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Just a quick reminder that this month we are reading and talking about The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.  Both fantastic books and both discussions have just started so there’s plenty of time to join in.
In December we can look forward to 1984 by George [...]

The ultimate reading challenge!
2000s
1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
6. The Sea – John Banville
7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
9. The Master – Colm Tóibín
10. Vanishing [...]

1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
2. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Street Press)
3. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (Penguin Books)
4. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner Book Company).
5. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Random House Trade)
6. The Devil in the White City: [...]

While it is impossible to rank the most important authors in contemporary literature, here is a list of ten important (English language) authors with some biographical notes and links to more information about them and their work.
1) Isabel Allende
Chilean-American author Isabel Allende wrote her debut novel, House of Spirits to great acclaim in 1982. The [...]

Here it is, the list for 2005

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Washington Street Press)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking)
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffeneger (Harvest)
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin Books)
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Vintage)
The [...]

TOP 250 AUTHORS
The most visited author pages over the last 30 days as of  Thursday, 26 October, 2006
Position   Name   Visits
1   James Patterson   5,942
2   Nora Roberts   5,643
3   Laurell K Hamilton   4,073
4   Johanna Lindsey   3,806
5   Linda Howard   3,462
6   J K Rowling   3,454
7   Clive Cussler   3,232
8   Stephen King   3,177
9   Patricia Cornwell   3,044
10   Dan Brown   2,964
11   Terry Pratchett   2,788
12   Tom Clancy   2,684
13   Dean Koontz   2,661
14   Julie Garwood   2,649
15   J D Robb   2,567
16   Michael Connelly   2,410
17   Janet Evanovich   2,380
18   Roald Dahl   2,280
19   Raymond E Feist   2,214
20   Catherine Coulter   2,208
21   Robert Jordan   2,156
22   Anne McCaffrey   2,135
23   Anthony Horowitz   2,115
24   Sandra Brown   2,042
25   John Grisham   2,020
26   Christopher Paolini   2,010
27   Jack Higgins   1,975
28   George R R Martin   1,948
29   Mercedes Lackey   1,943
30   Christine Feehan   1,928
31   Bernard Cornwell   1,891
32   David [...]

How to find a good book or a good review
Here is a list of sites where you can find the latest books reviewed and also recommended reading lists.
AtFantasy.com, reviews, authors, stories
Author Tracker – don’t miss the next book by your fav author
Books and bytes – mystery, sci-fi and fantasy authors
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I guess this is a recommendation in a way. Book group members across the United States reflected on all the books they read and discussed during the year and these surfaced as the titles most often mentioned. This list represents the voices of more than 4,000 book group members who answered the survey.
The [...]

I guess this is a recommendation in a way.  Book group members across the United States reflected on all the books they read and discussed during the year and these surfaced as the titles most often mentioned.  This list represents the voices of more than 4,000 book group members who answered the survey.
The following books [...]