Discussion thread: What's the best NEW book you've read this year?

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[ken5050]

Was just wondering what new books various Freepers enjoyed most this year? and why? Fiction or non fiction? And books published this year please.....so the Bible, or any of the classics are out....Was it, sadly, Barbara Olson's last book, or the Adams biography, or a good novel?

[robertc5]

I loved "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson. But; my vote would have to be for Tim Power's "Declare" - the fantasy featuring Kim Philby.

[notyourregularhandle]

OCEANS 11...ooops you said book...I don't read anything but FR...sorry!

[breakem]

Fiction: Gangs of New York. Written in 1928. Covers the period 1790-1920. Interesting read. Martin Scorsese making it into a picture for 2002 release.

[bayourod]

"Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban" by J. K. Rowling. It's a little long and has some strange foreign words but it's so good they might even make a movie of it.

[Revolting cat!]

Non-fiction lies, I've learned long ago. Fiction, in literature, in cinema, is where the truth can be told.

The best new book I read this past year was Alexander Hemon's "The Question of Bruno". History fictionalized to get at the truth. Hemon is a Croat who emigrated to this country a few years ago speaking very little English and today he writes better than all your televised celebrity writers. Highly recommended. Here's the publisher's website.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Left Behind series

Frank Perretti series

[Fzob]

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick is a great non-fiction book about the Whaler Essex that was stoved by a sperm whale.

This story was the inspriration for Moby Dick

[Faraday]

AT ANY COST How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election by Bill Sammon

This reads like a nightmare for conservatives. It all works out okay in the end, though.

[BluesDuke]

I'm calling it a tie between The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling The Constitution In The Name of Justice (Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton) and The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. And an extremely tight tie at that!