San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year2003

Given by San Francisco Chronicle

Other Names: San Francisco Chronicle Favorite Books of the Year
64 Works 76,579 Books 2,121 Reviews ½ 3.9
Categories:
All, Biography (6), Essay/Criticism (19), Fiction (598), Fiction/Poetry (108), Historical Fiction (3), History (15), Journalism/nonfiction (9), Memoir (16), Non-fiction (2), Nonficion (5), Nonfiction (539), Science Fiction (1), Short stories (19), No Category (151)
Years:
All, 2023 (14), 2022 (27), 2021 (15), 2018 (10), 2017 (10), 2016 (97), 2015 (94), 2014 (100), 2013 (100), 2012 (99), 2011 (99), 2010 (99), 2009 (100), 2008 (100), 2007 (128), 2006 (121), 2005 (128), 2004 (84), 2003 (64)
WorkYear
Ghetto Celebrity: Searching for My Father in Me by Donnell Alexander
2003
The King Of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire by Mark Arax
2003
How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science by J. Michael Bishop
2003
Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark by Jim Bouton
2003
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
2003
Fighting for US : Maulana Karenga, the US organization, and black cultural nationalism by Scot Brown
2003
A Faker's Dozen: Stories by Melvin Jules Bukiet
2003
Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
2003
Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power by Lou Cannon
2003
A Kind of Flying by Ron Carlson
2003
The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris Chang
2003
The Barbary Plague : The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase
2003
American Woman by Susan Choi
2003
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
2003
Death in Slow Motion: My Mother's Descent into Alzheimer's by Eleanor Cooney
2003
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times by George Crile
2003
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
2003
The Calligrapher by Edward Docx
2003
Gazelle by Rikki Ducornet
2003
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
2003
Hell at the Breech by Tom Franklin
2003
Gritos: Essays by Dagoberto Gilb
2003
Curzon: Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour
2003
The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon
2003
Crabwalk by Günter Grass
2003
Isn't It Romantic?: An Entertainment by Ron Hansen
2003
Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona (Iowa Short Fiction Award) by Ryan Harty
2003
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
2003
Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital
2003
Jamesland by Michelle Huneven
2003
As of This Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002 by Clive James
2003
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes
2003
The Effect of Living Backwards by Heidi Julavits
2003
The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus
2003
Girls by Nic Kelman
2003
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
2003
Appetites: Why Women Want by Caroline Knapp
2003
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
2003
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
2003
The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir by Norman Manea
2003
Dirty: A Search for Answers Inside America's Teenage Drug Epidemic by Meredith Maran
2003
Dancer by Colum McCann
2003
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
2003
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age by Bill McKibben
2003
Martha Gellhorn: A Life by Caroline Moorehead
2003
The Big Bang, The Buddha, and the Baby Boom by Wes Nisker
2003
How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
2003
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
2003
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
2003
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2003
A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate by Marc Reisner
2003
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
2003
The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth by Barbara Seaman
2003
Good Faith by Jane Smiley
2003
Gearheads : The Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports by Brad Stone
2003
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford
2003
Got a Revolution!: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane by Jeff Tamarkin
2003
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown by Paul Theroux
2003
The Bug by Ellen Ullman
2003
The Guru of Love by Samrat Upadhyay
2003
Fanny, A Fiction by Edmund White
2003
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
2003
Hawthorne: A Life by Brenda Wineapple
2003
The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara by Geoffrey Wolff
2003

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