The Siege: A Novel
by
Helen Dunmore
Grove Press, 01/09/2002
Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by The New York Times Book Review,
The Siege is Helen Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental - the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by
Samantha Power
Basic Books, 02/19/2002
In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power -- a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture)
by
Marion Nestle
University of California Press, 03/04/2002
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing exposé, Marion Nestle ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by
Maya Angelou
Random House, 03/05/2002
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of...
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Biography/Memoir
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
by
Avi
Hyperion, 04/29/2002
The 2003 Newbery Award Winner and New York Times Best-seller. "Avi's latest novel is superb combination of mystery, historical fiction, and a coming-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Wish You Were Here
by
Stewart O'Nan
Grove Press, 05/01/2002
Award-winning writer Stewart O'Nan has been acclaimed by critics as one of today's most accomplished novelists and hailed by The New York Times as "a ...
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Hominids: Neanderthal Parallax
by
Robert J. Sawyer
Tor Books, 05/03/2002
What they do have in common is imaginative originality, great stories, and unique scientific extrapolation. His latest is no exception.
Hominids ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Postcards from No Man's Land
by
Aidan Chambers
Dutton for Young Readers, 05/27/2002
Seventeen-year-old Jacob Todd is about to discover himself. Jacob's plan is to go to Amsterdam to honor his grandfather who died during World War II. ...
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Nantucket Nights: A Novel
by
Elin Hilderbrand
St. Martin's Press, 06/03/2002
For 20 years, Kayla, Antoinette and Val have performed their own special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their daily, separate ...
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Romance
Geek Love: A Novel
by
Katherine Dunn
Vintage, 06/11/2002
Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan ... Iphy and Elly, the ...
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Literary Fiction
After the Quake: Stories
by
Haruki Murakami
Knopf, 08/13/2002
The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became ...
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The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
by
Vernor Vinge
Orbis Books, 08/17/2002
Now, for the first time, this illustrious author gathers all his short fiction into a single volume. This collection is truly the definitive Vinge, ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Four-Story Mistake
by
Elizabeth Enright
Henry Holt and Company, 09/01/2002
Meet the Melendys! Mona, the eldest, is thirteen. She has decided to become an actress and can recite poetry at the drop of a hat. Rush is twelve and ...
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Literary Fiction
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
by
Janet Browne
Knopf, 09/10/2002
In 1858, Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside. He was not yet a focus ...
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Nowhere Man
by
Aleksandar Hemon
Nan A. Talese, 09/17/2002
This is what we know about Jozef Pronek: He is a young man from Sarajevo who left to visit the United States in 1992, just in time to watch war break ...
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In the Image: A Novel
by
Dara Horn
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/23/2002
An extraordinary first novel illuminated by spiritual exploration, one that remembers "a language, a literature, a held hand, an entire world lived ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Fingersmith
by
Sarah Waters
Riverhead Books, 10/01/2002
ue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her ...
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Historical Fiction
An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
by
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Company, 10/02/2002
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. An ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Little Friend
by
Donna Tartt
Knopf, 10/22/2002
The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of
The Secret History—a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most ...
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
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Herman Melville
Penguin Classics, 12/31/2002
Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature ...
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Literary Fiction
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
by
Emily Brontë
Penguin Classics, 12/31/2002
Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of ...
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Literary Fiction
