BookBrowse awards: 2004 Favorite Books by Debut Authors

2004 Favorite Books by Debut Authors

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Each year, BookBrowse subscribers rate their favorite books of the year to choose our Top 20 Best of Year titles. More about how the books are selected.

Wine of Violence

by Priscilla Royal

Hardcover: Dec 2003 | Paperback: Jan 2006

Critics' Consensus:

'With its intriguing plot, chilling conclusion and characters who exhibit universal and timeless feelings, this fresh first has all the potential to evolve into a series as enduring as Ellis Peters's Brother Cadfael books.'

Broken For You

by Stephanie Kallos

Hardcover: Sep 2004 | Paperback: Sep 2005

Critics' Consensus:

Funny, heartbreaking, and alive with a potpourri of eccentric and irresistible characters, Broken for You is a testament to the saving graces of surrogate families, and shows how far the tiniest repair jobs can go in righting the world’s wrongs.

How I Live Now

by Meg Rosoff

Hardcover: Aug 2004 | Paperback: Jul 2005

Critics' Consensus:

'Rarely does a writer come up with a first novel so assured, so powerful and engaging that you can be pretty sure that you will want to read everything this author is capable of writing'.

The Hundredth Man

by Jack Kerley

Hardcover: Jun 2004 | Paperback: Jun 2005

Critics' Consensus:

Thundering to a stark and chilling revelation, The Hundredth Man marks the arrival of an author who raises the stakes on every page.

Don't Look Back: An Inspector Sejer Mystery

by Karin Fossum

Hardcover: Mar 2004 | Paperback: Jun 2005

Critics' Consensus:

Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable. They evoke a world that is at once profoundly disturbing and terrifyingly familiar.

Love in the Driest Season

A Family Memoir

by Neely Tucker

Hardcover: Feb 2004 | Paperback: Apr 2005

Critics' Consensus:

Against a background of war, terrorism, disease and unbearable uncertainty about the future, this story of how a foreign correspondent and his wife fought to adopt a Zimbabwean baby emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and ...

Good Grief

by Lolly Winston

Hardcover: Apr 2004 | Paperback: Apr 2005

Critics' Consensus:

Filled with laugh-out-loud humor, struggles, triumphs, and plenty of midnight trips to the fridge, Good Grief is a funny, wise, and heartbreakingly poignant novel from one of fiction's freshest and most exciting new voices.

Heaven Lake

by John Dalton

Hardcover: Apr 2004 | Paperback: Mar 2005

Critics' Consensus:

Heaven Lake is about many things: China, God, passion, friendship, travel, even the reckless smuggling of hashish. But above all, this extraordinary debut is about the mysteries of love.

The Confessions of Max Tivoli

by Andrew Sean Greer

Hardcover: Feb 2004 | Paperback: Feb 2005

Critics' Consensus:

An extraordinarily haunting love story told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwards.

Moloka'i

by Alan Brennert

Hardcover: Sep 2003 | Paperback: Oct 2004

Critics' Consensus:

Growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, Rachel is part of a big loving family until she is forcibly removed from her family and sent to the isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka'i. True to historical accounts, Rachel's life, though ...

The Sex Lives of Cannibals

Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

by J. Maarten Troost

Paperback: Jun 2004

Critics' Consensus:

The laugh-out-loud true story of a harrowing and hilarious two-year odyssey on the distant South Pacific island nation of Kiribati—possibly The Worst Place on Earth.

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