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Critic's Choices for 2005

Sunday, December 4, 2005

Nonfiction

The Year of Magical Thinking , by Joan Didion

The Coldest Winter , by Paula Fox

Defining the World , by Henry Hitchings

The Cardinal's Hat , by Mary Hollingsworth

The Edifice Complex , by Deyan Sudjic

The City of Falling Angels , by John Berendt

When All the World Was Young,

by Barbara Holland

Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home,

by Lynn Freed

Garlic and Sapphires , by Ruth Reichl

Fiction

Making It Up , by Penelope Lively

The Closers , by Michael Connelly

Never Let Me Go , by Kazuo Ishiguro

Carnivore Diet , by Julia Slavin

The Broker , by John Grisham

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