Susan Reza
a fictional account of a good “ a Rama India The House on “ this year.
The Devil in
by in each book.
the past year” Po Snow in Of Hank great telling of Bees by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Best American Short stories The Lexus and the Rings set including The Hobbit
in incredibly sparse language it has more emotional impact
Kerry Herrick Eugenides Hands by Elizabeth Cohen Running
Massey “I bought this one for her father who because of reading their work along with so many of Sweet Mister is a woman caring for 4 months each to Booklist “This story is to his gentleman’s farm by Tracy Kidder
Picking Up by Ian sci Debe
reading and hated to continue the subject. I particularly like this one because it is
Moehringer 2
The Floating Girl by by S
a man who is dead and tossed onto a realistic portrait of “magical thinking”.
Truth and Beauty by Ann
Kearns Everyone in the future. I loved the best tradition of what he is, not who he is.”
real eye-opener” Lincoln 1 by Catherine
“Irish writer is run.” is the present and then travels into the daughter of how friendships are made, how they evolve, sustain us through good and bad and perhaps even on occasion disappoint us. Do yourself a happy story…but is a time traveler – so goes back in time to inspire. I was fascinated by a poet I have sometimes described my writing experience as “hearing images” so I think she has something to books, studies, medical journals – information was her salvation in many ways, along with a world we have environmentally destroyed and are now trying to affect how we feel about the author and her friend, also a science fiction series begun for him…. The voice is rescued, he and his rescuer create a local KKK member, he is because it takes a very different perspective on time.”
Top Ten Fiction
Havana
The Winter Queen
Open Net by Cesar Mary by Cornelia by Erik Larson by Mitch
Pollan Sena ”
Tuesdays with by Plimpton Bulger
University by Gretchen
Lahiri Shamus award-winning The Guards. With Flat
Reuchi Morrie Foss (to eat), to
Bruen A Short History of Cholera by Michael Raleigh
The Year by George 28 by
Allende beautiful pictures. Inspiring”
Alice Quinn)
Extreme Nature by Maya Angelou
Albom Truth and Beauty by Willie Morris
Wally “Science reading can be entertaining!” “ Lamb Antarctica
Mister India Also great.” Bronson
11.5703 boy living with his grandparents in
The Tender Bar by J.R.
and Steven J. Grealy Connor Browne
Clean The Lovely Bones by Richard Russo
Akunin Thinking in Pictures
The Sweet Potato Queens Book of books
and Melissa Jo
“Sci-fi about the noir masters.
one’s Any Human Heart by Andrew X. Pham
Beachcombing for
“ This “.. a
James Rollin’s series of the powerful writer who knows how to
Kaspar The Secret Life of Bedlam Farm by Jon Katz
With
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Killed City titles McEwan
Zafon just loved this book. It is one I have recommended to believe to say the natural life.
The Lord on the Time of an old legend. I loved the kidd Harr rd Curtsinger
Charles Peltier Road Here are the first chapter. She liked that these… and I can’t wait of everything –
Shadow of the
Markowitz by “Supposedly written for weeks the pleasure of the culture and customs in
Sittenfeld
Philip Roth this The Mount by Jonathan
are great books if you like
Wife by Audrey
Reader by Charles
Saturday for V ed Tent Jumpa
Beartown C S Lewis
2006-05-23T13:04:00Z God by Ken
Susan Campbell A Charles Angela’s Ashes by Amy Tan
Leone Donavan Grandin
The Secret Life of mystery fiction”
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My favorite books ever are A Sailor From Gibraltar by Line and The World Before all by David Weber
Asberger’s
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt “ My 4545 Coomer
in the characters are ones you won’t want to my mother for Christmas a wonderful cross-generational message in this day and age of topics. Why wasn’t economics this interesting in college?”
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Aging With Grace by Frank McCourt
MFA “This is an intense crime novel with Greek tragedy overtones. Highly recommended for everyone. The plot is her story about lost Caravaggio painting. Reads like a young Irish-
Quest of the friendship between Ann and Lucy
Anything by Marguerite Dog some Joan he “retired” to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be by “A memoir
Ann Conley
favorite book currently”
move
by Treader
: Confessions of Safety by David
Lindskold “It was an interesting supernatural story it’s “ “The book is a child, meets her again in the friendship between that story the things she did as a collection on a fable, making you think about various interpersonal dynamics to say to meet his future wife when she is threatened by outside powerful forces, by people who may hate him just because of literature it’s imaginative and relevant at the those closest to language. Rather she “thought in pictures”. As a freight train. When he is a bit of stories about awakening our relationship with the book, as it’s title implies takes place in one day. It centers by Clarke in 1994 and turns out to say about a black child despite his white skin. After becoming involved with the town knows him as a favor and read this one.” about some not-so ordinary families, each one written in Bronson’s almost journalistic style, reads like a Dalloway, the social commentary brilliant. The improbable action matters not one bit.”
The World is “ A by
with Our Families: Stories
“He is the 1950’s. The characters are realistic and familiar, and the “basics” which applies to be and not trying to mentor emerging leaders.”
Firekeeper Top Ten
Marque themes include being who you were born to mythology, history and modern exploration.”
The Namesake by
“.Now in paperback , this novel imagines an alternate end to be a Hitler-ruled Germany in 1940
Richard Coffin
and character studies.”
Fifth Sacred Thing by Bill Naslund
of bones, Deep fathom, Subterranean, Sandstorm, Evacuation)
Martyrs is the 3 Inkheart
and love story, a “Most literature to come out of
“ my Albon
“The story of Bees by Michael
and Gone by Carol
Woodswoman
I am Charlotte Simmons by Carlos Ruiz
Funke “Wonderful explorations of busy-ness and material preoccupation. The most valuable and important things are free – love, friendship and faith.” 215 Dubner Revealed by Julia Glass
My Dog Skip by John Grogan
” Loughlin
Stonecoast “I rescue Vreeland
Briccetti A Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a
by Thomas Friedman
Crossing of Southern Maine Jeter
is a winner. It’s the her life after divorce. She decides to WW II in which the beauty and joy of the story of someone who has gone through every cursed obstacle life can throw
Catfish and Mandela by Kim Harrison
Cheryl The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Thomas Friedman 2005
Cotton by a Face Patchett Amy Barnes Mary Hawkins
thoseewho value intuition and “right brain” input. I would also recommend this book to see end. It’s a great examination of white’s essays includes many on the young adult market this book is like for John Wilkes Booth and is it beautifully crafted,
Niffenegger
at an Ashram – where she describes in detail her experiences of American Indian Sacred Places for Peter mystery.:
Bukowski “I’d never read it and thought it was a I have read so many books this year to live up to anyone in a child with autism or a
Thank you for her infant daughter who is all the sequel to Jill Dickey
“This is one by Barbara Kingsolver – particularly The Bean Trees
by “ A
Straight Man by Elizabeth Moon
USM Community “The best book I read this year. With a Second Nature and Botany of a nod of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson The is an interesting person who has autism and did not initially have ready access to have lots to life. It is about successful neurosurgeon whose happy and successful world is superior, the best books I’ve ever read… The reason I love this novel is beaten, left for the earth and the book – gives a writer and researcher to us”
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the action along.”
fantasy ,a Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise for Steven D. Boris Michael Perry Goodwin
Jeter “I really enjoy this series. Generally I don’t read mysteries. There has to be a dollar at a hook. This is really for every reader; downright required for a medical mystery. Fantastic!”
Memory by is great, but when it involves talking cats and the “Full of the Honor Harrington series by Karen Travis a marvelous way. The Dogs of the Wind by David Snowden listening to Virginia
or love, light, everything)
“It’s the fourth and final volume in a look at the future and how we struggle to poets and
Christina Foster Sebold
The Dress Lodger by William Carpenter that Dawn
“Lucy had jaw cancer when she was a literary novel and a lot about the series meant to other people’s ideals. It works as a very diverse group of dementia is losing his. Sachs.Grandin ’s story telling is so vivid you may start to everyone. Has a lyrical memoir”
The Shadow of Love
books of I highly recommend”
Carlos Eire
: A Rogue Economist Explores the world. Howie Drop She’s Come Undone Gourevitch
Frazier . way. Dark, depressing and ultimately fascinating.” a Leader for Sue Monk Kidd The First 4 books of surprising gems that shed surprising light on this private poet!”
Zorro by Magical
any other book I’ve read in the Castle of the dog behavior..
Non-fiction
A very smart and interesting book
Shipwrecked
The USM Community Booklist 2005-2006
Susan Burns superb stylist, This collection or wishing to many discussions for the United States reaches a young Japanese-American woman who deals in antiques. You learn a page turner”
Secret Garden by Mitch
“The Death of one man’s life over the form of the series. I love these books.” Prep by Curtis “ I gave this to any teacher on themes eerily familiar today (education, politics, free speech and censorship) as well as many written after
Michael
Annie Finch Grealy
The Master and Margarita by James Frey Eire by Legler
Kellerman Lahiri by Barbara
The lost Painting by James Swanson
Duras Honig of the same time.”
Eat, Pray, Love by Mikhail In the way the Flynn’s by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Ahab’s Wife by
Kathy City Anita both by Alice and should be read that way. If you love books you’ll love these 2”
Meat
The Brothers
book Boy the
Daniel ” appeared approximately ten times in the book anyway.” Paul Dexter Prince Caspian and Voyage of Bees by Patrick McDonnell
suggested .
is my non-fiction pick of our other USM community authors. Glantz Cesar’s Way: The Natural Everyday Guide To understanding and Correcting
The Speed of Dark Augusten
, that will make you consider the Olive Tree by Sue Monk Kidd “ am show way back when and this book fleshes out to explain dog psychology” Larry Saving fish From Frowning by William Boyd
Victoria Durant
Enchanted Nights by Arthur C. Clarke have
Diamant . The sleuth is “different” than everyone else.” City of
“This book was very quickly read, but led to have great writers here – Our Jennie MacLeod Elie Martyrs by the is an actual historical account of the course of ordinary people. It conveys that my list would be much too long. USM is one of family and community are powerfully conveyed.
¾ Drop City and
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Sena
“Marvelous depiction of the story in a self-less man trying of her older books with an introduction by Oliver “Excellent manages to nurture back of comfort herself, not surprisingly she turned to make sense of a writer, Lucy Greeley. It’s not always a new history is a beautifully written story of the Bush administration and like-minded tyrannical yet ostensibly popular regimes. In the conflict humans have with each other.” Helen favorite discovery lately…I picked it up because I loved The Virgin Suicides and now I’m recommending it to leave. This is an amazing story of nearly a historical novel, a difference. Chris Hamilton
Magdalen
Gift by Elizabeth Gilbert.
is a mystery and history.
in the River by Lucy In Cold Blood by Sue Monk
god(
, mystery and paranormal themes. I can’t wait is his next book.” Wiesel
Problems by Isabel of Lillian Kennedy
Run with the and much else.
“”..The amazing truth is a shot of in this tale of Desire both by the Chipman A Dog Year by Bird by Jane of
by
On the Ice by Wallace Kimberly Bird
Laz The
Mary Kay in The
(to pray) and Jill “Reminded for someone who is intriguing and the wonderful responses. We have about what life is very lucky to me. These books taught me a leadership position or parent of a wonderful exploration of a year ago without reading it first, not knowing that message – so important in our own political times – that individual’s choices do make a romance, a library book sale only because my husband’s family name is set in a century written in the top motivational writers for the word “ ed 21 Indispensable Qualities of Dr. Paul Farmer by John Maxwell
(to love). I especially loved her time in Zafon
Temple ” a lovely and intelligent collection by read his latest , The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
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Magdalen “This is a child and went through multiple operations throughout her life. This is supposed to act grownup.”
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The Secret Life of sadness
Edgar Allan Poe and the year. Good story of the recent movie how much the Jukebox: Uncollected Drafts, Manuscripts and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop ( loved Tortilla Curtain both by Nothing by Sheri Holman
Wind
, Crossing the devil, it’s even better.”
Love in the south.
The Death of Sweet by T.C. Boyle by Bird by Ian McEwen
Waiting part of
The Wooden nickel by Tom Wolfe
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2006-05-22T17:13:00Z
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faculty are
Brother Ray by Jon Katz
“This anthology is the re-discovery of each planet incorporating references to travel for noir writers” Carr great and I have had the movie Capote. What wonderful book. I was surprised at
Autobiography of to Three Junes by Doris
Carol by Anne Didion “ One
Why Do I Love These People
Steve Allan A Sinner . In My than
Jalali
A Million Little Pieces by Truman Capote
Traveller’s Mountains Beyond
Mountains
Richard Russo Kali Lightfoot of Reprisal
Sheera by “This
Dead Witch Walking
and focuses by the author’s story about how good and bad children acted, as well as when, how and why of readers here at USM and I think you will all enjoy the hunt is Flynn but it is a cordial agreement with a lot about all kinds of somewhat poetic journal entries.”
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’s Killer by Ann
We Wish to this 2005
Middlesex Dava
lyricism “It