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Kathleen's Annual Top Ten Books Lists |
Top 10 for 2007 (current)
The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, by Nick Hornby
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": And Other Conversations About Race, by Beverly Daniel Tatum
A Three Dog Life, by Abigail Thomas
She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana, by Haven Kimmel
The Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier
The Polysyllabic Spree, by Nick Hornby
The Stones of Florence, by Mary McCarthy
Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life , by Abigail Thomas
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant, by Daniel Tammet
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Top 10 for 2006
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, by Daniel Mendelsohn
The Thin Place, by Kathryn Davis
The Whole World Over, by Julia Glass
March, by Geraldine Brooks
How It Feels to Be Adopted, by Jill Krementz
The Sex Lives of Cannibals, by J. Maarten Troost
All Hallows' Eve, by Charles Williams
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Top 10 for 2005
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
The Brothers K, by David James Duncan
The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
The Lost Daughters of China, by Karin Evans
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
Dream Season, by Bob Cowser, Jr.
Home Land, by Sam Lipsyte
Something Rising (Light and Swift), by Haven Kimmel
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Top 10 for 2004
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde
A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations, by Cintra Wilson
The Towers of Trebizond, by Rose Macaulay
The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
Robert E. Lee, by Roy Blount, Jr.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel, by Susanna Clarke
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Top 10 for 2003
The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
Three Junes, by Julia Glass
Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
Stuffed: Growing Up in a Restaurant Family, by Patricia Volk
Why I'm Like This: True Stories, by Cynthia Kaplan
Extra Virgin, by Annie Hawes
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
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