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Lists of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist , Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus and Library Journal (LJ). Additional titles of interest may be included on the lists. Titles are generally listed alphabetically by author.
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Booklists and Suggested Reading
Gone 2004
Page Modified: April 5, 2008
Books by some of the notable writers who died in 2004
Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.
| R.I.P. 2004 |
| Joan Aiken Titles include The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Died on a Rainy Sunday, Midnight is a Place, The Witch of Clatteringshaws |
| Daniel Boorstin Titles include: The Americans, The Discoverers, The Creators |
| Larry Brown Titles include: Fay, Father and Son |
| Hugh B. Cave |
| Iris Chang Titles include: The Rape of Nanking, Thread of the Silkworm |
| Julia Child Titles include: The Way to Cook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home |
| Alistair Cooke Titles include: Letter From America 1946-2004, Alistair Cooke's America, Six Men |
| Paula Danziger |
| Jacques Derrida Titles include: |
| John Gregory Dunne Titles include: True Confessions, Nothing Lost, The Red White and Blue |
| Gloria Emerson Titles include: Gaza: A Year in the Intifada, Some American Men |
| Janet Frame Titles include: Janet Frame: The Complete Autobiography, To the Island, Angel at My Table |
| Olivia Goldsmith |
| Spalding Gray Titles include: Impossible Vacation, In Search of the Monkey Girl |
| Arthur Hailey Titles include: Airport, Hotel, Wheels, The Moneychangers, The Detective |
| Joseph Hansen Titles include: Fadout, Nightwork, Early Graves,The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of, Skinflick |
| Anthony Hecht |
| Syd Hoff Titles include: Danny and the Dinosaur, The Art of Cartooning, Henrietta the Early Bird, When Will It Snow, Sammy the Seal |
| Trina Schart Hyman |
| M. M. Kaye Titles include: The Far Pavillions, Trade Wind, Shadow of the Moon, Death in Kenya, Death in Zanzibar, Death in Cyprus |
| Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
| William Manchester Titles include: The Arms of Krupp, The Glory and the Dream, American Caesar, Goodbye Darkness, The Last Lion. One Brief Shining Moment |
| Czeslaw Milosz |
| Frances Partridge Titles include: Everything to Lose: Diaries 1945-60, Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey, Bloomsbury Album |
| Noel Perrin Titles include: A Child's Delight, First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer, Last Person Rural |
| Alexandra Ripley Titles include: A Love Divine, From Fields of Gold, New Orleans Legacy, Scarlett: The Sequel, The Time Returns, Charleston |
| Willo Davis Roberts |
| Francoise Sagan |
| Hubert Selby Titles include: Requiem for a Dream, Song of the Silent Snow, Waiting Period |
| Jeff Smith Titles include: The Frugal Gourmet |
| Susan Sontag Titles include: Illness As a Metaphor, On Photography, Against Interpretation |
| Mattie Stepanek Titles include: Heartsongs |
| John Toland Titles include: Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath, The Rising Sun, Gods of War |
| Peter Ustinov Titles include: Monsieur Rene, Still at Large, Add a Dash of Pity, My Russia, Dear Me |
| Walter Wager |
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