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Recommendations
From the June 2004 Forum
Here, more or less in the order people talked about them, are the books recommended this year, followed by (the name of the person recommending the book):
Hollister Knowlton:
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0142001740/qid=1088362439/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
Dianna Marder:
Marriette in Ecstasy, by Ron Hanson
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060981180/)
Catherwood, by Marly Youmans
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374119724/qid=1088359929/sr=8-7/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i7_xgl14/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
The Romance Reader, Pearl Abraham
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573225487/qid=1088359966/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Ann Jones:
Ladies Coupé: A Novel in Parts by Anita Nair
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141005955/qid=1088359996/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
The Oriole's Song by BJ Elder
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1891936344/qid=1088360051/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Betty Hartzel: The Gift of Therapy by Irvin Yalom
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0066214408/qid=1088360090/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Love's Executioner by Irvin Yalom
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060958340/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books&st=*
Linda Rosenwein:
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar
Nafisi
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/081297106X/qid=1088360142/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
Terry Foss: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156027321/qid=1088360183/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380789019/qid=1088360214/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nnight-time by Mark Haddon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385512104/qid=1088360339/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Roberta Foss: The Color of Water: a Black Man's
Tribute to his Mother by James McBride
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573225789/qid=1088360244/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060934417/qid=1088360269/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
Quaker Lite 2-1/2, Stan Banker
http://www.quakerbooks.org/get/11-99-00249-6
MJ Robinson;
Against all Enemies: Inside America's War on
Terror by Richard Clarke
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743260244/qid=1088360370/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
Battle Ready, Tom Clancey with Anthony Zinni
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399151761/qid=1088360406/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
anything by Robertson Davies
Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060540753/qid=1088360705/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060569662/qid=1088360739/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
Annika Nordlof:
McDuff Moves In by Rosemary Wells (other McDuff books
too)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786803185/qid=1088360822/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
The Seven Silly Eaters by Marianne Hoberman
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0613301226/qid=1088360868/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Magic Treehouse Series by Mary Pope Osborne
The Haunted Castle on Hallow's Eve
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375825215/qid=1088361012/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Several Ramona books by Beverly Cleary
Ramona and Beezus
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/038070918X/qid=1088361074/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
Betsy Tacy and Tib by Maud Harte Lovelace
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0064400972/qid=1088361106/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Mr Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316058432/qid=1088361152/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Lady Lollipop by Dick King-Smith
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0763621811/qid=1088361190/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Jackie Fields:
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides;
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312422156/qid=1088361222/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
Reason: Why Liberals will win the Battle for
America,
Robert B Reich
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400042216/qid=1088361247/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
John Nordlof:
Short Hx of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767908171/qid=1088361495/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture
of Reality by Brian Greene
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375412883/qid=1088361519/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End
of Slavery In America by Alan Guelzo
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743221826/qid=1088361559/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam by James McPherson
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195173309/qid=1088361590/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the
Civil War by James McPherson
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195124995/qid=1088361624/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the
Triumph of Anglo-America by Kevin Phillips
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465013708/qid=1088361647/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Radical Enlightenment by Jonathan Israel
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0199254567/qid=1088361671/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing
and Acting of History by Edmund Wilson
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385092814/qid=1088361696/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Lynn Mather: Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah
Khan, a Man to Match His Mountains by Eknath Easwaran
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1888314001/qid=1088361732/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Cradled All the While: The Unexpected Gifts
of a Mother's Death, Sara J. Corse
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0806646446/qid=1088362915/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Melanie
Monk:
Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1563895730/qid=1088361843/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Haiku: the Poetry of Nature (collection) David Cobb
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0789308266/qid=1088361886/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Ariake: Poems of Love and Longing by the Women
Courtiers of Ancient Japan by Rae Grant, Liza Dalby, Lisa Crihfield
Dalby
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0811828131/qid=1088361918/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books#product-details
God of the Fairy Tale: Finding Truth in the
Land of Make-Believe by Jim Ware
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0877880492/qid=1088361995/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Dona Garrettson:
Journals of Lewis & Clark
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395859964/qid%3D1088469732/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr_11_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
The Stolen Light by Ved Mehta
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393306739/qid=1088362162/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812971043/qid=1088362188/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-0925027-5418342
Pauline Doyle:
It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0425179613/qid=1088362222/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
The Anatomy of Hope : How People Prevail in
the Face of Illness by JEROME GROOPMAN
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375506381/qid=1088362244/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060085894/qid=1088362292/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-0925027-5418342
Pat Witte: Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail
Adams by Lynne
Withey
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/074323443X/qid=1088362338/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-0925027-5418342?v=glance&s=books
Warren Witte:
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the
Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, by Kevin Phillips
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670032646/qid=1088362386/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-0925027-5418342
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Phil Jones