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Bestselling books: How well do you know the books on the top?
From the IndieBound's bestseller list, test your knowledge of today's popular books.
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10 best books of March, 2012, according to Amazon's editors
The editors at Amazon pick their 10 favorite titles for March, 2012.
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3 stand-out 2011 novels by award-winning writers
Three new works by three award-winning writers look at love, regret, and memory in this month's fiction roundup.
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Nobel Prize in Literature: Winners from the past 10 years
The 2011 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a notoriously hard to predict award, will be announced on Thursday. Here are the winners from the past decade.
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Fall books: 12 fiction titles you don't want to miss
From Ireland to India, and from the year AD 73 to the possible end of the world, here are 12 of the most enticing of the fall 2011 fiction titles.
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Bestselling books: How well do you know the books on the top?
From the IndieBound's bestseller list, test your knowledge of today's popular books.
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10 best books of March, 2012, according to Amazon's editors
The editors at Amazon pick their 10 favorite titles for March, 2012.
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Chapter & Verse
Costa Book Awards are dominated by newcomers
Two 2011 Costa Book Award winners were debuting in their genres, while writer Andrew Miller surprised some by beating out Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes for the best novel prize.
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Chapter & Verse
Finally – a Booker Prize win for Julian Barnes
His fourth time nominated was the charm for British novelist Julian Barnes, winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
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Chapter & Verse
Booker Prize winner to be announced tomorrow amid controversy
The favorite to win the award, author Julian Barnes, once called the prize "posh bingo."
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3 stand-out 2011 novels by award-winning writers
Three new works by three award-winning writers look at love, regret, and memory in this month's fiction roundup.
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Nobel Prize in Literature: Winners from the past 10 years
The 2011 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a notoriously hard to predict award, will be announced on Thursday. Here are the winners from the past decade.
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Last Man In Tower
Aravind Adiga's novel about gentrification in India explores the dark side of human nature.
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Reader recommendation: Moon Tiger
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
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King of the Badgers
The inhabitants of a small English town respond to a shocking crime.
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Chapter & Verse
"Cloud Atlas" gets an A-list cast
The well-received but challenging novel "Cloud Atlas" has actors Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, and Hugh Grant lined up to star in its film adaptation, due to be released next fall.
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Fall books: 12 fiction titles you don't want to miss
From Ireland to India, and from the year AD 73 to the possible end of the world, here are 12 of the most enticing of the fall 2011 fiction titles.
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3 late-summer novels too good to miss
Our final fiction roundup of the summer features an eclectic lineup: One is a fantasy epic, the second is a quirky first novel about an avant-garde family, and the third is a somber look at the kidnapping of a political dissident. All, however, are really good.
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Obama's summer vacation reading list
President Obama kicked off his vacation with a trip to a Martha's Vineyard book store. What's Obama reading?
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3 of the summer's best new mystery novels
As the temperatures rise, so does the fictional body count. Our summer mystery roundup offers three stylish literary efforts by writers new to the genre.
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Daniel Stein, Interpreter
Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya creates a novel from the real-life story of a Holocaust survivor who became a monk.
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Chapter & Verse
A slap at Philip Roth – or a dig at American writers?
A Booker International Prize judge quits when the award goes to Philip Roth.
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Orange Prize for fiction 2011 shortlist
Celebrating its 16th anniversary this year, the Orange Prize for Fiction honors "excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world." Last year's winner was American author Barbara Kingsolver for her novel "The Lacuna." The 2011 award will be announced on June 8, 2011, and the winner will be one of these six novelists.
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Classic review: In the Country of Men
This powerful novel about a 9-year-old boy and his absent father offers an unnerving portrait of life in the Libya of Muammar Qaddafi.
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7 books to help you understand Libya
What to read for background on Libya? The shelves of English-language libraries and bookstores are not exactly crammed with options. However, there are a handful of works – from histories to fiction to travel literature – which offer a good general grounding in the country's background and culture. Here, at least for starters, are some interesting suggestions.
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Libya protests spread as barrier of fear crumbles
The son of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi tried to intimidate Libyans Sunday, warning in a TV speech of civil war and foreign plots. But Libya's wave of democracy protests is strengthening as protesters ignore violence that has claimed more than 200 lives.
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3 more 2010 novels you don't want to miss
Crumbling ruins loom large in this late 2010 fiction roundup: There's a castle haunted by a madwoman and a mystery, a derelict race track that's the setting for this year's National Book Award-winner, and a once-stately manor home that now houses the insane and infirm.
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Reader recommendation: Remainder
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
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Three of this fall's most talked-about novels
Characters whose lives are altered by their inability to grasp the whole picture link three of this fall's most highly praised novels – although that's about the only thing they have in common. In one, a young mother goes to extraordinary lengths to protect her son; in another, an English couple go on vacation and find themselves in way over their heads; while in the third, a writer mourns the loss of a desk that has passed through many hands.
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National Book Award 2010 nominees: one big surprise
The author who was not nominated for a 2010 National Book Award – Jonathan Franzen – is getting at least as much commentary as those who were.
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