 | The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 March, 2008
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 | The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 April, 2008
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 | Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.92 May, 2008 (on Buddha's Birthday)
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 | Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.99 June, 2008
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 | The Shadow Catcher: A Novel by Marianne Wiggins
Buy used from: $0.01 July, 2008
Note: Paperback seems to be currently unavailable but there are used copies.
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 | Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Vintage) by Bill Buford
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.00 August, 2008
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 | The Birth House: A Novel (P.S.) by Ami Mckay
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $0.10 September, 2008
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 | The God of Animals: A Novel by Aryn Kyle
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 October, 2008
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 | The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer 8 Lee
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $3.13 November, 2008
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 | The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $0.99 December, 2008
Paperback scheduled to come out in April.
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 | A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $18.94 January, 2009
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 | The Beekeeper by Keith Henderson
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $7.85 NOTE: with this book begins the list that people liked, but that were not chosen for this year.
Recommender: Lisa
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 | Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $2.40 Recommender: Lisa
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 | The Eighth Promise: An American Son's Tribute to His Toisanese Mother by William Poy Lee
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $2.73 Recommender: Gabi
Note: This is 2008 Ann Arbor Reads Selection
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 | Run by Ann Patchett
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.01 Recommender: Barb
Alternates by same author if this doesn't come out in paperback: The Magician's Assistant or The Patron Saint of Liars
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 | The True History of Chocolate, Second Edition by Sophie D. Coe
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $9.22 Recommender: Mae
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 | Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.89 Recommender: Mae
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 | Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 Recommender: Mae
Good old classic! Probably too long.
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 | The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.49 Recommender: Susan
Note: Paperback pub. date is Aug. 26 08
Length is 400 pages.
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 | A Little Bit Ruined: A Novel by Patty Friedmann
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $0.01 Recommender: Carol
Alternate by same author: Secondhand Smoke
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 | The Story of the Cannibal Woman: A Novel by Maryse Conde
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $0.01 Recommender: Carol
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 | Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway; Consulting Editor John Bidwell
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $7.65 Recommender: Carol
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 | The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War by Graham Robb
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $2.88 Recommender: Carol
Note: I tried to read this, but bogged down in the middle... Mae
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 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Buy new: $15.72 / Used from: $4.10 Recommender: Carol
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 | The Splendor of Silence: A Novel by Indu Sundaresan
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.74 Recommender: Carol
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 | The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Recommender: Gabi
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 | A Thousand Days in Venice (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Marlena de Blasi
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Recommender: Gabi
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 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $2.50 Recommender: Maria
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 | Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Recommender: Maria
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 | March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
Buy used from: $3.06 Recommender: Maria
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 | Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.64 Recommender: Maria
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 | In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $0.62 Recommender:Maria
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