Books I read in 2003 part 3

Explore the final installment of books I read in 2003, featuring a curated list of top reads from that year. Discover hidden gems and timeless classics in this personal 2003 book review roundup.

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Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots …
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Seabiscuit

by Laura Hillenbrand

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out …
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The Little Friend

by Donna Tartt

Harriet's sole ally in this quest, her friend Hely, is devoted to her, but what they soon encounter has nothing to do with child's play: …
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Outlander

by Diana Gabaldon

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. One of the …
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The Vagina Monologues

 

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City of God

by E. L. Doctorow

Beginning in mystery--the theft of a large brass cross from St. Timothy's Episcopal Church and its reappearance on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary …
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The Dante Club

by Matthew Pearl

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell team up with 19th-century publisher J.T. Fields to catch a serial killer in post-Civil War …
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Cosmopolis

 

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The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads …
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American Pastoral

by Philip Roth

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century—a compulsively readable elegy for America’s promises of …
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Empress of the Splendid Season

by Oscar Hijuelos

Oscar Hijuelos vividly brings to life the joys, desires, and disappointment of American life witnessed through the experience of a formerly prosperous Cuban émigré named …
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Time and Again

by Jack Finney

Simon Morley is selected by a secret government agency to test Einstein's theory of the past co-existing with the present and is transported back to …
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The bonesetter's daughter

 

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A Treasury of Royal Scandals

by Michael Farquhar

From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), …
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Life of Pi

 

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Close Range

by Annie Proulx

A collection of short stories, which includes the short story, Brokeback Mountain.