People Are Talking … About These Five Books

People Are Talking … About These Five Books : NPR: If your book group is looking for a good discussion book, this short article has five suggestions: four fiction and one nonfiction. And in the upper right corner of the page, you’ll find links to more “Best of 2010” book lists from NPR.

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Mystery Writers’ Awards

Bouchercon by the Bay PW Daily reports on awards given out at Bouchercon, the annual mystery writers’ convention: In addition to Tower’s win for Best Novel, Macavity Awards—voted on by members of Mystery Readers International—were also given to Rebecca Cantrell’s A Trace of Smoke (Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award); Hank Phillippi Ryan’s ‘On the House’

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Belva Plain, Novelist, Dies at 95

Belva Plain, Novelist, Dies at 95 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: Belva Plain, who became a best-selling author at age 59 and whose multigenerational family sagas of Jewish-American life won a loyal readership in the millions, died on Tuesday at her home in Short Hills, N.J. She was 95. OK, so her fiction wasn’t the

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Top Ten Discussion Books

ReadingGroupGuides.com – 10th Anniversary Contest Results: In honor of its tenth anniversary, ReadingGroupGuides.com ran a contest asking book groups to submit a list of their favorite books. The results are now in, and here is the Top Ten list. There are also links here to results broken down into categories (e.g., classics, biographies/memoirs). How many

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