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Got A Kindle For Christmas? HuffPost Editors' Download Picks (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.25.2009 | Books

Read More: Slidepoll, Editor Picks, Best Ebooks, Huffpost Editors, Kindle, Ereader, Best Books, Ebooks, Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, Half the Sky, New York Times, Literary Prizes, Wolf Hall, Authors, Harry Potter, Books News

Looking for books to download onto that brand new eReader? So were we. Here's what Huffington Post editors (and one blogger) picked to read first. ...

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Best Of The Best Books Lists (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.24.2009 | Books

Read More: Slidepoll, Best Fiction, Wolf Hall, Booker Prize, Graphic Novel, Literary Prizes, Boy Who Harnessed Wind, Bestsellers, Coffee Table Book, Best Cookbooks, Best Novel, Nobel Prize, Picture Book, Books-Guilty-Pleasures, Books News

Best books, best of the year, best fiction, so many prizes. Who can keep track? We did. We culled them all, prize winners and best of lists from aroun...

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Why We Can't Get Enough of the Tudors

S.J. Parris | Posted 12.15.2009 | Books

Read More: England, Giordano Bruno, The Other Boleyn Girl, Wolf Hall, Queen Elizabeth, New Books, Books, Monarchy, Heresy, British Monarchy, Tudors, Books News
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Why are we compelled to go on retelling the story of this troubled royal dynasty who lived and loved and fought and shagged and chopped off heads half a millennium ago?

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Books That Authors Want For Christmas

Seattle Times | Mary Ann Gwinn | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Christmas Books, Christmas Gifts, Christmas Presents, Authors, Christmas, Wolf Hall, When You Reach Me, Books, Everything Bad for You Is Good for You, Manahatta, Books News

For a book-glutted person to ask for a book -- it has to be a pretty good book. So I asked some local bibliophiles what book they are wishing for duri...

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The New Yorker's Best Books Of The Year

The New Yorker | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Fiction, New Yorker Best Books, The Year of the Flood, The First Tycoon, The New Yorker, Zeitoun, Harold Evans, Non-Fiction, Her Fearful Symmetry, Wolf Hall, Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, My Paper Chase, Best Books of 2009, Lydia Davis, Lit Mary Karr, Lit, Christmas Gifts, The Magicians, Eating Animals, Lev Grossman, Lords of Finance, Books, Hilary Mantel, Best Books 2009, Best Books, Fordlandia, Books News

Reviewers' favorites from 2009....

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The New York Times' Best Books Of 2009

The New York Times | The New York Times Book Review | Posted 11.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Peter Ackroyd, Barbara Kingsolver, Best Books, Lorrie Moore, Books, Literary Prizes, Harold Evans, Sag Harbor, Wolf Hall, Margaret Atwood, Frankenstein, Jay McInerney, Holiday News, Ishiguro, Jay, Booker Prize, Cheever, Colum McCann, National Book Awards, Columbine, Karen Armstrong, Bestsellers, Ayn Rand, Notable Books, Open, New York Times, Jonathan Lethem, Alice Munro, Andre Agassi, Books News

The Book Review has made these selections from books reviewed since Dec. 7, 2008, when we published our previous Notables list. It was not easy pickin...

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Big News: Women Can Write!

The Huffington Post | Erica Jong | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Women's Rights, Olive Kitteridge, Writers, Books, Herta Mueller, Female Writers, Wolf Hall, Fiction Prizes, Gender, Authors, Gender Equality, Sexism, Hilary Mantel, Women Writers, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Literature Prizes, Books News

We have known that women could write since Sappho invented love poetry 2600 years ago. Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Eliot co...

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The Man Behind the Man Booker Winner

Amy Hertz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Henry Holt, Google, Authors, Publishing, Mentors, Dutton, Wolf Hall, Booker Prize, Publishers, Book, Jack Macrae, Editors, Hilary Mantel, Books News
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In all of publishing and probably much of the world, there's just nobody else like Jack Macrae, the American publisher of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, which just won the Booker.

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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Uk, Man Booker Prize, Wolf Hall, Books, Booker, Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize, UK Writers, Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall, Booker Prize Winner, Literary Prizes, Books News

LONDON — A tale of political intrigue set during the reign of King Henry VIII won the prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction Tuesday. Hilary ...

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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

The Man Booker Prize | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Booker Prize, Wolf Hall, Booker, Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize Winner, Mantel, Books, Books News

Set in England in the 1520s, Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the...

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Hilary Mantel Wins Booker Prize

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Authors, John Macrae, Oliver Cromwell, History, Books, Literary Prize, Holt, Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize, Booker, Mantel, Literary Prizes, Books News

It's official: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall (John Macrae Books, Henry Holt & Co.) is the winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2009. Yes, this is a time fo...

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Booker Shortlist 2009: Byatt, Coetzee Are Back

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media

Read More: A.S. Byatt, Books, The Little Stranger, Wolf Hall, Sarah Waters, Simon Mawer, Booker Shortlist 2009, Adam Foulds, J.M. Coetzee, The Quickening Maze, Booker Shortlist, The Children's Book, Man Booker Prize, Summertime, Hilary Mantel, The Glass Room, Booker Prize, Literary Prizes, Media News

LONDON — Previous winners A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee are among six finalists announced Tuesday for literature's prestigious Man Booker Prize. ...

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