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Déjà vu all over again? Here it is once more, Shanghaiist's nearly quarterly review the Douban book Top Ten List: Annie Baby - "Sunian Jinshi" (Beijing-based author, photographer and blogger who writes about love and self-exploration in the big city.) JK Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (Official Chinese version, published by the People's Literature Publishing House.) Markus Zusak - "The Book Thief" (Australian author of Austrian-German heritage writes a WWII book...

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It's not the New York Times and it is certainly a bit slanted towards Beijing by the nature of its source, but the list of top ten books noted by users of book club site Douban.com is a whimsical glimpse into what young, plugged-in Chinese are reading offline these days. Here is the list as it stands today:

During a break from stuffing our faces with sandwiches, we noticed that, like Sina, Baidu came up with one of those dialogue, cross-fire type programs. Their version is called Fei Dian (沸点) or Boiling Point, which makes sense since the Youth Daily (中国青年报) already has the rights to Bing Dian (冰点). The latest issues of Boiling Point (in Chinese), is a discussion about the two conferences (National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference). We used to be interested in Chinese politics, but with the help of some caring people we've managed to put that behind us, so we're not going to vouch for the quality of this thing. The first episode of Boiling Point was a dialogue between a Southern Weekend reporter and (former? current?) bad-boy author Wang Shuo.