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Thank you for visiting my blog. I’m a scholar of television, film, and digital media, and the author of CINEMA OF CONFINEMENT (Northwestern University Press) and CAPTURING DIGITAL MEDIA (Bloomsbury Academic). I’ve published a variety of articles on film and television in journals published by Taylor & Francis. I am also a writer of fiction. All of my books can be viewed on www.tomconnellyfiction.com
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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Top Books - 2013

As posted last year, my yearly list entails books from different genres and periods of time. This was my first year teaching which tremendously cut down on my reading time, so I had to mix up fiction and non-fiction just to generate a top ten list. Here is my list of great books read for 2013 - no particular order. . . . 


The Year of the Flood (2009) by Margaret Atwood


A Visit from the Goon Squad (2002) by Jennifer Egan 


The Tommyknockers (1987) by Stephen King


The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde




The Ice Storm (1994) by Rick Moody


Garden State (1992) by Rick Moody


Alone Together (2011) by Sherry Turkle


The Gunslinger The Dark Tower I (1992) by Stephen King

Favorite Books of 2024

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