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My Top 10 Book Picks for 2009
By catherine | December 4, 2009
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Loading ...It’s been a really interesting year for us, with a lot of established authors publishing some beautiful, poignant work, as well as genius new writers being discovered. Here are my personal picks for the best books that were released this past year. You might notice this list is heavy in Fiction, but hey, that’s what I read most of the time:
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins |
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The Song is You by Arthur Phillips
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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Seth Grahame-Smith; Jane Austen
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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
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War Dances by Sherman Alexie |
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Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
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How It Ended: New & Collected Stories by Jay McInerney
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
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Sunnyside: A Novel by Glen David Gold
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Topics: Book Collecting, Bookselling, Fun, Reading | 1 Comment »
December 30th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
‘The song is you’ and ‘War dances’ are really some marvelous pieces for readers of fiction. And reading fiction, in my personal opinion, is a much better source of entertainment.