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Skokie Public Library Staff's Picks 2005

Here’s a mix of fiction and non-fiction. Occasionally a book title appears in more than one year.

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1. The Chisellers
by Brendan O'Carroll
  
2. The Granny
by Brendan O'Carroll
  
3. The Mammy
by Brendan O'Carroll
  
4. The Young Wan
by Brendan O'Carroll
  
5. The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt
  
6. The Year of Pleasures: A Novel
by Elizabeth Berg
  
7. Alibi: A Novel
by Joseph Kanon
  
8. Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman
by Alice Steinbach
  
9. I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel
by Tom Wolfe
  
10. The Lemon Table
by Julian Barnes
  
11. Birds Without Wings
by Louis De Bernieres
  
12. Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
  
13. The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
by Michael Kimmelman
  
14. The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
  
15. The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
  
16. The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
by Norman Lewis
  
17. The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
  
18. Epileptic
by David B.
  
19. The History of Love: A Novel
by Nicole Krauss
  
20. Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
by Bryan Lee O'Malley
  
21. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
by Mary Roach
  
22. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
by J.K. Rowling
  
23. Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
by Steve Almond
  
24. A Culture of Conspiracy : Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)
by Michael Barkun
  
25. Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth
by Greg Bishop
  
26. Weird Illinois (Weird)
by Troy Taylor
  
27. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen
  
28. Cold Hit: A Shane Scully Novel
by Stephen J. Cannell
  
29. The Mommy Fund
by Madeleine K. Jacob
  
30. Honeymoon
by James Patterson
  
31. Everyone Worth Knowing
by Lauren Weisberger
  
32. Raising Hope
by Katie Willard
  
33. March
by Geraldine Brooks
  
34. The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel
by Michael Connelly
  
35. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards
  
36. The Waiting Years
by Fumiko Enchi
  
37. Veronica: A Novel
by Mary Gaitskill
  
38. The Quitter
by Harvey Pekar
  
39. Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: A Memoir of My Fifth-Grade Year
by Esm? Raji Codell
  
40. When My Name Was Keoko
by Linda Sue Park
  
41. Michael Rosen's Sad Book (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards))
by Michael Rosen
  
42. The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green: A Novel
by Joshua Braff
  
43. Paths of Desire: The Passions of a Suburban Gardener
by Dominique Browning
  
44. On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century
by Dave Dempsey
  
45. The Birth of Venus: A Novel
by Sarah Dunant
  
46. Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
  
47. Pastoral: Poems
by Carl Phillips
  
48. Eve Green: A Novel
by Susan Fletcher
  
49. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel
by Lisa See
  
50. Misfortune
by Wesley Stace
  
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