my first 2003 reading list

Explore my first 2003 reading list featuring a curated collection of must-read books from that year. Discover top titles, hidden gems, and literary favorites in this comprehensive 2003 book list.

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The Dante Club

by Matthew Pearl

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell team up with 19th-century publisher J.T. Fields to catch a serial killer in post-Civil War Boston.
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1421

 

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The Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde

In an fantasy Britain, someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, must track down the criminal.
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Everything is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer

Hilarious, energetic, and profoundly touching, a debut novel follows a young writer as he travels to the farmlands of eastern Europe, where he embarks on a quest to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis, and, guided by his young Ukrainian translator, he discovers an unexpected past that will resonate far into the future. Excerpt in The New Yorker.
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Austerlitz

 

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The Swiss Family Robinson, Or, The Adventures of a Shipwrecked Family on an Uninhabited Island

by Umberto Eco

Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino narrates the story of his life, from his adoption by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his education in Paris to his arrival in Constantinople during the turmoil of the Fourth Crusade.
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The dream of Scipio

 

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The Cave

by José Saramago

Informed that his clay pots and jugs are no longer needed, elderly potter Cipriano applies his craft to the making of ceramic dolls, but his family's subsequent successes are compromised by a terrible discovery.
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