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Best Books of 2013

Feb

18

2014

James Crossley

Top 40 Musings

By now 2013 is a fast-diminishing reflection in history’s rear view mirror, mostly ignored as we focus on the traffic up ahead. There’s a new Murakami novel looming on the horizon like an eighteen-wheeler, and closer down the road is a nimble little hybrid fueled by an unearthly imagination, Lydia Davis’s latest story collection. The literary highway is …

Dec

18

2013

Shelf Awareness Announces Top Books of 2013

The online literary newsletter Shelf Awareness announced its top books for 2013: 10 each for fiction, nonfiction, and kids. Congratulations to Pacific Northwest author Daniel James Brown for the selection of his nonfiction account of the University of Washington crew team’s quest for the gold in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans …

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