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linggeek's "NPR Holiday Books 2007"

The complete list of NPR critics’ recommended reading for Holidays 2007. Minus cookbooks.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16702917
1. The Assassins Gallery
by David L. Robbins
  
2.
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 An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
by Brock Clarke
  
3. Away: A Novel
by Amy Bloom
  
4.
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 Ghost (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Alan Lightman
  
5. How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard
  
6. Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones
  
7. My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes
by Melanie Dunea
  
8. The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
by E.L. Konigsburg
  
9. Novels in Three Lines
by Felix Feneon
  
10. The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family
by John Lithgow
  
11. Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote (Modern Library Paperbacks)
by Truman Capote
  
12. Sundown, Yellow Moon: A Novel
by Larry Watson
  
13. War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
14. Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950
by Alexandra Lapierre
  
15. Alison Jackson: Confidential  
16. American Ruins  
17.
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 The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s (Vintage Crime/Blck Lizard Orig)  
18. Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
by Vincent Virga
  
19. The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
by Claire Nouvian
  
20.
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 Christian Dior
by Farid Chenoune
  
21. Dr. Johnson's Doorknob: And Other Significant Parts of Great Men's Houses
by Liz Workman
  
22.
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 Murakami
by Dick Hebdige
  
23. Nashville Portraits: Legends of Country Music  
24. The Completely Mad Don Martin: His Best Cartoons from Mad Magazine
by Don Martin
  
25.
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 The Ghost
by Robert Harris
  
27.
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 Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit
by Bark Editors
  
28.
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 It's All Too Much: Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
by Peter Walsh
  
29. Los Angeles Noir (Akashic Noir)  
30. Loving Frank: A Novel
by Nancy Horan
  
31. One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets
by Bliss Broyard
  
32. Time America: An Illustrated History
by Editors of Time Magazine
  
33. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
by Ashley Gilbertson
  
34. Christmas Stories (Everyman's Library (Cloth))  
35. Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
by Ben Ratliff
  
36. The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays
by William Kittredge
  
37.
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 People of the Book: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
  
38. Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (Lake Wobegon Novels)
by Garrison Keillor
  
39. Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
by Robert Hass
  
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Created by linggeek on May 31, 2009.