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Book Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2004

(source: NYTimes.com)

Books for Young Women & Girls (source: University of Massachusetts-Lowel Virtual Library)

Fiction:
1. Gilead
2. The Master
3. The Plot Against America
4. Runaway
5. Snow
6. War Trash

Nonfiction:
1. Alexander Hamilton
2. Chronicles: Volume 1
3. Washington’s Crossing
4. Will in the World: Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

33 Things Every Girl Should Know (Bolden, Tonya (ed.) )
Encouraging Girls In Math and Science (Campbell, Patricia)
Girl Power: Young Women Speak Out (Carlip, Hillary)
For All Our Daughters: How Mentoring Helps Young Women and Girls Master the Art of Growing Up (Echevarria, Pegine)
The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time: A Ranking Past and Present (Felder, Deborah)
Is There a Woman in the House-or Senate? (Fireside, Bryna)
Girls Seen and Heard (Forsyth, Sondra)
No More Frogs to Kiss: 99 Ways to Give Economic Power to Girls (Godfrey, Joline)
Great Women in the Struggle, Vol 2: An Intro For Young Readers (Igus, Toyomi (ed) , with Patrick, Diana.)
It's A Girl Thing - A pre-Our Bodies, Ourselves (Jukes, Mavis and Tilley, Debbie.)
Girls and Young Women Leading the Way (Karnes, Frances, Wallner, Rosemary (ed) and Bean, Suzanne)
Girls and Young Women Inventing, Plus How You Can Be One Yourself (Karnes, Frances, and Bean, Suzanne)
Growing a Girl: Seven Strategies for Raising a Strong, Spirited Daughter (Mackoff, Barbara)
An Intricate Weave: Women Write About Girls and Girlhood (Miller, Marlene (Ed.))
Great Books for Girls: More Than 600 Books To Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women (Odean, Kathleen. (Ed.))
A Girl's Guide to Life. The Complete Instructions: Written by Kids for Kids (Pohlman, Susan (ed.) , Boyles, Denis (ed) , and Turner, Priscilla (ed) )
History of Women series (Sheldon Epstein, Vivian)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. (Taylor, Mildred)
Sara: The Special Gift (UNICEF-ESARO)
If You Only Knew (Vail, Rachel)

Top 100 Romances Poll for 2004

(source: All About Romance)

1.    Lord of Scoundrels     Loretta Chase
2.    Flowers From the Storm     Laura Kinsale
3.     Welcome to Temptation     Jennifer Crusie
4.    As You Desire     Connie Brockway
5.    Bet Me     Jennifer Crusie
6.     Dreaming of You     Lisa Kleypas
7.    Outlander    Diana Gabaldon
8.    Over the Edge     Suzanne Brockmann
9.    All Through the Night     Connie Brockway
10.    Sea Swept     Nora Roberts
11.    It Had to be You     Susan Elizabeth Phillips
12.    A Summer to Remember     Mary Balogh
13.    Morning Glory     LaVyrle Spencer
14.    The Proposition     Judith Ivory
15.    A Kingdom of Dreams     Judith McNaught
16.    Ravished    Amanda Quick
17.    Frederica    Georgette Heyer
18.    Mrs. Drew Plays Her Hand     Carla Kelly
19.    MacKenzie's Mountain    Linda Howard
20.    Mr. Perfect     Linda Howard
21.    The Grand Sophy     Georgette Heyer
22.    Pride and Prejudice     Jane Austen
23.    The Bride     Julie Garwood
24.     Devil's Bride     Stephanie Laurens
25.    To Have and to Hold     Patricia Gaffney
26.    Born in Fire     Nora Roberts
27.    Winter Garden     Adele Ashworth
28.    Gone Too Far     Suzanne Brockmann
29.    The Viscount Who Loved Me     Julia Quinn
30.    Saving Grace     Julie Garwood
31.    My Dearest Enemy     Connie Brockway
32.    In the Midnight Rain     Barbara Samuel
33.    The Windflower     Laura London
34.    Naked in Death     J.D. Robb
35.    Whitney, My Love     Judith McNaught
36.    Nobody's Baby but Mine     Susan Elizabeth Phillips
37.    A Knight in Shining Armor     Jude Deveraux
38.    Paradise    Judith McNaught
39.    The Shadow and the Star     Laura Kinsale
40.    Dream Man     Linda Howard
41.    Out of Control     Suzanne Brockmann
42.    Silk and Shadows     Mary Jo Putney
43.    See Jane Score     Rachel Gibson
44.    Shattered Rainbows     Mary Jo Putney
45.    Thunder and Roses     Mary Jo Putney
46.    The Duke and I     Julia Quinn
47.    Heart Throb     Suzanne Brockmann
48.    For My Lady's Heart     Laura Kinsale
49.    Honor's Splendor     Julie Garwood
50.    Lord Carew's Bride     Mary Balogh
51.    Untie my Heart     Judith Ivory
52.    Dream a Little Dream     Susan Elizabeth Phillips
53.    The Secret     Julie Garwood
54.    This is All I Ask     Lynn Kurland
55.    Slightly Dangerous     Mary Balogh
56.    One Perfect Rose     Mary Jo Putney
57.    To Love and to Cherish     Patricia Gaffney
58.    Kiss an Angel     Susan Elizabeth Phillips
59.    Heaven, Texas     Susan Elizabeth Phillips
60.    Venetia    Georgette Heyer
61.    Daughter of the Game     Tracy Grant
62.    The Prize     Julie Garwood
63.    Reforming Lord Ragsdale     Carla Kelly
64.    Prince Joe     Suzanne Brockmann
65.    The Notorious Rake     Mary Balogh
66.    Heartless    Mary Balogh
67.    Son of the Morning     Linda Howard
68.    Sleeping Beauty     Judith Ivory
69.    Where Dreams Begin     Lisa Kleypas
70.    The Devil's Cub     Georgette Heyer
71.    The Bronze Horseman     Paullina Simons
72.    The Time Traveler's Wife     Audrey Niffenegar
73.    With This Ring     Carla Kelly
74.    The Lion's Lady     Julie Garwood
75.    The Rake     Mary Jo Putney
76.    Fallen from Grace     Laura Leone
77.    Always to Remember     Lorraine Heath
78.    Castles    Julie Garwood
79.    One Good Turn     Carla Kelly
80.    Chesapeake Blue     Nora Roberts
81.    By Arrangement    Madeline Hunter
82.    Perfect     Judith McNaught
83.    My Darling Caroline     Adele Ashworth
84.    The Defiant Hero     Suzanne Brockmann
85.    The Unsung Hero     Suzanne Brockmann
86.    Guilty Pleasures     Laura Lee Guhrke
87.    Jane Eyre     Charlotte Bronte
88.    Kill and Tell     Linda Howard
89.    After the Night     Linda Howard
90.    More than a Mistress     Mary Balogh
91.    Born in Ice     Nora Roberts
92.    Miss Wonderful     Loretta Chase
93.    The Charm School     Susan Wiggs
94.    Scoundrel    Elizabeth Elliott
95.    How to Marry a Marquis     Julia Quinn
96.    Angel Rogue     Mary Jo Putney
97.    Trust Me     Jayne Ann Krentz
98.    Dancing on the Wind     Mary Jo Putney
99.    Once and Always     Judith McNaught
100.    This Heart of Mine     Susan Elizabeth Phillips

 

Waterstone's top 100 books of the Century

(source: Watterstones)

1 J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
2 George Orwell 1984
3 George Orwell Animal Farm
4 James Joyce Ulysses
5 Joseph Heller Catch-22
6 J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
7 Harper lee To Kill a Mocking Bird
8 Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
9 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
10 Irvine Welsh Trainspotting
11 Jung Chan Wild Swans
12 F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
13 William Golding  The Lord of the Flies
14 Jack Kerouac On the Road
15 Aldous Huxley Brave New World
16 Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
17 A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh
18 Alice Walker The Colour Purple
19 J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit
20 Albert Camus The Outsider
21 C.S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
22 Franz Kafka The Trial
23 Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind
24 Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
25 Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
26 Anne Frank The Diary of Anne Frank
27 Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
28 D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
29 Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
30 Primo Levi If This Is a Man
31 Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
32 Iain Banks The Wasp Factory
33 Marcel Proust A la Recherche du Temps Perdu 
(Remembrance of Things Past)
34 Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
35 John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
36 Toni Morrison Beloved
37 A.S. Byatt Posession
38 Joseph Conrad The Heart of Darkness
39 E.M. Forster A Passage to India
40 Richard Adams Watership Down
41 Jostein Gaarder Sophie's World
42 Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
43 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in a Time of Cholera
44 Daphne du Maurier Rebecca
45 Kazuo Ishiguri The Remains of the Day
46 Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
47 Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
48 E.M. Forster Howard's End
49 Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited
50 Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy
51 Frank Herbert Dune
52 John Irvine A Prayer for Owen Meaney
53 Patrick Suskind Perfume
54 Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago
55 Mervyn Peake Gormenghast
56 Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie
57 Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
58 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
59 Vera Brittain Testament of Youth
60 John Fowlws The Magus
61 Graham Greene Brighton Rock
62 Robert Tressell The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
63 Mikhail Bugakov The Master and Margarita
64 Armistead Maupin Tales from the City
65 John Fowles The French Lieutenant's Woman
66 Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin
67 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five
68 Robert Persig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
69 E.M. Forster A Room with a View
70 Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim
71 Stephen King It
72 Graham Greene The Power and the Glory
73 Stephen King The Stand
74 Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front
75 Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
76 Roald Dahl Matilda
77 Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho
78 Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
79 Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time
80 Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach
81 D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover
82 Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities
83 Delia Smith Complete Cookery Course
84 Brian Keenan An Evil Cradling
85 D.H. Lawrence The Rainbow
86 George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London
87 Arthur C. Clarke 2001 - A Space Odyssey
88 Gunter Grass The Tin Drum
89 Alexander Solzhenitsyn A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
90 Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
91 Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene
92 Michael Crichton Jurassic Park
93 Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
94 Alan Paton Cry the Beloved Country
95 Nick Hornby High Fidelity
96 Roddy Doyle The Van
97 Roald Dahl The BFG
98 Anthony Burgess Earthly Powers
99 Robert Graves I, Claudius
100 Nicholas Evans The Horse Whisperer
Magazine Lists

Top 10 Women’s Magazines (source: TopTenLinks.com)

Women’s Interests Magazines Top Sellers

(source: Drugstore.com)

1. Redbook Magazine
2. Ladies Home Journal
3. UnderWire
4. New Woman Online
5. Good Housekeeping
6. Cleome
7. Jane Magazine
8. Shape
9. Women Today
10. essence

1. Glamour
2. Lucky
3. Self
4. More
5. Elle
6. Marie Claire
7. Vogue
8. Family Circle
9. Good Housekeeping
10. Jane

Magazine Subscription Top Sellers

(source: Drugstore.com)

Top Ten Business Magazines
(source: Top Ten Links)

1. Maxim
2. Shape
3. Glamour
4. Men’s Fitness
5. Fitness
6. Vegetarian Times
7. Allure
8. House and Garden
9. Lucky
10. Self

1. Money.com
2. Forbes
3. Fortune
4. Smart Money Interactive
5. Worth Online
6. Barrons
7. Business Week Online
8. Economist
9. Fast Company
10. Bloomberg Wealth Manager

   
   
   

 

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