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Sybil Steinberg's List

About Sybil's List

2005

Publishing insider and book reviewer Sybil Steinberg comes to the Library each year and gives a critic's expert overview of newly published books.
Sybil's List is from her 2005 book talk at the Library.
This list represents just a few of her current recommendations.
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FICTION
Doctorow, E.L.	The March
McEwan, Ian	Saturday
Ishiguru, Kazuo	Never Let Me Go
Krauss, Nicole	The History of Love
Horn, Dara	The World To Come
Rushdie, Salman	Shalimar the Clown
Mazzucco, Melania	Vita
Davies, Martin	The Conjuror’s Bird
See, Lisa	Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Levy, Andrea	Small Island
Caputo, Phillip	Acts of Faith
Cunningham, Michael	Specimen Days
Mantel, Hilary	Beyond Black
Gaitskill, Mary	Veronica
Rawles, Nancy	My Jim
Calwalladr, Carole	The Family Tree

NOVELS I PLAN TO READ NEXT
Smith, Zadie	On Beauty
Tan, Amy	Saving Fish From Drowning
Gordimer, Nadine	Get a Life
Turow, Scott	Ordinary Heroes
Erdrich, Louise	The Painted Drum
Barnes, Julian	Arthur and George
Dunant, Sarah	In the Company of the Courtesan
Goodman, Allegra	Intuition
Strout, Elizabeth	Abide With Me
Chabon, Michael	The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Coetzee, J.M.	Slow Man
Brookner, Anita	Leaving Home
Banville, John	The Sea

NONFICTION
Gould, Joan	Spinning Straw into Gold
Seaman, Donna	Writers on the Air
Winchester, Simon	A Crack in the Edge of the World
Flood, Charles Bracelen	Grant and Sherman

MEMOIRS
Anonymous	A Woman in Berlin
Gray, Francine du Plessix	Them
Moehringer, J.R.	The Tender Bar
Moore, Judith	Fat Girl
Walls, Jeanette	The Glass Castle
Offill & Shapell,eds.	The Friend Who Got Away
Wilsey, Sean	Oh the Glory of It All
Holland, Barbara	When All the World was Young
Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone	Girls of Tender Age
Didion, Joan	The Year of Magical Thinking
Seth, Vikram	Two Lives
Pamuk, Orhan	Istanbul

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Last update 10/6/06