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We can't read everything, so we rely on those who can to recommend great titles to us. Try these picks. 

This guide is presented as a source of information about books and reading.  It's intended for those who use cold, dark nights as an excuse to stay inside and read.  This guide is dedicated to all those who find reading one of the great joys of life, a powerful experience that can change our minds and our lives.

This guide is a work in progress and will change over the year as I become aware of more good reads.  Please contribute to the list of resources by sending us your favorite titles and let us know of the sites that you use to feed your reading habit.     

Join us on Thursday, December 13, at 12:10 in F170 for our annual Fireside Reads discussion!  Watch this space for the most intriguing title to emerge from the talk!

The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

ISBN: 0142001805

Publication Date: 2003-02-25

Fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse will love visiting Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, when time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously: it’s a bibliophile’s dream. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career. Fforde's ingenious fantasy—enhanced by a Web site that re-creates the world of the novel—unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully witty mix. Thursday’s zany investigations continue with six more bestselling Thursday Next novels, including One of Our Thursdays is Missing and the upcoming The Woman Who Died A Lot. Visit jasperfforde.com.

It's getting to be our favorite time of year, when publications and organizations select their best of the year choices.  Have you read any of these?