Mine include:
Madam Secretary by Madeleine Albright
Reedeming Nietzche by Giles Frazer
The People Speak by Howard Zinn (advanced copy)
Walking in Scotland (Lonely Planet)
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
A Hermit in Paris by Italo Calvino
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon
The Metaphysical Club by Loius Menand
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Re: Your favorites from this past year
Thu, January 8, 2004 - 12:38 PMolder books which i only got around to this last year, but enjoyed:
Kavalier and Klay
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Golden Compass etc by Phillip Pullman (blew it at the end, but a good lark throughout otherwise)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Reefer Madness by the Fast Food Nation guy
The Botany of Desire
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (unfinished)
They Have a Word For That by Howard Reingold
Word Freak by Stephan Fatsis
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Re: Your favorites from this past year
Thu, January 8, 2004 - 12:59 PMYeah, some of my books are older ones that I just got around to reading this year too. How did you like "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"?
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Re: Your favorites from this past year
Thu, January 8, 2004 - 6:09 PMSome of my favorite reads this year would include:
The Snow Garden by Christopher Rice
The House of Gentle Men by Kathy Hepinstall
The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults by Stephen Mitchell
Find Me by Rosie O'Donnell
The Safety of Objects by A.M. Homes
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue
Pure by Rebbecca Ray
The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca Lia Block
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Re: Your favorites from this past year
Sat, January 10, 2004 - 6:12 PMThe Interrupted City
by Gabriele Basilico
<www.amazon.com/exec/obido...94-9836057>
This is my favorite among the books of photos from my 2003 reading. Gabriele Basilico's cityscapes of his native city, Milano, are unsentimental, but striking, and give the city its due, in the way that only a native can. -
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Re: Your favorites from this past year
Mon, January 12, 2004 - 6:24 PMMaking it favourites from what I read in the past year is a good way to narrow it down!
I went on an Ann Lamott binge and read all her books, and especially liked Operating Instructions, Bird by Bird, and Travelling Mercies.
I loved and laughed at Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue. (I still think In a Sunburned Country is one of the funniest books I've ever read.)
I read a series of gardening mysteries by Mary Freeman...not the most brilliant writing but I enjoyed them because of the Pacific NW setting and the gardening themes.
Look at Me by Jennifer Egan...
Seven Dials by Ann Perry No Graves As Yet by Ann Perry
We Need to Talk About Kevin...not even 100% sure I remember that title right but was a gripping novel about a mother dealing with a child who was troubled along the dangerous lines of Kip Kinkel (high school shooter).
The Secret Life Of Bees
How Soon is Never by Mark Spitz...entertaining novel in which The Smiths figure large...
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Re: Your favorites from this past year
Mon, January 12, 2004 - 6:57 PMNot necessarily published in 2003.
Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
A Short History of Wine by Rod Philips
The English by Jeremy Paxman
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Cricket: Know the Game.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Children, Their Families and the Law, by Michael Freeman
Oxford English Dictionary
The Go Between, LP Hartley
Some Hope by Edward St. Aubyn
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