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Laura Lippman, author of What the Dead Know
- Richard Price - Lush Life (pub date 2008). I was lucky enough to read an ARE.
- Abigail Thomas - A Three Dog Life. Purchased on impulse in Kennedy Airport, on the basis of a Stephen King blurb. A section of this memoir had been excerpted in the New York Times' Modern Romance column, which is always being ridiculed at Gawker.com, and I was curious to see a book-length treatment of a story I thought had been told, more or less. Outstanding.
- Jack Pendarvis - The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure. I have flogged this book so relentlessly for much of 2007 that all I say is, "Why stop now?"
Gregg Hurwitz, author of The Crime Writer
- John Burdett - Bangkok 8
- Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
- Bill Bryson - The Mother Tongue
Patrick Anderson, reviewer for The Washington Post
- Charlie Huston - The Shotgun Rule
- Laura Lippman - What the Dead Know
- James Lee Burke - The Tin Roof Blowdown
Dave White, author of When One Man Dies
- Jason Pinter - The Guilty (pub date 2008). Just a book that kept me turning the pages the whole way through. Really great pace, really great premise.
- Duane Swierczynski - Severance Package (pub date 2008). A action packed roller coaster. One of my favorite books of all time. Period. I am truly lucky to have read this book early.
- Robert Crais - The Watchman. Just getting to see Pike on the center stage was well worth it. Fun read.
Ben Leroy, Publisher of Bleak House Books
- J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
- Mikal Gilmore - Shot in the Heart
- Sebastian Junger - The Perfect Storm
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