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Authors List Literary Faves of '07

Posted Nov 26, 07 4:38 PM CST in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Read the books writers are raving about with the help of this list from the Guardian:

  1. David Hare: Five Germanys I Have Known, Fritz Stern
  2. Nicola Barker: Teenage, Jon Savage
  3. Margaret Drabble: Edith Wharton, Hermione Lee

  1. Toby Litt: Breathturn, Paul Celan
  2. Alain de Botton: Night Haunts, Sukhdev Sandhu
  3. Michael Chabon: Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
  4. Jan Morris: Welsh Furniture 1250-1950, Richard Bebb
  5. Shere Hite: Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  6. Salley Vickers: The End of the Poem, Paul Muldoon
  7. Brian Friel: Rudolf Nureyev, Julie Kavanagh
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Author Michael Chabon poses in the yard at his home in Berkeley, Calif., Tuesday, April 10, 2007. Of Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day," Chabon says, "I only wished it were a thousand pages longer." (AP...   (Associated Press)
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