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Skokie Public Library Staff Picks 2006

This is a mix of fiction and non-fiction titles. Year of publication varies. There are some repetitions which I have not included.

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1. The Sea
by John Banville
  
2. Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
by Lawrence Weschler
  
3. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
by Anonymous
  
4. We Are All Welcome Here: A Novel
by Elizabeth Berg
  
5. White Male Infant
by Barbara D'Amato
  
6. A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
by Andrea Di Robilant
  
7. Second Honeymoon: A Novel
by Joanna Trollope
  
8. Behaving Badly
by Isabel Wolff
  
9. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
by Jonathan Safran Foer
  
10.
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 Who Moved My Blackberry?
by Lucy Kellaway
  
11. Gilead: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
  
12. On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
  
13. Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
  
14. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
  
15. 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
  
16. My Life in France
by Julia Child
  
17.
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 Stuart: A Life Backwards
by Alexander Masters
  
18. Black Swan Green: A Novel
by David Mitchell
  
19. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
  
20. The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings
by Jan Harold Brunvand
  
21. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control
by John D. Marks
  
22. The Golden Age of Chicago Children's Television
by Ted Okuda
  
23.
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 Turn Me On, Dead Man: The Complete Story of the Paul McCartney Death Hoax
by Andru J. Reeve
  
24. Company
by Max Barry
  
25.
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 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
by Mark Haddon
  
26. The Attack: Novel
by Yasmina Khadra
  
27.
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 My Latest Grievance
by Elinor Lipman
  
28. The Friendship Test: A Novel
by Elizabeth Noble
  
29. Dandelion Wine
by Ray Bradbury
  
30. Farewell Summer: A Novel
by Ray Bradbury
  
31. Crazy About Cupcakes
by Krystina Castella
  
32. I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
by Amy Sedaris
  
33. Valley of the Dolls
by Jacqueline Susann
  
34.
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 Mad River Road
by Joy Fielding
  
35. The Girls: A Novel
by Lori Lansens
  
36. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.)
by James L. Swanson
  
37. After This: A Novel
by Alice McDermott
  
38. Everyman
by Philip Roth
  
39. Birds Without Wings
by Louis De Bernieres
  
40. The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
  
41. The Speed of Light (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Elizabeth Rosner
  
42. The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches: A Novel
by Gaetan Soucy
  
43. Hard Night
by Christian Wiman
  
44. Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
by Martin Booth
  
45. The Stolen Child
by Keith Donohue
  
46. The Sari Shop: A Novel
by Rupa Bajwa
  
47. Beautiful Dreamer: A Novel
by Christopher Bigsby
  
48. Disco for the Departed
by Colin Cotterill
  
49. Ladies Coupe
by Anita Nair
  
50. Digging to America
by Anne Tyler
  
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Created by tassini on May 25, 2007.