10 books we loved reading in 2015

(Winner of the National Book Award for fiction.) 4 The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg (fiction) This historical novel about gender-bending 19th-century writer George Sand couldn't be more timely; told in Sand's voice, her story is melancholy, intimate, self-aware and heartbreaking. 5The Gir...

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Published inSpringfield News Leader
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Springfield, Mo Gannett Co., Inc 04.01.2016
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Assange, Julian Paul
Berg, Elizabeth
Franzen, Jonathan
Johnson, Adam
Larsson, Stieg (1954-2004)
Leovy, Jill
Novels
Sand, George (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) (1804-1876)
Tyler, Anne
Baltimore Maryland
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Summary:(Winner of the National Book Award for fiction.) 4 The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg (fiction) This historical novel about gender-bending 19th-century writer George Sand couldn't be more timely; told in Sand's voice, her story is melancholy, intimate, self-aware and heartbreaking. 5The Girl In the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz (fiction) Lagercrantz deftly carries the torch for the late Stieg Larsson (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy), crafting a pulpy, page-turning fourth book that honors hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander's legacy while delving deeper into her depraved world. 6 The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (fiction) A sobering historical allegory that's also a crackling adventure story and a profound love story about a couple facing the ultimate truths. 7The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff (non-fiction) An exhaustively researched, gorgeously written history of the Salem witch trials that unearths what really happened and why it matters in 21st-century America. 8Katrina:
ISSN:0893-3448