"[A] book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed."
—Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970) American critic, natrualist, writer, The Modern Temper
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Sh*t My Dad Says
by Justin Halpern (It Books, ISBN: 9780061992704);
Last week: 1;
Weeks on List: 16
"Halpern's hilarious and touching portrait of his relationship with his father."
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Let's Take the Long Way Home
by Gail Caldwell (Random House, ISBN: 9781400067381);
Last week: 11;
Weeks on List: 3
"Caldwell's heartwarming new memoir is an August Indie Next List Great Read."
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The Power
by Rhonda Byrne (Atria, ISBN: 9781439181782);
Last week: 3;
Weeks on List: 2
"Byrne's follow-up to the international bestseller The Secret."
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Women Food and God
by Geneen Roth (Scribner, ISBN: 9781416543077);
Last week: 2;
Weeks on List: 23
"A penetrating and irreverent "guide for life" by the author of When Food Is Love."
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Packing for Mars
by Mary Roach (Norton, ISBN: 9780393068474);
Last week: 4;
Weeks on List: 4
"A very entertaining look at space travel by the bestselling author of Bonk."
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Born to Run
by Christopher McDougall (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307266309);
Last week: 7;
Weeks on List: *
"A look at the Tarahumara Indians and their practice of the lost art of distance running."
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Medium Raw
by Anthony Bourdain (Ecco, ISBN: 9780061718946);
Last week: 6;
Weeks on List: 12
"Bourdain's eagerly awaited follow-up to Kitchen Confidential."
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Empire of the Summer Moon
by S.C. Gwynne (Scribner, ISBN: 9781416591054);
Last week: 5;
Weeks on List: 9
"A vivid historical account of the 40-year battle between the Comanches and white settlers for control of the American West."
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Four Fish
by Paul Greenberg (Penguin Press, ISBN: 9781594202568);
Last week: 9;
Weeks on List: 5
"Greenberg examines the ways fish gets to our dinner tables and how to make sustainable seafood the rule rather than the exception."
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The Big Short
by Michael Lewis (Norton, ISBN: 9780393072235);
Last week: 10;
Weeks on List: 24
"A highly entertaining look at the U.S. financial crisis by the bestselling author of Liar's Poker and Moneyball."
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Committed
by Elizabeth Gilbert (Viking, ISBN: 9780670021659);
Last week: 8;
Weeks on List: 23
"Gilbert's follow-up to her bestseller Eat, Pray, Love is a January Indie Next List Great Read."
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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.
by Sam Wasson (Harper, ISBN: 9780061774157);
Last week: 15;
Weeks on List: 5
"Wasson's fascinating look at Audrey Hepburn and the filming of Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown, ISBN: 9780316017923);
Last week: 13;
Weeks on List: *
"The author of Blink and The Tipping Point looks at what makes some people successful--and others not."
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The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
by Eliza Griswold (FSG, ISBN: 9780374273187);
Weeks on List: 1
"A riveting investigation of the fault line between Christian and Muslim worlds."
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot (Crown, ISBN: 9781400052172);
Weeks on List: 29
"A fascinating look at the world's first "immortal" human cells grown in culture to be used in medical research."
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