Conversation Starters: 2011’s Top 5 Book Club Picks : NPR. “Here are five fascinating books that will be sure to catalyze serious and lively conversation”: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes We the Animals by Justin Torres Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak
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The best audio books of 2011 – The Washington Post. Recommendations from Katherine A. Powers.
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Best Books of 2011 – The Washington Post. The Washington Post weighs in with its top five fiction and top five nonfiction books of 2011. Warning: This is another one of those “click for every item” lists. And there’s also a link labeled “More Best of 2011.”
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Booksellers’ Picks: Catch The Year’s Freshest Reads This winter, our independent booksellers have selected books that range in subject from toasters to typeface, odd bookmarks to old Volkswagens, department stores to pasta design. Whether you need a picture book for a toddler, kid lit for a young reader, or quirky nonfiction for the grown-up set,
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Just in time for your holiday gift giving! Tipped off by a Facebook post by literary scene fixture Miss Sara Rosen, we just discovered the most amazing treasure trove of handcrafted, miniature versions of some of our favorite writers of all time over on Etsy — and they’re all available for purchase. Just think, you
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The best nonfiction of 2011 – Books – Salon.com Our favorite nonfiction spanned centuries and the world, and told stories of writers, princesses and great thinkers As promised yesterday, Salon’s Laura Miller today presents her list of the five best nonfiction books of the year: Townie by Andre Dubus, III Love and Capital: Karl and
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Visitors make special literary find at bookstore in downtown Houston – houstonherald.com | Houston Herald – Houston, MO: News. When they came to Houston for the first time a few weeks ago, a Columbia couple didn’t expect to go home with a prized addition to their collection of books by a famous 20th century Canadian
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The Snowman by Jo Nesbø My rating: 3 of 5 stars Although I did find the story compelling, the beginning of this book really dragged for me. I imagine the slow, drawn-out opening might not be such a problem for Norwegian readers who have followed Harry Hole through the 6 previous novels, but coming in
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The best fiction of 2011 – Books – Salon.com In a stellar year for the novel, these five books stood above all others Salon’s Laura Miller lists the five best novels of the year: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides Pym by Mat Johnson State of Wonder by Ann Patchett The Tragedy of Arthur by
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David Guterson Overwrites His Way to Win Bad Sex in Fiction Award – The Daily Beast David Guterson beat out “stiff competition” (his award-accepting spokesperson’s pun, not mine) Tuesday night to win the Literary Review’s annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his novel Ed King, a modern Seattle-set reworking of the Oedipus myth. The
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