BookLoons Columns - Feature: Recommended Reads 2003

BookLoons Recommended Reads 2003
by Hilary Williamson

Looking for books to give as gifts, or simply to read yourself over the holidays? Here are BookLoons reviewers' recommendations of some that made us sit up and take notice this year.

We kept our selection (with great difficulty) to only a few hardcover and paperback titles per genre. Hope you find something here that suits your own reading taste!

Recommended Hardcover Releases

These were all hardcover releases this year:

Contemporary	Cookbooks	Fantasy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Lucia, Lucia Postcards from Berlin	Forever Summer From the Cook's Garden My French Kitchen	Crystal City Monstrous Regiment Paladin of Souls
Historical	Kids	Mystery
The Book of Salt Dreaming the Eagle Render Unto Caesar	Bow Wow Meow Meow I'm A Manatee What Are You So Grumpy About?	The Distant Echo A Fountain Filled with Blood Maisie Dobbs

Non-Fiction	Romance	SF
A Mighty Heart A Short History of Nearly Everything Ultimate Punishment	The Guardian Hello, Darkness The Killing Hour	Callahan's Con The Companions Idlewild
Teens	Thrillers	Travel
Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix The Revealers The Wee Free Men	Bangkok 8 Land of the Living Resolved	Nine Hills to Nambonkaha Persepolis The Storyteller's Daughter

Recommended Paperbacks

We highly recommend these recent paperbacks:

Contemporary	Cookbooks	Fantasy
Coastliners Tricky Business Three Daughters	Semi-Homemade Desserts The Starving Students' Cookbook	The Eyre Affair The Lost Steersman A Sorcerer's Treason
Historical	Kids	Mystery
The Crimson Petal & the White Wet Grave December 6	Don't Make Me Laugh Gorillas The Worrywarts	Blood on the Tongue You've Got Murder The Rose in the Wheel

Non-Fiction	Romance	SF
And Words Can Hurt Forever Persuasive Technology Take Joy	Breathing Room Never Walk Alone Perfect Together	Altered Carbon Dark Light Prey
Teens	Thrillers	Travel
The Arctic Incident Coraline The Kin	Mortal Allies Mortal Sins Nine	Blue Latitudes The Ghost with Trembling Wings River Dog

If we missed any of your favorite reads for 2003, please drop us a line and let us know titles and author names - we'd love to add them to our own holiday reading lists!
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