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The Year's Best Reads: Get Our Critics' Lists
Fresh Delivery: Indie Booksellers Pick 2010 Favorites
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Fresh Delivery: Indie Booksellers Pick 2010 Favorites

It's that time of year again! Susan Stamberg chats with three independent booksellers about their favorite reads of the year, from an atlas of remote islands to a children's book about feminist heroes.

Fresh Delivery: Indie Booksellers Pick 2010 Favorites

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Book Club Picks: Give 'Em Something To Talk About
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Book Club Picks: Give 'Em Something To Talk About

Making suggestions for your book club can be risky business. If everyone loves the book, you're a hero. If they hate it, it takes a while to live it down. NPR's Lynn Neary comes to the rescue with five book club recommendations that are sure to make for good conversation.

Book Club Picks: Give 'Em Something To Talk About

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Oh, To Be Young: The Year's Best Teen Reads
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Oh, To Be Young: The Year's Best Teen Reads

Young adult author Gayle Forman picks her favorite teen novels of the year, from a Parisian adventure to a high school student affected by life during wartime.

Oh, To Be Young: The Year's Best Teen Reads

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Sex, Drugs And 'Life' — The Year's Best Guilty Reads
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Sex, Drugs And 'Life' — The Year's Best Guilty Reads

If celebrity tell-all books are the snack food of the literary world, author Susan Jane Gilman has been on a binge this year. Her picks — from various ranks of the pop-culture pantheon — may not be the proudest additions to your bookshelf, but they may be among the most amusing.

Sex, Drugs And 'Life' — The Year's Best Guilty Reads

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Maureen Corrigan's Favorite Books Of 2010
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Maureen Corrigan's Favorite Books Of 2010

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Fresh Air's resident book critic selects her favorite reads from the year, including Patti Smith's moving memoir, a feminist slant on election season and a new history of labor unions.

Maureen Corrigan's Favorite Books Of 2010

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2010's Best Cookbooks: Real-Life Labors Of Love
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2010's Best Cookbooks: Real-Life Labors Of Love

This year, cooks poured their hearts into these carefully crafted, kitchen how-tos. T. Susan Chang says these cookbooks are like a properly seasoned skillet — heavy-duty, battle-tested and much to be prized.

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Happy Holidays, Voyeurs: Nancy Pearl Picks Memoirs
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Happy Holidays, Voyeurs: Nancy Pearl Picks Memoirs

Librarian Nancy Pearl loves reading about other people's lives. And while an unappreciative therapist might call that a predilection toward snooping, it won't stop her from gravitating to the memoir section of the bookstore. Here, for your own vicarious pleasure, are some of her favorites.

Happy Holidays, Voyeurs: Nancy Pearl Picks Memoirs

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Best Books Of Winter: Alan Cheuse Makes His List
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Best Books Of Winter: Alan Cheuse Makes His List

Literary Santa delivers his list of favorite fiction, nonfiction and poetry — a box of the best books from 2010 that he'd like to bring to your house on a snowy morning.

Best Books Of Winter: Alan Cheuse Makes His List

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