My Top Fiction Reads of 2003
Discover the best fiction books of 2003 with my top reads list! Explore captivating novels, must-read titles, and literary gems from a standout year in fiction.
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of …
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Red Water
by Judith Freeman
In 1857, at a place called Mountain Meadows in southern Utah, a band of Mormons and Indians massacred 120 emigrants. Twenty years later, the slaughter …
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Blacklist
by Sara Paretsky
Investigating the death of a man found in an empty estate building for a long-time client starts V.I. on the trail of four generations of …
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The Samurai's Daughter
by Sujata Massey
Antiques dealer Rei Shimura is in San Francisco visiting her parents and researching a personal project to trace the story of 100 years of Japanese …
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Darjeeling
by Bharti Kirchner
Set in the mountainous tea plantations of Darjeeling, India, and Manhattan, this is the story of a family torn apart when two sisters fall in …
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Compromising Positions
by Susan Isaacs
Long Island housewife Judith Singer is incredibly bored. So when a local dentist is found murdered and the police suspect her neighbor, that's all the …
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Beach Music
by Pat Conroy
An American living in Rome with his daughter after his wife's suicide tracks a classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced.
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Agnes Browne (The Mammy Tie-in)
by Brendan O'Carroll
Now a major motion picture starring Anjelica Huston "Mammy" is what Irish children call their mothers and The Mammy is Agnes Browne—a widow struggling to …
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Someone Like You
by Cathy Kelly
Cathy Kelly has enjoyed unprecedented success in the UK and her native Ireland. Building on the popularity of her "Dear Cathy" advice column, Kelly brings …
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
by J. K. Rowling
Collects the complete series that relates the adventures of young Harry Potter, who attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he and others of …
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Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
“A book you won’t be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she …
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I Don't Know How She Does It
by Allison Pearson
Delightfully smart and heartbreakingly poignant, Allison Pearson’s smash debut novel has exploded onto bestseller lists as “The national anthem for working mothers.” Hedge-fund manager, wife, …
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Dating Big Bird
by Laura Zigman
Thirty-five-year-old careerwoman Ellen Green wants a child, but her boyfriend Malcolm doesn't, so she is forced to consider the option of single motherhood, in a …
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A Married Man
by Catherine Alliott
Widowed four years ago, London antiques dealer Lucy Fellowes was plunged into single motherhood with two growing boys. Since then, she’s had little time—or inclination—to …
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White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The blockbuster debut novel from "a preternaturally gifted" writer (The New York Times) and author of On Beauty and Swing Time—set against …
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Range of Motion
by Elizabeth Berg
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Trulov and Night of Miracles comes "the love story of the year"*--an inspiring …
