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Notable Fiction 2000
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Notable Fiction
Some of the major hardcover titles scheduled for release in the U.S. All information is subject to change and dyslexic typos. Alphabetically arranged by author. Starting in March, the date in the notes column indicates the last update for that entry. A star indicates the book received at least one starred review (indicating that review source felt the title was exceptional) from the following sources: Booklist (BL), Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ).
Library Journal's Best Books, the ALA Notable Book Council's selections, and Booklist's Editor's Choice selections are noted. NYTBR Notable and Editor's Choices are included. NBCC (National Book Critics Circle) award nominees and other award nominees are mentioned when possible.
| AUTHOR | TITLE | DATE | NOTES Stars of 2000 Links to Stars information - large files! |
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| Ackroyd, Peter | The Plato Papers | Feb | 
NYT Notable |
| Adams, Alice | After the War | Sept |
NYT Notable |
| Alexie, Sherman | The Toughest Indian in the World | May |
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| Alexis, Andre | Despair And Other Stories | March |
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| Allen, Jeffrey Renard | Rails Under My Back | Feb |
NYT Notable |
| Altman, Steven | The Touch | Oct |
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| Alvarez, Julia | In the Name of Salome | June |
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| Amidon, Stephen | The New City | Jan |
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| Anderson - Dargatz, Gail | A Recipe for Bees | Jan | |
| Anderson, Poul | Genesis | Feb |
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| Anderson, Robert | Ice Age | Nov |
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| Antrim, Donald | Verificationist | Feb |
NYT Notable |
| Antunes, Antonio Lobo | The Natural Order of Things | Feb |
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| Arenas, Reinaldo | The Color of Summer, or, The New Garden of Earthly Delights | July |
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| Asher, Marty | The Boomer | May |
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| Atkinson, Kate | Emotionally Weird | June |
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| Atwood, Margaret | The Blind Assassin | Sept 3rd |
Booker Prize winner Booklist Editors' Choice Notable Book (ALA/RUSA) |
| Auchincloss, Louis | Her Infinite Variety | Aug |
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| Bahr, Howard | The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War | May |
NYT Notable |
| Bailey, Paul | Kitty and Virgil | March |
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| Baker, Kage | Mendoza in Hollywood: the Company | Feb |
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| Baldacci, David | Wish You Well | Oct |
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| Barkley, Brad | Money, Love | July |
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| Banks, Iain | Inversions | Feb |
NYT Notable |
| Banks, Russell | The Angel on the Roof: Stories | June |
NYT Notable |
| Barlough, Jeffrey E. | Dark Sleeper (trade paper) | Sept |
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| Barnes, John | Candle | Feb |
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| Barthelme, Frederick | Law of Averages: New and Selected Stories | Oct |
NYT Notable |
| Barton, Emily | The Testament of Yves Gundron | Jan |
NYT Notable |
| Bausch, Robert | A Hole in the Earth | Aug |
NYT Notable |
| Baxter, Charles | The Feast of Love | May |
NYT Notable National Book Award Nominee |
| Beagle, Peter | A Dance for Emilia | Oct |
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| Beatty, Paul | Tuff: A Novel | May |
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| Begley, Louis | Schmidt Delivered | Oct |
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| Bell, Madison Smartt | Master of the Crossroads | Oct |
NYT Notable Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Beller, Thomas | The Sleep-Over Artist | June | NYT Notable |
| Bellow, Saul | Ravelstein | April |
NYT Notable Booklist Editors' Choice LJ Best Books |
| Bender, Aimee | An Invisible Sign of My Own | July 8th | |
| Bender, Karen E. | Like Normal People | April 14th |
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| Benford, Gregory | Eater | April |
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| Berlin, Adam | Headlock | May |
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| Bernardi, Adria | In the Gathering Woods | Oct |
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| Berry, Wendell | Jayber Crow: The Live Story of Jayber Crow, Barber, of the Port William Township, As Written by Himself: A Novel | Sept |
Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Bingham, Robert | Lightning on the Sun | April | NYT Notable |
| Blackbridge, Persimmon | Prozac Highway (trade paper) | March |
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| Bloom, Amy | A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories | Aug |
Booklist Editors' Choice National Book Critics Award Nominee |
| Bogosian, Eric | Mall | Nov |
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| Bohjalian, Christopher | Trans-Sister Radio | May |
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| Boyle, T. C. | Friend of the Earth | Oct |
Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Brady, James | The Marines of Autumn: A Novel of the Korean War | June | |
| Bram, Christopher | The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes | June |
Lambda Award Finalist |
| Brennan, Maeve | Rose Garden and Other Stories | Feb |
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| Brookner, Anita | Undue Influence | Jan |
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| Brown, Carrie | The Hatbox Baby | Sept |
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| Brown, Larry | Fay | March |
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| Brown, Rosellen | Half a Heart | May |
NYT Notable |
| Brown, Merle | The Suburbs of Heaven | Feb |
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| Burnard, Bonnie | A Good House | Sept |
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| Busch, Frederick | Don't Tell Anyone | Oct |
NYT Notable Notable Book (ALA/RUSA) |
| Butler, Robert Olen | Mr. Spaceman | Jan |
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| Buten, Howard | When I Was Five I Killed Myself | June |
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| Campbell, Ramsey | Ghosts and Grisly Things | Dec |
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| Carey, Lisa | In the Country of the Young | Nov |
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| Carlson, Melody (com) | The Storyteller's Collection | Aug |
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| Carver, Jeffrey A. | Eternity's End | Dec | |
| Chabon, Michael | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Sept |
NYT Notable Booklist Top of the List Booklist Editors' Choice LJ Best Books Notable Book (ALA/RUSA) National Book Critics Award Nominee PEN/Faulkner shortlist Pulitzer Prize Winner |
| Chaudhuri, Amit | A New World | Oct |
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| Cheng, Francois | The River Below | Oct |
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| Chevalier, Tracy | Girl With a Pearl Earring | Jan |
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| Christopher, Nicholas | A Trip to the Stars | March |
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| Ciresi, Rita | Sometimes I Dream in Italian | Oct 10 |
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| Clark, Martin | The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living | April |
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| Clarke, Arthur C. | The Light of Other Days | Jan |
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| Clegg, Douglas | You Come When I Call You | April |
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| Conde, Maryse | Desirada | Nov |
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| Connell, Evan S. | Deus Lo Volt! A Chronicle of the Crusades | April |
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| Conrad, James | Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago | March |
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| Cooper, Bernard | Guess Again: Stories | Nov |
Lambda Award Finalist |
| Cornwell, Bernard | Sharpe's Fortress | Nov |
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| Crabbe, Richard E. | Suspension | Nov |
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| Crace, Jim | Being Dead | April |
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| Crowley, John | Daemonomania | Aug | |
| Crusie, Jennifer | Welcome to Temptation | March |
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| Cunningham, Elizabeth | Daughter of the Shining Isles | June |
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| Cutrer, William | Lethal Harvest | Aug |
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| Cusk, Rachel | Saving Agnes | Jan | |
| Dalby, Liza | The Tale of Murasaki | May 16th |
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| Danielewski, Mark Z. | House of Leaves | March |
NYT Notable |
| Danvers, Dennis | The Fourth World | March |
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| Dark, Alice Elliott | In the Gloaming: Stories | Jan |
NYT Notable |
| Date, S.V. | Smokeout | Oct |
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| Datlow, Ellen (ed) | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror | Aug |
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| Davies, Peter Ho | Equal Love (trade paper) | Feb | NYT Notable |
| Davis, Claire | Winter Range | Sept |
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| D'Erasmo, Stacey | Tea: A Novel | Jan |
NYT Notable Lambda Award Finalist |
| Desai, Anita | Diamond Dust: Stories (trade paper) | June | NYT Notable |
| Desai, Anita | Fasting, Feasting (trade paper) | Jan | Booker short-listed title |
| DeWitt, Helen | The Last Samurai | Sept |
Notable Book (ALA/RUSA) |
| Dillon, Millicent | Harry Gold | April | NYT Notable PEN/Faulkner shortlist |
| Dobyns, Stephen | Eating Naked | May |
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| Doctrow, E.L. | City of God | Feb |
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| Dongala, Emmanuel Boundzeki | The Fire of Origin | Dec |
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| Dorf, Fran | Saving Elijah | June |
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| Downs, Robert | The Fifth Season | Feb |
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| Dozois, Gardner | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection | July |
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| Drakulic, Slavenka | S: A Novel about the Balkans | Feb |
LJ Best Books |
| Drury, Tom | Hunts in Dreams | May 5th |
NYT Notable |
| Due, Tananarive | The Black Rose | July |
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| Dunmore, Helen | With Your Crooked Heart | Feb |
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| Dunnett, Dorothy | Gemini: House of Niccolo | July |
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| Early, Tony | Jim the Boy | June |
NYT Notable |
| Ebershoff, David | The Danish Girl | Feb |
NYT Notable |
| Ellis, Alice Thomas | Pillars of Gold | April |
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| Emerson, Gloria | Loving Graham Greene | Oct |
NYT Notable |
| Eve, Nomi | The Family Orchard | Sept |
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| Faber, Michel | Under the Skin | July |
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| Findley, Timothy | Pilgrim | Jan |
NYT Notable LJ Best Books |
| Fitzgerald, Penelope | The Means of Escape: Stories | Oct |
NYT Notable |
| Fitzhugh, Bill | Cross Dressing | June |
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| Flanagan, Richard | The Sound of One Hand Clapping | March |
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| Flanagan, William | A & R | June |
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| Flint, Eric | 1632 | Feb |
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| Flint, James | Habitus | Jan |
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| Foden, Giles | Ladysmith | April |
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| Ford, Jeffrey | Memoranda (trade paper) | Oct 99 | NYT Notable |
| Ford, John M. | The Last Hot Time | Dec |
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| Freeman, Charlotte | Place Last Seen | March | |
| Fromm, Pete | How This All Started | Oct |
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| Fuentes, Carlos | The Years with Laura Diaz | Oct |
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| Fuller, Jack | The Best of Jackson Payne | June |
Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Gadol, Peter | Light at Dusk | May |
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| Gay, Rebecca | Pure | July |
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| Gay, William | The Long Home (trade paper) | Aug | NYT Notable |
| Gay, William | Provinces of Night | Dec |
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| Gilbert, Elizabeth | Stern Men | May 22nd |
NYT Notable |
| Giles, Molly | Iron Shoes | August |
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| Gilling, Tom | The Sooterkin | June |
NYT Notable |
| Gloss, Molly | Wild Life | June |
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| Goldberg, Myla | Bee Season | May |
NYT Notable LJ Best Books |
| Goldstein, Rebecca | Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics | Aug |
NYT Notable |
| Goonan, Kathleen Ann | Crescent City Rhapsody | Feb |
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| Grass, Gunter | Too Far Afield | Dec |
NYT Notable LJ Best Books |
| De Grazia, Don | American Skin (trade paper) | April |
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| Greenwood. T. | Nearer Than the Sky | Aug |
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| Griffin, Nicholas | The Requiem Shark | April |
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| Gulley, Philip | Home to Harmony | Oct |
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| Guerra, Erasmo | Between Dances (trade paper) | June | Lambda Award Finalist |
| Guran, Pamela | Embraces: Dark Erotica | Nov |
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| Gutcheon, Beth | More than You Know | April | |
| Hagy, Alyson | Keeneland | April |
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| Hamid, Mohsin | Moth Smoke | Feb |
NYT Notable |
| Hamilton, Jane | Disobedience: A Novel | Oct |
NYT Notable |
| Handler, Daniel | Watch Your Mouth | July |
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| Harrigan, Stephen | The Gates of the Alamo | March | NYT Notable |
| Harris, E. Lynn | Not a Day Goes By | July 18th |
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| Harris, William C. | Delirium of the Brave | Feb |
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| Harrison, Jim | The Beast God Forgot to Invent: Novellas | Oct |
NYT Notable Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Harrison, Kathryn | The Binding Chair; or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society | May |
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| Harrison, William | Blood Latitudes | June |
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| Hawkes, G.W. | Gambler's Rose | March |
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| Heath, Lorraine | Never Love a Cowboy (mass market paper) | April |
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| Hebert, Ernest | The Old American | Oct |
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| Hegi, Ursula | The Vision of Of Emma Blau | Feb |
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| Heller, Ted | Slab Rat | Feb |
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| Hemon, Aleksandar | The Question of Bruno | May 16th |
NYT Notable |
| Henley, Patricia | Worship of the Common Heart: New & Selected Stories (trade paper) | Sept |
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| Herbert, Brian & Kevin Anderson | Dune: House Harkonnen | Oct | NYT Notable LJ Best Books - Genre |
| Hill, David | Butterfly Summer | Dec |
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| Hobb, Robin | Ship of Destiny | Sept |
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| Hoffman, Alice | The River King | July 17th |
NYT Notable |
| Holland, Cecelia | The Angel and the Sword | Dec | |
| Holman, Sheri | The Dress Lodger | Jan | |
| Hopkinson, Nalo | Midnight Robber | Feb |
NYT Notable |
| Houellebecq, Michel | The Elementary Principles | Oct |
Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Houng, Duong Thu | Memories of a Pure Spring | Jan |
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| Howatch, Susan | The High Flyer | July |
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| Hribal, C. J. | The Clouds in Memphis: Short Stories and Novellas | Nov |
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| Huebner, Andrew | American by Blood | March | |
| Humphries, Josephine | Nowhere Else on Earth | Sept |
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| Hunter, Madeline | By Possession (mass market paper) | Oct |
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| Hyde, Catherine Ryan | Electric God | Dec |
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| Hyde, Catherine Ryan | Pay it Forward | Feb |
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| Isegawa, Moses | Abyssinian Chronicles | April | NYT Notable |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | When We Were Orphans | Sept |
NYT Notable Booker Prize shortlist |
| Japin, Arthur | The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi | Nov |
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| Jha, Raj Kamal | The Blue Bedspread | April |
NYT Notable |
| Jin, Ha | The Bridegroom: Stories | Oct | NYT Notable |
| Johnson, Denis | The Name of the World | July |
NYT Notable PEN/Faulkner shortlist |
| Johnson, Diane | Le Mariage | April |
NYT Notable |
| Jones, Stephen (ed) | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror | Nov |
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| Joyce, Graham | Indigo | Oct '99 | NYT Notable |
| Judson, Suzanne | Harper's Moon (paper) | July |
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| Kalpakian, Laura | Delinquent Virgin (paper) | Nov '99 | Notable Book (ALA/RUSA) |
| Karbo, Karen | Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me | July |
NYT Notable |
| Katcher, Ben | Julius Kniple and the Beauty Supply District | June |
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| Keane, John B. | An Irish Christmas | Oct |
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| Kennedy, A.L. | So I Am Glad | Jan |
NYT Notable |
| Kenyon, Kay | Tropic of Creation | Dec |
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| King, Thomas | Truth and Bright Water | Sept |
Notable Book (ALA/RUSA) |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Prodigal Summer | Nov |
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| Kittle, Katrina | Traveling Light | April |
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| Klam, Matthew | Sam the Cat | May |
NYT Notable |
| Klein, Marjorie | Test Pattern | Jan |
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| Kneale, Matthew | English Passengers | April |
NYT Notable Booker Prize shortlist Booklist Editors' Choice LJ Best Books Notable Book (ALA/RUSA) Whitbread Award |
| Knight, India | My Life as a Plate | Oct |
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| Konrad, George | Stonedial | May | |
| Kopperud, Gunnar | The Time of Light | July |
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| Kramer, Gavin | Shopping | April |
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| Kress, Nancy | Probability Moon | July |
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| Lackey, Mercedes | Brightly Burning: Valdemar | May |
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| Lamazares, Ivonne | The Sugar Island | Sept 12th |
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| Lanchester, John | Mr. Phillips | April |
NYT Notable |
| Landis, J.D. | Longing | Sept |
NYT Notable |
| Lawrence, Margaret | The Iceweaver | July |
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| Laymon, Richard | The Traveling Vampire Show | May |
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| Leavitt, David | Martin Bauman: Or, A Sure Thing | Sept |
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| Leebron, Fred | Six Figures | March | NYT Notable |
| Le Guin, Ursula K. | The Telling | Sept |
LJ Best Books - Genre |
| Lent, Jeffrey | In the Fall | April |
NYT Notable |
| Lesley, Craig | Storm Riders | Jan | |
| Lessing, Doris | Ben, In the World | Aug | NYT Notable |
| Lethem, Jonathan (editor) | The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology | Oct | |
| Libera, Antoni | Madame | April |
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| Lightman, Alan | The Diagnosis | Sept |
NYT Notable National Book Award Nominee |
| Lish, Gordon | Krupp's Lulu: Stories | April |
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| Liss, David | A Conspiracy of Paper | March |
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| Little, Bentley | The Walking | Nov |
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| Livesey, Margot | The Missing World | Jan | NYT Notable |
| De Loo, Tessa | The Twins | Aug |
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| Lopez, Barry | Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories | Oct | |
| Louie, David Wong | The Barbarians are Coming | March |
LJ Best Books |
| Macy, Caitlin | The Fundamentals of Play | May |
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| Macfarlane, David | Summer Gone | April |
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| MacKay, Shena | The World's Smallest Unicorn | Oct |
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| MacLeod, Alistair | No Great Mischief | April | NYT Notable |
| Mailer, Norris Church | Windchill Summer | June |
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| Maillard, Keith | Gloria | Sept |
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| Malarkey, Tucker | An Obvious Enchantment | Aug |
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| Mallon, Thomas | Two Moons | Feb | NYT Notable |
| Malouf, David | Dream Stuff: Short Stories | June |
NYT Notable |
| Manley, Frank | Among Prisoners: Short Stories | Feb |
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| Mantel, Hilary | Fludd (trade paper) | June | NYT Notable |
| Mantel, Hilary | Vacant Possession (trade paper) | March | |
| Marillier, Juliet | Daughter of the Forest | May |
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| Marshall, Jerry | Mr. Irrelevant | Oct |
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| Marshall, Paule | The Fisher King | Oct |
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| Martin Du Gard, Roger | Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort | Jan |
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| Martin, George R. R. | A Storm of Swords | Oct 31 |
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| Maupin, Armistead | The Night Listener | Oct | NYT Notable |
| McCabe, Patrick | Mondo Desperado | March |
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| McCann, Colum | Everything in the Country Must: A Novella and Two Stories | March | |
| McCown, Clint | War Memorials | Nov | |
| McColley, Kevin | The Other Side: A Novel of the Civil War | June |
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| McCullough, Colleen | Morgan's Run | Sept |
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| McDevitt, Jack | Infinity Beach | Feb |
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| McGhee, Alison | Shadow Baby | April |
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| McGrath, Patrick | Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution | Oct |
NYT Notable |
| McKillip, Patricia | The Tower at Stony Wood | June |
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| McLean, Duncan | Blackden (trade paper) | Jan |
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| McManus, John | Stop Breaking Down: Stories | June |
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| McMullen, Sean | The Miocene Arrow | Aug |
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| McMurtry, Larry | Boone's Lick | Nov |
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| Means, David | Assorted Fire Events | Sept | National Book Critics Award Nominee |
| Miles, Rosalind | Knight of the Sacred Lake | July | |
| Miller, Alex | Conditions of Faith | July |
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| Min, Anchee | Becoming Madame Mao | June 1st |
Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Mishra, Pankaj | The Romantics | Feb | NYT Notable |
| Mitchell, David | Ghostwritten | Sept |
Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Moggach, Deborah | Tulip Fever | April |
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| Moran, Thomas | Water Carry Me | March |
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| Moring, Marcel | In Babylon | April |
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| Murakami, Haruki | Norwegian Wood (trade paper) | Sept |
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| Nelson, Antonya | Living To Tell | June |
NYT Notable Notable Book (ALA/RUSA) |
| Nevin, David | Eagle's Cry | Nov |
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| Nicols, Linda | Handyman | Jan |
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| Niven, Larry & Steven Barnes | Saturn's Race | July |
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| Nolan, Christopher | The Banyan Tree | March |
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| Nye, Robert | Mrs. Shakespeare: The Complete Works | Oct |
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| Oates, Joyce Carol | Blonde | April | NYT Notable National Book Award Nominee |
| O'Brien, Edna | Wild Decembers | April |
NYT Notable |
| O'Conaire, Padraic | Exile | March |
Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Olafsson, Olaf | The Journey Home | Nov |
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| Ondaatje, Michael | Anil's Ghost | May |
NYT Notable Notable Book (ALA/RUSA) |
| Ore, Rebecca | Outlaw School (trade paper) | Nov |
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| Osborne, Eliza | The Distance Between | Jan |
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| Paine, Tom | Scar Vegas and Other Stories | Jan |
NYT Notable Notable Book (ALA/RUSA) |
| Parks, Tim | Destiny | May |
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| Pearson, T.R. | Blue Ridge | Sept |
NYT Notable |
| Pelevin, Viktor | Buddha's Little Finger | May |
LJ Best Books |
| Perrotta, Tom | Joe College | Sept |
NYT Notable |
| Phillips, Jayne Anne | Motherkind | May |
Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Powell, Padgett | Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men | Nov |
NYT Notable |
| Powers, Richard | Plowing the Dark | June |
NYT Notable |
| Pratchett, Terry | The Truth | Nov |
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| Pratchett, Terry | The Fifth Elephant | April |
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| Pressfield, Stephen | Tides of Wars: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War | May |
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| Preston, Caroline | Lucy Crocker | May |
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| Prior, Lily | La Cucina: A Novel of Rapture | Nov |
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| Prose, Francine | Blue Angel | April | NYT Notable National Book Award Nominee |
| Puzo, Mario | Omerta | July 5th |
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| Quinonez, Ernesto | Bodega Dreams (trade paper) | March |
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| Rambaud, Patrick | The Battle | May |
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| Reardon, Lisa | Blameless | May |
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| Reed, Robert | Marrow | Nov |
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| Reid, Van | Daniel Plainway | Aug |
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| Reiken, Frederick | The Lost Legends of New Jersey | Aug |
NYT Notable |
| Remnick, David with Susan Choi | Wonderful Town: New York Stories from the New Yorker | Feb |
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| Rice, Bobby | Pobby and Dingan | Sept | NYT Notable |
| Robbins, David L. | The End of War: A Novel of the Race for Berlin | Sept |
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| Robbins, Tom | Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates | May 2nd |
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| Robinson, Eden | Monkey Beach | Dec |
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| Rogers, Jane | Island | Nov |
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| Rolens, Sharon | Worthy's Town | Oct | |
| Romo, Ito | El Puente | Oct |
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| Rosenfield, Arthur | Freud's Megalomania | Sept | NYT Notable |
| Ross, Leone | Orange Laughter | Nov |
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| Rossi, Agnes | Houseguest: A Novel | Jan | |
| Roth, Philip | The Human Stain | May 10th |
NYT Notable PEN/Faulkner Winner |
| Roy, Lucinda | The Hotel Alleluia | Jan |
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| Ruebsamen, Helga | The Song and the Truth | Sept |
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| Safire, William | Scandalmonger | Feb |
NYT Notable Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Salamanca, J.R. | That Summer's Trace | July |
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| Salvatore, R.A. | Mortalis | July |
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| Salzman, Mark | Lying Awake | Sept |
NYT Notable |
| Saramago, Jose | All the Names | Oct |
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| Saunders, George | Pastoralia | May |
NYT Notable |
| Saxton, Judith | You Are My Sunshine | Nov |
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| Schappell, Elissa | Use Me | March | NYT Notable |
| Schmitt, Richard | The Aerialist | Nov |
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| Schneider, Katie | All We Know of Love | July 11th |
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| Schroeder, Karl | Ventus | Dec |
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| Schulze, Ingo | Simple Stories | Jan | NYT Notable |
| Schwarz, Christine | Drowning Ruth | Aug 1 |
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| Scott, Joanna C. | The Lucky Gourd Shop | Aug |
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| Scott, Joanna | Make Believe | Feb | NYT Notable |
| Scribner, Keith | The Goodlife (trade paper) | Nov | NYT Notable |
| Sebald, W.G. | Vertigo | May | NYT Notable |
| Self, Will | How the Dead Live | Sept |
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| Shaara, Jeff | Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War | May |
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| Shand, Rosa | The Gravity of Sunlight | May |