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Fiction List - most borrowed
titles by descending rank:
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The Appeal
Grisham, John
Doubleday
ISBN 9780385515047
T Is for Trespass
Sue Grafton
Putnam
ISBN 9780399154485
Double Cross: A Novel
James Patterson
Little, Brown
ISBN 9780316015059
A Thousand Splendid
Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead,
ISBN 9781594489501
7th Heaven: A Novel
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Little, Brown
ISBN 9780316017701
Stone Cold
Baldacci, David
Grand Central
ISBN 9780446577397
You've Been Warned
James Patterson and
Howard Roughan
Little, Brown
ISBN 9780316014502
Playing for Pizza
Grisham, John
Doubleday
ISBN 9780385525008
The Choice
Nicholas Sparks
Grand Central
ISBN 9780446579926
Book of the Dead
Cornwell, Patricia
Putnam
ISBN 9780399153938
The Quickie: A Novel
James Patterson
&
Michael Ledwidge
Little, Brown
ISBN 9780316117364
World Without End
Follett, Ken
Dutton
ISBN 9780525950073
The Pillars of the
Earth
Follett, Ken
Signet
ISBN 9780451166890
Beverly Hills Dead
Stuart Woods
Putnam
ISBN 9780399154690
The Senator's Wife
Sue Miller
Knopf
ISBN 9780307264206
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Nonfiction
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Eat, Pray, Love
Gilbert, Elizabeth
Penguin
ISBN 9780143038412
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson
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David Oliver Relin
Penguin
ISBN 9780143038252
The Secret
Rhonda Byrne
Beyond Words Publishing
ISBN 9781582701707
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls
Scribner
ISBN 0743247531
Born Standing Up
Martin, Steve
Scribner
ISBN 9781416553649
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Michael Pollan
Penguin Press
ISBN 9781594201455
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Toobin, Jeffery
Doubleday
ISBN
9780385516402
You: Staying Young
Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
Free Press
ISBN 9780743292566
Into the Wild
Krakauer, Jon
Anchor Book
ISBN 9780307387172
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Barack Obama
Three Rivers
ISBN 9780307237705
The World Without Us
Weisman, Alan
St. Martin's/Dunne
ISBN 9780312347291
Deceptively Delicious
Jessica Seinfeld
Collins
ISBN 9780061251344
Boom! Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
Tom Brokaw
Random House
ISBN 9781400064571
Clapton
Clapton, Eric
Broadway
ISBN 9780385518512
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12/2007 NBCC
Just under 500 total
voters -from John Updike and Robert Hass to Carolyn Forche, Anne Tyler,
Julia Alvarez and Cynthia Ozick- and 300 National Book
Critics Circle member critics voted.
Below are the five top vote getters in fiction, nonfiction, and
poetry listed in order of votes received.
Fiction:
The Brief Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
(Riverhead)
Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson
(Farrar Straus & Giroux)
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
Exit Ghost
Philip Roth
(Houghton Mifflin)
Out
Stealing Horses
Per Petterson (Graywolf)
Nonfiction:
Brother, I’m Dying
Edwidge Danticat (Knopf)
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
(St. Martin’s)
The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein (Metropolitan Books)
Schulz and Peanuts
David Michaelis
(HarperCollins)
Legacy of Ashes
Tim Weiner (Doubleday)
Poetry:
Time
and Materials: Poems 1997–2005*
Robert Hass
(HarperCollins)
Collected Poems: 1956-1998
Herbert Zbigniew (Ecco)
Gulf Music
Robert Pinsky
(Farrar,
Straus & Giroux)
Next Life
Rae Armantrout
(Wesleyan University Press)
Elegy
Mary Jo Bang
(Graywolf)
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Best Novels You’ve Never Read
The
National Book Critics Circle chose professional
critics (and some other writers) to pick the best under-the-radar book of
the past ten years or so.
Sixty-one critics reveal their favorite most underrated book of the past
ten years.
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