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Notable Fiction 2001Hardcover and notable fiction releases.

Some of the major hardcover titles (and a few paperbacks) scheduled for release in the U.S. All information is subject to change and dyslexic typos. 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 (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ). First novel information is derived from a variety of sources and may not be comprehensive.

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.

AUTHOR	TITLE	Stars ~ Notes
Abreu, Caio Ferndando	Whatever Happened to Dulce Viega (trade paper)
Adair, Cherry	Hide and Seek (paper)	Romance Writers of America Top Ten
Adrian, Chris	Gob's Grief	1st
Alison, Jane	The Love-Artist
Allende, Isabel	Portrait in Sepia
Anastas, Benjamin	The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance	NYTBR Notable
Anderson, Susan	All Shook Up (paper)
Arenas, Reinaldo	Mona and Other Tales (trade paper)
Askew, Rilla	Fire in Beulah
Azzopardi, Trezza	The Hiding Place	Booker Prize shortlist 2000 PW Notable
Babel, Isaac	The Complete Works of Isaac Babel	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book Booklist Editors' Choice Koret Jewish Book Award
Badami, Anita Rau	The Hero's Walk	Book World Rave
Baida, Peter	A Nurse's Story, and Others	NYTBR Notable
Bainbridge, Beryl	According to Queeney	Booker nominee 2001 NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Baker, Kage	The Graveyard Game: Mendoza
Balasubramanyam, Rajeev	In Beautiful Disguises (trade paper)	1st
Balint, Christine	The Salt Letters (trade paper)	1st
Banks, Iain M.	Look to Windward	PW Notable NYTBR Notable
Banville, John	Eclipse	NYTBR Notable
Barker, Clive	Cold Heart Canyon	PW Notable
Barker, Pat	Border Crossing	NYTBR Notable
Barnes, Julian	Love, Etc	NYTBR Notable
Barnett, Lisa A. & Melissa Scott	Point of Dreams	Lamda Winner - Science Fiction/Fantasy
Barth, John	Coming Soon!!! A Narrative
Baxter, Stephen	Manifold: Space	Library Journal Best Genre
Beattie, Ann	Perfect Recall	PW Notable NYTBR Notable
Belle, Jennifer	High Maintenance
Bellow, Saul	Collected Fiction	PW Notable
Benedict, Elizabeth	Almost	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Benitez, Sandra	Weight of All Things	Book World Rave
Berg, Elizabeth	Never Change	Book World Rave
Berne, Suzanne	A Perfect Arrangement	NYTBR Notable
Biguenet, John	The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories
Binchy, Maeve	Scarlet Feather
Bird, Sarah	The Yokota Officers Club
Blake, Michael	The Holy Road
Bock, Dennis	The Ash Garden	1st Book World Rave LJ Top Debut
Boehm, Deborah Boliver	Ghost of a Smile
Boetius, Henning	The Phoenix
Boogaard, Oscar Van Den	Love's Death
Borchardt, Alice	The Dragon Queen
Bowles, Paul	The Stories of Paul Bowles	NYTBR Notable
Boxer, Sarah	In the Floyd Archives: APsycho-Bestiary	NYTBR Notable
Boylan, Clare	Beloved Stranger
Boyle, T.C.	After the Plague and Other Stories	Book World Rave
Bradbury, Malcolm	To the Hermitage	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Bradbury, Ray	From the Dust Returned
Bradley, Marian Zimmer & Diana Paxson	Priestess of Avalon
Braselton, Jeanne	A False Sense of Well Being	1st Booklist Top 10 First Novels
Brenna, Duff	The Altar of the Body
Brenner, Leslie	Greetings from the Golden State	1st
Breslin, Jimmy	I Don't Want to Go to Jail
Brett, Lily	Too Many Men
Brockman, Suzanne	Taylor's Temptation (paper)	Romance Writers of America Top Ten
Brockman, Suzanne	Over the Edge (paper)	Romance Writers of America Top Ten
Brockman, Suzanne	The Defiant Hero (paper)	Romance Writers of America Top Ten
Brockway, Connie	Bridal Season (paper)	Romance Writers of America Top Ten
Brookner, Anita	The Bay of Angels	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Brooks, Bill	The Stone Garden: The Epic Life of Billy the Kid
Brooks, Geraldine	Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague	1st NYTBR Notable
Brooks, Terry	The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax	PW Notable
Brownrigg, Sylvia	Pages for You	Lamda Winner - Romance
Bujold, Lois McMaster	The Curse of Chalion
Bukiet, Melvin Jules	Strange Fire	Book World Rave Booklist Editors' Choice
Bull, Bartle	The Devil's Oasis	Book World Rave
Byatt, A. S.	The Biographer's Tale	NYTBR Notable
Cabot, Patricia	Lady of Skye (paper)
Cambor, Kathleen	In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden	PW Notable NYTBR Notable
Canin, Ethan	Carry Me Across the Water	NYTBR Notable
Canty, Kevin	Honeymoon and Other Stories	NYTBR Notable
Card, Orson Scott	Shadow of the Hegemon
Carey, Edward	Observatory Mansions
Carey, Jacqueline	Kushiel's Dart	PW Notable
Carey, Peter	True History of the Kelly Gang	Booker Prize Winner 2001 PW Notable NYTBR Editor's Choice Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book ALA Notable Book
Carroll, Jonathan	The Wooden Sea	NYTBR Notable
Carroll, Susan	The Midnight Bride	Library Journal Best Genre
Carson, Anne	The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos	NYTBR Notable
Chamberlin, Ann	The Merlin of the Oak Wood
Chaon, Dan	Among the Missing	National Book Award Nominee PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave ALA Notable Book
Chavez, Denise	Loving Pedro Infante	Book World Rave
Chee, Alexander	Edinburgh	PW Notable 1st Lamda Winner - Editors' Choice
Cherryh, C.J.	Hammerfall	Booklist Top 10 SF/F
Chessman, Harriet Scott	Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
Chevalier, Tracy	Falling Angels	Book World Rave
Chiu, Christina	Troublemaker and Other Saints
Chong, Kevin	Baroque-a-Nova	LJ Top Debut
Christensen, Kate	Jeremy Thrane
Clair, Maxine	October Suite	Book World Rave
Clarke, Arthur C.	The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
Cleage, Pearl	I Wish I Had a Red Dress	BCALA Award Winner
Cohen, Robert	Inspired Sleep	NYTBR Notable
Cokal, Susann	Mirabilis	1st
Coldsmith, Don	The Raven Mocker
Colgate, Isabel	Winter Journey	NYTBR Notable
Coll, Susan	Karlmarx.Com: A Love Story	1st Book World Rave
Colombi, Lamarchesa	A Small Town Marriage (trade paper)
Connolly, J.J.	Layer Cake
Cooke, Carolyn	The Bostons (trade paper)	NYTBR Notable
Cornwell, Bernard	Sharpe's Trafalgar	PW Notable
Cornwell, Bernard	The Archer's Tale
Crace, Jim	The Devil's Larder: Stories	NYTBR Notable
Criswell, Millie	What To Do About Annie (paper)	Library Journal Best Genre
Cronin, Justin	Mary and O'Neil	1st Book World Rave
Cruise, Jennifer	Fast Women	Romance Writers of America Top Ten
Crumey, Andrew	Mr. Mee	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Cullen, Bob	A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe
Cullin, Mitch	From a Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest (trade paper)	Booklist Top Gay and Lesbian Books
Cummins, Joseph	The Snow Train	LJ Top Debut
Czuchlewski, David	The Muse Asylum	1st
Daniel, Tony	Metaplanetary
Dann, Jack (ed)	Dreaming Down Under
Dark, Larry (ed)	Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards (trade paper)
Dart-Thornton, Cecilia	The Ill-Made Mute: Bitterbynde Bk 1
Date, S.V.	Deep Water
Datlow, Ellen & Teri Windling (ed)	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
David, Peter	Sir Apropos of Nothing	PW Notable
Davis, Lydia	Samel Johnson is Indignant	PW Notable ALA Notable Book
Dawson, Jill	Fred & Edie
De Lint, Charles	The Onion Girl
Deaner, Janice	Notes on Extinction
Delillo, Don	The Body Artist	Book World Rave
Dew, Robb Forman	The Evidence Against Her	Book World Rave
Di Filippo, Paul	Strange Trades
Divakaruni, Chitra	The Unknown Errors of Our Lives	Book World Rave
Donoghue, Emma	Slammerkin	PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Dorfman, Ariel	Blake's Therapy	Book World Rave
Dorrestein, Renate	A Heart of Stone	Book World Rave
Douglas, L. Warren	The Sacred Pool
Dozios, Gardner (ed)	The Years' Best Science Fiction
Drabble, Margaret	Peppered Moth	NYTBR Notable
Due, Tanarive	The Living Blood	PW Notable
Dugain, Marc	The Officers' Ward
Duncan, Pamela	Moon Women	1st LJ Top Debut
Dunmore, Helen	A Spell of Winter	Book World Rave
Dunn, Mark	Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Episotlary Fable	Booksense Finalist LJ Top Debut
Durham, David Anthony	Gabriel's Story	1st NYTBR Notable Booklist Editors' Choice BCALA First Novelist Award
Durkee, Lee	Rides of the Midway	1st
Eagle, Kathleen	You Can Never Tell	Romance Writers of America Top Ten
Egan, Jennifer	Look at Me	National Book Award Nominee Booklist Editors' Choice
Eisner, Michael Alexander	The Crusader	1st Booklist Top 10 First Novels
Enger, Leif	Peace Like a River	1st Booklist Top 10 First Novels Booksense Winner
Enquist, Per Olov	The Royal Physician's Visit	NYTBR Notable Booklist Editors' Choice Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels
Erdrich, Louise	The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse	National Book Award Nominee PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book Booklist Editors' Choice Booksense Finalist
Erian, Alicia	The Brutal Language of Love
Estleman, Loren D.	The Master Executioner	PW Notable
Everett, Percival	Erasure	ALA Notable Book
Ferlosio, Rafael S.	The Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui
Fforde, Katie	Second Thyme Around
Fielding, Helen	Cause Celeb
Fischer, Maribeth	The Language of Goodbye
Flanagan, Richard	Death of a River Guide
Flynn, Robert	Tie-Fast Country
Forbes, Edith	Navigating the Darwin Straits (trade paper)
Ford, John M.	The Last Hot Time	PW Notable NYTBR Notable
Ford, Marjorie Leet	Do Try to Speak As We Do
Ford, Michael Curtis	The Ten Thousand	1st
Forrest, Leon	Meteor in the Madhouse
Fowler, Karen May	Sister Noon	PEN/Faulkner Finalist
Frame, Ronald	The Lantern Bearers
Frank, Dorothea Benton	Plantation: A Low Country Tale
Franzen, Jonathan	The Corrections	National Book Award Winner PW Notable NYTBR Editors' Choice Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book Booklist Editors' Choice Top of the List ALA Notable Book NBCC Award Nominee Booksense Finalist LA Times Fiction Prize Nominee PEN/Faulkner Finalist
Freund, Diane	Four Corners
Gaiman, Neal	American Gods	Book World Rave Nebula Winner
Galbraith, Douglas	The Rising Sun	1st NYTBR Notable
Gardam, Jane	The Flight of the Maidens	NYTBR Notable
Gavell, Mary Ladd	I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly: And Other Stories	NYTBR Notable
Gershten, Donna M.	Kissing the Virgin's Mouth	Library Journal Best Book
Ghosh, Amitav	The Glass Palace	PW Notable NYTBR Notable
Gibb, Camilla	Mouthing the Words
Gibson, Rachel	True Confessions	Romance Writers of America Top Ten
Gilb, Dagoberto	Woodcuts of Women
Glickfeld, Carole L.	Swimming Toward the Ocean
Gold, Glen David	Carter Beats the Devil	1st Guardian First Book Award Nominee PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Booklist Top 10 First Novels
Goodman, Allegra	Paradise Park	PW Notable NYTBR Notable
Gordimer, Nadine	The Pickup	Booker Prize nominee 2001 Book World Rave ALA Notable Book Booklist Editors' Choice
Gough, Julian	Juno & Juliet
Greig, Andrew	Clouds Above
Griesemer, John	No One Thinks of Greenland
Griffin, Nicholas	The House of Sight and Shadow
Grisham, John	A Painted House	Book World Rave
Grondahl, Jens Christian	Silence in October	Library Journal Best Book
Grooms, Anthony	Bombingham	Book World Rave
Gross, Gwendoline	Field Guide	1st
Guedj, Denis	The Parrot's Theorem
Gurganus, Allan	The Practical Heart: Four Novellas	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Lamda Winner
Gurnah, Abdulrazak	By the Sea	LA Times Fiction Prize Nominee
Hague, Nora	Letters From an Age of Reason	1st LJ Top Debut
Hamilton, Masha	Staircase of a Thousand Steps
Hannah, Barry	Yonder Stands Your Orphan	Book World Rave
Harris, Joanne	Five Quarters of the Orange
Harun, Adrianne	King of Limbo and Other Stories
Hay, Elizabeth	A Student of Weather	Book World Rave
Hearon, Shelby	Ella in Bloom
Hegi, Ursula	Hotel of the Saints: Stories
Heinz, W.C.	The Professional (trade paper)
Heng, Liu	Green River Daydreams
Herbert,Brian/ Anderson, Kevin	Dune: House Corrino	Library Journal Best Genre
Hill, Justin	The Drink and Dream Teahouse	Book World Rave
Hoban, Russell	Angelica's Grotto
Hockenberry, John	A River Out of Eden	1st
Hodgson, Barbara	Hippolyte's Island
Hoffman, Alice	Blue Diary	NYTBR Notable
Hogg, Peter	Crimes of War	1st
Hornby, Nick	How to Be Good	Booker Prize nominee 2001 PW Notable NYTBR Notable
Hornby, Nick (ed)	Speaking with the Angel: Stories (trade paper)
Horsley, Kate	Confessions of a Pagan Nun
Houston, James D.	Snow Mountain Passage	Book World Rave
Howard, Maureen	Big as Life: Three Tales for Spring
Humphreys, Helen	Afterimage	NYTBR Notable
Hussein, Abdullah	Emigre Journeys
Huston, Nancy	Dolce Agonia
Hynes, James	The Lecturer's Tale	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Irving, John	The Fourth Hand	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Isler, Alan	Clerical Errors	PW Notable
Ivory, Judith	The Indescretion (paper)
Jennings, Gary	Aztec Blood
Jones, Allen Morris	Last Year's River
Jones, Patricia	Red on a Rose (trade paper)
Jones, Stephen (ed)	The Mammoth Book of Vampire Short Stories by Women (trade paper)
Joshi, S. T.	The Modern Weird Tale
Kaplan, Hester	Kinship Theory
Keillor, Garrison	Lake Wobegon Summer 1956	Book World Rave
Kelby, N. M.	In the Company of Angels
Kelman, James	Translated Accounts	Booker Prize nominee 2001
Kelton, Elmer	Badger Boy
Kelton, Elmer	Way of the Coyote
Kennedy, A.L.	Everything You Need
Kessler, Brad	Lick Creek	1st
Kidd, Chip	The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters	NYTBR Notable
Kinder, Chuck	Honeymooners	NYTBR Notable
King, Stephen	Dreamcatcher	Book World Rave
King, Stephen & Peter Straub	Black House	PW Notable Book World Rave
King, Susan	The Sword Maiden (paper)
Kirn, Walter	Up in the Air	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Klein, Richard	Jewelry Talks: A Novel Thesis
Klima, Ivan	No Saints or Angels	Book World Rave
Knight, Arthur Winfield	Blue Skies Falling
Knox, Elizabeth	Black Oxen
Koeppen, Wolfgang	The Hothouse	NYTBR Notable
Koeppen,Wolfgang	Death in Rome
Kohler, Sheila	Children of Pitiviers
Kramer, Peter	Spectacular Happiness	1st
Kress, Nancy	Probability Sun
Krouse, Erika	Come Up and See Me Sometime: Stories	1st NYTBR Notable
Kureishi, Hanif	Gabriel's Gift	PW Notable Book World Rave
Kurtz, Katherine	St. Patrick's Gargoyle
Kurzweil, Allen	The Grand Complication	NYTBR Notable Booklist Editors' Choice
LaFarge, Paul	Haussmann, or the Distinction	NYTBR Notable
Landis, Geoffrey	Impact Parameter	PW Notable
Landis, Jill Marie	Summer Moon	Library Journal Best Genre
Landsale, Joe R.	Zepplins West
Laymon, Richard	Night in the Lonesome October
Le Guin, Ursula K.	Other Wind	NYTBR Notable
Le Guin, Ursula K.	Tales from Earthsea	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Leavitt, David	The Marble Quilt: Stories
Lee, Don	Yellow: Stories	PW Notable
Leithauser, Brad	A Few Corrections	Book World Rave
Lennon, J. Robert	On the Night Plain
Leroy, J.T.	Heart is Deceitful Above All Things	PW Notable
Liebrecht, Savyon	A Man and a Woman and a Man	1st
Lincoln, Christine	Sap Rising	1st
Litton, Josie	Dream of Me/Believe in Me	LJ Top Debut
Livesey, Margot	Eva Moves the Furniture	PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Lodge, David	Thinks	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Long, Goldberry M.	Juniper Tree Burning	1st
Lowy, Jonathan	Elvis and Nixon
MacLeod, Alistair	Island: The Complete Stories	NYTBR Notable ALA Notable Book
Maddox, Bruno	My Little Blue Dress	NYTBR Notable
Makine, Andrei	Requiem for a Lost Empire
Maklya, Kanan	The Rock: A Seventh Century Tale of Jerusalem	Booklist Editors' Choice Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels
Mapson, Jo-Ann	Bad Girl Creek: A Novel in 4 Voices
Marai, Sandor	Embers	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Marcom, Micheline Aharonian	Three Apples Fell From Heaven	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Marius, Richard	An Affair of Honor
Markson, David	This Is Not a Novel	PW Notable
Martin, Lee	Quakertown	1st Book World Rave
Mason, Bobbie Ann	Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail: Stories	NYTBR Notable
Mawer, Simon	The Gospel of Judas: A Novel
McCaffrey, Anne	The Skies of Pern
McConnochie, Mardi	Coldwater	1st Book World Rave
McCorkle, Jill	Creatures of Habit: Stories	Book World Rave
McCracken, Elizabeth	Niagara Falls All Over Again	PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
McCrumb, Sharyn	The Songcatcher
McDevitt, Jack	Deepsix	Library Journal Best Genre
McFarland, Dennis	The Singing Boy	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
McGarry, Terry	Illumination	1st Library Journal Best Genre
McGowan, Heather	Schooling	1st Booklist Top 10 First Novels
McHugh, Maureen F.	Nekropolis	NYTBR Notable
McMahon, Donna	Dance of Knives (paper)	NYTBR Notable
McMillan, Terry	A Day Late and a Dollar Short	Book World Rave
McMullen, Sean	Eyes of the Calculor	Booklist Top 10 SF/F
McPhee, Jenny	The Center of Things	NYTBR Notable
Meallet, Sandro	Edgwater Angels	1st
Meehan, Michael	The Salt of Broken Tears
Meidav, Edie	The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon	1st
Menendez, Ana	In Cuba I Was a German Shepard	1st NYTBR Notable
Messud, Claire	Hunters: Two Novellas	NYTBR Notable PEN/Faulkner Finalist
Michaels, Kasey	Love to Love You Baby (paper)
Michaels, Lisa	Grand Ambitions	1st Booklist Top 10 First Novels
Michelsen, G.F.	Hard Bottom
Middleton, Haydn	Grimm's Last Fairytale
Mieville, China	Perdido Street Station
Miller, Rebecca	Personal Velocity	Book World Rave
Miller, Sue	The World Below	NYTBR Notable
Mills, Magnus	Three to See the King
Mitchard, Jacquelyn	A Theory of Relativity
Moody, Martha	Best Friends	1st
Moody, Rick	Demonolgy: Stories	NYTBR Notable
Moorcock, Michael	King of the City
Morris, Willie	Taps	Booklist Editors' Choice
Morrissey, Donna	Kit's Law (trade paper)
Moshiri, Farnoosh	The Bathhouse
Mount, Ferdinand	Fairness	Booker Prize nominee 2001 Book World Rave
Mujica, Barbara	Frida
Mulisch, Harry	The Procedure
Muller, Herta	The Appointment
Munro, Alice	Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories	PW Notable NYTBR Editor's Choice Library Journal Best Book NBCC Award Nominee LA Times Fiction Prize Nominee
Murakami, Haruki	Sputnik Sweetheart	NYTBR Notable
Muske-Dukes, Carol	Life After Death
Naipaul, V.S.	Half a Life	Booker Prize nominee 2001 Nobel Prize Winner Book World Rave
Nevin, David	Treason	Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels
Nissen, Thisbe	The Good People of New York	Booklist Top 10 First Novels
Nissenson, Hugh	The Song of the Earth	Booklist Top 10 SF/F
Nooteboom, Cees	All Soul's Day	Book World Rave
Norfolk, Lawrence	In the Shape of a Boar
Nunez, Sigrid	For Ruenna
Nye, Robert	Falstaff	PW Notable
Oates, Joyce Carol	Middle Age: A Romance	Book World Rave
Oates, Joyce Carol	Faithless: Tales of Transgression
Obejas, Achy	Days of Awe	Lamda Winner Booklist Top Gay and Lesbian Books
Odom, Mel	The Rover	Booklist Top 10 SF/F
O'Faolain, Nuala	My Dream of You	1st NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nominee
O'Farrell, Maggie	After You'd Gone	1st
Olds, Bruce	Bucking the Tiger	ALA Notable Book Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels
Ong, Han	Fixer Chao
Orner, Peter	Esther Stories	NYTBR Notable
Oz, Amos	The Same Sea	NYTBR Notable
Palahniuk, Chuck	Choke
Pamuk, Ophan	My Name is Red	PW Notable NYTBR Notable Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Pap, Karoly	Azarel (trade paper)	Booklist Editors' Choice
Parker, Michael	Towns Without Rivers
Parker, Robert B.	Gunman's Rhapsody	PW Notable
Parsons, Alexander	Leaving Disneyland	1st
Parsons, Tony	Man and Boy	British Book Award Book of the Year
Patchett, Ann	Bel Canto	NBCC Award Nominee PEN/Faulkner Winner Orange Prize Winner
Pate, Alexs D.	West of Rehoboth	BCALA Honor Book
Payne, Peggy	Sister India	NYTBR Notable
Phillips, Max	The Artist's Wife	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth	This Heart of Mine	Romance Writers of America Top Ten
Poirier, Mark Jude	Goats	NYTBR Notable
Poniatowska, Elena	Here's to You, Jesusa!
Powell, Dawn	Novels 1944 - 1962
Powell, Dawn	Novels 1930 - 1942
Power, Nani	Crawling at Night	1st NYTBR Notable Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nominee
Quinn, Julia	An Offer from a Gentleman (paper)	Library Journal Best Genre
Rackham, Jeff	The Rag & Bone Shop
Randall, Alice	The Wind Done Gone	1st
Rayner, Richard	The Cloud Sketcher	Book World Rave
Ricks, Thomas E.	A Soldier's Duty	1st Book World Rave
Rios, Julian	Monstruary
Rivas, Manuel	The Carpenter's Pencil
Roberts, Keith	Pavane (trade paper reprint)	NYTBR Notable
Roberts, Nora	Dance Upon the Air (paper)	Library Journal Best Genre Romance Writers of America Top Ten
Robison, Mary	Whey Did I Ever	NYTBR Notable LA Times Fiction Prize Nominee
Roby, Kimberla Lawson	It's a Thin Line	PW Notable
Roiphe, Katie	Still She Haunts Me	LJ Top Debut
Roley, Brian Ascalon	American Son (trade paper)	NYTBR Notable
Rosner, Elizabeth	The Speed of Light	1st
Roth, Philip	The Dying Animal	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Rougeau, Remy	All We Know of Heaven	1st Booklist Top 10 First Novels
Rushdie, Salman	Fury	NYTBR Notable Booklist Editors' Choice
Russell, Sean	The One Kingdom: Book One of the Swan's War
Russo, Richard	Empire Falls	PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book Booklist Editors' Choice Booksense Finalist Pulitzer Prize Winner
Russo, Richard Paul	Ship of Fools (trade paper)	NYTBR Notable
Sagastizabal, Patricia	A Secret for Julia
Said, Kurban	The Girl from the Golden Horn
Sasson, Jean	Ester's Child
Schickler, David	Kissing in Manhattan	1st NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Schlink, Bernard	Flights of Love: Stories	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Schmidt, Heidi Jon	Darling
Schneider, Bart	Secret Love	Book World Rave Booklist Editors' Choice
Schnitzler, Arthur	Night Games: And Other Stories
Sebald, W. G.	Austerlitz	PW Notable NYTBR Editors' Choice Book World Rave ALA Notable Book NBCC Award Winner
Segal, Susan	Aria	1st LJ Top Debut
Seiffert, Rachel	The Dark Room	Booker Prize shortlist 2001 1st Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nominee
Settle, Mary Lee	I, Roger Williams: A Fragment of Autobiography	Book World Rave
Shaara, Jeff	Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution
Shakar, Alex	The Savage Girl	1st NYTBR Notable Booklist Top 10 First Novels LJ Top Debut
Sharp, Adrienne	White Swan, Black Swan: Stories	1st
Shikibu, Murasaki	Tale of Genji	Library Journal Best Book
Shiner, Lewis	Love in Vain
Shreve, Anita	The Last Time They Met	PW Notable Book World Rave
Sijie, Dai	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress	Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book LJ Top Debut
Silver, Marisa	Babe in Paradise	NYTBR Notable
Simpson, Helen	Getting A Life: Stories	NYTBR Notable
Sinclair, Iain	Landor's Tower	Book World Rave
Snyder, Don J.	Night Crossing
Soares, Jo	Twelve Fingers: Biography of an Anarchist
Spanbauer, Tom	In the City of Shy Hunters	Booklist Top Gay and Lesbian Books
Spark, Muriel	Aiding and Abetting	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Spence, Gerry	Half Moon and Empty Stars	1st
Spencer, Elizabeth	The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction
Spiotta, Dana	Lightning Field	1st NYTBR Notable
Straight, Susan	Highwire Moon	National Book Award Nominee Book World Rave Booklist Editors' Choice
Strieber, Whitney	The Last Vampire
Styron, Alexandra	All the Finest Girls	Book World Rave
Suri, Manil	Death of Vishnu	Booker Prize nominee 2001 PW Notable 1st NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book ALA Notable Book Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nominee PEN/Faulkner Finalist
Swerling, Beverly	City of Dreams: A Novel of Early Manhattan
Tan, Amy	The Bonesetter's Daughter	NYTBR Notable
Tarr, Judith	Pride of Kings (trade paper)
Tate, James	Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee
Tenn, William	Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn
Terrell, Whitney	The Huntsman	NYTBR Notable
Thackara, James	America's Children
Theroux, Paul	Hotel Honolulu	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Booklist Editors' Choice
Thon, Melanie Rae	Sweet Hearts	Book World Rave
Toscana, David	Our Lady of the Circus	PW Notable
Treadway, Jessica	And Give You Peace (trade paper)	Booklist Top 10 First Novels
Turtledove, Harry	American Empire: Blood & Iron
Turtledove, Harry	Colonization: Aftershocks
Tyler, Anne	Back When We Were Grownups	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Udall, Brady	The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint	PW Notable
Ulitskaya, Ludmila	The Funeral Party
Upadhyay, Samrat	Arresting God in Kathmandu (trade Paper	2001 Whiting Writer's Award
Van Den Brink, H.M.	On the Water
Vargas Llosa, Mario	The Feast of the Goat	PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book Booklist Editors' Choice Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels
Vickers, Sally	Miss Garnet's Angel
Vinge, Vernor	The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge	Booklist Top 10 SF/F
Vollmann, William T.	Argall	PW Notable Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels
Walbert, Kate	Gardens of Kyoto	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Walton, Jo	The King's Name
Weatherford, Joyce	Heart of the Beast
Webb, James	Lost Soldiers
Weber, David/John Ringo	March Upcountry
Weiner, Jennifer	Good in Bed
Weldon, Fay	The Bulgari Connection	PW Notable
Welsh, Irvine	Glue (trade paper)	NYTBR Notable
West, Owen	Sharkman Six	1st
Wheeler, Richard S.	Downriver: Barnaby Skye
White, Michael C.	A Dream of Wolves	Book World Rave
Whitehead, Colson	John Henry Days	NYTBR Editors' Choice Book World Rave Booklist Editors' Choice NBCC Award Nominee BCALA Honor Book LA Times Fiction Prize Nominee Young Lions Fiction Award
Wiggs, Susan	Halfway to Heaven (paper)
Wilentz, Amy	Martyrs' Crossing	NYTBR Notable
Williams, Liz	The Ghost Sister (paper)	NYTBR Notable Philip K. Dick Award nominee 1st
Williams, Tad	Otherland: Sea of Silver Light
Williamson, Jack	Terraforming Earth
Willis, Connie	Passage	Library Journal Best Genre
Wilson, Robert Charles	The Chronoliths	NYTBR Notable
Wilson, Wayne	Eddie and Bella
Winegardner, Mark	Crooked River Burning	ALA Notable Book
Wolcott, James	The Catsitters	1st
Wolfe, Gene	Return to Whorl	NYTBR Notable
Woodrell, Daniel	The Death of Sweet Mister	NYTBR Notable Book World Rave
Wray, John	The Right Hand of Sleep	1st NYTBR Notable 2001 Whiting Writer's Award Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nominee
Yamanaka, Lois-Ann	Father of the Four Passages
Yarbrough, Steve	Visible Spirits	Book World Rave
Yates, Richard	The Collected Stories of Richard Yates	NYTBR Notable Library Journal Best Book
Youmans, Marly	The Wolf Pit	2001 Shaara Award