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Bookmarks Magazine (Selections) (4 1/2 & 5 Stars)

These are the best of the best from Bookmarks Magazine.

Every two months Bookmarks Magazine marks several books in each category as "Selections" (there are hundreds of books that have been designated as a Selection")

Among those "Selections" the books in this list recieved the highest possible rating of 4 1/2 stars.

The only book that has recieved 5 Stars to date is "The Aeneid" translated by Robert Fagles.
1. The Aeneid
by Virgil
  
2. About Alice
by Calvin Trillin
  
3.
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 Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
by Ben Macintyre
  
4. All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
by Edward P. Jones
  
5. Away: A Novel
by Amy Bloom
  
6. Black Swan Green: A Novel
by David Mitchell
  
7. The Boat
by Nam Le
  
8. Cheating at Canasta: Stories
by William Trevor
  
9. Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
by Ted Sorensen
  
10. District and Circle: Poems
by Seamus Heaney
  
11. Epileptic
by David B.
  
12. Gate of the Sun
by Elias Khoury
  
13.
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 Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  
14. Nada: A Novel (Modern Library Classics)
by Carmen Laforet
  
15. Netherland: A Novel
by Joseph O'Neill
  
16.
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 Powers (Annals of the Western Shore)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
  
17. Suite Francaise
by Irene Nemirovsky
  
18. The March: A Novel
by E.L. Doctorow
  
19. The People's Act of Love: A Novel
by James Meek
  
20. The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
by Cormac McCarthy
  
21. The Sea
by John Banville
  
22. The Slave Ship: A Human History
by Marcus Rediker
  
23. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust
  
24. What the Dead Know
by Laura Lippman
  
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Created by Nathaniel Bordy on Jun 25, 2008.