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Featured Lists On Shelfari

  1. My Favorite Books About Food

    Eileen M

    List created by Eileen M

    Nuff said.

    Created 2 months ago. 2 members recommend this list.
       
    • The Gastronomical Me
    • Candyfreak
    • We Have Always Lived in the Castle
    • Cornbread Nation 2: The United States of Barbecue (Cornbread Nation: Best of Southern Food Writing)
    • From The Loving Earth
    • Ruby Ann's Down Home Trailer Park Cookbook
    • Fish on Friday
    • Vegetables
    • Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads
    • American Regional Cookery
    • Stalking The Wild Asparagus
    • Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
    • Rawsome!

  1. Best Historical Mystery Novels

    jwhenderson

    List created by jwhenderson

    My favorites of the historical mysteries I have read.

    Created 2 months ago. 2 members recommend this list.
       
    • A Dream of Daring
    • The Name of the Rose
    • An Instance of the Fingerpost
    • The Flanders Panel
    • The American Boy
    • Possession
    • The Alienist
    • Mortal Mischief

  1. Best Books for Galley, Stateroom, and Cockpit Reading.

    K.Albertson

    List created by K.Albertson

    Books for those of use who enjoy spending long, leisurly hours cruising aboard trawlers, sailboats, or other watercraft.

    Created 2 months ago. 1 member recommends this list.
       
    • Bumfuzzle - Just Out Looking For Pirates
    • An Embarrassment of Mangoes
    • South to Alaska
    • All in the same boat : living aboard and cruising
    • Little Boat Big Ocean
    • The Spice Necklace
    • The Happy Isles of Oceania
    • Lake Effect: A Deckhand's Journey on the Great Lakes Freighters
    • Across Islands and Oceans
    • Hurricanes & Hangovers: and other tall tales and loose lies from the coconut telegraph by Dear Miss Mermaid (2008)
    • Swamplandia!
    • Harts At Sea Sailing to Windward
    • Key West: Tequila, a Pinch of Salt and a Quirky Slice of America by Breakfield, Jon (2012)
    • "Honey, Let's Get a Boat...": A Cruising Adventure of America's Great Loop
    • Sailing Alone Around The World

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