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The author of "Kingdom of Shadows" picks four great books that transport you to the '30s and '40s.
By Alan Furst
February 16, 2001
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The film director and author of "The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards" picks five essential books for the Bass Weejuns set.
By Whit Stillman
December 22, 2000
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The author of "Layover" picks five great books about malevolent houses.
By Lisa Zeidner
December 15, 2000
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The author of "Election" and "Joe College" picks five great books set in places where everyone knows everyone else's business.
By Tom Perrotta
December 8, 2000
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The author of "One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race" picks five books in which racial lines go blurry.
By Scott Malcomson
December 1, 2000
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The author of "Watch Your Mouth" and "The Bad Beginning" picks five great books with "bird" in the title.
By Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket
November 17, 2000
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The author of "Gap Creek" picks five great books of linked stories.
By Robert Morgan
November 3, 2000
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The rock critic and author of "Christgau's Consumer Guides" picks six great books about the history of popular music.
By Robert Christgau
October 27, 2000
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The author of "The Night Inspector" and "Don't Tell Anyone" picks five story collections with ideal physiques.
By Frederick Busch
October 13, 2000
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The critic and author of "Don't the Moon Look Lonesome" picks eight great books that get race right.
By Stanley Crouch
October 6, 2000
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The author of "Latinos: A Biography of the People" picks five great works of Mexican literature.
By Earl Shorris
September 29, 2000
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The author of "A Map of the World" picks five great books about depressed teenagers.
By Jane Hamilton
September 21, 2000
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The author of "Blind Ambition: The White House Years" and former counsel to President Nixon picks five favorite nonfiction books for the next POTUS to read.
By John W. Dean
September 15, 2000
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The author of "The Browser's Ecstasy" picks five 19th century novels that "Masterpiece Theatre" missed.
By Geoffrey O'Brien
September 8, 2000
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The author of "Love Invents Us" and "A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You" picks five great books that are way out of fashion.
By Amy Bloom
September 1, 2000
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The author of "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt" picks five great books that play with numbers.
By Aimee Bender
August 25, 2000
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The author of "The 27th City" picks five great American novels about slavery.
By Jonathan Franzen
August 18, 2000
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The author of "Nothing to Declare" picks six great books about the Midwest.
By Mary Morris
August 4, 2000
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The author of "The Ice Storm" picks seven favorite books with veils in them.
By Rick Moody
July 28, 2000
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The mortician author of "The Undertaking" picks five books to remind you that poetry can save your life.
By Thomas Lynch
July 21, 2000
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The author of "Being Dead" picks five great books about islands.
By Jim Crace
July 14, 2000
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The author of "Black Hawk Down" picks five great books about the U.S. space program.
By Mark Bowden
June 26, 2000
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The author of "Let It Blurt" picks five great sleazy rock 'n' roll biographies.
By Jim DeRogatis
June 19, 2000
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The author of "The Best Thing I Ever Tasted" picks five novels about kick-ass secret-agent women.
By Sallie Tisdale
June 12, 2000
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The author of "One Woman Short" and "Hip Hop America" picks five great urban books.
By Nelson George
May 22, 2000
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A preppy pantheon
Bad real estate
Winging it
Pop before rock
Muscle
Living color
Bummer lit
Gratuitous advice
Not seen on TV
Retro chic
Count on it
Chained
Incognito
Rescued by the Word
Cut off from the mainland
Far-out
The boys in the bands
Spy girls
Gritty city
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