The lists of the year’s best books have commenced. Here are a couple: PW Daily’s Ten Best Books of 2010 PW Daily is working on compiling several lists in all sorts of categories, but here’s something to whet our appetites: the 10 best books overall. Both fiction and nonfiction appear on this list. Amazon: Best […]
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ReadingGroupGuides.com – 10th Anniversary Contest Results: In honor of its tenth anniversary, ReadingGroupGuides.com ran a contest asking book groups to submit a list of their favorite books. The results are now in, and here is the Top Ten list. There are also links here to results broken down into categories (e.g., classics, biographies/memoirs). How many
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Audience Picks: Top 100 ‘Killer Thrillers’ : NPR: The results are in! The NPR audience nominated some 600 novels to our ‘Killer Thrillers’ poll and cast more than 17,000 ballots. The final roster of winners is a diverse one to say the least, ranging in style and period from Dracula to The Da Vinci Code,
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Harper Lee’s famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published 50 years ago today.
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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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Killer Thrillers: Your Nominations, Please! : NPR: NPR (National Public Radio) seeks your help in compiling a list of thrillers for summer reading. Drop by this site, leave your nominations in the comments section, and see what books others have recommended.
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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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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: In a follow-up to an earlier list, here’s the lists of historical fiction suggested by readers of The Seattle Times.
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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