 | On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.77 March, 2007
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 | Eat the Document: A Novel by Dana Spiotta
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.28 April, 2007
Recommended by Ursula
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 | Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $6.74 May, 2007
Recommender: Mae
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 | The Moving Toyshop: A Detective Story by Edmund Crispin
Buy used from: $40.96 June 2007
Recommender: Elaine
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 | Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.95 July, 2007
Recommended by Barb.
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 | The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.56 August, 2007
Recommended by: Carol
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 | Rashi's Daughters, Book 1: Joheved by Maggie Anton
Buy used from: $3.29 September, 2007
Recommended by: Carol
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 | The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $0.01 October 2007.
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 | Flags of Our Fathers (Movie Tie-in Edition) by James Bradley
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.47 November 2007 -- this is the edition that we should read, not the youth ed.
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 | My Life in France by Julia Child
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $2.29 December, 2007
Recommender: Mae
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 | Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $1.65 January 2008
Recommender: Mae
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 | An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Recommender: Mae
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 | The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Recommender: Mae
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 | Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India by Madhur Jaffrey
Buy new: $18.25 / Used from: $4.48 Recommender: Mae
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 | Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.09 Recommender: Mae
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 | The Glass Palace: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.05 Recommender: Mae
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 | Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back by Norah Vincent
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.46 Recommended by: Carol
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 | Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano
Buy new: $18.68 / Used from: $6.50 Recommended by: Carol -- To commemorate Pinochet's passing, I suggest we read this collection or his two short novels.
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 | Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
Buy used from: $4.06 Recommended by: Carol -- Another book read by both me and Jon- and we both enjoyed.
PS: I've read it and liked it too -- Mae
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 | Fountain of Age by Betty Friedan
Buy new: $12.75 / Used from: $1.75 We also skipped this one, originally planned for 2006, and can reconsider whether to put it on the 2007 list.
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 | The FRANCHISE AFFAIR by Josephine Tey
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.43 One of three specific mysteries suggested by Elaine:"No murder, but high tension"
Elaine also says we could pick any mystery by P.D.James: there are many many many!
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 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.95 Recommended by Elaine
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 | Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $3.91 Recommended by Gabi
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 | Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) by Dorothy L. Sayers
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.68 Elaine says "Advertising world of the 1930's. Lord Peter Whimsey."
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 | 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $7.17 Recommended by Mae: "really interesting material on American Indians (though we might find it too long)."
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 | Thank You for Smoking: A Novel by Christopher Buckley
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $2.23 Recommended by Gabi
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 | The Falls: A Novel (P.S.) by Joyce Carol Oates
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Recommended by Gabi
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 | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.98 Recommended by Gabi
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 | The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.85 Recommended by Ursula and Maria
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 | Foe: A Novel (King Penguin) by J. M. Coetzee
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $6.99 Recommended by Ursula; 'Vivs suggestion after I talked with him about Saving Fish from Drowning.'
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 | The Time of Our Singing: A Novel by Richard Powers
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $3.71 Recommended by Ursula: 'This book comes well reviewed from a friend who is a writer, it got a lot of stars on Amazon, but it looks like critical reception was mixed.'
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 | The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $5.09 Recommended by Ursula: "a very thoroughly researched fictional account of the cholera epidemics in London."
Note from Mae: Reviews and quotes from this book also made me want to read it.
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 | Thirteen Moons: A Novel by Charles Frazier
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $0.01 Recommended by Maria
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