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Here's The NBCC’s "Good Reads—Winter List," recommended titles from 600 voters, including celebrity authors Annie Proulx, Jonathan Raban and more. You'll find full details at the Critical Mass Web site. And don't forget to join me, along with Tom Dodge, Ben Fountain, Walton Muyumba and Isabel Nathaniel while we discuss great reads and how we discover them 7 p.m. Feb. 12 (that's a week from tonight) at Barnes & Noble, 7700 West Northwest Highway. Fiction 1. Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson 2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz 3. Diary of a Bad Year, by J.M. Coetzee 4. People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks 5. Zeroville, by Steve Erickson Nonfiction 1. The Rest Is Noise, by Alex Ross 2. Brother, I’m Dying, by Edwidge Danticat 3. In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan 4. Musicophilia, by Oliver Sacks* 5. The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein* Poetry 1. Elegy, by Mary Jo Bang 2. Time and Materials, by Robert Hass* 3. Gulf Music, by Robert Pinsky* 4. The Collected Poems, 1956–1998, by Zbigniew Herbert 5. Sharp Teeth, by Toby Barlow *Asterisks indicate a tie vote. |
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