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Cannonball Read 2009/2010: The Runners-Up

These are the fifteen books out of the hundred I read that just barely didn’t make the cut. Not the best of the best, but not to be left out.  Though I wouldn’t classify these as MUST-reads, I obviously enjoyed them.  You should probably go ahead and read them anyways.  No particular order.

• Hell (Robert Olen Butler)
• Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver)
• Tender Morsels (Margo Lanagan)
• The Children’s Hospital (Chris Adrian)
• Icelander (Dustin Long)
• Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
• The Frog King (Adam Davies)
• City of Thieves (David Benioff)
• The 19th Wife (David Ebershoff)
• Little Children (Tom Perrotta)
• A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
• The Cheese Monkeys (Chip Kidd)
• Zeitoun (Dave Eggers)