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The Millions Top 10 for July

This Month	Last Month		Title	On List
1.	1.		Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences	6 months
2.	5.		Infinite Jest	5 months
3.	3.		Olive Kitteridge	6 months
4.	6.		The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker	5 months
5.	-		Zeitoun	1 month
6.	4.		Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste	5 months
7.	7.		The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	5 months
8.	-		The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	1 month
9.	10. (tie)		Felonious Jazz	3 months
10.	-		Netherland	2 months

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The "staff picks" shelf in any good independent bookstore is a treasure trove of book recommendations. Unmoored from media hype and even timeliness, books are championed by trusted fellow readers. With many bookselling alums in our ranks, we offer our own "Staff Picks" in a feature appearing irregularly.
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Inter Alia

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Torch Ballads & Jukebox Music

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Modern Library Revue

An irreverent, ongoing treatment of the Modern Library's 100 best novels of the twentieth century. 8, 12, 15, 20, 22, 40, 61, 66, 68, 70, 97

Quarterly Report

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