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Miss Manners' Five Favorite Novels

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Books Read in 2013

Breakfast of Champions. Kurt Vonnegut
The Eustace Diamonds. Anthony Trollope
Small Island. Andrea Levy
The Uninvited. Liz Jensen
The Judge. Rebecca West
Life After Life. Kate Atkinson
Brazzaville Beach. William Boyd
May We Be Forgiven. A.M. Homes
Toby's Room. Pat Barker
Ragtime. E.L. Doctorow
Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked. James Lasdun.
The Waterworks. E.L. Doctorow
The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life. Ann Patchett.
Good-bye to All of That. Robert Graves
The Imperfectionists. Tom Rachman
The Burgess Boys. Elizabeth Strout
The Blackhouse. Peter May
A Childhood in Scotland. Christian Miller
Stet: An Editor's Life. Diana Athill
Flora. Gail Godwin
Bunner Sisters. Edith Wharton
The Woman Upstairs. Claire Messud
The Keep. Jennifer Egan
100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: A Memoir. Kim Stafford
Apologize, Apologize! Elizabeth Kelly
When God was a Rabbit. Sarah Winman

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