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- Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke (**)
- Cecil B. DeMille: Autobiography (****)
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- Tin House 10 (*)
- Louis J. Weichmann: A True History Of The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln And Of The Conspiracy Of 1865 (***)
- Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road (*****)
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- G.K. Chesterton: The Scandal Of Father Brown (**)
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- Terence Blacker: Kill Your Darlings (*)
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- Steven Sherrill: The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break (***)
- Leonard J. Leff & Jerold L. Simmons: The Dame In The Kimono (****)
- Nigel Williams: The Wimbledon Poisoner (****)
- Ann Beattie: Love, Always (**)
- John Lahr (ed.): The Orton Diaries (*****)
- Ken Follett: A Dangerous Fortune (*****)
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- Michael Shapiro: The Last Good Season (****)
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- Goffredo Parise: Solitudes (***)
- Wilfrid Sheed: Essays In Disguise (****)
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- Doug Marlette: The Bridge (***)
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- H. L. Mencken: Prejudices (***)
- Harold Rabinowitz & Rob Kaplan (eds.): A Passion For Books (****)
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- David McCullough: Brave Companions (****)
- Axel Munthe: The Story Of San Michele (****)
- Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao (*****)
- Bruce Catton: Reflections On The Civil War (***)
- Andre Gide: The Immoralist (****)
- Thomas Hauser: The Hawthorne Group (*****)
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