NBCC Reads

LAST week, the NBCC launched a Best Recommended List, drawn from the votes of our members and over a hundred former finalists and winners of our award. (For more on

This week, the NBCC launched a Best Recommended List, drawn from the votes of our members and over a hundred former finalists and winners of our award. (For more on

This week, the NBCC launched a Best Recommended List, drawn from the votes of our members and over a hundred former finalists and winners of our award. (For more on

This week, the NBCC launched a Best Recommended List, drawn from the votes of our members and over a hundred former finalists and winners of our award. (For more on

In addition to the NBCC's member critics, we threw the net out to all of our former finalists and winners to vote in the Best Recommended. Here are the folks

BEFORE the internet, book recommendations traveled at the rate of sound. You had to talk to someone to pass on word about what to read. Or read it in a

It would be silly to act as if the Best Recommended List encapsulated everyone's taste. To do that we'd need a list nearly a thousand books long. But in the

It would be absurd to act as if the Best Recommended List highlighted everyone's votes — to do that we'd need a list of books close to a 1,000 titles

Coming soon, April 2008, just read the advance copy–Lee Martin's River of Heaven whose portrait of Sam Brady, a man in fear of his life and crippled by it, lingers