Best Books of 2003

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By Mike Arnold on Wednesday, December 17, 2003.
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You brought them to the beach, curled up with them in front of the fire and couldn?t put them down in bed? We?ll get your favorite reads for 2003 from juicy novels to white knuckle mysteries to all those presidential candidate treatises. Mike Arnold hosts. His guests are Dan Chartrand, Co-Owner of the Water Street Book Store in Exeter, and Clea Simon, book critic for the Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, and the SF Chronicle, and author of several books, including her latest, "The Feline Mystique".

Clea Simon's favorite books of 2003, in alphabetical order:
And Now You Can Go fiction - Vendela Vida
Monsters of God nonfiction - David Quammen
Never Mind the Pollacks fiction - Neal Pollack
Signal & Noise fiction - John Griesemer
The Final Confession of Mabel Stark fiction - Robert Hough
The Gangster We Are All Looking For fiction - Le Thi Diem Thuy
The Ha-Ha poetry - David Kirby
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break fiction - Steven Sherrill
The Virgin Blue fiction - Tracy Chevalier

Wonder When You'll Miss Me fiction - Amanda Davis

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