Sunday, January 1, 2006

The Final Top 10 for 2005

  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  • The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
  • The Brothers K, by David James Duncan
  • The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Lost Daughters of China, by Karin Evans
  • Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Dream Season, by Bob Cowser, Jr.
  • Home Land, by Sam Lipsyte
  • Something Rising (Light and Swift), by Haven Kimmel
  • Saturday, January 1, 2005

    The Final Top 10 for 2004

  • Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
  • The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
  • Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
  • Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
  • Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde
  • A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations, by Cintra Wilson
  • The Towers of Trebizond, by Rose Macaulay
  • The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
  • Robert E. Lee, by Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel, by Susanna Clarke
  • Thursday, January 1, 2004

    The Final Top 10 for 2003

  • The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
  • Three Junes, by Julia Glass
  • Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
  • The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
  • Stuffed: Growing Up in a Restaurant Family, by Patricia Volk
  • Why I'm Like This: True Stories, by Cynthia Kaplan
  • Extra Virgin, by Annie Hawes
  • Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon