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Top 10 Books for Moms
A selection of Mothers Day books: books for Mom, books about Mom, books for new Moms... if you're looking for a gift book for Mother's Day, or if you're a Mother looking for a book for yourself -- this is the list.
Top 10 Contemporary Authors
While it is impossible to rank the most important authors in contemporary literature, here is a list of ten important (English language) authors with some biographical notes and links to more information about them and their work.
Top 10 Most Recent National Book Award Winners in Fiction
The National Book Awards are given to recognize achievement in four genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature. The winners are selected by five person independent judging panel for each genre and receive a $10,000 cash award and a crystal sculpture. The National Book award is one of North America's most coveted literary prizes. Here are the past ten years' winners from the Fiction category.
Top 10 Best Novels of The Century (so far)
While "best" is a subjective description, we feel certain that these ten are indeed the best literary novels published since the year 2000.
Top 10 Books about Love
Books about Love including The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time, A Natural History of Love, Geek Love, Love in the Time of Cholera, and The Map of Love.
Top 10 2006 Holiday Gift Books
2006 has been very generous to book-lovers, and consequently we have a plethora of titles to choose from for our holiday gift-giving. This year avoid the mall, and give them a book from the eclectic selection of the best that emerged from the publishing houses this year.
Top 10 Books of 2006
Looking for some good reading? The Ten Best works of Literature from 2006 will not fail you. Learn more about each book and each author by clicking on the review links.
Top 10 Best Books from 2005
Join us in celebrating The Ten Best works of Literature from 2005. Learn more about each book and each author by clicking on the associated links.
Top 10 Past Booker Prize Winners
The Man Booker Prize is awarded to the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. It is not only one of literature's highest honors but quite lucrative as the winner takes home £50,000. This is a list of the previous 10 years' Booker Prize Winners.
Top 10 Most Recent Nobel Laureates in Literature
The Nobel Prize for Literature is granted not for a single book, but for an author’s entire body of work, and hence usually goes to a well-established writer. Here are the past ten years' winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Top 10 Fathers Day Gift Books
Fathers day is upon us and you know what Dad wants. He wants a sea kayak, a gass grill, or one of those Segway personal transport devices. But you're too cheap to get him any of those gifts. How about a nice book? Even if he doesn't read it, you can! And at the very least, it will look good on the shelf with unread books from past years fathers day gifts.
Top 10 Fathers Day Gift Books
Fathers day is upon us and you know what Dad wants. He wants a sea kayak, a gass grill, or one of those Segway personal transport devices. But you're too cheap to get him any of those gifts. How about a nice book? Even if he doesn't read it, you can! And at the very least, it will look good on the shelf with unread books from past years fathers day gifts.
Top 10 Fathers Day Gift Books
Fathers day is upon us and you know what Dad wants. He wants a sea kayak, a gass grill, or one of those Segway personal transport devices. But you're too cheap to get him any of those gifts. How about a nice book? Even if he doesn't read it, you can! And at the very least, it will look good on the shelf with unread books from past years fathers day gifts.
Top 10 Most Recent PEN/Faulkner Award Winners
Named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers, and affiliated with PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists), the international writers' organization, the PEN/Faulkner Award was founded by writers in 1980 to honor their peers. The award judges-working fiction writers all--each read approximately 300 novels and short story collections to select a winner and four nomineers.
Top 10 Most Recent Giller Prize Winners
The Giller Prize awards $25,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English. The award was established in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller. These are the winners of the past ten years' Giller Prizes.
Top 9 Most Recent IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winners
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the world's largest literary prize, awarding £100,000 for a single work of fiction. Administered by the Dublin City Public Libraries, nominations are made by public libraries in major cities around the world, making the IMPAC Dublin Award one of the most internationally relevant prizes in literature.
Top 10 Contemporary Lit Must Reads (first 10)
Twenty contemporary literature must-reads, essentials! If you've read all of these, you are well on your way to an honorary contemporary literature degree. This contemporary literature reading list is comprised largely of titles published since 1970. Please visit my Contemporary Classics Reading List for older and more classic contemporary titles.
Top 10 2005 Holiday Gift Books
2005 has been very generous to book-lovers, and consequently we have a plethora of titles to choose from for our holiday gift-giving. This year avoid the mall, and give them a book from the eclectic selection of the best that emerged from the publishing houses this year.
Top 10 Literary Works of 2005
Join us in celebrating The Ten Best works of Literature for 2005. This list is culled from literary works reviewed this year by About Contemporary Literature.
Top 10 Literary Works of 2004
The best in this literature for 2004 includes a variety of offerings from writers of various national backgrounds. There's a work of experimental fiction, an alternate history, an historical fantasy, and a collection of short stories in this list of ten. There are several award winners and runners-up.
Top 10 Books about Work
What we do to make a living, and that which truly ignites us from the inside out are often different and disparate things. The exploration of how to move these closer together, or at least find some kind of peace at work, has become a popular topic in a time when "what you do" tends to be interpreted as "who you are." A number of books have been written of late to guide the wandering through this exploration.
Top 10 Books of Summer 2005
Long flights to exotic destinations, lounging by the pool, or even just sneaking away from the kids for a few moments of solitude - summer activities beg for good books. And here they are - ten hot titles for your hot summer!
Top 10 Books at the Beach - Day 2
The beach is a great place to read, and over the next three days, I'm going to chronicle what these vacationers here at Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina are reading.[br][br]Beach reads are classicly trashy novels, so these are in no way recommendations - just a survey of the first 10 readers and their books over three days.
Top 10 Books at the Beach - Day 1
Four days at the beach has rendered me unable to stop myself. I've restrained so far, but now I find myself walking right up to strangers to ask what they're reading. The beach is a great place to read, and over the next three days, I'm going to chronicle what these vacationers here at Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina are reading.
Top 10 Books at the Beach - Day 3
The beach is a great place to read, and over the next three days, I'm going to chronicle what these vacationers here at Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina are reading.[br][br]Beach reads are classicly trashy novels, so these are in no way recommendations - just a survey of the first 10 readers and their books over three days.