Amazon.com Best Books of the Year

The Amazon.com Best Books of the Year are listed below. The star rating and number of reviews are from Amazon.com. In parentheses after the star rating and number of reviews are the number of pages in the book and any other awards that the book was a finalist for. Award names in red indicate the the book was the winner of that award. Click the buy from Amazon.com link to be taken to the Amazon.com website where you can purchase the book from the premier online bookseller.

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Amazon.com Best Books of 2009

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Winner! 258 reviews (2009) (368p) (NBA) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 300 reviews (2009) (560p) (NBCCA) (Booker) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín 161 reviews (2009) (272p) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper 177 reviews (2009) (535p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore 164 reviews (2009) (336p) (PF) (NYTimes) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Tinkers by Paul Harding 104 reviews (2009) (192p) (PP) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Spooner by Pete Dexter 67 reviews (2009) (480p) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead 78 reviews (2009) (288p) (PF) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez 4 reviews (2009) (368p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 373 reviews (2009) (560p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Amazon.com Best Books of 2008

The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher Winner! 33 reviews (2008) (512p) (Booker) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski 1529 reviews (2008) (576p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Serena by Ron Rash 112 reviews (2008) (384p) (PF) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger 122 reviews (2008) (272p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon 47 reviews (2008) (304p) (NBCCA) (NBA) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill 162 reviews (2008) (272p) (PF) (NYTimes) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Home by Marilynne Robinson 104 reviews (2008) (336p) (NBCCA) (NBA) (LATimes) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=7 UnqBooks=3 PPNom=2 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Lush Life by Richard Price 215 reviews (2008) (464p) (PF) (LATimes) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2666 by Roberto Bolano 122 reviews (2008) (912p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock 68 reviews (2008) (224p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Amazon.com Best Books of 2007

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Winner! 1593 reviews (2007) (384p) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz 487 reviews (2007) (352p) (PP) (NBCCA) (LATimes) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano 96 reviews (2007) (592p) (NYTimes) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson 118 reviews (2007) (624p) (PP) (NBA) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo 174 reviews (2007) (544p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The God of Animals: A Novel by Aryn Kyle 132 reviews (2007) (320p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu 38 reviews (2007) (240p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Gathering by Anne Enright 161 reviews (2007) (272p) (Booker) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell 95 reviews (2007) (256p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Falling Man by Don DeLillo 86 reviews (2007) (256p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=9 UnqBooks=4 PPNom=2 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=3 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=3 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Amazon.com Best Books of 2006

Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky Winner! 419 reviews (2006) (416p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud 261 reviews (2006) (288p) (NYTimes) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart 114 reviews (2006) (352p) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 802 reviews (2006) (416p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2283 reviews (2006) (256p) (PP) (NBCCA) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=4 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

What Is the What by Dave Eggers 210 reviews (2006) (386p) (NBCCA) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg 19 reviews (2006) (240p) (PF) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders 26 reviews (2006) (240p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders 26 reviews (2006) (240p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

A Family Daughter by Maile Meloy 21 reviews (2006) (336p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford 84 reviews (2006) (496p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=5 UnqBooks=3 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Amazon.com Best Books of 2005

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss Winner! 339 reviews (2005) (252p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 502 reviews (2005) (304p) (NBCCA) (Booker) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=5 UnqBooks=4 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

On Beauty by Zadie Smith 211 reviews (2005) (464p) (Booker) (NYTimes) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Veronica by Mary Gaitskill 69 reviews (2005) (240p) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The March by E. L. Doctorow 175 reviews (2005) (384p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NBA) (PF) (LATimes) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=11 UnqBooks=5 PPNom=2 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=4 NBCCAWin=3 NBANom=3 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 487 reviews (2005) (320p) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=4 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Misfortune by Wesley Stace 41 reviews (2005) (544p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem 16 reviews (2005) (160p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld 511 reviews (2005) (448p) (NYTimes) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer 379 reviews (2005) (368p) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Amazon.com Best Books of 2004

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Winner! 415 reviews (2004) (400p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=19 UnqBooks=12 PPNom=4 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=6 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=6 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Crossing California by Adam Langer 57 reviews (2004) (432p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe 631 reviews (2004) (688p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Natasha: And Other Stories by David Bezmozgis 35 reviews (2004) (160p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Little Children by Tom Perrotta 252 reviews (2004) (368p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 358 reviews (2004) (256p) (PP) (NBCCA) (PF) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=7 UnqBooks=3 PPNom=2 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Secret Goldfish: Stories by David Means 4 reviews (2004) (224p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon 92 reviews (2004) (368p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer 138 reviews (2004) (288p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames 48 reviews (2004) (352p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Amazon.com Best Books of 2003

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Winner! 2246 reviews (2003) (560p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 110 reviews (2003) (528p) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes 44 reviews (2003) (224p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Gentlemen of Space by Ira Sher 7 reviews (2003) (304p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 1622 reviews (2003) (240p) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre 142 reviews (2003) (288p) (Booker) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Waxwings by Jonathan Raban 17 reviews (2003) (288p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy 50 reviews (2003) (272p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Wonder When You'll Miss Me by Amanda Davis 41 reviews (2003) (288p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 2747 reviews (2003) (384p) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Amazon.com Best Books of 2002

Life of Pi by Yann Martel Winner! 1980 reviews (2002) (336p) (Booker) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 919 reviews (2002) (544p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 511 reviews (2002) (944p) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Atonement by Ian McEwan 822 reviews (2002) (368p) (NBCCA) (Booker) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=6 UnqBooks=5 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Emporium: Stories by Adam Johnson 21 reviews (2002) (256p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 435 reviews (2002) (288p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Things You Should Know: A Collection of Stories by A. M. Homes 20 reviews (2002) (224p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt 590 reviews (2002) (640p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Half-Mammals of Dixie by George Singleton 9 reviews (2002) (312p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 3116 reviews (2002) (288p) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Winner! 1017 reviews (2001) (592p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NBA) (PF) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=4 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger 444 reviews (2001) (320p) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins 90 reviews (2001) (192p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

I, The Divine by Rabih Alameddine 15 reviews (2001) (320p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead 38 reviews (2001) (400p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Demonology: Stories by Rick Moody 40 reviews (2001) (320p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 624 reviews (2001) (336p) (NBCCA) (PF) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Collected Poems by James Merrill 7 reviews (2001) (912p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Lightning Field by Dana Spiotta 12 reviews (2001) (224p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Up In the Air by Walter Kirn 73 reviews (2001) (320p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Yokota Officers Club by Sarah Bird 56 reviews (2001) (400p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Empire Falls by Richard Russo 493 reviews (2001) (496p) (PP) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Fourth Hand by John Irving 286 reviews (2001) (352p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=2 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler 119 reviews (2001) (288p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Good People of New York by Thisbe Nissen 34 reviews (2001) (304p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Dogwalker: Stories by Arthur Bradford 25 reviews (2001) (176p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve 472 reviews (2001) (352p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler 269 reviews (2001) (304p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=9 UnqBooks=4 PPNom=3 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=3 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=2 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

How to Be Good by Nick Hornby 303 reviews (2001) (320p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates 29 reviews (2001) (496p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold 187 reviews (2001) (9p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Best American Short Stories 2001 by Katrina Kenison 12 reviews (2001) (320p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Among the Missing by Dan Chaon 22 reviews (2001) (288p) (NBA) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Fraud by David Rackoff 61 reviews (2001) (240p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan 326 reviews (2001) (416p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter Winner! 162 reviews (2000) (320p) (NBA) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 268 reviews (2000) (215p) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

White Teeth by Zadie Smith 366 reviews (2000) (464p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories by Amy Bloom 31 reviews (2000) (164p) (NBCCA) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 646 reviews (2000) (656p) (PP) (NBCCA) (PF) (LATimes) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Ravelstein by Saul Bellow 115 reviews (2000) (240p) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=6 UnqBooks=4 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=4 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod 73 reviews (2000) (304p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz by Stanley Kunitz 6 reviews (2000) (288p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Two Moons by Thomas Mallon 19 reviews (2000) (320p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Affinity by Sarah Waters 87 reviews (2000) (351p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert 49 reviews (2000) (288p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Missing World by Margot Livesey 26 reviews (2000) (336p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Under the Skin by Michel Faber 122 reviews (2000) (320p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Quarrel & Quandary by Cynthia Ozick 3 reviews (2000) (272p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=5 UnqBooks=5 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro 215 reviews (2000) (352p) (Booker) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=5 UnqBooks=4 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Means of Escape by Penelope Fitzgerald 5 reviews (2000) (160p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=3 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Trading Twelves by Ralph Ellison 3 reviews (2000) (272p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

What Are You Like? by Anne Enright 8 reviews (2000) (272p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Being Dead by Jim Crace 115 reviews (2000) (208p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Passionate Minds by Claudia Roth Pierpont 7 reviews (2000) (320p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle Winner! 132 reviews (1999) (382p) (NYTimes) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Last Life by Claire Messud 55 reviews (1999) (403p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Coleridge by Richard Holmes 2 reviews (1999) (357p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout 180 reviews (1999) (320p) (PF) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories by Nathan Englander 94 reviews (1999) (224p) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Travelling Hornplayer by Barbara Trapido 17 reviews (1999) (8p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters 169 reviews (1999) (472p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings by Jonathan Raban 50 reviews (1999) (448p) (Amazon) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Waiting by Ha Jin 313 reviews (1999) (320p) (PP) (NBA) (PF) (LATimes) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=5 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=2 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Layover by Lisa Zeidner 69 reviews (1999) (288p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx 156 reviews (1999) (288p) (PP) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=5 UnqBooks=3 PPNom=2 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Plainsong by Kent Haruf 475 reviews (1999) (320p) (NBA) (LATimes) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Original Bliss by A. L. Kennedy 11 reviews (1999) (224p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Losing Nelson by Barry Unsworth 32 reviews (1999) (352p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=3 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine: Stories by Thom Jones 29 reviews (1999) (320p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Ali and Nino by Kurban Said 47 reviews (1999) (288p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead 84 reviews (1999) (272p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Walkin' the Dog by Walter Mosley 34 reviews (1999) (288p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Damascus by Richard Beard 5 reviews (1999) (320p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Crime of Sheila McGough by Janet Malcolm 17 reviews (1999) (161p) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page