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You always know where you are,
except when your reading - Anonymous
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Click on a year to read that year's reviews.
| 2013 |
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain |
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The Michigan Quarterly Review |
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Dark Currents by Jacqueline Carey |
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Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly |
| 2012 |
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The End of your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe |
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In Defense of Food by Michael Pollen |
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by
Cheryl Strayed |
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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn |
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Change
Comes to Dinner: How Vertical Farmers, Urban Growers,
and Other Innovators Are Revolutionizing How America Eats
by Katherine Gustafson |
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Summer
Book Suggestions from NPR and Alan Cheuse |
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All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost: A Novel by Lan Samantha
Chang |
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest
Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall |
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Dog Heart by Alison Swan |
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Rules of Civility by Amor Towles |
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Hellhound
On His Trail by Hampton Sides |
| 2011 |
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State
of Wonder by Ann Patchett |
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In
the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family
in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson |
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Moby
Dick by Herman Melville |
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A
Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan |
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The
Hunger Games |
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All
Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost: A Novel by Lan Samantha
Chang |
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Outside
Wonderland by Lorna Jane Cook |
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Cutting
for Stone by Abraham Verghese |
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Incendiary
by Chris Cleave |
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Await
Your Reply by Dan Chaon |
| 2010 |
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The
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary
Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows |
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The
Room by Emma Donoghue |
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The
Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse |
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NO
book this month, but a heartfelt thank you to our friend
Michele Lonergan |
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When
You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris |
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A
group of renowned editors to give us their best summer
reading recommendations |
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The
Lakeshore Limited by Sue Miller |
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At
Least Someone in the City would hear me Scream by Wade
Rouse |
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Let
the Great World Spin by Colum McCann |
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The
Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson |
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Perfume
Dreams by Andrew Lam |
| 2009 |
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The
Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein |
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The
Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh |
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The
Beast God Forgot to Invent by Jim Harrison |
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A
Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain |
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A
Collection of Essays by George Orwell |
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Summer
Book list referred to us by NPR's librarian Nancy Pearl |
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A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
by Molly Wizenberg |
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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch |
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski |
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz |
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Waking
Giant: America in the Age of Jackson by David S. Reynolds |
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The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson |
| 2008 |
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Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout |
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What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn |
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini |
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A
Map of Home by Randa Jarrar |
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The
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz |
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House
of Spirits by Isabele Allende |
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The
Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan |
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Brick
Lane by Monica Ali |
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The Diving
Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique
Bauby |
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan |
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What is
the What by Dave Eggers |
| 2007 |
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Jesus
Land by Julia Scheeves |
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The
God of Animals by Aryn Kyle |
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The
Judges by Elie Wiesel |
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The
Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Monesis |
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Stolen
Lives, Twenty Years in Desert Prison, by Malika Oufkir
and Michele Fitoussi |
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The
Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad |
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The
Historian by Elizabeth Kostova |
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Until
I Find You by John Irving |
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The
Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier |
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Julie
and Julia by Julie Powell |
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The
Traveler by John Twelve Hawks |
| 2006 |
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The
Traveler by John Twelve Hawks |
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Seven
Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Pearlman |
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Water
For Elephants by Sarah Gruen |
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Fresh
Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes |
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A
Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute |
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Kafka
on the Shore by Haruki Murakami |
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The
Space Between Us |
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Please
Don't Come Back From the Moon |
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Garlic
and Sapphires |
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Glass
Castle, A Memoir, by Jeannette Walls |
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Case
Histories by Kate Atkinson |
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The
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency |
| 2005 |
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The
Tender Bar by J.R Moehringer |
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What
Remains, A Memoir of Fate, Friendship |
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Killing
Yourself to Live: 85 percent of a True Story |
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Kite
Runner |
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The
Confessions of Max Tivoli |
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The
Lake, The River, and the Other Lake |
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Tales
of a Female Nomad |
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Plan
B, Further Thoughts on Faith |
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The
Shadow of Kilimanjaro |
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Dress
Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris |
| 2004 |
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A
Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving |
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Departures
by Lorna J. Cook |
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The
Life of Pi by Yann Martel |
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The
Quality of Life Report by Meghan Daum |
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Summer
Reading List by Martha the hip and groovy librarian |
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Nickel
and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich |
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The
Venetians Wife by Nick Bantock |
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Bee
Season by Myla Goldberg |
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The
Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger |
| 2003 |
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Travelers'
Tales-Italy edited by Anne Calcagno |
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Crow
Lake by Mary Lawson |
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The
Hours by Michael Cunningham |
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Let's
Not Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller |
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan |
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Book
of the Dead Birds by Gayle Brandeis |
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The
Language of Blood by Jane Jeong Trenka |
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The
Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory |
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Great
Winter Reads by Great Writers |
| 2002 |
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The
Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel |
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Death
in the Canyon by Michael Ghiglieri and Thomas Myers |
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In
Babylon by Marcel Moring and translated by Stacy Knecht |
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Kushiel's
Chosen by Jacqueline Carey |
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The
Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett |
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The
Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise
Erdrich |
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The
Road Within edited by Sean O'Reilly |
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The
Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway |
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Backpack
by Emily Barr |
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The
Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power
by Travis Hugh Culley |
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Confessions
of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire |
| 2001 |
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Kushiel's
Dart by Jacqueline Carey |
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Ruin & Recovery,
Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader by Dave Dempsey |
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The
Blue Guide to Indiana by Michael Martone |
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Having
Faith by Sandra Steingraber |
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The
Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
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