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2005 New York Times Book Review

February 2, 2006

2005 BEST BOOKS – NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Fiction Kafka On The Shore, by Haruki Murakami On Beauty, by Zadie Smith Prep: A Novel, by Curtis Sittenfeld Saturday, by Ian McEwan Veronica, by Mary Gaitskill Nonfiction The Assassin’s Gate: America In Iraq, by George Packer De Kooning: An American Master, by Mark Stevens & [...]

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2005 National Book Awards

February 1, 2006

2005 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS Fiction Europe Central, by William T. Vollman (Winner!) The March, by E.L. Doctorow Veronica, by Mary Gaitskill Trance, by Chrisopher Sorrentino Holy Skirts, by Rene Steinke Nonfiction The Year Of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion (Winner!) Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, by Alan Burdick Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius, [...]

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2005 Pulitzer Prizes

January 29, 2006

2005 PULITZER PRIZES Fiction: Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson History: Washington’s Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer Biography: De Kooning: An American Master, by Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan Poetry: Delights & Shadows, by Ted Kooser Non-Fiction: Ghost Wars, by Steve Coll

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Richard Dooling’s Bookshelf

December 25, 2005

An incomplete answer to the question: What do you read? Fiction Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis Heyday: A Novel, by Kurt Andersen. Lives of the Monster Dogs, by Kirstin Bakis. The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth. The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain. Double Indemnity, by James M. Cain. Don Quixote by Cervantes (new [...]

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