The Best Books I Read in 2004

Discover the best books of 2004 with this curated list of top reads. Find must-read fiction, nonfiction, and hidden gems from a year of great literature.

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Band of Brothers

by Stephen E. Ambrose

Through soldiers' journals and letters, describes Easy Company's contributions to the campaigns in western Europe and recounts their stories of survival.
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Foucault's Pendulum

by Umberto Eco

"As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Three clever book editors, inspired …
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Vanishing Point

by David Markson

From Wittgenstein's Mistress to Reader's Block to Springer's Progress to This Is Not a Novel, he has delighted and amazed readers for decades. And now …
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Dubliners

 

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McTeague

 

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

 

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Confessions of a Crap Artist--Jack Isidore (of Seville, Calif.)

by Philip K. Dick

Jack Isidore, a young man living with his sister and her family in California, joins a UFO group that believes the world will end on …
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The Sot-weed Factor

by John Barth

A parody of life in colonial America relates the adventures of Ebenezer Cooke who became the poet laureate of Maryland.
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The Fall

by Albert Camus

NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR • One of the most widely read novels of all time—from one of the best-known writers of all time—about a lawyer from …
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America (the Book)

by Jon Stewart

Offers tongue-in-cheek insight into American democracy with coverage of such topics as the republican qualities of ancient Rome, the antics of our nation's founders, and …
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In the Shadow of No Towers

 

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