Sybil Steinberg's List
| About Sybil's List | 2006 |  |
Critic and book reviewer Sybil Steinberg comes to
the Library each year and shares her expert overview of
newly published books.
Sybil's List is from her 2006 book talk at the Library.
Need a good book? Get your suggestions here!
Sybil's List is from her 2006 book talk at the Library.
Need a good book? Get your suggestions here!
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THE FOUR BEST NOVELS |
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| Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai |
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy |
| Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsky |
MORE |
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| Absurdistan | Gary Shteyngart |
| Amalgamation Polka | Stephen Wright |
| Breakable You | Brian Morton |
| Black Swan Green | David Mitchell |
| Brookland | Emily Barton |
| Emperor's Children | Claire Messud |
| The Keep | Jennifer Egan |
| Madonnas of Leningrad | Debra Dean |
| Million Nightingales | Susan Straight |
| Night Watch | Sarah Waters |
| People's Act of Love | James Meek |
| Restless | William Boyd |
| Space Between Us | Thrity Umrigar |
| Thin Place | Kathryn Davis |
| Triangle | Katharine Weber |
| When Madeline was Young | Jane Hamilton |
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SHORT STORIES |
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| All Aunt Hagar's Children | Edward P. Jones |
| Dead Fish Museum | Charles D'Ambrosio |
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CLOSE, BUT "NO CIGAR" |
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| After This | Alice McDermott |
| Forgetfulness | Ward Just |
| Whole World Over | Julia Glass |
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GOOD READS |
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| Devotion | Howard Norman |
| Digging to America | Anne Tyler |
| Special Topics in Calamity Physics | Marisha Pessl |
| Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen |
WATCH FOR |
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| Against the Day | Thomas Pynchon |
| Burning Bright | Tracy Chevalier |
| Collected Stories of Amy Hempel | Amy Hempel |
| Dissident | Nell Freudenberger |
| Far Country | Daniel Mason |
| Lay of the Land | Richard Ford |
| Moral Disorder | Margaret Atwood |
| On Agate Hill | Lee Smith |
| Other Side of the Bridge | Mary Lawson |
| Post-Birthday World | Lionel Shriver |
| Rise and Shine | Anna Quindlen |
| Ten Days in the Hills | Jane Smiley |
| Thirteen Moons | Charles Frazier |
| View from Castle Rock | Alice Munro |
| You Don't Love Me Yet | Jonathan Lethem |
NONFICTION |
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| American Bloomsbury | Susan Cheever |
| Book Club Companion | Diana Loevy |
| Reading Like a Writer | Francine Prose |
| Leonard Woolf | Victoria Glendinning |
| The Lost | Daniel Mendelsohn |
| Mayflower | Nathaniel Philbrick |
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR |
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| Fun Home | Alison Bechdel |
| Strange Piece of Paradise | Terri Jentz |
| Strong West Wind | Gail Caldwell |
| Three Dog Life | Abigail Thomas |
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Last Updated 10/10/06
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