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2004
Top Ten Reads
Books
that entertained or impressed us the most in 2004
Books
are listed in no specific order
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Patricia Aliventi
- Against All Enemies - Richard
Clarke
- Into The Darkness - Harry
Turtledove
- The Reading Group - Elizabeth
Noble
- Blinded by the Right - David
Brock
- Star Wars: The Last Command
- Timothy Zahn
- You Did What? - Brian Thomsen
and Bill Fawcett
- Little House in the Ozarks
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- What's So Amazing About Grace?
- Philip Yancey
- Shadow Divers - Robert Kurson
- Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
- C.S. Forester
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Elizabeth Bird
- Home - Jeannie Baker
- Knuffle Bunny - Mo Willems
- My Light - Molly Bang
- The Daddy Mountain - Jules
Feiffer
- Tiny's Big Adventure - Martin
Waddell
- Duck For President - Doreen
Cronin
- The Mystery of Eatum Hall
- John Kelly and Cathy Tincknell
- Wee Winnie Witch's Skillye
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Virginia Hamilton
- Speak To Me (And I Will Listen
Between the Lines) - Karen English
- Science Verse - Jon Scieszka
and Lane Smith
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Barbara Buhrer
- Bodyguard - Christy Tilley
French
- Cornish Novels - Janie Bolitho
- Close to Home - Peter Robinson
- First 48 - Tim Green
- Fog Bound - Klempere
- Harvard Yard - William Martin
- Hornet's Nest - Jimmy Carter
- Last Juror - Joh Grisham
- Trojan Odyssey - Clive Cussler
- Zero Game - Bruce Metzger
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Dennis Collins
- Whiskey Sour
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JA Konrath
- The
Butterfly Game - Gloria Davidson Marlow
- Island
of Bones - PJ Parrish
- Feline
Friendship - Michael Allen Dymmoch
- Unnatural
Instincts - Robert W. Walker
- White
Male Infant - Barbara D’Amato
- The
Hours of the Virgin - Loren D. Estleman
- The
Road to Perdition - Max Allen Collins
- Iron
Lake - William Kent Krueger
- The
Weedless Widow - Deborah Morgan
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Shelina Emery
- Trophy Hunt - C.J. Box
- Charmed and dangerous - Lori
Wilde
- Dead Hot Mama - Victoria Houston
- Dark Savior -Patricia Rasey
- How to find a literary agent who can
sell your book for top dollar - Jill Nagel
- Mind Game - Christine Feehan
- The immortal Highlander -
Karen Marie Moning
- Night Play - Sherrilyn Kenyon
- TimeQuest - Susan C. Yarnia
- Catch me if you Can - Donna
Kauffman
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Jan Fields
- Bound - Donna Jo Napoli
- The Rumpelstiltskin Problem
- Donna Jo Napoli
- The People of Sparks - Jeanne
Duprau
- The Amulet of Samarkand -
Jonathan Stroud
- The Eternity Code - Eoin Colfer
- A Great and Terrible Beauty
- Libba Bray
- Don't Die, Butterfly - Linda
Joy Singleton
- Al Capone Does My Shirts -
Gennifer Choldenko
- The Fire-Eaters - David Almond
- The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
- E.L. Konigsburg
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Janie Franz
- Artemis Fowl – Eoin
Colfer
- Consolation for an Exile –
Caroline Roe
- Amalee – Dar Williams
- Do No Harm – Gregg
Hurwitz
- Mortal Remains – Peter
Clement
- The Cat Who Saw Stars –
Lillian Jackson Braun
- Ill Wind – Nevada Barr
- Chopping Spree – Diane
Mott Davidson
- A Time to Dance – Rose
Trenbreath
- A Distant Echo –
Val McDermid
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Robyn Glazer
- The Other Side of the Story
- Marian Keyes
- Five Seasons of Angel - Janice
Romney Farnsworth
- Once Bitten- Nikki Stafford
- Metro Girl - Janet Evanovich
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Sheila Griffin
- Prince and Future . . . Dad
- Christine Rimmer
- Enchanting Baby - Darlene
Graham
- No Ordinary Child - Darlene
Graham
- Babylone Rising - Time Lahaye
- Mulberry Tree - Jude Deveraux
- Sure Bet - Maggie Price
- Ten Big Ones - Janet Evanovich
- The Reluctant Princess - Christine
Rimmer
- Inherited: One Baby! - Laura
Marie Altom
- Say Goodnight Gracie - Yvonne
Jocks
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Suzie Housley
- Yours Until Dawn - Teresa Medeiros
- Descendants Of Darkness, Vol. I - Marianne
LaCroix
- The Pirate Hunter - Jennifer Ashley
- A Father's Hope - Judy Leigh Peters
- Dance With The Devil - Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Morning Beauty,Midnight Beast - Myrna Mackenzie
- Midnight Disclosures - Rita Herron
- To Love A Scottish Lord - Karen Ranney
- Blind Attraction - Myrna Mackenzie
- Family Matters - Joan Kilby
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Rachel A Hyde
- The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander
McCall Smith
- Icelandic Patterns in Needlepoint
Jona Sparey
- Demon of the Air Simon Levack
- Code of the West Aaron Latham
- In Your Dreams Tom Holt
- War of the Flowers Tad Williams
- Voices Airy Catherine Karp
- City of Saints & Madmen Jeff
VanderMeer
- Wild Orchids Jude Deveraux
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Carolyn
Howard-Johnson
- When She Sleeps - Leora Krygier
- A Mouth Full of Shell - Connie Gotsch
- A Rare and Deadly Issue - Marlena Thompson
- Dunnottar - Janet Elaine Smith
- I Love You Like Crazy Cakes (Children's)
- Rose Lewis
- Outwitting Writer's Block - Jenna Glatzer
- Make A Real Living as a Freelance Writer -
Jenna Glatzer
- The Messiah of Midown Park - Rolf Gompertz
- Architecture and Fixtures - Maggie Stevenson
- My Dream Journal - Charles Phillips
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Susan Johnson
- Bloodlines - Jan Burke
- A Bloodhound to Die For - Virginia Lanier
- Haunted Ground - Erin Hart
- The Curious Incident of the dog in the Nightime -
Mark Haddon
- Over Tumbled Graves - Jess Walter
- The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
- The Breathtaker - Alice Blanchard
- Call the Devil by his oldest Name - Sallie
Bissel
- Vertical Coffin - Stephen Cannell
- Angels Crest - Leslie Schwartz
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Sarah Lomas
- A Crack in the Line -
Michael Lawrence
- Coldwater - Mardi Mcconnochie
- The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
- Sandra Gulland
- Ties that Bind, Ties that Break - Lensey
Namioka
- Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
- The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
- The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
- Roanoke: The Lost Colony (Keepers of the
Ring #1) - Angela Elwell Hunt
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas
Adams
- Word Work: Surviving and Thriving as a Writer
- Bruce Holland Rogers
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Lynda Lukow
- The Breakable Vow - Kathryn Ann Clarke
- Things My Mama Told Me - Olga Samples Davis
- Lady Be Good - Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Are We There Yet? - Lori Clinch
- A Christmas Baby - Annette Blair
- The Last Chance Texaco - Brent Hartinger
- The Miradors - B. Elwin Sherman
- How to Talk to Your Kids About School Violence
- Dr. Ken Druck
- The Christmas Train - David Baldacci
- Ribbons of Highway - Lori Hein
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Mary
Lynn
- The Sharpshooter, Gold Fever - Tobias Cole
- Taxes, Death & Trouble - CM Miller
- Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House - MC
Beaton
- Ebony Marshall - Sean Chandler
- Death of a Poison Pen - MC Beaton
- Accrual Way to Die - CM Miller
- Mesozoic Murder - Christine Gentry
- The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conon Doyle
- The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur
Conon Doyle
- Doc Savage: The Spook Legion - Kenneth Robeson
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Kim Malo
- Interrupted Aria - Beverle Graves Myers
- Demon of the Air - Simon Levack
- Four for a Boy - Mary Reed and Eric Mayer
- Belshazzar's Daughter - Barbara Nadel
- Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
- If at Faust - Tom Holt
- The Olive and the Caper - Susanna Hoffman
- Thomas More - Richard Marius
- A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
- Basketball for the Player, the Fan and the Coach
- Red Auerbach
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Beth McKenzie
- The Language of the Goddess - Marija Gimbutas
- Cold Flat Junction (audio)- Martha Grimes
- A Traitor to Memory - Elizabeth George
- The Coffee Trader- David Liss
- The Power of Myth (audio) - Joseph Campbell
- The Escher Twist (audio)- Jane Langdon
- The Fig Eater (audio)- Jody Shields
- Kalihari Typing School for Men- Alexander
McCall Smith
- Prentice Alvin (Tales of Alvin Maker, Book
3)(audio) - Orson Scott Card
- Q is for Quarry (audio)- Sue Grafton
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Nancy Mehl
- Until
the Last Dog Dies - John Laurence Robinson
- Seven
Things That Steal Your Joy - Joyce Meyer
- The
Burning Land - Victoria Strauss
- The
Forest Lover - Susan Vreeland
- Desert
Shadows - Betty Webb
- Felicia,
These Fish Are Delicious - Max Yoho
- The
Manor
- Scott Nicholson
- God’s
Book Part 1 and 2 - Freda Gower Ward
- A
Nest of Sparrows - Deborah Raney
- Chance
- Dian Curtis Regan
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Jen Oliver
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul - Canfield,
etal
- Three Weeks with My Brother - Nicholas and
Micah Sparks
- One Special Christmas - Irene Hannon
- Death Sentence - Jerry Bledsoe
- Hitts & Mrs. - Lori Bryant-Woolridge
- Track of the Cat - Nevada Barr
- The Cabin - Carla Neggers
- Texas! Chase - Sandra Brown
- Orchard Blues - Stuart Woods
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Janine Peterson
- 1812 - Walter Borneman
- White-Jacket - Herman Melville
- The Book on the Bookshelf - Henry Petroski
- Islands in the Stream - Ernest Hemingway
- To the White Sea - James Dickey
- A Rage for Glory - James Tertius de Kay
- More Guns, Less Crime - John R. Lott, Jr.
- To Ride, Shoot Straight, And Speak The Truth
- Jeff Cooper
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S.
Thompson
- The Blood of Paradise - Stephen Goodwin
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Martha
Rogers
- Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
- Mystic River - Dennis Lehane
- Peachtree Road - Anne River Siddens
- Up A Road Slowly - Irene Hunt
- God Bless the Gargoyles - Dav Pilky
- Swan in Love - Eve Bunting
- The Magic Circle - Donna Jo Napoli
- The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
- Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
- All Little House Books - Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Jo Rogers
- The Elder Gods - David & Leigh Eddings
- The Treasured One - David & Leigh Eddings
- The Known World - Edward P. Jones
- Mafia Wife - Lynda Milito with Reg Potterton
- Pampas - Janet Elaine Smith
- Darok 10 - H. J. Ralles
- Horizon Storms - Kevin J. Anderson
- Burndive - Karin Lowachee
- Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
- Make a Difference - Melvin L. Cheatham, M.D.
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Beverly Rowe
- Dakota Printer - Janet Elaine Smith
- The V8 Ford Blues - Gordon Donnell
- More Riffs, Rants, and Raves - Wiliam O'Shaughnessy
- Nemisis - Peter Evans
- Darkness Bound - Larry Brooks
- Prince of Thieves - Chuck Hogan
- To Wake the Dead - Richard Laymon
- The Priest of Blood - Douglas Clegg
- Pug Sheridan - Sandra Cline
- Hawkes Harbor - S. E. Hinton
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Michelle Shealy
- Mystic River - Dennis
Lehane
- From the Corner of his Eye
- Dean Koontz
- A Mourning in Autumn
- Harker Moore
- Little Scarlet - Walter
Mosley
- The Lovely Bones - Alice
Sebold
- The Brethren - John
Grisham
- Harry Potter and the Order of
the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
- 2nd Chance - James Patterson
- Cradle and All - James
Patterson
- Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz
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Jeff Shelby
- The Guards - Ken Bruen
- The Enemy - Lee Child
- The Narrows - Michael Connelly
- Trophy Hunt - C.J. Box
- Rain Storm - Barry Eisler
- Shadow Men - Jonathon King
- The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
- Every Secret Thing - Laura Lippman
- Hard Revolution - George Pelecanos
- America-- Jon Stewart and the writers of
The Daily Show
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Faith Smith
- Last Of The O'Rourkes
- Kate Douglas
- The Protector - Jenifer A. Ruth
- Wedding for a Knight - Sue-Ellen Welfonder
- Isnt It Romantic? - Ellen Fisher
- The Forever Kiss - Angela Knight
- Englands Perfect Hero - Suzanne Enoch
- Single White Vampire - Lindsay Sands
- Legendary Warrior - Donna Fletcher
- A Wild Pursuit - Eloisa James
- Beyond The Threshold - Angelica Hart
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Janet Elaine Smith
- The Mozart Forgeries - Daniel N. Leeson
- Stolen in the Storm - Melissa S. James
- Forgotten - Donna Conger
- Mad About Mia - Millie Criswell
- Phoebe's Valentine - Alice Duncan
- The Cajun Cowboy - Sandra Hill
- This Old Souse - Mary Daheim
- Here Comes Trouble - Kathy Carmichael
- The Frugal Book Promoter - Carolyn Howard
Johnson
- Gifts of the Spirit - Cate Cavanagh
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Robin Thomas
- Little Scarlet - Walter Mosley
- Morgue Mama - C.R. Corwin
- Night Vision - Thomas Fahey
- The Eyre Affair - Jasper FForde
- I'm Watching You - Karen Rose
- A Dose of Murder - Lori Avocato
- Kinki Lullaby - Isaac Adamson
- Murder at the B-School - Jeffrey Cruikshank
- A Home For Christmas - Deborah Grace-Staley
- Within Reach - Barbara Delinsky
- Say It Again Sam -Mary McBride
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Claudia VanLydegraf
- The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
- Parting the Veil - Jay Davis
- The Shelters of Stone - Jean
M. Auel
- Son of the Wilderness - Linnie
Marsh Wolfe
- Alaska - James Michner
- The Greatest Generation -
Tom Brokaw
- Redemption - Leon Uris
- Roman Candle - David Evanier
- Shenandoah Summer - John Jaffe
- regrets Only - Nancy Geary
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Lana Waite
- A Clue For The Puzzle Lady
- Parnell Hall
- Hard Line - Michael Z. Lewin
- Island - Thomas Perry
- Murder On A Bad Hair Day -
Anne George
- Reflex - Dick Francis
- The Dark Place - Aaron J.
Elkins
- The Thin Woman - Dorothy Cannell
- The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax -
Dorothy Gilman
- Wine of Violence - Priscilla
Royal
- Eats, Shoots and Leaves (non-fiction)
- Lynne Truss
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Brenda Weeaks
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Carson McCullers [audio - deaf]
- Deafening – Frances
Itani (young adult -deaf)
- Of Sound Mind – Jean
Ferris (teen - deaf)
- Moses Sees A Play –
Isaac Millman (kids - deaf)
- Hear No Evil – James
Grippando [audio - deaf]
- How to respond when you feel mistreated
- John Bevere
- The Butler Did it –
Kasey Michaels
- Good Grief – Lolly Winston
[audio]
- Metro Girl – Janet Evanovich
[audio]
- American Soldier – General
Tommy Franks [audio]
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Carisa Weeaks
- Beauty - John O'Donohue
- Guardian of the Horizon -
Elizabeth Peters [audio]
- The Breathtaker - Alice Blanchard
[audio]
- And Howls for Us to Follow
- Kenny Rose Butts
- Shoot the Moon - Billie Lets
[audio]
- To Scratch a Thief
- Holm and Hamel (7-teen)
- The Postman Always Brings Mice
- Holm and Hamel (ages 7-teen)
- The Book of Fairy Poetry
- Michael Hague (all ages)
- Measle and the Wrathmonk
- Ian Ogilvy (ages 8-13)
- Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
[audio]
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Nancy Williams
- The Assignment - Mark Andrew Olsen
- The Promise of a Lie - Howard Roughan
- Double Vision - Randall Ingermanson
- Blood of the Lamb -
- Out of the Question/ Into the Mystery - Leonard
Sweet
- Getting Through the Tough Stuff - Charles
Swindoll
- Your Best Life Now - Joel Osteen
- A Fugitive Truth - Dana Cameron
- Alpine Pursuit - Mary Daheim
- Holy Guacamole! - Nancy Fairbanks
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Tangela Williams
- Murder list - Julie Garwood
- Blow out - Catherine Coulter
- Key Trilogy - Nora Robert
- Blue dahlia - Nora Roberts
- Dark Destiny - Christine Feehan
- Hot Blooded - Christine Feehan,
et al
- Blind Side- Catherine Coulter
- Janes Warlord - Angela Knight
- The Presence - Heather Graham
- Mind Games - Christine Feehan
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