TIME Magazine's Best Books of 2004
Fiction
Jonathan Strange &
Mr. Norrell by
Susanna Clarke
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
Runaway
by Alice Munro
The
Master by Colm Tóibín
The Hamilton
Case by Michelle de Kretser
Non-Fiction
Will In the World: How
Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by
Stephen Greenblatt
Blue
Blood by Edward Conion
The Gourmet
Cookbook by Ruth Reichl
Dress Your
Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Persepolis 2:
The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
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