Frank Delaney |
| 8. |
Saturday by Ian McEwan |
| 9. |
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss |
| 10. |
Oh Pure And Radiant Heart Lydia Millet |
| MYSTERIES: | |
| 1. |
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly |
| 2. |
In The Shadow Of The Law by Kermit Roosevelt |
| 3. |
A Slight Trick Of The Mind by Mitch Cullin |
| 4. |
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon |
| 5. |
Tilt-A-Whirl by by Chris Grabenstein |
| GENERAL NONFICTION: | |
| 1. |
The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman |
| 2. |
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell |
| 3. |
When Computers Were Human by David Alan Grier |
| 4. |
Miss Leavitt's Stars by George Johnson |
| 5. |
His Oldest Friend by Sonny Kleinfield |
| 6. |
The Lost German Slave Girl by John Bailey |
| 7. |
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At The Novel by Jane Smiley |
| 8. |
The Lady And The Panda by Vicki Constantine Croke |
| 9. |
The Chosen by Jerome Karabel |
| 10. |
Girl Sleuth by Melanie Rehak |
| BIOGRAPHIES: | |
| 1. |
When Trumpets Call by Patricia O'Toole |
| 2. |
Becoming Justice Blackmun by Linda Greenhouse |
| 3. |
The Survivor by John F. Harris |
| 4. |
Mark Twain by Ron Powers |
| 5. |
Mao by by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday |
| HISTORY: | |
| 1. |
1776 by David McCullough |
| 2. |
Judgment Days by Nick Kotz |
| 3. |
Sarah's Long Walk by Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick |
| 4. |
Racing The Enemy by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa |
| 5. |
The Fate Of Africa by Martin Meredith |
| The Daily Telegraph | |
|---|---|
| FICTON (alphabetical by title) : | |
| A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry | |
| The Accidental by Ali Smith | |
| Arthur & George by Julian Barnes | |
| Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel | |
| Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson | |
| Gilead by Marilynne Robinson | |
| Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis | |
| Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| On Beauty by Zadie Smith | |
| The People's Act Of Love by James Meek | |
| Runaway by Alice Munro | |
| Saturday by Ian McEwan | |
| The Sea by John Banville | |
| Surface by Siddhartha Deb | |
| We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver | |
| BIOGRAPHY (alphabetical by title) : | |
| 1599 by James Shapiro | |
| Christopher Marlow by Park Honan | |
| Clarice Cliff by Lynn Knight | |
| Haw-Haw by Nigel Farndale | |
| Judge Sewall's Apology by Richard Francis | |
| Mae West by Simon Louvish | |
| Mao by by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday | |
| Mary Archer by Margaret Crick | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft [aka 'Vindication'] by Lyndall Gordon | |
| Melville by Andrew Delbanco | |
| Olivier by Terry Coleman | |
| The Orientalist by Tom Reiss | |
| Shakespeare by Peter Ackroyd | |
| The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton by Kathryn Hughes | |
| Stuart by Alexander Masters | |
| With Billie by Julia Blackburn | |
| The Economist | |
|---|---|
| FICTION & MEMOIRS: | |
| 1. |
The March by E.L. Doctorow |
| 2. |
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka |
| 3. |
Incendiary by Chris Cleave |
| 4. |
The Third Woman by Mark Burnell. |
| 5. |
Brandenburg by Henry Porter |
| 6. |
The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion |
| BIOGRAPHY: | |
| 1. |
The Pursuit Of Victory by Roger Knight |
| 2. |
The Prince Of The City by Fred Siegel |
| 3. |
Gannibal by Hugh Barnes |
| 4. |
Mao by by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday |
| 5. |
Matisse The Master by Hilary Spurling |
| HISTORY: | |
| 1. |
Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins |
| 2. |
Bury The Chains by Adam Hochschild |
| 3. |
A Great Improvisation by Stacy Schiff |
| 4. |
Sons Of The Conquerors by Hugh Pope |
| 5. |
A Life In Secrets by Sarah Helm |
| 6. |
Rough Crossings by Simon Schama |
| 7. |
Agincourt by Juliet Barker |
| 8. |
The Rise Of American Democracy by Sean Wilentz |
| POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS: | |
| 1. |
Setting The People Free by John Dunn |
| 2. |
Radicals In Robes by Cass R. Sunstein |
| 3. |
Night Draws Near by Anthony Shadid |
| 4. |
The Assassin's Gate by George Packer |
| 5. |
I Didn't Do It For You by Michela Wrong |
| 6. |
In The Shadow Of Swords by Sally Neighbour |
| ECONOMICS & BUSINESS: | |
| 1. |
Against The Flow by Samuel Brittan |
| 2. |
Conspiracy Of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald |
| 3. |
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner |
| 4. |
DisneyWar by James B. Stewart |
| 5. |
The Origins Of Value edited by William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst |
| 5. |
The Search by John Battelle |
| 5. |
Medici Money by Tim Parks |
| SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: | |
| 1. |
Collapse by Jared Diamond |
| 2. |
The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery |
| 3. |
Parallel Worlds by By Michio Kaku |
| 4. |
Dr Peter Scardino's Prostate Book by Peter T. Scardino and Judith Kelman |
| 5. |
Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane |
| Entertainment Weekly | |
|---|---|
| FICTION: | |
| 1. |
On Beauty by Zadie Smith |
| 2. |
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 3. |
13 Steps Down by Ruth Rendell |
| 4. |
The March by E.L. Doctorow |
| 5. |
Cold Skin by Albert Sánchez Piñol |
| 6. |
Beasts Of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala |
| 7. |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling |
| 8. |
Dancing In The Dark by Caryl Phillips |
| 9. |
(tie) Ex Machina by Brian K. Vaughan (tie) Black Hole by Charles Burns |
| 10. |
Drive by James Sallis |
| NONFICTION: | |
| 1. |
The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion |
| 2. |
The Orientalist by Tom Reiss |
| 3. |
Suburban Safari by Hannah Holmes |
| 4. |
Tete-a-Tete by Hazel Rowley |
| 5. |
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk |
| 6. |
The Big Picture by Edward Jay Epstein |
| 7. |
Fat Girl by Judith Moore |
| 8. |
102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn |
| 9. |
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell |
| 10. |
(tie) Everybody Into The Pool by Beth Lisick (tie) Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman |
| Kirkus | |
|---|---|
| FICTION: (alphabetical by author) | |
| Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland | |
| Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham | |
| The March by E.L. Doctorow | |
| Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis | |
| Veronica by Mary Gaitskill | |
| Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami | |
| Shalimar The Clown by Salman Rushdie | |
| On Beauty by Zadie Smith | |
| Sudden Rain by Maritta Wolff | |
| NONFICTION: (alphabetical by author) | |
| The City Of Falling Angels by John Berendt | |
| The Perfectionist by Rudolph Chelminski | |
| Them by Francine du Plessix Gray | |
| 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn | |
| Storming The Court by Brandt Goldstein | |
| Bury The Chains by Adam Hochschild | |
| 1776 by David McCullough | |
| The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer | |
| Two Lives by Vikram Seth | |
| The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls | |
| Los Angeles Times | |
|---|---|
| FICTION: (alphabetical by author) | |
| The Sea by John Banville | |
| A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry | |
| The Testing Of Luther Albright by MacKenzie Bezos | |
| Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes | |
| The March by E.L. Doctorow | |
| Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala | |
| The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich | |
| Our Ecstatic Days by Steve Erickson | |
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| The History Of Love by Nicole Krauss | |
| No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy | |
| The Road To Esmeralda by Joy Nicholson | |
| The People Of Paper by Salvador Plascencia | |
| Shalimar The Clown by Salman Rushdie | |
| On Beauty by Zadie Smith | |
| Trance by Christopher Sorrentino | |
| The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea | |
| Europe Central by William T. Vollmann | |
| The Time Of The Uprooted by Elie Wiesel | |
| NONFICTION: (alphabetical by author) | |
| No god but God by Reza Aslan | |
| Epileptic by David B. | |
| Edmund Wilson by Lewis M. Dabney | |
| Collapse by Jared Diamond | |
| The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion | |
| The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 by Philip L. Fradkin | |
| A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich | |
| Defining the World by Henry Hitchings | |
| Bury The Chains by Adam Hochschild | |
| The Wounded Surgeon by Adam Kirsch | |
| The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem | |
| The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer | |
| The Assassins' Gate by George Packer | |
| If This Be Treason by Gregory Rabassa | |
| Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi | |
| A Great Improvisation by Stacy Schiff | |
| Big Bang by Simon Singh | |
| Thirteen Ways Of Looking At The Novel by Jane Smiley | |
| Matisse The Master by Hilary Spurling | |
| Sky Burial by Xinran | |
| The New York Times | |
|---|---|
| FICTION: (alphabetical by title) | |
| Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami | |
| On Beauty by Zadie Smith | |
| Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| Saturday by Ian McEwan | |
| Veronica by Mary Gaitskill | |
| NONFICTION: (alphabetical by title) | |
| The Assassins' Gate by George Packer | |
| De Kooning by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan | |
| The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr | |
| Postwar by Tony Judt | |
| The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion | |
| The Onion A.V. Club | |
|---|---|
| (alphabetical by author) | |
| Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| My Detachment by Tracy Kidder | |
| Walt And Skeezix by Frank King | |
| The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard | |
| Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | |
| Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami | |
| Gilead by Marilynne Robinson | |
| The Method Actors by Carl Shuker | |
| The Acme Novelty Library by Chris Ware | |
| Salon | |
|---|---|
| FICTION: (almost alphabetical by title) | |
| Veronica by Mary Gaitskill | |
| Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami | |
| On Beauty by Zadie Smith | |
| Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link | |
| Times Like These by Rachel Ingalls | |
| NONFICTION: (alphabetical by title) | |
| Tulia by Nate Blakeslee | |
| Them by Francine du Plessix Gray | |
| Dream Boogie by Peter Guralnick | |
| 1491 by Charles C. Mann | |
| The Assassins' Gate by George Packer | |
| USA Today | |
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| 1. |
The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion |
| 2. |
The March by E.L. Doctorow |
| 3. |
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova |
| 4. |
The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman |
| 5. |
The City Of Falling Angels by John Berendt |
| 6. |
The Assassins' Gate by George Packer |
| 7. |
Team Of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| 8. |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling |
| 9. |
French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano |
| 10. |
The River Of Doubt by Candice Millard |
| Village Voice | |
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| ALL BOOKS : (alphabetical by title) | |
| Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend | |
| Afflicted Powers by Retort | |
| Atomik Aztex by Sesshu Foster | |
| Black Hole by Charles Burns | |
| The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch edited by Jordan Davis, Karen Koch, and Ron Padgett | |
| Europeana by Patrik Ourednik | |
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman | |
| The Letters of Robert Lowell edited by Saskia Hamilton | |
| Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe | |
| Love Creeps by Amanda Filipacchi | |
| Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis | |
| Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link | |
| My Life in CIA by Harry Mathews | |
| Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| 99 Ways to Tell a Story by Matt Madden | |
| Other Electricities by Ander Monson | |
| Povel by Geraldine Kim | |
| Reflex by Vik Muniz | |
| Rubble by Jeff Byles | |
| The Sluts by Dennis Cooper | |
| Times Like These by Rachel Ingalls | |
| Veronica by Mary Gaitskill | |
| Wimbledon Green by Seth | |
| The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion | |
| Washington Post - Editors' Picks | |
|---|---|
| FICTION: (alphabetical by title) | |
| The History Of Love by Nicole Krauss | |
| March by Geraldine Brooks | |
| The March by E.L. Doctorow | |
| On Beauty by Zadie Smith | |
| Shalimar The Clown by Salman Rushdie | |
| NONFICTION: (alphabetical by title) | |
| The Assassins' Gate by George Packer | |
| Bury The Chains by Adam Hochschild | |
| Melville by Andrew Delbanco | |
| Night Draws Near by Anthony Shadid | |
| Shake Hands With the Devil by Romo Dallaire | |
| Washington Post - Critics' Picks | |
|---|---|
| FICTION: | |
| 1. |
Making It Up by Penelope Lively |
| 2. |
The Closers by Michael Connelly |
| 3. |
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 4. |
Carnivore Diet by Julia Slavin |
| 5. |
The Broker by John Grisham |
| NONFICTION: | |
| 1. |
The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion |
| 2. |
The Coldest Winter by Paula Fox |
| 3. |
Defining the World by Henry Hitchings |
| 4. |
The Cardinal's Hat by Mary Hollingsworth |
| 5. |
The Edifice Complex by Deyan Sudjic |
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