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Top Picks of 2007
by lz in Top 10 Books on 08Jan2008
By request, for those extremely lazy folks out there who let me do their reading for them. Here are my top picks for last year (not that the books were published in 2007, but that I consumed them then). It's all about me, you see. The Winners 1. The Savage...
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Top Picks of 2006
by lz in Top 10 Books on 16Jan2007
Here are my top picks for 2006. The Winners 1. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem 2. The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club and other stories by Julia Slavin 3. River of Doubt by Candice Millard 4. To Feel Stuff by Andrea Seigel 5. The Wind-up...
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Top Picks of 2005
by lz in Top 10 Books on 16Jan2006
Here are my top picks for 2005. The Winners 1. The Pacific by Mark Helprin 2. The Devil's Teeth by Susan Casey 3. Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox 4. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke 5. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith 6. Guns Germs and...
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Top Picks of 2004
by lz in Top 10 Books on 16Jan2005
Here are my top picks for 2004. The Winners 1. The Gay Place by Billy Lee Brammer 2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 3. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton The Honorable Mentions 1. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi 2. All Over Creation by...
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LZ enjoys...
by lz in Top 10 Books on 01Feb2004
This is a list of my recent favorites; add to this list any work by Herman Melville, Henry James, Richard Yates, and Paula Fox. (Updated January 2008)...
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Top Picks of 2003
by lz in Top 10 Books on 16Jan2004
Here are my top picks for 2003. The Winners 1. Krakatoa by Simon Winchester 2. The Widow's Children by Paula Fox 3. ">Consider the Oyster by M.F.K Fisher 4. The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton 5. Birds of America by Mary McCarthy The Honorable Mentions 1. Moneyball by...
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Top Picks of 2002
by lz in Top 10 Books on 16Jan2003
1. The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher 2. Being Dead by Jim Crace 3. A House for Mr. Biswas by VS Naipaul 4. Desperate Characters by Paula Fox 5. You Can't Win by Jack Black 6. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray 7. Into a Desert Place by Graham MacKintosh 8....
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