 | The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski
Buy new: $17.00 / Used from: $0.01 October 9, 2007
Very quick read, but you sink into the story regardless. I highly recommend it, though it's difficult to find in bookstores.
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 | The Emperor's Children (Vintage) by Claire Messud
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 October 14, 2007
I liked the story, but it has a bit of a "so what?" quality. The liveliest character in the novel is the city itself - worth reading if you like the idea of Manhattan personified.
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 | The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $0.50 October 30, 2007
I love Chabon's imagination. The premise is strange - an alternate version of history that is entirely believable in Chabon's hands.
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 | The Gathering (Man Booker Prize) by Anne Enright
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 November 11, 2007
I saw her at a reading (she read the first chapter), and she read beautifully. Unfortunately, despite the Booker, I found it to be a bit tedious...
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 | The Fourth Bear (SIGNED deluxe edition) by Jasper Fforde
Buy used from: $9.38 November 15, 2007
Part of his Nursery Crime series (just two books actually). My first Fforde: very smart, very entertaining.
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 | Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir by Shalom Auslander
Buy used from: $0.67 November 16, 2007
Hilarious and depressing.
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 | The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza
Buy used from: $0.02 November 18, 2007
Searched everywhere for this book after hearing about it on the radio. I can see myself forgetting it entirely in a year.
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 | The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $1.04 December 5, 2007
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 | Atonement : A Novel by Ian McEwan
Buy used from: $24.25 December 17, 2007
I loved Atonement. You will too.
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 | Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $0.01 January 1, 2008
Long & character-driven -- just the way I like it.
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 | Silk by Alessandro Baricco
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.38 January 2, 2008
I didn't get it...
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.91 January 6, 2008
Fun but trite.
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 | Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $1.99 January 16, 2008
Only the facts, which means it's short. Bryson always insists on including the more obscure facts which makes this a surprisingly readable biography of Shakespeare.
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 | So Many Ways to Begin: A Novel by Jon McGregor
Buy new: $18.68 / Used from: $0.62 January 20, 2008
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 | The People's Act of Love: A Novel by James Meek
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $0.01 February 5, 2008
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 | The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next) by Jasper Fforde
Buy used from: $0.01 February 9, 2008
Fans of Douglas Adams might like this series. Or they might hate it. Hard to tell.
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 | The Stone Diaries (Penguin Essential Edition) by Carol Shields
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $0.01 February 15, 2008
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 | The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: $39.95 / Used from: $32.47 February 17, 2008
I thought I loved noir, until I read this book. I was bored.
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 | The Late Hector Kipling: A Novel by David Thewlis
Buy new: $21.50 / Used from: $0.12 February 19, 2008
Brilliant & psychotic.
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 | The Shape I Gave You by Martha Baillie
Buy used from: $3.99 February 22, 2008
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 | Straight Man by Richard Russo
Buy used from: $13.50 February 27, 2008
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 | The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes by Caleb Carr
Buy used from: $3.34 March 2, 2008
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 | Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Buy used from: $0.53 March 5, 2008
Both narrative threads were really evocative, but I don't know if I understood the connection between them. Ondaatje always requires a 2nd, 3rd, 4th reading...
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 | Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.27 March 8, 2008
I hate happy endings.
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 | The Englishman's Boy by Guy. (SIGNED). VANDERHAEGHE
Buy used from: $5.00 March 23, 2008
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 | Lost in a Good Book (A Thursday Next Novel) by Jasper Fforde
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 March 28, 2008
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 | The Fig Eater: A Novel by Jody Shields
Buy new: $11.89 / Used from: $0.01 April 3, 2008
A little anti-climactic, and I found it difficult to suspend my disbelief in some of the characterization, in particular the police inspector's wife.
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 | The Big Why: A Novel by Michael Winter
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.01 April 14, 2008
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 | The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
Buy used from: $13.75 May 17, 2008
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 | The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) by Michael Chabon
Buy new: $9.22 / Used from: $0.22 May 18, 2008
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 | Mohawk by Richard Russo
Buy used from: $29.69 May 21, 2008
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 | Astonishing Splashes of Colour (P.S.) by Clare Morrall
Buy used from: $2.90 May 24, 2008
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 | The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel by Paul Auster
Buy used from: $1.95 May 28, 2008
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 | The Painted Kiss: A Novel by Elizabeth Hickey
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $1.63 June 1, 2008
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 | My Sister's Keeper: A Novel (Picoult, Jodi (Large Print)) by Jodi Picoult
Buy new: $54.40 / Used from: $12.55 June 6, 2008
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 | Something Rotten: A Thursday Next novel by Jasper Fforde
Buy used from: $2.97 June 10, 2008
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 | First Among Sequels (A Thursday Next novel) by Jasper Fforde
Buy used from: $2.11 June 21, 2008
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 | Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.99 June 26, 2008
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 | The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (Oprah Book Club #62) by David Wroblewski
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.97 July 4, 2008
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