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Each year, BookBrowse subscribers rate their favorite books of the year to choose our Top 20 Best of Year titles. More about how the books are selected.
Hardcover: Oct 2005 | Paperback: Feb 2007
'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.'
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Hardcover: Sep 2005 | Paperback: Oct 2006
The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil returns after more than a decade to give us an intimate look at the "magic, mystery, and decadence" of the city of Venice and its inhabitants.
Hardcover: Sep 2005 | Paperback: Jul 2006
A stunning, thought-provoking crime novel of chilling moral complexity. A gripping, haunting exploration of love and our need for it, of the damage done when we go long without it, and the deeds we might be driven to in its name.
Hardcover: Apr 2005 | Paperback: May 2006
This subtle and wise work is more than a re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes but a profound meditation on faultiness of memory and how, as we grow older, the way we see the world is inevitably altered.
Hardcover: Jun 2005 | Paperback: May 2006
Intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life.
A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
Hardcover: Apr 2005 | Paperback: Apr 2006
A pitch-perfect mystery, an alluring portrait of contemporary Venice, and an elucidating eye into the attitudes of a timeless place in the grip of change.
Hardcover: Apr 2005 | Paperback: Apr 2006
A twisting, turning, emotionally charged story, and a compelling tale of the choices we make and the repercussions that never leave us.
Hardcover: May 2005 | Paperback: Apr 2006
A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
Hardcover: Jun 2005 | Paperback: Apr 2006
"A smashing literary tour de force and an utterly invigorating reading experience. If this book does not make you jump up from the sofa, looking at life and literature in new ways, check to see if you have a pulse." --USA Today.
Hardcover: Apr 2005 | Paperback: Apr 2006
Unafraid to show his traumatized characters' constant groping for emotional catharsis, Foer demonstrates once again that he is one of the few contemporary writers willing to risk sentimentalism in order to address great questions of truth, love and ...
Hardcover: Mar 2005 | Paperback: Apr 2006
An astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us
Hardcover: Feb 2005 | Paperback: Mar 2006
A fascinating, important book about what makes good people good and bad people bad, and how good people can protect themselves from those others. Highly recommended.
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