"It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle."
—John Hoyer Updike (b. 1932) American writer, Rabbit, Run, Rabbit at Rest
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
by Stieg Larsson (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307269997);
Last week: 1;
Weeks on List: 14
"The stunning third and final novel in Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy."
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The Help
by Kathryn Stockett (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, ISBN: 9780399155345);
Last week: 2;
Weeks on List: *
"This wonderful debut set in the rural South of the 1960s is a February 2009 Indie Next List Great Read."
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Star Island
by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, ISBN: 9780307272584);
Last week: 3;
Weeks on List: 5
"Hiaasen's hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane."
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Three Stations
by Martin Cruz Smith (S&S, ISBN: 9780743276740);
Last week: 5;
Weeks on List: 2
"The seventh Arkady Renko novel by the bestselling author of Stalin's Ghost."
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell (Random House, ISBN: 9781400065455);
Last week: 4;
Weeks on List: 9
"The riveting new novel by the author of Cloud Atlas is a July Indie Next List Great Read."
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Super Sad True Love Story
by Gary Shteyngart (Random House, ISBN: 9781400066407);
Last week: 7;
Weeks on List: 5
"The new satiric novel by the author of Absurdistan is an August Indie Next List Great Read."
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The Cookbook Collector
by Allegra Goodman (Dial, ISBN: 9780385340854);
Last week: 6;
Weeks on List: 7
"The wonderful new novel by the author of Intuition is a July Indie Next List Great Read."
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The Red Queen
by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone, ISBN: 9781416563723);
Last week: 10;
Weeks on List: 4
"The new Cousins' War novel by the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl."
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The Postcard Killers
by James Patterson, Liza Marklund (Little Brown, ISBN: 9780316089517);
Last week: 9;
Weeks on List: 2
"NYPD detective Jacob Kanon investigates the murders of couples vacationing in Europe."
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The Rembrandt Affair
by Daniel Silva (Putnam, ISBN: 9780399156588);
Last week: 8;
Weeks on List: 6
"Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in Silva's latest thriller."
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The Passage
by Justin Cronin (Ballantine, ISBN: 9780345504968);
Last week: 13;
Weeks on List: 12
"Cronin's terrifying and entertaining new novel is the #1 June Indie Next List Great Read pick."
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I Curse the River of Time
by Per Petterson (Graywolf, ISBN: 9781555975562);
Last week: 11;
Weeks on List: 3
"The latest novel by the author of Out Stealing Horses is an August Indie Next List Great Read."
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
by Aimee Bender (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385501125);
Last week: 12;
Weeks on List: 13
"Bender's memorable novel about a young girl with a magical gift is a June Indie Next List Great Read."
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The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise
by Julia Stuart (Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385533287);
Last week: 14;
Weeks on List: 3
"Stuart's charming second novel is an August Indie Next List Great Read."
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Faithful Place
by Tana French (Viking, ISBN: 9780670021871);
Weeks on List: 6
"The mesmerizing new novel by the bestselling author of The Likeness is the #1 July Indie Next List Great Read."
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