Avoid Like the Plague: 2003 Edition
Discover the Avoid Like the Plague: 2003 Edition book list—a curated selection of overrated fiction from 2003, including Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, Leif Enger's Peace Like a River, and more. Find out which hyped novels and authors to skip reading this year.
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Suicide Blonde
by Darcey Steinke
S. alone, "Suicide Blonde" is a beautiful, brutal cult classic that "Details" calls "a shocking and electrifying journey into the inferno of sexual obsession."
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Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
A bag with ten copies of the title that may also include miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.
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Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.
