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Your votes will decide who will wear this year's Golden Galoshes.

So, was the best book you read last year an Oprah-recommended memoir about a recovering drug addict, or an Oprah-recommended, sixty-year-old novel about a severely dysfunctional Southern family? Did you savor the newest adventures of a young wizard, or the latest chronicles of a young wizard and his talking dragon? Was your favorite 2005 book about an Afghan boy who loves kites, or was it a reprint of a classic comic strip about a bald boy who gets tangled in kite-eating trees?

We really don't know. But we'd like to. So enter the contest. Right over there. To the right. But don't procrastinate...

Voting ends February 1

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