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The 10 Best Books of 2004 - Atifusman - 12-28-2004 The books we've chosen as the year's 10 best -- five novels, a short-story collection, a memoir, two biographies and a historical study -- present a broad range of voices and subjects. What do they have in common? Each is a triumph of storytelling, and each explores the past, whether through research, recollection, invention or some combination of the three. FICTION Gilead By MARILYNNE ROBINSON Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $23. This grave, lucid, luminously spiritual novel about fathers and sons reaches back to the abolitionist movement and into the 1950's. . Excerpt The Master By COLM TOIBIN Scribner, $25. A novel about Henry James, his life and art -- beautifully written, deeply pondered, startlingly un-Jamesian. . Audio Colm Toibin Discusses the Historical Novel . Transcript Colm Toibin on Henry James . Excerpt The Plot Against America By PHILIP ROTH Houghton Mifflin Company, $26. An ingenious ''anti-historical'' novel set during World War II. Charles Lindbergh is elected president on an isolationist platform, and a Jewish family in Newark suffers the consequences. . Featured Author Philip Roth . Excerpt . Philip Roth on the Story Behind 'The Plot Against America' . Join the Reading Group Discussion of 'The Plot Against America' Runaway By ALICE MUNRO Alfred A. Knopf, $25. Her 11th collection of short stories about people, often women living in rural Ontario, whose vivid, unremarkable lives are rendered with almost Tolstoyan resonance. . Featured Author Alice Munro . Excerpt Snow By ORHAN PAMUK Alfred A. Knopf, $26. The forces of secular and Islamic Turkey collide in this prescient, complexly orchestrated novel, begun before 9/11 and completed shortly thereafter. . An Interview With Orhan Pamuk . Excerpt War Trash By HA JIN Pantheon, $25. A powerfully apposite moral fable whose suffering hero passes from delusion to clarity as a Chinese P.O.W. in Korea. . Audio An Interview With Ha Jin . Text An Interview With Ha Jin NONFICTION Alexander Hamilton By RON CHERNOW The Penguin Press, $35. An exemplary biography -- broad in scope, finely detailed -- of the founder who gave America capitalism and nationalism. . Excerpt Chronicles Volume One By BOB DYLAN Simon & Schuster, $24. A memoir -- idiosyncratic and revelatory -- by the peerless singer-songwriter who journeyed from the heartland to conquer the Greenwich Village music scene of the 1960's. Washington's Crossing By DAVID HACKETT FISCHER Oxford University Press, $35. An impressively researched narrative about the Revolutionary War that highlights the Battle of Trenton. Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare By STEPHEN GREENBLATT W. W. Norton & Company, $26.95. Scholarship, speculation and close reading combine in a lively study that gives shape to the life and context to the work. A student of ICMAP. - mhmirza - 12-28-2004 Thank you for this valuable information. - Mahtab - 07-07-2005 AOA What about Ten Best Books of 2005? Regards Mahtab - CBPian - 07-09-2005 Nice contribution however please alway give reference when doing copy-paste.[D][D][D] For me two books in 2005 till now Fiction Shadows of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Non-fiction The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene - naam_thegreat - 07-11-2005 yar i like this whoever made this topic. ~O~N~E~ - Mahtab - 04-20-2006 <font size="4">AOA What about HUNDRED Best Books of 2005? Regards Mahtab</font id="size4"> - Muhammad Adnan Arshad - 04-20-2006 & what are the the top ten (best) books of 2006 so far .....??? - Mahtab - 12-19-2006 AOA What about Ten Best Books of 2006? Regards Mahtab |