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Top 10 books of 2010… according to Amazon

Top 10 books of 2010… according to Amazon – CSMonitor.com: Here’s a list of Amazon’s top 10 “must read” books for the first half of 2010. The article also contains links to a few other Amazon lists: a Top 10 fiction list, a Top 10 nonfiction list, and a Top 10 kids and teens list. […]

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March Madness reading list: 10 best books about college basketball

March Madness reading list: 10 best books about college basketball / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com: If you’d rather read about basketball than spend hours watching in, Marjorie Kehe offers her list of the 10 best reads. I can’t help but notice, though, that, although the title of this article is “10 Best Books

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Benny and Penny’ tops 2010 Geisel awards list of best books for beginners

Books | ‘Benny and Penny’ tops 2010 Geisel awards list of best books for beginners | Seattle Times Newspaper: A list of recipients of the Geisel Award for beginning readers: “The award, presented annually by the American Library Association, is named for the man better known as Dr. Seuss.”

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Books | Great historical fiction Part II — international titles suggested by readers | Seattle Times Newspaper

Books | Great historical fiction Part II — international titles suggested by readers | Seattle Times Newspaper: In a follow-up to an earlier list, here’s the lists of historical fiction suggested by readers of The Seattle Times.

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Books | Lit Life: Historical novels — reader faves, Part I

Books | Lit Life: Historical novels — reader faves, Part I | Seattle Times Newspaper: Seattle Times book editor Mary Ann Gwinn asked readers in her Lit Life column to recommend historical novels and received so many responses she’s reporting the results in installments. This week: historical fiction based in the U.S. Next week: historical

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Top book picks for 2010

Top book picks for 2010 / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com: “The experts tell us what they are excited about reading in 2010” Oh, good grief. A “best books of the year” list for 2010 already, and it’s only January 4. At any rate, here are recommendations from some book store owners about books

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Round-Up: Best Books Lists for 2009

I really hate it when people put up their Christmas decorations right after Halloween. In the same way, it rankles me when “Best Books of the Year” lists begin appearing well before the year is over. Now that 2009 is officially approaching its end, here’s a round-up of some of the more prominent “Best Books

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Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009 – The New York Times

Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009 – The New York Times: Every year since 1952, the Book Review has asked a panel of judges to select 10 books from among the several thousand children’s books published that year. The judges this time around were Adam Gopnik, who writes regularly for The New Yorker and is

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