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Tag Archives: Bernadette by Maria Semple
25 best book titles of 2012
A great title doesn’t necessarily ensure a great book, but there’s something to be said for a solid hook. The editors of BookPage have selected the 25 best book titles of 2012 (scroll down for the full alphabetical list): … Continue reading
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Tagged A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer duBois, Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield, And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman, Bernadette by Maria Semple, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, book titles, Don't Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman, Don't Touch It by David Wong, Dude, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story by D.T. Max, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain by Lucia Perillo, HHhH by Laurent Binet, Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson, Lots of Candles, New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm Tóibín, No One Is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen, Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea by Morgan Callan Rogers, Say Nice Things About Detroit by Scott Lasser, Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt, The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe, The Liar the Bitch and the Wardrobe by Allie Kingsley, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu, There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander, Where'd You Go, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson, Would You Eat Your Cat? by Jeremy Stangroom
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Monday contest: Top 10 of 2012
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Tagged Bernadette by Maria Semple, Best of 2012, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, book giveaway, Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, free books, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes, The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan, The Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedman, The Round House by Louise Erdrich, This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz, Where'd You Go, Wild by Cheryl Strayed
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