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I do enough heavy reading professionally – when I read for pleasure, I’m looking for a good novel, or very entertaining non-fiction. These five are guaranteed beach, holiday, or plane reading:<\/p>\n

My Fundamentalist Education: A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood<\/em><\/a>, by Christine Rosen
Black Swan Green: A Novel<\/em><\/a>, by David Mitchell
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise<\/em><\/a>, by Ruth Reichl
The History of Love: A Novel<\/em><\/a>, by Nicole Krauss
My Losing Season<\/em><\/a>, by Pat Conroy<\/p>\n

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I do enough heavy reading professionally – when I read for pleasure, I’m looking for a good novel, or very entertaining non-fiction. These five are guaranteed beach, holiday, or plane reading: My Fundamentalist Education: A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood, by Christine RosenBlack Swan Green: A Novel, by David MitchellGarlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nAmy Sullivan's Books of the Year - God's Politics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2006\/12\/amy-sullivans-books-of-the-yea.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amy Sullivan's Books of the Year - God's Politics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I do enough heavy reading professionally – when I read for pleasure, I’m looking for a good novel, or very entertaining non-fiction. 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