| Boston Globe |
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FICTION: |
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Twilight Of The Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg |
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The Lay Of The Land by Richard Ford |
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy |
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After This by Alice McDermott |
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The Echo Maker by Richard Powers |
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The Accidental by Ali Smith |
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NONFICTION: |
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At Canaan's Edge by Taylor Branch |
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Mellon by David Cannadine |
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The Worst Hard Time by Christopher Egan |
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The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis |
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All Governments Lie! by Myra MacPherson |
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The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn |
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Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw |
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Justice For All by Jim Newton |
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Jane Goodall by Dale Peterson |
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Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick |
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The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan |
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State Of Denial by Bob Woodward |
| Chicago Tribune |
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At Canaan's Edge by Taylor Branch |
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Blue Arabesque by Patricia Hampl |
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The Echo Maker by Richard Powers |
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A Godly Hero: The Life Of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin |
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The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai |
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The Lay Of The Land by Richard Ford |
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Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick |
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The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate |
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What Is The What by Dave Eggers |
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When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton |
| Christian Science Monitor |
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FICTION: |
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Leaving Home by Anita Brookner |
2.
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The Accidental by Ali Smith |
3.
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Arthur & George by Julian Barnes |
4.
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The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai |
5.
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Gate Of The Sun by Elias Khoury |
6.
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The Last Of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez |
7.
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Black Swan Green by David Mitchell |
8.
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Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky |
9.
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Digging To America by Anne Tyler |
10.
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Theft by Peter Carey |
11.
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Talk Talk by TC Boyle |
12.
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Cellophane by Marie Arana |
13.
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The Lambs Of London by Peter Ackroyd |
14.
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Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl |
15.
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The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud |
16.
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy |
17.
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Imperium by Robert Harris |
18.
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Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund |
19.
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The Lay Of The Land by Richard Ford |
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MYSTERIES/THRILLERS: |
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Manhunt by James Swanson |
2.
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The Summer Snow by Rebecca Pawel |
3.
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The Rainaldi Quartet by Paul Adam |
4.
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The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard |
5.
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The Mission Song by John le Carré |
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SHORT STORIES: |
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Twilight Of The Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg |
2.
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami |
3.
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All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones |
4.
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The Ladies Of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke |
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GENERAL NONFICTION: |
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The Worst Hard Time by Christopher Egan |
2.
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Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler |
3.
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The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan |
4.
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Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick |
5.
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Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee |
6.
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The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery |
7.
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Heat by Bill Buford |
8.
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The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind |
9.
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The Prince Of The Marshes by Rory Stewart |
10.
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The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright |
11.
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There Is No Me Without You by Melissa Fay Greene |
12.
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Tigers In Red Weather by Ruth Padel |
13.
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The Shakespeare Wars by Ron Rosenbaum |
14.
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Fiasco by Thomas Ricks |
15.
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State Of Denial by Bob Woodward |
16.
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Through The Children's Gate by Adam Gopnik |
17.
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The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton |
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BIOGRAPHIES: |
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Operation Yao Ming by Brook Larmer |
2.
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Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power by Richard Carwardine |
3.
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At Canaan's Edge by Taylor Branch |
4.
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Modigliani: A Life by Jeffrey Meyers |
5.
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Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields |
6.
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LBJ: The Architect of American Ambition by Randall B. Woods |
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The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music by Dunstan Prial |
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MEMOIRS: |
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Let Me Finish by Roger Angell |
2.
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My Life In France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'Homme |
3.
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The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen |
4.
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Things I Didn't Know by Robert Hughes |
5.
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson |
| The Economist |
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BIOGRAPHY: |
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Alexis de Tocqueville by Hugh Brogan |
2.
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Mellon by David Cannadine |
3.
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The Life Of George Mackay Brown by Maggie Fergusson |
4.
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Passionate Minds by David Bodanis |
5.
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A Royal Affair by Stella Tillyard |
6.
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Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin |
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HISTORY: |
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Khrushchev’s Cold War by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali. |
2.
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The Battle For Spain by Antony Beevor |
3.
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Twelve Days by Victor Sebestyen |
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The Wages Of Destruction by Adam Tooze |
5.
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The Grand Slave Emporium by William St Clair |
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The Trial Of Queen Caroline by Jane Robins |
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POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS: |
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Dangerous Nation by Robert Kagan |
2.
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The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright |
3.
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Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power by Joseph Margulies |
4.
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The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind |
5.
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Sacred Causes by Michael Burleigh |
6.
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China Shakes The World by James Kynge |
7.
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In Spite Of The Gods by Edward Luce |
8.
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The J Curve by Ian Bremmer |
9.
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Seize The Hour by Margaret MacMillan |
10.
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White Man's Burden by William Easterly |
11.
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The Trouble With Africa by Robert Calderisi |
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: |
1.
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The Revenge Of Gaia by James Lovelock |
2.
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins |
3.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan |
4.
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The Trouble With Physics by Lee Smolin |
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FICTION & MEMOIRS: |
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Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky |
2.
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The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud |
3.
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House Of Meetings by Martin Amis |
4.
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Everyman by Philip Roth |
5.
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Running For The Hills by Horatio Clare |
6.
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The Meaning Of Night by Michael Cox |
7.
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The Ruby In Her Navel by Barry Unsworth |
8.
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Seven Lies by James Lasdun |
9.
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Wizard Of The Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong’o |
| Entertainment Weekly |
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FICTION: |
| 1. |
The Road by Cormac McCarthy |
| 2. |
The Ruins by Scott Smith |
| 3. |
The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis |
| 4. |
The Secret River by Kate Grenville |
| 5. |
End Of Story by Peter Abrahams |
6.
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King Dork by Frank Portman |
7.
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Alternatives To Sex by Stephen McCauley |
8.
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Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
9.
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Everyman by Philip Roth |
10.
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The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos |
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NONFICTION: |
| 1. |
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel |
| 2. |
The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn |
| 3. |
There Is No Me Without You by Melissa Fay Greene |
| 4. |
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart |
| 5. |
James Tiptree, Jr. by Julie Phillips |
6.
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Manhunt by James L. Swanson |
7.
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Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler |
8.
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Imperial Life In The Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran |
9.
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The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson |
10.
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Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert |
| Kirkus Reviews |
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FICTION: |
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Arthur & George by Julian Barnes |
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This Human Season by Louise Dean |
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The Book About Blanche And Marie by Per Olov Enquist |
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The Lay Of The Land by Richard Ford |
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Intuition by Allegra Goodman |
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All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones |
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy |
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Black Swan Green by David Mitchell |
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The Echo Maker by Richard Powers |
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The Zero by Jess Walter |
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MYSTERIES: |
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What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth George |
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Mad Mouse by Chris Grabenstein |
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The Old Wine Shades by Martha Grimes |
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No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman |
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No Trace by Barry Maitland |
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The Dead Hour by Denise Mina |
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Days Of Rage by Kris Nelscott |
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Still Life by Louise Penny |
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Blue Shoes And Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith |
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All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming |
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NONFICTION: |
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Wake-Up Call by Kristen Breitweiser |
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson |
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins |
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The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery |
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Walt Disney by Neal Gabler |
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Ghost Plane by Stephen Grey |
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The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson |
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Journey To A Revolution by Michael Korda |
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I Celebrate Myself by Bill Morgan |
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Manhunt by James L. Swanson |
| Los Angeles Times |
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FICTION AND POETRY: |
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All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones |
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Averno by Louise Gluck |
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Birds In Fall by Brad Kessler |
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Brookland by Emily Barton |
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The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian |
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The Echo Maker by Richard Powers |
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The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud |
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira |
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Everyman by Philip Roth |
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Forgetfulness by Ward Just |
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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel |
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Gallatin Canyon by Thomas McGuane |
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Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh |
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Horse Latitudes by Paul Muldoon |
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The Light Of Evening by Edna O'Brien |
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Man And Camel by Mark Strand |
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The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret |
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The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos |
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Paint It Black by Janet Fitch |
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy |
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Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl |
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The Stories Of Mary Gordon by Mary Gordon |
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Talk Talk by TC Boyle |
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Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier |
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Twilight Of The Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg |
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NONFICTION: |
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A Godly Hero: The Life Of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin |
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Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw |
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At Canaan's Edge by Taylor Branch |
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Blood Money by
T. Christian Miller |
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Blue Arabesque by Patricia Hampl |
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The Din In The Head by Cynthia Ozick |
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Gay L.A. by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons |
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Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum |
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The Great Black Way by RJ Smith |
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The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Frank Rich |
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Hotel California by Barney Hoskyns |
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Imperial Life In The Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran |
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Justice For All by Jim Newton |
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The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright |
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The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn |
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The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan |
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The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind |
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Prisoners by Jeffrey Goldberg |
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The Shakespeare Wars by Ron Rosenbaum |
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State Of Denial by Bob Woodward |
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A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas |
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Walking Zero by Chet Raymo |
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Walt Disney by Neal Gabler |
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The Worst Hard Time by Christopher Egan |
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You Must Set Forth At Dawn by Wole Soyinka |
| Publishers Weekly |
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FICTION: |
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End Of Story by Peter Abrahams |
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The Littlest Hitler by Ryan Boudinot |
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Theft by Peter Carey |
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Brothers by Da Chen |
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The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai |
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The Lay Of The Land by Richard Ford |
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The King Of Lies by John Hart |
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The Unfinished Novel by Valerie Martin |
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The Alibi Club by Francine Mathews |
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy |
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The Dead Yard by Adrian McKinty |
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The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos |
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Now Is The Hour by Tom Spanbauer |
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Map Of Glass by Jane Urquhart |
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A Woman In Jerusalem by A.B. Yehoshua |
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MYSTERIES: |
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A Corpse In The Koryo by James Church |
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Silence Of The Grave by Arnaldur Indriason |
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Two Time by Chris Knopf |
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The Summer Snow by Rebecca Pawel |
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Impulse by Frederick Ramsay |
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All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming |
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NONFICTION: |
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At Canaan's Edge by Taylor Branch |
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Flaubert: A Biography by Frederick Brown |
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Our Town by Cynthia Carr |
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My Life In France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'Homme |
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Small Is The New Big by Seth Godin |
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There Is No Me Without You by Melissa Fay Greene |
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Unquiet Grave by Steve Hendricks |
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The Iron Cage by Rashid Khalidi |
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Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J. Mann |
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Clemente: The Passion And Grace Of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss |
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Cross X by Joe Miller |
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Justice For All by Jim Newton |
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Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick |
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James Tiptree, Jr. by Julie Phillips |
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The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan |
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The Echoing Green by Joshua Prager |
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William James by Robert D. Richardson |
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Fiasco by Thomas Ricks |
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Song For My Fathers by Tom Sancton |
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Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington |
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The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright |
| Salon.com |
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FICTION: |
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What Is The What by Dave Eggers |
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Twilight Of The Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg |
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A Disorder Peculiar To The Country by Ken Kalfus |
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Wizard Of The Crow by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
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The Amalgamation Polka by Stephen Wright |
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NONFICTION: |
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Sweet And Low by Rich Cohen |
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The Family That Couldn't Sleep by DT Max |
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The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn |
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James Tiptree, Jr. by Julie Phillips |
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The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan |
| Village Voice |
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The Afterlife by Donald Antrim |
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All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones |
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American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman |
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests by Callie Angell |
| |
Art Out Of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969 edited by Dan Nadel Abrams |
| |
China Syndrome by Karl Taro Greenfeld |
| |
Drugs Are Nice by Lisa Crystal Carver |
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The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud |
| |
Exquisite Corpse by Mark Nelson and Sarah Hudson Bayliss |
| |
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel |
| |
Half Life by Shelley Jackson |
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James Tiptree, Jr. by Julie Phillips |
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The Last Of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez |
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Lost Girls by Alan Moore |
| |
Memorial by Bruce Wagner |
| |
New York 2000 by Robert A.M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove |
| |
On The Town by Marshall Berman |
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One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson |
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Our Town by Cynthia Carr |
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The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis |
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The Totality For Kids by Joshua Clover |
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Twilight Of The Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg |
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Up Is Up But So Is Down by Brandon Stosuy |
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Voices Of Time by Eduardo Galeano |
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