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Reading List 2000 (Alphabetical Order):
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Author (with links) |
Title (with book links) |
Notes |
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Ambrose, David |
Superstition |
. |
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Amis, Kingsley |
Lucky Jim |
. |
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Asimov, Isaac |
The Gods Themselves |
1973 Hugo Award |
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Atwood, Margaret |
The Robber Bride |
. |
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Banks, Iain M. |
The Wasp Factory |
. |
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Barry, Lynda |
Cruddy |
. |
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Barth, John |
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor |
. |
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Belfer, Lauren |
City of Light |
. |
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Berg, Elizabeth |
What We Keep |
. |
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Berg, Elizabeth |
Open House |
. |
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Boyle, T. C. |
The Tortilla Curtain |
Beth's Top Reads of 2000 List |
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Butler, Octavia |
Kindred |
Beth Top 2000 List, "500 Great Books by Women" |
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Cahill, Thomas |
Desire of Everlasting Hills |
. |
|
Carey, Peter |
Jack Maggs |
1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize |
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Carlson, ed., Paula J. |
Listening for God, Volume I |
. |
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Chevalier, Tracy |
Girl with a Pearl Earring |
. |
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Cleage, Pearl |
What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day |
. |
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Coen, Ethan |
Gates of Eden |
. |
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Coetzee, J. M. |
Disgrace |
1999 Booker Prize Winner |
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Cook, Thomas H. |
The Chatham School Affair |
1997 Edgar Award |
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Crace, Jim |
Being Dead |
1999 Whitbread Award Finalist |
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Crichton, Michael |
Timeline |
. |
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Cunningham, Michael |
The Hours |
1999 Pulitzer Prize |
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Diamant, Anita |
The Red Tent |
. |
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Dillard, Annie |
The Living |
. |
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee |
Sister of My Heart |
Beth Top 2000 List |
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Doerr, Harriet |
Stones for Ibarra |
1984 National Book Award Finalist |
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Dubus, III, Andre |
House of Sand and Fog |
Beth Top 2000 List, 1999 National
Book Award Finalist |
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Ellis, Rhian |
After Life |
. |
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Ellison, Ralph |
Invisible Man |
1953 National Book Award |
|
Endo, Shusaku |
Silence |
Beth Top 2000 List |
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Faber, Michel |
Under the Skin |
Beth Top 2000 List, 2000
Whitbread Award Finalist |
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Fitch, Janet |
White Oleander |
. |
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Fitzgerald, Penelope |
Offshore |
1979 Booker Prize Winner |
|
Fry, Stephen |
Making History |
. |
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Gaines, Steven |
Philistines at the Hedgerow |
. |
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Gallagher, Nora |
Things Seen and Unseen |
. |
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Goldberg, Myla |
Bee Season |
. |
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Greene, Graham |
The Power and the Glory |
. |
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Haruf, Kent |
Plainsong |
1999 National Book Award Finalist |
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Haushofer, Marlen |
The Wall |
"500 Great Books by Women" |
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Homes, A. M. |
The Safety of Objects |
. |
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Hornby, Nick |
About A Boy |
. |
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Irving, John |
My Movie Business |
. |
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Jin, Ha |
Waiting |
Beth Top 2000 List, 1999 National
Book Award |
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Karr, Mary |
The Liar's Club |
. |
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Kidder, Tracy |
Old Friends |
. |
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King, Stephen |
On Writing |
. |
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Kingsolver, Barbara |
The Poisonwood Bible |
. |
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Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Interpreter of Maladies |
2000 Pulitzer Prize |
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Lamb, Wally |
I Know This Much Is True |
Beth Top 2000 List |
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Lamott, Anne |
Operating Instructions |
Beth Top 2000 List |
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Lamott, Anne |
Bird by Bird |
. |
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Lamott, Anne |
Crooked Little Heart |
. |
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Lessing, Doris |
Ben, In the World |
. |
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Lewis, Sinclair |
Babbitt |
. |
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Long, David |
The Daughters of Simon Lamoreaux |
. |
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McEwan, Ian |
Enduring Love |
. |
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McEwan, Ian |
The Cement Garden |
. |
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Miller, Jr., Walter M. |
A Canticle for Leibowitz |
1961 Hugo Award |
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Miller, Sue |
While I Was Gone |
. |
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Millhauser, Steven |
Martin Dressler |
1997 Pulitzer Prize |
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Millhauser, Steven |
Enchanted Night |
. |
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Minot, Susan |
Evening |
. |
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Mistry, Rohinton |
A Fine Balance |
Beth Top 2000 List, 1996 Booker
Prize Finalist |
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Mitchell, David |
Ghostwritten |
Beth Top 2000 List |
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Morgan, Robert |
Gap Creek |
. |
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Morrison, Toni |
Paradise |
1999 Orange Prize Finalist |
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Naslund, Sena Jeter |
Ahab's Wife |
Beth Top 2000 List |
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Norman, Howard |
The Bird Artist |
1994 National Book Award Finalist |
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O'Brien, Tim |
In the Lake of the Woods |
. |
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O'Dell, Tawni |
Back Roads |
. |
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Pears, Iain |
An Instance of the Fingerpost |
. |
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Percy, Walker |
The Moviegoer |
1962 National Book Award |
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Picoult, Jodi |
The Pact |
. |
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Picoult, Jodi |
Keeping Faith |
. |
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Picoult, Jodi |
Plain Truth |
Beth Top 2000 List |
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Picoult, Jodi |
Mercy |
. |
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Pym, Barbara |
Excellent Women |
"500 Great Books by Women" |
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Reiken, Frederick |
The Odd Sea |
. |
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Rosenfeld, Lucinda |
What She Saw In… |
. |
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Rosenzweig, Ilene |
Mother of the Bride |
. |
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Rowling, J. K. |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
. |
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Rowling, J. K. |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
1999 Whitbread Children's Book
Award |
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Rushdie, Salman |
The Moor's Last Sigh |
1995 Booker Prize Finalist |
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Schmais, Libby |
The Perfect Elizabeth |
. |
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Schwarz, Christina |
Drowning Ruth |
. |
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Sedaris, David |
Me Talk Pretty One Day |
. |
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Shapiro, Jane |
The Dangerous Husband |
Beth Top 2000 List |
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Shields, Jody |
The Fig Eater |
. |
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Shreve, Anita |
The Weight of Water |
1998 Orange Prize Finalist |
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Siddons, Anne Rivers |
The House Next Door |
. |
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Smith, Peter Moore |
Raveling |
. |
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Sobel, Dava |
Galileo's Daughter |
. |
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Stolz, Karen |
World of Pies |
. |
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Strauss, Darin |
Chang and Eng |
Beth Top 2000 List |
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Trevor, William |
Death in Summer |
. |
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Turow, Scott |
Personal Injuries |
. |
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Updike, John |
Bech is Back |
. |
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Walters, Minette |
The Breaker |
. |
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Welty, Eudora |
Delta Wedding |
. |
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Winchester, Simon |
The Professor and the Madman |
. |
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Wolfe, Tom |
A Man in Full |
1998 National Book Award Finalist |
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Yancey, Philip |
Finding God in Unexpected Places |
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Have a comment on a book listed here or think of a book that you'd like to suggest for my
2001 reading list? Please
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