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A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini This was by far the best book I’ve read all year. Possibly in the last few years. Like Hosseini’s last book, The …

 

Conversations With Other Women

Conversations With Other Women

This entire film was shot in split-screen so you had two view-points at any one time. When the movie begins, a man and woman …

 

Survival of the Sickest

Survival of the Sickest

Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince This book is about evolution and genetics and how disease has influenced them over time. Moalem and Prince explain why …

 

Born on a Blue Day

Born on a Blue Day

Daniel Tammet This book is a memoir written by Daniel Tammet, a 27-year-old who has has Asperger’s syndrome. Tammet is a high-functioning savant, and is …

 

A Long Way Gone

A Long Way Gone

Ishmael Beah A Long Way Gone is the story of a young boy growing up in Sierra Leone in the 1990′s while the country was …

 

About Alice

About Alice

Calvin Trillin This moving memoir was written about the author’s late wife, Alice. Trillin, a staff writer for the New Yorker, says in his book …

 

The Road

The Road

Cormac McCarthy A stark tale about post-apocalyptic life for a father and son who continually follow a long road in search of food, shelter, “the good …

 

Nineteen Minutes

Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult

 

The Pursuit of Happyness

The Pursuit of Happyness

Rating: ****

 

The Namesake

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri