List from Guardian's 2005 Summer Read - 7/10/05
Submitted by fabmidnight on Mon, 07/11/2005 - 12:14
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- Jonathan Coe's picks:
- Mobius Dick by Andrew Crumey
- Eric Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes
- Others:
- Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood
- Foe by JM Coetzee
- Alex Danchev's George Braque: A Life
- Julian Barnes's Arthur & George
- Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
- Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong
- The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
- The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgramage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins
- Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Clare Short's An Honourable Deception? New Labour, Iraq and the Misuse of Power
- Gillian Slovo's picks:
- Gail Jones's Booker-longlisted Sixty Lights
- Richard Yates's The Easter Parade
- Phil Rees's Dining With Terrorists
- Margaret Drabble's picks:
- Maggie Gee's The Flood
- Dan Chaon's You Remind Me of Me
- Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
- Jeremy Paxman's picks:
- Allan Massie's new The Thistle and the Rose
- Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim
- Fay Weldon's picks:
- Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black
- RC Sherriff's The Hopkins Manuscript
