What's your Best Book of 2000?

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"A Distant Crossing" by Thomas Parks. No publicity, no media splash, just great writing. Found it at Amazon.

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THE RESCUE by Nicholas Sparks

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Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible. Can she ever write! This was the first of her works I had read and I plan to read them all.

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Best book - Stephen King's On Writing.

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The Red Tent

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The Quiet Game by Greg Iles!!!!

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Mine has to be Ahab's Wife

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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood was the outstanding book I read this year. Her handling of the multiple stories was brilliant and her exquisite language was addictive. I couldn't stop reading.

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I don't know if it came out in 2000, but that's when I read it: Poisonwood Bible was the most compelling novel I have read in some years. I look forward to Barbara Kingsolver's newest book. Harry Potter's first book was a close second! Hope to finish the series.

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A MAP OF THE WORLD by Jane Hamilton A stunning work, jabs right to the heart. What we would do if a child not belonging to us but in our care died is too awful to even consider. Watching the protagonist, her family, her marriage and her struggle for balance requires a superb writer who can sustain the goodness of each character in spite of the desolation that surrounds them all.

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HI Gotta say that Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer was the best book of the year!!!!! Although I've loved everything she has written, not since her first book has she reached my heart so well!!! I love the way she writes... AND this one was better than Poisonwood Bible, although I liked it, too.

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Poisonwood Bible! It just captivated me and drew me into the story!

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Gap Creek was definitely my favorite book of 2000.

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I liked the Harry Potter series

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Amy & Isabele

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The next book I read will most definitely be my favorite. I am a very eclectic reader and love to expand my library.

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"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down:..." by Anne Fadiman is a wonderful book which illustrates cultural differences and problems in a most readable format. You won't be able to put it down!!! It is mainly about the Hmong from Asia and their problems living in the United States and, in particular, problems with the medical establishment. My description does not sound interesting, but the book is a real pageturner.

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My favorite book this year, among many, was The Poisonwood Bible.

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Grace in China: An American Woman Beyond the Wall, 1934-1974 by Eleanor McCallie Cooper and William Lui

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My favorite book this year, among many, was The Poisonwood Bible.

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The best book I read during Year 2000 was "Flags of Our Fathers." The battle descriptions were as vivid as the first 30 minutes of the film "Saving Private Ryan." It told a moving, heroic true story that I won't forget.

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Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The best of the four. I could read a new one every week from now own.

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The Oath by Frank Peretti
The Southerner by Lori Wick
and The Chanur Saga by C.J.Cherrhy

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Best Book of 2000: Jimmy Corrigan, Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware

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My favorite work of fiction was Hotel Paradise by Martha Grimes; favorite non-fiction was A Place in the Country by Laura Shaine Cunningham.

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Tom Clancy's The Bear and the Dragon

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Sister of my Heart by Chitra Divakaurni

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The book I'm giving for Christmas is Robert Heinlein's 1950's sci-fi classic, The Door Into Summer. Wonderful look at the "future" which turns out to be the '70's and 2000.

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My favorite book of the year was First They Killed My Father by Long Ung. It was a moving story about her childhood in Cambodia during Pol Pot. It's a book that will probably be with me for the rest of my life. It should be required reading for every American, it makes us realize how good we truly have it.

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A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON - Robert Wilson

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Battleground USA The Beginning

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THE DROWNING PEOPLE

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Harry Potter series---Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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Here's my pick for best of 2000: Dream Catcher by Margaret Salinger. It has avoided the middle of the road inoffensiveness of most bestsellers. It is loved or loathed. (I must say most detractors either haven't read it or wear their particular ax-to-grind on their sleeves.) Love your site. Many thanks.

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Plainsong by Kent Haruf