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Notable Fiction Hotlist 2003
Page Modified: April 2, 2008
Alphabetically arranged by author. 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, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal.
Notable listings include selected award nominees and winners, New York Times Book Review Notable books, Washington Post Book World Raves, PW Notable books, Library Journal Best books, Booklist Best Books and ALA Notable books.
First novel information is derived from a variety of sources. A * notes a large print run (35,000 or more). This information may not be comprehensive. The date in the updated column indicates the last update for that entry.
Genre, print run and debut/first novel information is noted when possible - this data is derived from a variety of sources and may not be comprehensive. The genre listing information is apt to be rather subjective. Books can often be categorized in several genres. Overbooked encourages omnivorous reading across all genres. A * indicates a large print run (+ 35,000) - this information may not be comprehensive.
Genre codes: A = African American, F = Fiction, GL = Gay or Lesbian, H = Historical, I=Inspirational/Christian, L = Literary, M = Multicultural, R = Romance or Romantic Suspense, SP = Speculative Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror), SS = Short Stories, W = Western.
| AUTHOR | TITLE | Stars ~ Notes | Genre * |
Debut |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abrams, Nita | The Spy's Bride (paper) |  Booklist Top 10 Romance |
R | |
| Abu-Jaber, Diana | Crescent | |
L | |
| Adam, Christina | Love and Country | |
F | |
| Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | Purple Hibiscus | BBYA Orange Prize Shortlist LJ Best First Novels |
L | 1st |
| Aitken, Rosemary | The Granite Cliffs | Booklist Top 10 Romance | R | |
| Albom, Mitch | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | PW Best Books |
F* | 1st |
| Alers, Rochelle/Donna Hill/Brenda Jackson/Francis Ray | Living Large (paper) | Booklist Top 10 Romance | A/R | |
| Alexander, Robert | The Kitchen Boy | H | ||
| Alexie, Sherman | Ten Little Indians: Stories | PW Best Books SLJ Best Books LA Times Book Prize Finalist |
L/SS |
|
| Ali, Monica | Brick Lane | Booker Long List Guardian First Book Award Nominee - Shortlist PW Best Books NYT Editors' Choice Washington Post Rave ALA/RUSA Notable B&N Winner Discover Great New Writers LA Times Book Prize Finalist First Fiction Orange Prize Longlist LJ Best First Novels Village Voice VLS Favorites Salon Best Fiction |
F/L | 1st |
| Alison, Jane | The Marriage of the Sea | NYT Notable Books |
F | |
| Allen, Charlotte Vale | Fresh Air | F/R | ||
| Amis, Martin | Yellow Dog | Booker Long List NYT Notable Books |
L* | |
| Amsden, David | Important Things Don't Matter | F/L | ||
| Anderson, Douglas A. | Tales Before Tolkien | SP | ||
| Anderson, Kevin J. | A Forest of Stars | |
SP | |
| Antunes, Antonio Lobo | The Inquisitor's Manual | ALA/RUSA Notable | L | |
| Appel, Allen | In Time of War: Alex Balfour | SP/H | ||
| Asaro, Catherine | Skyfall | SP | ||
| Asaro, Catherine | The Moon's Shadow | Saga of the Skolian Empire | SP | |
| Ash, Sarah | Lord of Snow and Shadows: Tears of the Amazon, Book 1 | |
SP | 1st |
| Ashley, Jennifer | The Pirate Next Door (paper) | |
R | |
| Ashley, Trisha | Every Woman For Herself | |
F/R | |
| Atunes, Antonio Lobo | The Inquisitors' Manual | NYT Notable Books |
L | |
| Atwood, Margaret | Oryx and Crake | Booker Long List PW Best Books NYT Notable Books Booklist Editors' Choice Orange Prize Shortlist |
L/SP* | |
| Auchincloss, Louis | The Scarlet Letters | |
F/L | |
| Auster, Paul | Oracle Night | NYT Notable |
L | |
| Avrich, Jane | The Winter Without Milk: Stories (paper) | |
F/SS | |
| Baker, Kage | The Anvil of the World | SF Chronicle Best Books | SP | |
| Baker, Nicholson | A Box of Matches | NYT Notable Books Time Best Books |
L | |
| Balogh, Mary | Slightly Scandalous (paper) | |
R | |
| Bandele, Asha | Daughter | |
A | 1st |
| Banville, John | Shroud | Booker Prize 2002 Long List NYT Notable Books |
F/L | |
| Baratz-Logsted, Lauren | The Thin Pink Line | |
R* | |
| Barger, Ralph "Sonny" | Dead in 5 Heartbeats | F | 1st | |
| Barker, Pat | Double Vision | |
L | |
| Barkley, Brad | Alison's Automotive Repair Manuel | |
F | |
| Barnes, Kim | Finding Caruso | |
L/H | 1st |
| Barry, Max | Jennifer Government | NYT Notable Books SLJ Best Books Booklist Editors' Choice - Adult Books for YAs |
F* | |
| Barthelme, Frederick | Elroy Nights | NYT Notable PEN/Faulkner Shortlist |
L | |
| Baruth, Philipe E. | The X-President: A Novel of the Cigarette Wars (paper) | NYT Notable Books |
SP | |
| Basch, Rachel | The Passion of Reverend Nash | |
F/L | |
| Bathurst, Bella | Special (paper) | |
F | |
| Bauman, Beth Ann | Beautiful Girls: Stories | F/SS | ||
| Bausch, Richard | The Stories of Richard Bausch: New and Selected Stories | |
L/SS | |
| Baxter, Charles | Saul and Patsy | NYT Notable Books Washington Post Rave |
L | |
| Baxter, Stephen | Coalescent | NYT Notable Books | SP | |
| Bear, Greg | Darwin's Children | |
SP* | |
| Beauseigneur, James | In His Image | |
I | |
| Beauseigneur, James | Birth of an Age | |
I | |
| Bechdel, Alison | Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out for | Booklist Top 10 Graphic Novels |
graphic novel | |
| Begley, Louis | Shipwreck | PW Best Books NYT Notable Books Washington Post Rave |
L | |
| Beller, Anne Scott | Calpurnia | |
H | |
| Benbow, Dave | Daytime Drama (paper) | Lambda Finalist Romance | GL/R | |
| Berger, Thomas | Best Friends | NYT Notable Books Washington Post Rave |
F | |
| Berlinski, Claire | Loose Lips | F* | 1st | |
| Bilal, Enki | The Dormant Beast (paper) | |
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| Bing, Stanley | You Look Nice Today | |
F | |
| Blake, James C. | Under the Skin | |
F | |
| Bledsoe, Lucy Jane | This Wild Silence (paper) | Lambda Finalist Lesbian Fiction | GL | |
| Bolano, Roberto | By Night in Chile (paper) | |
L | |
| Bond, Stephanie | Kill the Competition (paper) | |
R | |
| Booth, Martin | Islands of Silence | |
H/L | |
| Bosworth, Beth | Tunneling | F | 1st | |
| Bova, Ben | Saturn | SP | ||
| Boyd, William | Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart | Booker Prize 2002 Long List PW Best Books NYT Notable Books Washington Post Rave ALA/RUSA Notable Village Voice VLS Favorites Salon Best Fiction Time Best Books |
F/L | |
| Boyle, Elizabeth | Stealing the Bride (paper) | Booklist Top 10 Romance |
R | |
| Boyle, T. C. | Drop City | National Book Award Finalist PW Best Books NYT Editors' Choice Booklist Editors' Choice Salon Best Fiction |
F/L | |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 - Anniv | |
SP/L | |
| Bradley, Celeste | The Pretender (paper) | |
R | |
| Bragg, Melvyn | A Son of War | |
F/H | |
| Bram, Christopher | Lives of the Circus Animals | NYT Notable Books Stonewall Book Award Honor Book Lambda Finalist Gay Men's Fiction |
F | |
| Brasfield, Lynette | Nature Lessons | F/L | 1st | |
| Braver, Adam | Mr. Lincoln's Wars | B&N Discover New Writers | H | 1st |
| Brennert, Alan | Moloka'i | |
H | |
| Brian, Bex | Promiscuous Unbound | |
F | |
| Brink, Andre | The Other Side of Silence | |
L | |
| Britton, Pamela | Seduced (paper) | |
R | |
| Brkic, Courtney Angela | Stillness: And Other Stories | NYT Notable | L/SS | |
| Brockmann, Suzanne | Gone Too Far | Starett & Locke | R | |
| Brockmeier, Kevin | The Truth About Celia | |
F | |
| Brookner, Anita | Making Things Better | NYT Notable Books |
F/L* | |
| Brooks, Bill | Pretty Boy | |
H | |
| Brooks, Terry | High Druid of Shannara | SP | ||
| Brotherton, Mike | Star Dragon | Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy |
SP | |
| Broughton, T. Alan | Suicidal Tendencies: Stories | |
L/SS | |
| Brown, Angela (ed) | Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003 (paper) | Lambda Finalist Romance | GL/SS | |
| Brown, Sandra | Hello, Darkness | R* | ||
| Brust, Steven | The Lord of Castle Black | SP | ||
| Buchan, Elizabeth | Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman | |
F | |
| Buckman, Daniel | Morning Dark | |
L | |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | The Paladin of Souls | Nebula Award Finalist | SP | |
| Bukoski, Anthony | Time Between Trains | Booklist Editors' Choice |
F | |
| Burnett, Allison | Christopher (paper) | |
F | |
| Busch, Frederick | A Memory of War | NYT Notable Books |
L* | |
| Byatt, A.S. | A Whistling Woman | NYT Notable Books |
L* | |
| Byers, Michael | Long for This World | NYT Notable Books |
F/L | 1st |
| Caldwell, Laura | A Clean Slate (paper) | |
R | |
| Camp, Candace | Mesmerized (paper) | |
R | |
| Campbell, Ramsey | The Darkest Part of the Woods | SP | ||
| Campbell, Ramsey | Told by the Dead | |
SP | |
| Campbell, Eddie | After the Snooter | |
graphic novel | |
| Canham, Marsha | The Iron Rose (paper) | |
R | |
| Cantor, Jay | Great Neck | NYT Notable Books Booklist Editors' Choice |
F/L | |
| Carey, Edward | Alva and Irva | ALA/RUSA Notable Booklist Editors' Choice |
L | |
| Carey, Jacqueline | Kushiel's Avatar (Terre d'Ange) | |
SP | |
| Carey, Jacqueline | The Crossley Baby | NYT Notable Books | F | |
| Carey, Peter | My Life As a Fake | PW Best Books NYT Notable Books LJ Best Books |
L | |
| Carlson, Ron | A Kind of Flying: Selected Stories | |
F/SS | |
| Carlyle, Liz | The Devil You Know (paper) | |
R | |
| Carroll, James | Secret Father | NYT Notable Books |
F* | |
| Carson, Tom | Gilligan's Wake | NYT Notable Books |
F/L | |
| Carter, Steven | I Was Howard Hughes (paper) | |
F | |
| Carter, Vincent O. | Such Sweet Thunder | |
A | |
| Casares, Oscar | Brownsville (paper) | Book Magazine Writer to Watch ALA/RUSA Notable |
F/L | |
| Castellani, Christopher | A Kiss From Maddalena | L/H | 1st | |
| Cavell, Benjamin | Rumble, Young Man, Rumble | |
L/SS | 1st |
| De Cervantes, Miguel | Don Quixote | PW Best Books LJ Best Books |
L | |
| Chamberlain, Diane | Kiss River | R | ||
| Chan, David Marshall | Goblin Fruit: Stories | LA Times Book Prize Finalist First Fiction | L/SS | |
| Chandraratna, Bandula | Mirage | |
L | |
| Chang, Hsi-kuo | The City Trilogy | |
L | |
| Chase-Riboud, Barbara | Hottentot Venus | BCALA Literary Award Winner | A/H* | |
| Chevalier, Tracy | The Virgin Blue (trade paper) | Originally published in the UK in 1997 - her first novel |
H | 1st |
| Choi, Susan | American Woman | PW Best Books NYT Notable Books NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award nominee Village Voice VLS Favorites Salon Best Fiction |
F | |
| Chorao, Ian | Bruiser | Booklist Top 10 First Novels |
F/L | |
| Christopher, John | Bad Dream | |
SP | |
| Clark, Nancy | The Hills at Home | NYT Notable Books |
F | 1st |
| Clarke, Austin | The Polished Hoe | Washington Post Rave | A/L | |
| Clarke, John | The Tournament | |
L/SP | |
| Coetzee, J.M. | Elizabeth Costello | Booker Long List Nobel Prize NYT Notable Books Village Voice VLS Favorites |
F/L | |
| Cofer, Judith Ortiz | The Meaning of Consuelo | BBYA |
L | |
| Collins, Paul | The Earthborn | SP | ||
| Collishaw, Stephan | The Last Girl | F | 1st | |
| Conn, Andrew Lewis | P (paper) | Village Voice VLS Favorites |
F | |
| Connelly, Joe | Crumbtown | |
F | |
| Cooke, Darwyn | Catwoman: Selena's Big Score | |
graphic novel | |
| Corey, Deborah Joy | The Skating Pond | |
F | |
| Cornelius, Patricia | My Sister Jill | H | 1st | |
| Cornwell, Bernard | Heretic | |
H | |
| Corrick, Martin | The Navigation Log | H | 1st | |
| Cort, Robert W. | Action | H | 1st | |
| Courtemanche, Gil | A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali | NYT Notable Books |
F | |
| Cowell, Alan S. | A Walking Guide | NYT Notable | F | 1st |
| Crace, Jim | Genesis | NYT Notable Books |
L | |
| Craig, Amanda | Love in Idleness | |
F/L | |
| Croft, Barbara | Moon's Crossing (paper) | |
F | |
| Cutter, Leah R. | Paper Mage (paper) | Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy |
SP | |
| Dailey, Janet | Shifting Calder Wind | R | ||
| Dalton, Quinn | High Strung | F | 1st | |
| Dann, Jack, Ramsey Cambell, etc. | Gathering the Bones | |
SP | |
| Darbyshire, Peter | Please (paperback) | |
||
| Dart-Thornton, Cecilia | The Battle of Evernight | SP | ||
| Daswani, Kavita | For Matrimonial Purposes | F | 1st | |
| Datlow, Ellen (ed) | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror | SP/SS | ||
| Datlow, Ellen (ed) | The Dark: Very Scary New Ghost Stories | |
SP/SS | |
| Daum, Megan | The Quality of Life Report | NYT Notable Books |
F | |
| David, Peter | One Knight Only | SP | ||
| Davis, Amanda | Wonder When You'll Miss Me | BBYA Booklist Editors' Choice - Adult Books for YAs Alex Award |
F | 1st |
| Davis-Goff, Annabel | Fox's Walk | NYT Notable Books |
F/H | |
| De Lint, Charles | Spirits in the Wires | |
SP | |
| Deb, Siddhartha | The Point of Return | NYT Notable Books |
F | |
| Delaney, Mathew | Jinn | |
SP | |
| Delillo, Don | Cosmopolis | NYT Notable Books |
L | |
| DeMatteis, J.M & Glenn Barr | Brooklyn Dreams | Booklist Top 10 Graphic Novels | graphic novel | |
| Deveraux, Jude | Wild Orchids | R* | ||
| Dexter, Pete | Train | Booklist Top Sports Books NYT Notable Books LA Times Fiction Book Prize Winner |
L | |
| Dickinson, Charles | A Shortcut in Time | |
SP | |
| Dierbeck, Lisa | One Pill Makes You Smaller | NYT Notable Books |
L | |
| Diliberto, Gioia | I Am Madame X | Booklist Top 10 Historical Novel |
L/H | |
| Doctorow, Cory | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom | Nebula Award Finalist | SP | 1st |
| Docx, Edward | The Calligrapher | LJ Best First Novels |
L | 1st |
| Donovan, Gerard | Schopenhauer's Telescope | Booker Long List | L | |
| Douglass, Sara | Beyond the Hanging Wall | Booklist Editors' Choice - Adult Books for YAs | ||
| Douglass, Sara | Hades' Daughter: Troy Game, bk 1 | |
SP | |
| Douglass, Sara | Threshold | SP | ||
| Dozois, Gardner | Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual | |
SP | |
| Drake, David | Goddess of the Ice Realm | SP | ||
| Drake, David | The Far Side of the Stars | SP | ||
| Drooker, Eric | Blood Song: A Silent Ballad (paper) | SLJ Best Books | graphic novel | |
| Drushinokov, Yuri | Angels on the Head of a Pin | |
L | |
| Duchamp, L. Timmel | Love's Body, Dancing in Time (paper) | Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy | SP/SS | |
| Ducornet, Rikki | Gazelle | L | ||
| Due, Tananarive | The Good House | |
A/SP | |
| Duisberg, Kristin Waterfield | The Good Patient | |
F | |
| Dumas, Henry | Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas | |
A/SS | |
| Duncan, Dave | Impossible Odds | SP | ||
| Dunmore, Helen | Ice Cream | |
L/SS | |
| Dybek, Stuart | I Sailed With Magellan | NYT Notable Books Booklist Editors' Choice ALA Notable Books |
F/SS | |
| Dyer, Chris | Wanderlust (paper) | |
F | |
| Eberstadt, Fernanda | The Furies | NYT Notable Books |
F | |
| Eddings, David & Leigh | The Elder Gods | SP | ||
| Edwards, Louis | Oscar Wilde Discovers America | |
H | |
| Effinger, George Alec | Budayeen Nights | PW Best Books |
SP | |
| Eisenberg, Nora | Just the Way You Want Me (paper) | |
F | |
| Elderkin, Susan | The Voices | F/L | ||
| Ellengerg, Jordan | The Grasshopper King | NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award nominee | L | |
| Elliott, Kate | The Gathering Storm | SP | ||
| Elliott, Stephen (ed) | Politically Inspired | |
F/SS | |
| Ellis, Virginia | The Photograph | R/H | ||
| Emmons, Cai | His Mother's Son | |
F* | |
| Engelhardt, Tom | The Last Days of Publishing | |
L | |
| Epstein, Joseph | Fabulous Small Jews | |
L/SS | |
| Epstein, Leslie | San Remo Drive: A Novel from Memory | NYT Notable Books Booklist Editors' Choice |
F | |
| Erdrich, Louise | The Master Butcher's Singing Club | Booklist Top 10 Historical Novel PW Best Books NYT Notable Books Booklist Editors' Choice Booksense Book of the Year Finalist |
H/L | |
| Eubanks, Nelson | The First Thing Smoking | |
A/SS | 1st |
| Farland, David | The Lair of Bones | SP | ||
| Farrington, Geoffrey | The Revenants (paper) | |
SP | |
| Faunce, John | Lucrezia Borgia | H | 1st | |
| Feist, Raymond | Talon of the Silver Hawk | |
SP | |
| Ferrell, David | Screwball | Booklist Top Sports Books | F | |
| Fforde, Jasper | Lost in a Good Book:Thursday Next | NYT Notable Books |
SP/F | |
| Fingerman, Bob | Beg the Question | |
graphic novel | |
| Finney, Patricia | Gloriana's Torch: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada | |
H | |
| Fisher, Jude | Wild Magic | SP | ||
| Fitzpatrick, Nina | Daimons | |
F/SP | |
| Fleming, Anne Taylor | Marriage: A Duet | |
F* | |
| Flynn, Michael | The Wreck of the River of Stars | |
SP | |
| Foley, Mick | Tietam Brown | F | 1st | |
| Ford, Robert | The Student Conductor | B&N Discover Great New Writers Booklist Top 10 First Novels LJ Best First Novels |
F/L | 1st |
| Ford, Michael Thomas | Last Summer | Lambda Finalist Romance | GL | |
| Foster, Lori | Unexpected | |
R | |
| Fox, Andrew | Fat White Vampire Blues (paper) | Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy |
SP | |
| Frank, Dorothea Benton | Isle of Palms | PW Best Books |
F/R* | |
| Franklin, Tom | Hell at the Breech | PW Best Books |
H/L | |
| Freedman, Mitchell J. | A Distubance of Fate | |
F | |
| Freethy, Barbara | Summer Secrets (paper) | |
R | |
| French, Wendy | Smothering | SP | 1st | |
| Freudenberger, Nell | Lucky Girls: Stories | NYT Notable Books | F/SS | 1st |
| Friedman, Kinky | Kill Two Birds & Get Stoned | NYT Notable Books | F | |
| Fromm, Pete | As Cool As I Am | F/L | ||
| Fuguet, Alberto | The Movies of My Life | |
L | |
| Furst, Joshua | Short People | |
SS | 1st |
| Gaiman, Neil | The Sandman: Endless Nights | PW Best Books SF Chronicle Best Books |
graphic novel | |
| Gallagher, Fred | Megatokyo: Volume 1 | |
graphic novel | |
| Galloway, Janice | Clara | NYT Notable | H | |
| Galloway, Steven | Ascension | |
F/L | |
| Gamble, Terry | The Water Dancers | Booklist Top 10 First Novels Booklist Editors' Choice - Adult Books for YAs |
F | 1st |
| Gambone, Philip | Beijing | Lambda Finalist Gay Men's Fiction | F/GL | |
| Garcia, Cristina | Monkey Hunting | NYT Notable Books |
H/L | |
| Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina | Luck of the Draw | Booklist Top Sports Books | F/R | |
| Gardam, Jane | Faith Fox | |
L | |
| Gaslin, Glenn | Beemer | |
F | |
| Gautreaux, Tim | The Clearing | |
L | |
| Geary, Rick | The Beast of Chicago | |
graphic novel | |
| Gemmell, David | White Wolf: Druss the Legend | SP | ||
| Gentry, Georgina | To Tame a Texan (paper) | Booklist Top 10 Romance | R | |
| Gibson, William | Pattern Recognition | NYT Notable Books Washington Post Rave Village Voice VLS Favorites |
SP/M | |
| Gingrich, Newt & William Forstchen | Gettysburg | H* | ||
| Glancy, Diane | Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea | |
H | |
| Glover, Douglas H. | Bad News of the Heart (paper) | |
L | |
| Golding, William F. | Lord of the Flies -50th Anniv | |
L | |
| Goodman, Carol | The Seduction of Water | |
F* | |
| Goodwin, Stephen | Breaking Her Fall | Booklist Editors' Choice |
F | |
| Gordimer, Nadine | Loot: And Other Stories | NYT Notable |
L/SS | |
| Govier, Katherine | Creation | NYT Notable Books |
F | |
| Gowdy, Barbara | The Romantic | Booker Long List NYT Notable Books |
F | |
| Gralla, Cynthia | The Floating World | L | 1st | |
| Grass, Gunter | Crabwalk | NYT Notable Books |
L | |
| Gregson, Rebecca | Eggshell Days | |
F/R | |
| Griesemer, John | Signal & Noise | Booklist Editors' Choice |
H | |
| Griffith, Michael | Bibliophilia: A Novella and Stories | |
F/SS | |
| Grimes, Tom | Will@Epicwest.com: A Medicated Memoir (paper) | |
F | |
| Grisham, John | Bleachers | F* | ||
| Grondahl, Jens | Lucca | |
F/L | |
| Groot, Tracy | The Brother's Keeper (paper) | |
I | |
| Gunesekera, Romesh | Heaven's Edge | NYT Notable Books | F/L | |
| Gunn, Kirsty | Featherstone | NYT Notable | F | |
| Guterson, David | Our Lady of the Forest | NYT Notable Books |
F/L* | |
| Gutteridge, Rene | Boo (paper) | |
I | |
| Haddon, Mark | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Book Magazine Writer to Watch Booker Long List Whitbread Fiction Award Winner PW Best Books NYT Notable Books Washington Post Rave SLJ Best Books ALA/RUSA Notable BBYA LJ Best Books Booklist Editors' Choice - Adult Books for YAs Whitbread Book of the Year LA Times Book Prize Winner Art Seidenbaum First Fiction Village Voice VLS Favorites Salon Best Fiction Booksense Book of the Year Finalist Alex Award |
F/L | 1st |
| Hadley, Tessa | Everything Will Be All Right | |
F | |
| Hagedorn, Jessica | Dream Jungle | NYT Notable Books |
F/L | |
| Haigh, Jennifer | Mrs. Kimble | Booklist Top 10 First Novels Booksense Book of the Year Finalist |
F | 1st |
| Hall, Brian | I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark | Salon Best Fiction |
H | |
| Halpern, Sue | The Book of Hard Things | Booklist Top 10 First Novels |
F | 1st |
| Hamill, Pete | Forever | |
F* | |
| Hamilton, Laurell K. | Cerulean Sins: Anita Blake | |
SP | |
| Hamman, H.T. | Anthropology of an American Girl | LJ Best First Novels | F | 1st |
| Hancock, Karen | The Light of Eidon (paper) | |
I | |
| Hannah, Kristin | Between Sisters | F/R | ||
| Hariharan, Githa | In Times of Siege | L | 1st | |
| Harlan, Thomas | Wastland of Flint | |
SP | |
| Harrar, George | The Spinning Man | |
F | |
| Harris, Robert | Pompeii | Booklist Top 10 Historical Fiction Books |
H* | |
| Harrison, M. John | Things That Never Happen | PW Best Books |
SP | |
| Haskell, John | I Am Not Jackson Pollack | PW Best Books |
L | 1st |
| Hay, Elizabeth | Garbo Laughs | |
F | |
| Hayden, Paul | Last Wave (paper) | Booklist Top Sports Books | F | |
| Hays, Mary | Learning to Drive | F | 1st | |
| Hazzard, Shirley | The Great Fire | National Book Award Winner PW Best Books NYT Notable Books Washington Post Rave LJ Best Books Booklist Editors' Choice Orange Prize Shortlist |
H* | |
| Hearn, Lian | Grass for His Pillow: Tales of the Otari, Book 2 | NYT Notable Books BBYA |
H/SP | |
| Heath, Lorraine | Love with a Scandalous Lord (paper) | |
R | |
| Hecht, Julie | The Unprofessionals | PW Best Books NYT Notable Books |
F | 1st |
| Heinrich, Will | The King's Evil | |
F | 1st |
| Heller, Zoe | What Was She Thinking: Notes on a Scandal | Booker Long List NYT Notable Books Washington Post Rave B&N Finalist Discover Great New Writers Orange Prize Longlist |
F/L* | |
| Hendricks, Judith Ryan | Isabel's Daughter | F | ||
| Henley, Virginia | Undone (paper) | |
R | |
| Henry, Maren | Anise: A Tale of True Love in a World Gone Mad | |
SP | |
| Hernandez, Gilbert | Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories | PW Best Books Booklist Top 10 Graphic Novels |
graphic novel | |
| Herrick, Amy | The Happiness Code | |
F | |
| Herriman, George | Krazy & Ignatz: 1929-1930 | |
graphic novel | |
| Hickman, Patricia | Fallen Angels | |
I | |
| Highland, Frederick | Ghost Eater | |
H | |
| Hill, Sandra | The Very Virile Viking (paper) | |
R | |
| Hingston, Sandy | The Affair (paper) | |
R | |
| Hinty, Ryan | Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona | |
L/SS | |
| Hirshberg, Glen | The Two Sams | PW Best Books |
SP | |
| Hoffman, Alice | The Probable Future | SLJ Best Books |
L | |
| Holdstock, Robert | Celtika: Book One of the Merlin Codex | SF Chronicle Best Books |
SP | |
| Holman, Sheri | The Mammoth Cheese | PW Best Books |
F/L | |
| Hopkinson, Nalo | The Salt Roads | |
SP/A | |
| Hospital, Janette Turner | Due Preparations for the Plague | Booklist Editors' Choice |
L | |
| Hosseini, Khaled | The Kite Runner | SLJ Best Books ALA/RUSA Notable Borders Original Voices Award Alex Award |
L* | 1st |
| Houellebecq, Michel | Platform | |
L | |
| Hough, Robert | The Final Confession of Mabel Stark | |
L/H | 1st |
| Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki | The Legend of the Fire Horse Woman | H | 1st | |
| Hoyt, Sarah A. | Any Man So Daring | Booklist Top 10 Historical Fiction Books |
SP | |
| Huebner, Andrew | We Pierce | NYT Notable | F | |
| Huneven, Michelle | Jamesland | NYT Notable Books LA Times Book Prize Finalist |
F | |
| Hunter, Madeline | The Charmer (paper) | |
R | |
| Hunter, Madeline | The Saint (paper) | |
R | |
| Hurley, Valerie | St Ursula's Girls Against the Atomic Bomb | F | 1st | |
| Hustvedt, Siri | What I Loved | PW Best Books NYT Notable Books |
F/L* | |
| Hwang, Caroline | In Full Bloom | F | ||
| Iagnemma, Karl | On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction | |
F/SS | 1st |
| Iggulden, Conn | Emperor: The Gates of Rome | H | 1st | |
| Ignatieff, Michael | Charlie Johnson in the Flames | NYT Notable Books |
F | |
| Inzana, Ryan | Johnny Jihad | Booklist Top 10 Graphic Novels | graphic novel | |
| Itani, Frances | Deafening | |
H/L | 1st |
| Iyer, Pico | Abandon | NYT Notable Books |
F | |
| Jaffe, John | Thief of Words | F/R | 1st | |
| Jarrell, Donna (ed) | What Are You Looking At: the First Fat Fiction Anthology (paper) | |
F/SS | |
| Jensen, Jane | Dante's Equation (paper) | |
SP | |
| Jeppesen, Travis | Victims (paper) | |
F | |
| Joe, Yolanda | The Hatwearer's Lesson | A | ||
| Johnson, Diane | L'Affaire | NYT Notable Books |
F/L | |
| Johnson, Kij | Fudoki | PW Best Books |
SP | |
| Jones, Ben | The Rope Eater | LJ Best First Novels Booklist Top 10 First Novels |
H | 1st |
| Jones, Edward P. | The Known World | National Book Award Finalist PW Best Books NYT Editors' Choice ALA/RUSA Notable BCALA First Novelist Award Booklist Editors' Choice - Top of the List National Book Critics Circle Award Winner LJ Best First Novels Pulitzer Prize Winner Booklist Top 10 Historical Fiction Books |
H/A* | 1st |
| Jones, J.V. | A Fortress of Grey Ice: Book 2 Sword of Shadows | |
SP | |
| Jones, Stephen (ed) | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #14 (paper) | SP/SS | ||
| Jones, Vanessa | The Kindest Use a Knife (paper) | |
F | |
| Jong, Erica | Sappho's Leap | Booklist Top 10 Historical Novel |
H | |
| Joyce, Graham | The Facts of Life | World Fantasy Award |
F | |
| Julavits, Heidi | The Effect of Living Backwards | NYT Notable | F | |
| Juska, Elise | Getting Over Jack Wagner (paper) | |
F | |
| Kalfus, Ken | The Commissariat of Enlightenment | PW Best Books NYT Notable Books |
L | 1st |
| Kallmaker, Karin | Maybe Next Time (paper) | Lambda Finalist Romance | GL | |
| Kaplow, Robert | Me and Orson Welles | SLJ Best Books |
F/H | |
| Karasu, Bilge | The Garden of Departed Cats (paper) | |
L | |
| Karnezis, Panos | Little Infamies: Stories | NYT Notable Books |
L/SS | |
| Kachtick, Keith | Hungry Ghost | NYT Notable | F | 1st |
| Keillor, Garrison | Love Me | NYT Notable Books Washington Post Rave |
F | |
| Kelby, N.M. | Theater of the Stars | |
F/L | |
| Kemper, Marjorie | Until That Good Day | F/H | 1st | |
| Kenaz, Yehoshua | Infiltration (paper) | |
F | |
| Keneally, Thomas | Office of Innocence | NYT Notable Books |
F* | |
| Kennedy, A.L. | Indelible Acts: A Collection of Stories | NYT Notable Books | L/SS | |
| Kerstan, Lynn | The Silver Lion (paper) | |
R | |
| Keyes, Greg | The Briar King | |
SP | |
| Kim, Suki | The Interpreter | Book Magazine Writer to Watch | F/L | 1st |
| King, Ruchama | Seven Blessings | F | 1st | |
| King, Stephen | The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla | PW Best Books SF Chronicle Best Books |
SP* | |
| King, Susan | Waking the Princess (paper) | |
R | |
| King, Susan | Taming the Heiress (paper) | |
R | |
| Kirstein, Rosemary | The Lost Steersman (paper) | |
SP | |
| Kizis, Deanna | How to Meet Cute Boys | |
F | |
| Kleypas, Lisa | Worth Any Prince (paper) | |
R | |
| Knight, Michael | Goodnight, Nobody | |
F/SS | |
| Knipfel, James | The Buzzing (paper) | |
L | 1st |
| Knox, Elizabeth | Daylight | Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy Washington Post Rave |
SP | |
| Koeppen, Wolfgang | A Sad Affair | |
L | |
| Korbel, Katheleen | Some Men's Dreams (paper) | Booklist Top 10 Romance |
R | |
| Kowalski, William | The Adventures of Flash Jackson | F | ||
| Krentz, Jayne Ann | Truth or Dare | R* | ||
| Kress, Nancy | Crossfire | SP | ||
| Kricorian, Nancy | Dreams of Bread and Fire | |
F | |
| Krinard, Susan | To Catch a Wolf (paper) | |
R | |
| Kurland, Lynn | A Garden in the Rain (paper) | Booklist Top 10 Romance |
R | |
| Kusel, Lisa | Other Fish in the Sea | F | 1st | |
| Lackey, Mercedes | The Outstretched Shadow: Obsidian Trilogy, Bk 1 | SP | ||
| Lackey, Mercedes | Joust | Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy |
SP | |
| Lackey, Mercedes | Mad Maudlin | SP | ||
| Lahiri, Jhumpa | The Namesake | NYT Notable Books SLJ Best Books LA Times Book Prize Finalist Orange Prize Longlist LJ Best First Novels Time Best Books |
F | 1st |
| Lancelotta, Victoria | Far | |
F/L | |
| Landis, Jill Marie | Lover's Lane | Booklist Top 10 Romance | R | |
| Laskas, Gretchen Moran | The Midwife's Tale | |
F/L | 1st |
| Laskowski, Tim | Every Good Boy Does Fine | |
F | 1st |
| Lattany, Kristin Hunter | Breaking Away | A | ||
| Lawhead, Stephen R. | Patrick: Son of Ireland | |
H/I | |
| Laxness, Halldor | Iceland's Bell (paper) | |
F | |
| Lazebnik, Claire Scovell | Same As It Never Was | |
F | 1st |
| Le Guin, Ursula | Changing Planes | NYT Notable |
SP/SS | |
| Le Hunte, Bem | The Seduction of Silence | |
F | 1st |
| Le, Thi Diem Thuy | The Gangster We Are All Looking For | Book Magazine Writer to Watch NYT Notable |
L | 1st |
| Leanne, Shelly | Joshua's Bible | BCALA Literary Award Honor Book | I/A | |
| Lee, Tanith | Mortal Sins | SP | ||
| Lennon, J. Robert | Mailman | |
F/L | |
| Leon, Peggy | Mother Country | F/H | 1st | |
| Leonard, Elmore | When the Women Came Out to Dance and Other Stories | NYT Notable Books | F/SS* | |
| Leonardi, Susan J. | And Then There Were Nuns | Lambda Finalist Lesbian Fiction | GL | |
| Leroy, Margaret | Postcards from Berlin | NYT Notable Books |
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| Leslie, Diane | Fleur De Leigh in Exile | F | ||
| Lethem, Jonathan | The Fortress of Solitude | PW Best Books NYT Editors' Choice ALA/RUSA Notable Village Voice VLS Favorites Salon Best Fiction Time Best Books |
L* | |
| Levien, D.J. | Swagbelly: A Pornographers Tale (paper) | |
F | |
| Levinson, Barry | Sixty-Six | F/H | 1st | |
| Levison, Iain | Since the Layoffs | F | 1st | |
| Lewis, Jim | The King is Dead | NYT Notable Books |
H/F | |
| Lightman, Alan P. | Reunion | NYT Notable Books |
F | |
| Ligon, Samuel | Safe in Heaven Dead | |
F | |
| Lipman, Elinor | The Pursuit of Alice Thrift | |
F* | |
| Liss, David | The Coffee Trader | NYT Notable Books |
H* | |
| Lively, Penelope | The Photograph | NYT Notable Books |
L | |
| Lliteras, D. | Jerusalem's Rain | |
I | |
| Llosa, Mario Vargas | The Way to Paradise | NYT Notable Books |
L | |
| Lloyd, Dan | Radiant Cool: A Novel of the Theory of Consciousness | L | 1st | |
| Lo Bosco, Rocco | Buddha Wept | F | 1st | |
| Loeb, Jeph, Jim Lee, Scott Williams | Batman: Hush | < |