NOT TO BE MISSED
BOOKS NOTABLE FOR THEIR OVERALL EXCELLENCE
FICTION
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Black Hole by Charles Burns
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Client by John Grisham
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Lesson before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
More Like Not Running Away by Paul Shepherd
The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
When We Get There by Shauna Seliy
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
NONFICTION
Age of Bronze by Eric Shanower
And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maria Kalman
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Blankets by Craig Thompson
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book by Bill Watterson
Columbine by Dave Cullen
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Epileptic by David B.
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Kampung Boy by Lat
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Stitches by David Small
This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff