Best Literature/Books in 2003

1

4.58

A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003

Bill Bryson

2

4.14

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto 2003

Chuck Klosterman

3

4.08

The Waste Land and Other Poems 2003

T.S. Eliot Frank Kermode

4

3.93

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America 2003

Erik Larson

5

4.1

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World 2003

Tracy Kidder

6

3.92

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003

Mark Haddon

7

3.63

The Namesake 2003

Jhumpa Lahiri

8

4.33

Pattern Recognition 2003

William Gibson

9

4.33

The Complete Persepolis 2003

Marjane Satrapi

10

3.8

Purple Hibiscus 2003

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

11

3.88

The Fortress of Solitude 2003

Jonathan Lethem

12

3.44

The Kite Runner 2003

Khaled Hosseini

13

4.5

Gregor the Overlander 2003

Suzanne Collins

14

4.5

The Tale of Despereaux 2003

Kate DiCamillo

15

4.5

Pluto 2003

Naoki Urasawa

16

4

Into the Wild 2003

Erin Hunter

17

4

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality 2003

Brian Greene

18

4

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 2003

Azar Nafisi

19

4.25

Inkheart 2003

Cornelia Funke

20

4.25

Evidence of Things Unseen 2003

Marianne Wiggins