I write a "Back to Literature" for MyShelf.com and have the privilege of listing my favorite books for that site in January. I hope you'll go there and check out the lists of all the columnists and reviewers there. In the meantime, here is mine:
Three Dog Night by Peter Goldsworthy. Viking (imprint of Penguin). ISBN 0670893986
Water for Elephants (Algonquin Books) by Sara Gruen ISBN-13: 978-1565125605
Love is Like a Rainbow by Dawn Colclasure. Gypsy Shadow Publishing. ISBN 9780984452101. For easy, light, rhymed poems about love. www.dmcwriter.tripod.com
Memoirs of the Soul: A Writing Guide by Nan Merrick Phifer (Foreword by Hal Zina Bennett). (A new edition.) Ingot Press, ISBN: 9780984206001. nanphifer@mac.com
It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences by June Casagrande. (Ten Speed Press) ISBN-13: 978-1580087407
Mortal Syntax: 101 Language Choices That Will Get You Clobbered by the Grammar Snobs--Even If You're Right, by June Casagrande. (Penguin) ISBN-13: 978-0143113324
55 Ways to Promote & Sell Your Book on the Internet by Bob Baker. (FullTimeAuthor.com), ISBN-13: 978-0971483866
(Note: Please see my list of Noble (Not Nobel!) Prize winners for 2010. It's in my
"Back to Literature" column that runs every January on www.myshelf.com. Columns are archived so you can see my past lists there, too.
For more contests that judge books based on quality rather than their covers or the press they are printed on, go to www.howtodoitfrugally.com/contests.htm .)
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