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The Best Books of 2003
Welcome to ReadersRead.com's first annual Best Books of the
Year. Our editors and reviewers have kept their lists
throughout the year,
and these are the books that all had that special quality that
made them outstanding.
The books are listed in alphabetical order, by genre.
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Children's and Young Adult |
Fantasy/SF/Horror |
General Fiction
Mystery/Thriller |
Nonfiction |
Romance
Best Children's and Young Adult
Books of 2003
Abhorsen
by Garth Nix (HarperCollins)
Eragon
by Christopher Paolini (Random House)
First to Fly: How Orville and Wilbur Wright Invented the
Airplane
by Peter Busby, Paintings by David Craig (Crown Books)
A Great and Terrible Beauty
by Libba Bray (Delacorte Press)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
by J. K. Rowling, Illustrated by Mary Grandpre (Scholastic)
Inkheart
by Cornelia Funke (The Chicken House/Scholastic)
The Merlin Conspiracy
by Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins)
Mister Monday (The Keys to the Kingdom)
by Garth Nix (Scholastic)
The Wee Free Men
by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
The Wolves in the Walls
by Neil Gaiman, Illustrated by Dave McKean (HarperCollins)
Best Fantasy/SF/Horror Books of 2003
The Battle of Evernight
by Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Warner Aspect)
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
by Stephen King (Donald M. Grant/Scribner)
The Devil's Armor
by John Marco (DAW)
Endless Nights (The Sandman, Book 11)
by Neil Gaiman, Illustrated by Barron Story et al. (Vertigo/D.C. Comics)
First Rider's Call
by Kristen Britain (DAW)
A Forest of Stars (Saga of the Seven Suns, Book 2)
by Kevin J. Anderson (Warner Books)
Grail Prince
by Nancy McKenzie (Del Ray)
Hades' Daughter
by Sara Douglass (Tor)
Ilium
by Dan Simmons (Eos)
Lost in a Good Book
by Jasper Fforde (Viking)
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese)
Best General Fiction Novels of 2003
Any Human Heart
by William Boyd (Knopf)
Brick Lane
by Monica Ali (Scribner)
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes, Translation by Edith Grossman (Ecco)
The Fortress of Solitude
by Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday)
The German Money
by Lev Raphael (Leapfrog Press)
I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company:
A Novel of Lewis and Clark
by Brian Hall (Viking)
Old School
by Tobias Wolff (Knopf)
Love
by Toni Morrison (Knopf)
The Pleasure of My Company
by Steve Martin (Hyperion)
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger (MacAdam/Cage)
Best Mystery/Thrillers of 2003
Bangkok 8
by John Burdett (Knopf)
The Big Bad Wolf
by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
Cold Pursuit
by T. Jefferson Parker (Hyperion)
The Confessor
by Daniel Silva (Putnam)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon (Doubleday)
Dante's Equation
by Jane Jensen (Del Ray)
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
The Dragon King's Palace
by Laura Joh Rowland (St. Martin's Minotaur)
The Orion Protocol
by Gary Tigerman (William Morrow)
Persuader
by Lee Child (Delacorte)
The Protector
by David Morrell (Warner Books)
The Samurai's Daughter
by Sujata Massey (HarperCollins)
Sensei
by John Donohue (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane (William Morrow)
The Thai Amulet
by Lyn Hamilton (Berkley)
Best Nonfiction Books of 2003
1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and
the FBI--the Untold Story
by Peter Lance (ReganBooks)
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
by Robert Dallek (Little, Brown)
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
by Caroline Alexander (Viking)
Everest: Summit of Achievement
by The Royal Geographic Society (Simon and Schuster)
The Known World
by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/HarperCollins)
Madam Secretary
by Madeleine K. Albright (Miramax Books)
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi (Random House)
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson (Broadway)
The Best Romance Novels of 2003
A Clean Slate
by Laura Caldwell (Red Dress Ink)
The Conqueror
by Judith French (Love Spell)
Dark Melody
by Christine Feehan (Leisure Books)
Die in Plain Sight
by Elizabeth Lowell (William Morrow)
Flirting With Pete
by Barbara Delinsky (Scribner)
Hot Pursuit
by Christina Skye (Dell)
Light in Shadow
by Jayne Ann Krentz (Putnam)
The Lady Chosen
by Stephanie Laurens (Avon)
One Kiss From You
by Christina Dodd (Avon)
Material Girl
by Julia London (Berkley)
The Perfect Lover
by Stephanie Laurens (William Morrow)
Remember When
by Nora Roberts and J.D. Robb (Putnam)
To Sir Phillip, with Love
by Julia Quinn (Avon)
Slightly Scandalous
by Mary Balogh (Dell)
Worth Any Price
by Lisa Kleypas (Avon)
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