Novels that matter...

Reviews of Novels in the English Language

by piero scaruffi

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Peter Ackroyd: Plato Papers (Doubleday, 1999) /10
Chris Adrian: Gob's Grief (Broadway, 2000) /10
Mike Albo: Hornito (Harper Collins, 2000) /10
Gini Alhadeff: Diary of a Djinn (Pantheon, 2003) /10
Monica Ali: Brick Lane (Scribner, 2003) /10
Stephen Amidon: The New City (Doubleday, 1999) /10
Martin Amis: Night Train (Harmony, 1997) /10
Benjamin Anastas: The Faithful Narrative Of A Pastor's Disappearance (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001) /10
Kurt Andersen: Turn of The Century (Random House, 1999) /10
Donald Antrim: The Verificationist (Knopf, 2000) /10
Ann Arensberg: Incubus (Knopf, 1999) /10
Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin (Doubleday, 2000) /10
Margaret Atwood: Oryx And Crake (Doubleday, 2003) /10
Paul Auster: Timbuktu (Holt, 1999) /10
Paul Auster: The Book Of Illusions (2002) /10
Trezza Azzopardi: The Hiding Place (Atlantic Monthly, 2000) /10
Murray Bail: Eucalyptus (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998) /10
Murray Bail: Homesickness (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999) /10
Beryl Bainbridge: Master Georgie (Carroll & Graf, 1998) /10
Kevin Baker: Dreamland (Harper Collins, 1999) /10
Kevin Baker: Paradise Alley (2002) /10
Nicholson Baker: The Everlasting Story of Nory (Random House, 1998) /10
Nicholson Baker: Checkpoint (Knopf, 2004) /10
Nicholson Baker: A Box of Matches (Random House, 2003) /10
Shauna Singh Baldwin: What the Body Remembers (Doubleday, 1999) /10
John Banville: Eclipse (Knopf, 2001) /10
John Banville: Shroud (Knopf, 2003)/10
Pat Barker: Another World (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999) /10
Pat Barker: Dark Vision (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003) /10
Pat Barker: Border Crossing (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001) /10
Julian Barnes: England England (Knopf, 1998) /10
Julian Barnes: The Lemon Table (Knopf, 2004) /10
Julian Barnes: Love Etc (Knopf, 2000) /10
Nevada Barr: Deep South (Putnam, 2000) /10
Nevada Barr: Blood Lure (Putnam, 2001) /10
Andrea Barrett: The Voyage Of The Narwhal (Norton, 1998) /10
Andrea Barrett: Servants of the Map (2002) /10
Sebastian Barry: The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1999) /10
John Barth: Coming Soon (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) /10
Frederick Barthelme: Bob The Gambler (Houghton Mifflin, 1998) /10
Frederick Barthelme: Bob The Gambler (Houghton Mifflin, 1998) /10
Charles Baxter: The Feast Of Love (Pantheon, 2000) /10
Charles Baxter: Saul and Patsy (Pantheon, 2003) /10
Richard Beard: Damascus (Arcade, 1999) /10
Ann Beattie: The Doctor's House (Scribner, 2001) /10
Paul Beatty: Tuff (Knopf, 2000) /10
Martyn Bedford: Houdini Girl (Pantheon, 1999) /10
Louis Begley: Mistler's Exit (Knopf, 1998) /10
Louis Begley: Shipwreck (Knopf, 2003) /10
Lauren Belfer: City of Light (Dial, 1999) /10
Saul Bellow: Ravelstein (Viking, 2000) /10
Aimee Bender: An Invisible Sign Of My Own (Doubleday, 2000) /10
Karen Bender: Like Normal People (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) /10
Alan Bennett: The CLothes They Stood Up In (Random House, 2000) /10
Thomas Berger: Return Of Little Big Man (Little Brown, 1999) /10
Louis Begley: Mistler's Exit (Knopf, 1998) /10
Robert Bingham: Lightning On The Sun (Doubleday, 2000) /10
Lawrence Block: Hit List (Morrow, 2000) /10
Judy Blume: Summer Sisters (Delacorte, 1998) /10
Dennis Bock: The Ash Garden (Knopf, 2001) /10
Eric Bogosian: Mall (Simon & Schuster, 2000) /10
Roz Bongal: Bombay Ice (Farrax Straus & Giroux, 1998) /10
Martin Booth: Industry of Souls (St Martin's, 1999) /10
Robert Boswell: Century's Son (Knopf, 2001) /10
Coraghessan Boyle: Riven Rock (Viking, 1997) /10
Coraghessan Boyle: A Friend Of The Earth (Viking, 2000) /10
Coraghessan Boyle: Drop City (Viking, 2003) /10
William Boyd: Armadillo (Knopf, 1998) /10
William Boyd: Any Human Heart (Knopf, 2003) /10
Malcolm Bradbury: To The Hermitage (Overlook, 2001) /10
John Ed Bradley: My Juliet (Doubleday, 2000) /10
James Brady: The Marines Of Autumn (St Martin's Press, 2000) /10
Christopher Bram: Lives of the Circus Animals (Morrow, 2003) /10
Andre Brink: Devil's Valley (Brace, 1999) /10
Andre Brink: The Other Side of Silence (Harcourt, 2003) /10
Anita Brookner: Visitors (Random House, 1997) /10
Anita Brookner: Undue Influence (Random House, 1999) /10
Anita Brookner: Falling Slowly (Random House, 1998) /10
Rosellen Brown: Half A Heart (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000) /10
James Buchan: The Persian Bride (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) /10
Edna Buchanan: Garden Of Evil (Avon, 1999) /10
Edna Buchanan: Pulse (Avon, 1998) /10
Christopher Buckley: Little Green Men (Random House, 1999) /10
Frederick Buechner: On The Road With The Archangel (Harper, 1997) /10
Bartle Bull: A Cafe On The Nile (Carroll & Graf, 1998) /10
James Lee Burke: Sunset Limited (Doubleday, 1998) /10
James Lee Burke: Purple Cane Road (Doubleday, 2000) /10
Bonnie Burnard: A Good House (Holt, 2000) /10
Frederick Busch: The Night Inspector (Harmony, 1999) /10
Frederick Busch: Don't Tell Anyone (Norton, 2000) /10
Catherine Bush: The Rules Of Engagement (Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 2000) /10
A.S. Byatt: The Biographer's Tale (Knopf, 2000) /10
A.S. Byatt: A Whistling Woman (Knopf, 2003) /10
JAmes BUchan: The Persian Bride (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) /10
Kathleen Cambor: In Sunlight In A Beautiful Garden (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000) /10
Ethan Canin: Carry Me Across The Water (Random House, 2001) /10
Mary Cantwell: Speaking With Strangers (Houghton Mifflin, 1998) /10
Peter Carey: Jack Maggs (Knopf, 1998) /10
Peter Carey: True History Of The Kelly Gang (Knopf, 2001) /10
Caleb Carr: The Angel Of Darkness (Random House, 1997) /10
Caleb Carr: Killing Time (Random House, 2000) /10
Jonathan Carroll: The Wooden Sea (Tor, 2000) /10
Tom Carson: Gilligan's Wake (Picador, 2003) /10
Stephen Carter: The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002) /10
John Casey: Half-life Of Happiness (Knopf, 1998) /10
John Casey: The Half-Life of Happiness (Knopf, 1998) /10
Benjamin Cheever: Famous After Death (Crown, 1999) /10
Tracy Chevalier: Girl With A Pearl Earring (Dutton, 2000) /10
Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Random House, 2000) 7/10
Amit Chaudhuri: Freedom Song (Knopf, 1999) /10
Mark Childress: Gone For Good (Knopf, 1998) /10
Nicholas Christopher: A Trip To The Stars (Dial, 1999) /10
Sandra Cisneros: Caramelo (2002) /10
Tom Clancy: The Bear And The Dragon (Putnam, 2000) /10
Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six (Putnam, 1998) /10
Jonathan Coe: The Rotters' Club (Knopf, 2001) /10
J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace (Viking, 1999) /10
J.M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello (Viking, 2003) /10
Robert Cohen: Inspired Sleep (Scribner, 2000) /10
Maryse Conde: Desirada (Soho, 2000) /10
Michael Connelly: Void Moon (Little Brown, 1999) /10
Martha Cooley: The Archivist (Little Brown, 1998) /10
Bernard Cooper: Guess Again (Simon & Schuster, 2000) /10
Robert Coover: Ghost Town (Holt, 1998) /10
Robert Coover: The Adventures of Lucky Pierre (Grove, 2003) /10
Patricia Cornwell: Point Of Origin (Putnam, 1998) /10
Jim Crace: Being Dead (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000) /10
Robert Crais: Demolition Angel (Dutton, 2000) /10
Michael Crichton: Timeline (Knopf, 1999) /10
Michael Crichton: Prey (HarperCollins, 2003) /10
Jim Crace: Being Dead (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000) /10
Stanley Crouch: Don't The Moon Look Lonesome (Pantheon, 2000) /10
John Crowley: The Translator (2002) /10
Andrew Crumey: Pfitz (Picador, 1997) /10
Jeannifer Crusie: Welcome To Temptation (St Martin's, 2000) /10
Michael Cunningham: The Hours (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998) /10
Rachel Cusk: Saving Agnes (Picador, 1999) /10
Achmat Dangor: Kafka's Curse (Pantheon, 1999) /10
Mark Danielewski: House of Leaves (Pantheon, 2000) /10
Edwidge Danticat: The Farming Of Bones (Soho, 1998) /10
Alice Elliott Dark: In The Gloaming (Simon & Schuster, 1999) /10
John Darnton: The Experiment (Dutton, 1999) /10
Kathryn Davis: Hell (Ecco, 1997) /10
Kathryn Davis: The Walking Tour (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) /10
Kathryn Davis: The Walking Tour (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) /10
Michelle de Kretser: The Hamilton Case (2003) /10
Jonathan Dee: Palladio (Doubleday, 2001) /10
Don De Grazia: American Skin (Scribner, 2000) /10
Don De Lillo: Underworld (Scribner, 1997) /10
Don De Lillo: The Body Artist (Scribner, 2000) /10
Don De Lillo: Cosmopolis (Scribner, 2003) /10
Anita Desai: Fasting Fasting (Mariner, 1999) /10
Anita Desai: The ZigZag Way (2004) /10
Kiran Desai: Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard (Atlantic Monthly, 1998) /10
Lewis Desoto: A Blade of Grass (Maia, 2003) /10
Helen Dewitt: The Last Samurai (Hyperion, 2001) /10
Pete Dexter: Train (Doubleday, 2003) /10
Lisa Dierbeck: One Pill Makes You Smaller (Farrar, 2003) /10
Jenny Diski: The Dream Mistress (Ecco, 1999) /10
J.P. Donleavy: Wrong Information Is Being Given Out At Princeton (St Martin's Press, 1999) /10
E.L. Doctorow: City of God (Random House, 2000) /10
Richard Dooling: Brain Storm (Random House, 1998) /10
Laurel Doud: This Body (Little & Brown, 1998) /10
Roddy Doyle: A Star Called Henry (Viking, 1999) /10
Margaret Drabble: The Witch Of Exmoor (Brace, 1997) /10
Margaret Drabble: The Peppered Moth (Harcourt, 2001) /10
Merle Drown: The Suburbs of Heaven (Soho, 2000) /10
Tom Drury: Hunts in Dreams (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) /10
Rikki Ducornet: The Fan-Maker's Inquisition (Holt, 1999) /10
David Anthony Durham: Gabriel's Story (Doubleday, 2001) /10
Geoff Dyer: Paris Trance (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999) /10
David Ebershoff: The Danish Girl (Viking, 1999) /10
Grace Edwards: Do Or Die (Doubleday, 2000) /10
Tristan Egolf: Lord Of The Barnyard (Grove, 1999) /10
Bret Easton Ellis: Glamorama (Knopf, 1998) /10
Helen Ellis: Eating The Cheshire Cat (Scribner, 1999) /10
Ralph Ellison: Juneteenth (Random House, 1999) /10
Lucy Ellmann: Man Or Mango? (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998) /10
JAmes Ellroy: The Cold Six Thousand (Knopf, 2001) /10
Nathan Englander: For The Relief Of Unbearable Urges (Knopf, 1999) /10
Leslie Epstein: San Remo Drive (Handset, 2003) /10
Louise Erdrich: The Last Report On The Miracles At Little No Horse (HarperCollins, 2001) /10
Louise Erdrich: The Master Butchers Singing Club (HarperCollins, 2003) /10
Janet Evanovich: Hot Six (St Martin's, 2000) /10
Delia Falconer: The Service of Clouds (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998) /10
Sebastian Faulks: Charlotte Gray (Random House, 1999) /10
Ellen Feldman: God Bless the Child (Simon & Schuster, 1998) /10
Henry Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary (Houghton Mifflin, 1997) /10
Timothy Findley: Pilgrim (Harper Collins, 1999) /10
Penelope Fitzgerald: The Blue Flower (Houghton Mifflin, 1997) /10
Penelope Fitzgerald: The Means Of Escape (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) /10
Richard Flanagan: Gould's Book of Fish (2002) /10
Giles Foden: The Last King Of Scotland (Knopf, 1998) /10
Giles Foden: Ladysmith (Knopf, 2000) /10
Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything Is Illuminated (HM, 2001) /10
Ken Follett: Code To Zero (Dutton, 2000) /10
Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2001) /10
Michael Frayn: Headlong (Metropolitan, 1999) /10
Michael Frayn: Spies (Metropolitan, 2001) /10
Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain (1997) /10
Ian Frazier: On The Rez (1999) /10
Lynn Freed: House Of Women (2001) /10
David Freeman: One Of Us (Carrol And Graf, 1997) /10
Esther Freud: Summer at Gaglow (Ecco Press, 1998) /10
Alan Furst: Red Gold (Random House, 1999) /10
Alan Furst: Dark Voyage (Random House, 2004) /10
Frances Fyfield: Staring At The Light (Viking, 1999) /10
William Gaddis: Agape Agape (2002) /10
Damon Galgut: The Good Doctor (Atlantic, 2003) /10
Damon Galgut: The Quarry (Atlantic, 2004) /10
James Galvin: Fencing the Sky (Henry Holt, 1999) /10
Alex Garland: Tesseract (Riverhead, 1999) /10
William Gass: Cartesian Sonata (Knopf, 1998) /10
William Gay: The Long Home (MacMurray, 1999) /10
William Gay: Provinces Of Night (Doubleday, 2000) /10
Elizabeth George: In Pursuit Of The Proper Sinner (Bantam, 1999) /10
Amitav Ghosh: The Glass Palace (Random House, 2000) /10
William Gibson: All Tomorrow's Parties (Putnam, 1999) /10
William Gibson: Pattern Recognition (Putnam, 2003) /10
Elizabeth Gilbert: Stern Men (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) /10
Todd Gitlin: Sacrifice (Holt, 1999) /10
Myla Goldberg: Bee Season (Doubleday, 2000) /10
C.S. Godshalk: Kalimantaan (Holt, 1998) /10
Gail Godwin: Evensong (Ballantine, 1999) /10
Allegra Goodman: Katerskill Falls (Dial, 1998) /10
Nadine Gordimer: The House Gun (Farrar Straus And Giroux, 1997) /10
Katherine Govier: Creation (Overlook, 2003) /10
Barbara Gowdy: The White Bone (Metropolitan, 1999) /10
Barbara Gowdy: White Bone (Holt, 1999) /10
Sue Grafton: O Is For Outlaw (Holt, 1999) /10
David Grand: Louse (Arcade, 1999) /10
John Grisham: The Brethren (Doubleday, 1999) /10
John Grisham: The Summons (Doubleday, 2001) /10
John Grisham: A Painted House (Doubleday, 2001) /10
Winston Groom: Such A Prety Pretty Girl (Random House, 1999) /10
Doug Guinan: California Screaming (Simon & Schuster, 1998) /10
Allan Gurganus: Plays Well With Others (Knopf, 1997) /10
David Guterson: East of the Mountains (harcourt Brace, 1999) /10
Jessica Hagedorn: Dream Jungle (2003) /10
Mohsin Hamid: Moth Smoke (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000) /10
Pete Hamill: Forever (Little Brown, 2003) /10
Jane Hamilton: Disobedience (Doubleday, 2000) /10
Ron Hansen: Hitler's Niece (Harper Collins, 1999) /10
Colin Harrison: Afterburn (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000) /10
Jamie Harrison: Blue Deer Thaw (Hyperion, 1999) /10
Kathryn Harrison: The Seal Wife (Random House, 2001) /10
Kent Haruf: Plainsong (, 1999) /10
Joanne Harris: Chocolat (Viking, 1999) /10
Robert Harris: Archangel (Random House, 1999) /10
Thomas Harris: Hannibal (Delacorte, 1999) /10
Jim Harrison: The Road Home (Atlantic Monthly, 1998) /10
Donald Harstad: Known Dead (Doubleday, 1999) /10
Josephine Hart: The Stillest Day (Overlook, 1998) /10
Adam Haslett: You Are Not A Stranger Here (2002) /10
Shirley Hazzard: The Great Fire (2003) /10
Julie Hecht: The Unprofessionals (Random House, 2003) /10
Ursula Hegi: The Vision Of Emma Blau (Simon & Schuster, 1999) /10
Zoe Heller: Everything You Know (Knopf, 1999) /10
Zoe Heller: What Was She Thinking (Holt, 2003) /10
Lauren Henderson: Strawberry Tattoo (Crown, 2000) /10
Aleksandr Hemon: Nowhere Man (2002) /10
Carl Hiaasen: Lucky You (Knopf, 1997) /10
Allen Hoffman: Two For The Devil (Abbeville, 1998) /10
Alice Hoffman: The River King (Putnam, 2000) /10
Wendy Holden: Simply Divine (Plume, 2000) /10
Sheri Holman: The Dress Lodger (Atlantic Monthly, 2000) /10
Alan Hollinghurst: The Spell (Viking, 1999) /10
Sheri Holman: The Dress Lodger (Atlantic Monthly, 1999) /10
A.M. Homes: Music For Torching (Weisbach, 1999) /10
Nick Hornby: About A Boy (Riverhead, 1998) /10
Maureen Howard: A Lover's Almanac (Viking, 1997) /10
Maureen Howard: The Silver Screen (Viking, 2004) /10
David Huddle: LaTour Dreams Of The Wolf Girl (HM, 2001) /10
James Hynes: The Lecturer's Tale (Picador, 2000) /10
Greg Iles: The Quiet Game (Dutton, 1999) /10
John Irving: A Widow For One Year (Random House, 1998) /10
John Irving: The Fourth Hand (Random House, 2001) /10
Moses Isegawa: Abyssinian Chronicles (Knopf, 2000) /10
Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans (Knopf, 2000) /10
Raj Kamal Jha: The Blue Bedspread (Random House, 2000) /10
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: My Nine Lives (Shoemaker, 2004) /10
Clive James: The Silver Castle (Random House, 1998) /10
Ha Jin: Waiting (Pantheon, 1999) /10
Ha Jin: The Bridegroom (Pantheon, 2000) /10
Denis Johnson: Name of the World (Harper Collins, 2000) /10
Adam Johnson: Parasites Like Us (Viking, 2003) /10
Diane Johnson: Le Mariage (Dutton, 2000) /10
Diane Johnson: L'Affaire (Dutton, 2003) /10
Alan Jolis: Love and Terror (Atlantic Monthly, 1998) /10
Edward Jones: The Known World (HarperCollins, 2003) /10
Gayl Jones: Mosquito (Beacon, 1999) /10
Gayl Jones: The Healing (Beacon, 1998) /10
Kaylie Jones: Celeste Ascending (Harper Collins, 2000) /10
Erica Jong: Sappho's Leap (Norton, 2003) /10
Keith Kachtick: Hungry Ghost (HarperCollins, 2003) /10
Mary Karr: Cherry (Viking, 2000) /10
Garrison Keillor: Wobegon Boy (Viking, 1997) /10
Jonathan Kellerman: Dr Death (Random House, 2000) /10
Oonya Kempadoo: Buxton Spice (Dutton, 1999) /10
Thomas Keneally: Office of Innocence (Doubleday, 2003) /10
William Kennedy: Roscoe (Viking, 2001) /10
Jamaica Kincaid: Mr Potter (2001) /10
Chuck Kinder: Honeymooners (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001) /10
Lily King: The Pleasing Hour (Atlantic Monthly, 1999) /10
Stephen King: Bag Of Bones (Scribner, 1998) /10
Stephen King: Hearts in Atlantis (Scribner, 1999) /10
Stephen King: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Scribner, 1999) /10
Stephen King: Riding the Bullet (Scribner, 2000) /10
Stephen King: Dreamcatcher (Scribner, 2001) /10
Stephen King: From a Buick 8 (2002) /10
Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible (Harper, 1998) /10
Barbara Kingsolver: Prodigal Summer (Harper, 2000) /10
Water Kirn: Thumbsucker (Broadway, 1999) /10
Walter Kirn: Up In The Air (Doubleday, 2001) /10
Binnie Kirshenbaum: Pure Poetry (Simon & Schuster, 2000) /10
Joe Klein: The Running Mate (Dial, 2000) /10
Matthew Kneale: English Passengers (Doubleday, 2000) /10
Jim Knipfel: Slack Jaw (Tarcher, 1999) /10
Elizabeth Knox: The Vintner's Luck (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998) /10
Pavel Kohout: The Widow Killer (St Martin's Press, 1998) /10
Dean Koontz: From The Corner Of His Eyes (Bantam, 2000) /10
Tim Krabbe`: The Cave (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000) /10
Gary Krist: Bad Chemistry (Random House, 1997) /10
Karla Kuban: Marchlands (Scribner, 1998) /10
Hanif Kureishi: Intimacy (Scribner, 1999) /10
Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake (HoughtonMigglin, 2003) /10
Wally Lamb: I Know This Much Is True (Reganbooks, 1998) /10
John Lanchester: Mr Phillips (Putnam, 2000) /10
Erik Larson: Isaac's Storm (Crown, 1999) /10
James Lasdun: The Horned Man (Norton, 2001) /10
Mary Lawson: Crow Lake (Dual, 2001) /10
David Leavitt: The Page Turner (Houghton Mifflin, 1998) /10
David Leavitt: Martin Bauman (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) /10
Meely LeBauve: Ken Wells (Random House, 2000) /10
John LeCarre: Single & Single (Scribner, 1999) /10
John LeCarre: Absolute Friends (Scribner, 2004) /10
John LeCarre: The Constant Gardener (Scribner, 2000) /10
Ella Leffland: Breath And Shadows (Morrow, 1999) /10
Dennis Lehane: Mystic River (Morrow, 2000) /10
BRad Leithauser: A Few Corrections (Knopf, 2001) /10
Jeffrey Lent: In The Fall (Atlantic Monthly, 2000) /10
Elmore Leonard: Cuba Libre (Delacorte, 1997) /10
Elmore Leonard: Be Cool (Delacorte, 1999) /10
Elmore Leonard: Pagan Babies (Delacorte, 2000) /10
Elmore Leonard: Tishomingo Blues (Morrow, 2001) /10
Margaret Leroy: Postcards from Berlin (Little Brown, 2003) /10
Doris Lessing: Mara And Dann (Harper Flamingo, 1998) /10
Doris Lessing: The Sweetest Dream (Harper, 2001) /10
Jonathan Lethem: Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday, 1999) /10
Jonathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude (Doubleday, 2003) /10
Jim Lewis: The King is Dead (Knopf, 2003) /10
Alan Lightman: The Diagnosis (Pantheon, 2000) /10
Alan Lightman: Reunion (Pantheon, 2003) /10
Elinor Lipman: The Pursuit of Alice Thrift (Random House, 2003) /10
Penelope Lively: The Photograph (Viking, 2003) /10
Margot Livesey: The Missing World (Knopf, 1998) /10
Margot Livesey: Eva Moves The Furniture (Holt, 2001) /10
David Lodge: Thinks (Viking, 2001) /10
Max Ludington: Tiger in a Trance (Doubleday, 2003) /10
Robert Ludlum: The Prometheus Deception (St Martin's, 2000) /10
Alison Lurie: The Last Resort (Holt, 1998) /10
Caitlin Macy: The FUndamentals Of Play (Random House, 2000) /10
Pierre Magnan: The Murdered House (Harvill Press, 2000) /10
Norman Mailer: The Time of Our Time (Random House, 1998) /10
Thomas Mallon: Two Moons (Pantheon, 2000) /10
David Malouf: Dream Stuff (Pantheon, 2000) /10
Yann Martel: Life of Pi (2002) /10
Daniel Mason: The Piano Tuner (2002) /10
Hilary Mantel: The Giant O'Brien (Holt, 1998) /10
Hilary Mantel: Every Day Is Mother's Day (Holt, 2000) /10
Hilary Mantel: Vacant Possession (Holt, 2000) /10
Shena Mackay: The Artist's Widow (Moyer Bell, 1999) /10
William March: The Bad Seed /10
Francesca Marciano: Rules Of The Wild (Pantheon, 1998) /10
Paule Marshall: The Fisher King (Scribner, 2000) /10
Steven Martin: Shopgirl (Hyperion, 2000) /10
Valerie Martin: Italian Fever /10
Ronit Matalon: Bliss (Holt, 2003) /10
John McGahern: Getting Through (2002) /10
Ian McEwan: Atonement (2002) /10
Peter Matthiessen: Lost Man's River (Random House, 1997) /10
Peter Matthiessen: Bone By Bone (Random House, 1999) /10
Anna Maxted: Getting Over It (Harper Collins, 2000) /10
Ed McBain: The Last Dance (Simon & Schuster, 1999) /10
Patrick McCabe: Mondo Desperado (HarperCollins, 2000) /10
Patrick McCabe: Breakfast on Pluto (Harper, 1998) /10
Cormac McCarthy: Cities Of The Plain (Knopf, 1998) /10
James McCourt: Delancey's Way (Knopf, 2000) /10
Zakes Mda: The Heart Of Redness (2000) /10
Zakes Mda: Ways Of Dying (1991) /10
Alice McDermott: Charming Billy (Farrar Straus And Giroux, 1997) /10
Alice McDermott: Child of my Heart (Farrar Straus And Giroux, 2002) /10
Joseph McElroy: Actress in the House (Overlook, 2003) /10
Ian McEwan: Amsterdam (Doubleday, 1998) /10
Ian McEwan: Enduring Love (Doubleday, 1998) /10
John McGahern: By The Lake (Knopf, 2001) /10
Thomas McGuane: The Cadence of Grass (2002) /10
Jay McInerney: Model Behavior (Knopf, 1999) /10
Larry McMurtry: Boone's Lick (Simon & Schuster, 2000) /10
Larry McMurtry: Duane's Depressed (Simon & Schuster, 1998) /10
Larry McMurtry: Paradise (Simon & Schuster, 2001) /10
Larry McMurtry: Roads (Simon & Schuster, 2000) /10
Larry McMurtry: Wandering Hill (Simon & Schuster, 2003) /10
Deirdre McNamer: My Russian (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) /10
Jenny McPhee: The Center Of Things (Doubleday, 2001) /10
David Means: Assorted Fire Events (Context, 2000) /10
Brad Meltzer: The First Counsel (Warner, 2000) /10
Daniel Menaker: The Treatment (Knopf, 1998) /10
Claire Messud: The Last Life (Brace, 1999) /10
Ib Michael: Prince (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999) /10
Andrew Miller: Casanova In Love (Brace, 1998) /10
Andrew Miller: Oxygen /10
Sue Miller: While I Was Gone (Knopf, 1998) /10
Sue Miller: The World Below (Knopf, 2000) /10
Steven Millhauser: Enchanted Night (Crown, 1999) /10
Anchee Min: Becoming Madame Mao (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) /10
Eliza Minot: The Tiny One (Knopf, 1999) /10
Susan Minot: Evening (Knopf, 1998) /10
Susan Minot: Rapture (Knopf, 2001) /10
Pankaj Mishra: Heart of the Matter (Random House, 1999) /10
Pankaj Mishra: Romantics (Random House, 2000) /10
Rohinton Mistry: Family Matters (2002) /10
David Mitchell: Ghostwritten (2000) /10
David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (2004) /10
Deborah Moggach: Tulip Fever (Delacorte, 2000) /10
Ted Mooney: Singing Into the Piano (Vintage, 1999) /10
Brian Moore: The Magician's Wife (Dutton, 1997) /10
Lorrie Moore: Birds Of America (Knopf, 1998) /10
Susanna Moore: One Last Look (Knopf, 2003) /10
Robert Morgan: Gap Creek (Algonquin, 1999) /10
Mary Morris: Acts of God (Picador, 2000) /10
Mary McGarry Morris: Fiona Range (Viking, 2000) /10
Toni Morrison: Paradise (Knopf, 1997) /10
Toni Morrison: Love (Knopf, 2003) /10
John Mortimer: Felix In The Underworld (Viking, 1997) /10
Brian Morton: Starting Out In The Evening (Crown, 1997) /10
Bharati Mukherjee: Desirable Daughters (2002) /10
Sena Jeter Naslund: Ahab's Wife (Morrow, 1999) /10
Sena Jeter Naslund: Four Spirits (Morrow, 2003) /10
Arthur Nersesian: Dogrun (MTV, 2000) /10
Peter Nichols: Voyage to the North Star (Carroll & Graf, 1999) /10
Howard Norman: The HAunting Of L (FSG, 2001) /10
Edna O'Brien: Wild Decembers (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)/10
Edna O'Brien: In The Forest (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)/10
Patrick O'Brian: The Hundred Days (Norton, 1998) /10
Timothy O'Grady: Light (Secker, 2004) /10
Andrew O'Hagan: Our Fathers (Brace, 1999) /10
Andrew O'Hagan: Personality (Harcourt, 2003) /10
Stewart O'Nan: A World Away (Holt, 1998) /10
Stewart O'Nan: A Prayer For The Dying (Holt, 1999) /10
Jamie O'Neill: At Swim Two Boys (Scribner, 2001) /10
Joyca Carol Oates: My Heart Laid Bare (Dutton, 1998) /10
Joyca Carol Oates: Beasts (Carroll and Graf, 2002) /10
Joyca Carol Oates: Middle Age (Ecco, 2001) /10
Joyca Carol Oates: The Tattoed Girl (Ecco, 2003) /10
Joyca Carol Oates: Blonde (Ecco, 2000) /10
Shannon Olson: Welcome to My Planet (Viking, 2000) /10
Michael Ondaatje: Handwriting (Knopf, 1999) /10
Michael Ondaatje: Anils' Ghost (Knopf, 2000) /10
Cynthia Ozick: The Puttermesser Papers (Knopf, 1997) /10
Charles Palliser: The Unburied (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999) /10
Nicole Paolini: Swamp Gas (St Martin's Press, 2000) /10
Robert Parker: Perish Twice (Putnam, 2000) /10
Carolyn Parkhurst: The Dogs of Babel (Little Brown, 2003) /10
Tim Parks: Europa (Arcade, 1998) /10
Jill Paton Walsh: A Desert In Bohemia (St Martin's, 2000) /10
Richard North Patterson: Protect and Defend (Knopf, 2000) /10
Iain Pears: An Instance Of The Fingerpost (Riverhead, 1998) /10
T.R. Pearson: Polar (Viking, 2001) /10
Tom Perrotta: Joe College (St Martin's, 2000) /10
Jayne Anne Phillips: Motherkind (Knopf, 2000) /10
Jayne Anne Phillips: A Distant Shore (Knopf, 2003) /10
Jodi Picoult: Plain Truth (Pocket, 2000) /10
DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little (2003) /10
David Plante: The Age Of Terror (St Martin's Press, 1998) /10
Stanley Pottinger: A Slow Burning (Dutton, 1999) /10
Richard Powers: Gain (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998) /10
Richard Powers: Plowing The Dark (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000) /10
Richard Powers: The Time of Our Singing (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003) /10
Steven Pressfield: Gates of Fire (Doubleday, 1998) /10
Caroline Preston: Lucy Crocker 2.0 (Scribner, 2000) /10
Richard Price: Freedomland (Broadway, 1998) /10
Reynolds Price: Roxanna Slade (Scribner, 1998) /10
Reynolds Price: Noble Norfleet (2002) /10
Reynolds Price: Samaritan (Knopf, 2003) /10
Sara Pritchard: Crackpots (Mariner, 2003) /10
Francine Prose: Blue Angel (Harper Collins, 2000) /10
Annie Proulx: That Old Ace In the Hole (Scribner, 2002) /10
Michael Pye: Taking Lives (Knopf, 1999) /10
Thomas Pynchon: Mason And Dixon (Holt, 1997) /10
Ernesto Quinonez: Bodega Dreams (Vintage, 2000) /10
Thomas Rayfiel: Colony Girl (Farrar Straus & Girous, 1999) /10
Mordecai Richler: Pulling Down (Knopf, 1998) /10
Mordecai Richler: Barney's Version (Knopf, 1997) /10
Eric Rickstad: Reap (Viking, 1999) /10
Nicholas Rinaldi: The Jukebox Queen Of Malta (Simon & Schuster, 1999) /10
Steven Rinehart: Built in a Day (Doubleday, 2003) /10
Rick Riordan: The Last King Of Texas (Bantam, 1999) /10
Tom Robbins: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates (Bantham, 2000) /10
Roxana Robinson: This Is My Daughter (Random House, 1998) /10
Thane Rosenbaum: The Golems of Gotham (2002) /10
Leone Ross: Orange Laughter (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2000) /10
Henry Roth: Requiem For Harlem (St James Press, 1998) /10
Philip Roth: American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin, 1997) /10
Philip Roth: I Married A Communist (Houghton Mifflin, 1998) /10
Philip Roth: The Human Stain (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) /10
Philip Roth: The Dying Animal (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) /10
Philip Roth: The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) /10
Norman Bush: Mortals (Knopf, 2003) /10
Salman Rushdie: The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Holt, 1999) /10
Salman Rushdie: Fury (Random House, 2001) /10
Josh Russell: Yellow Jack (Norton, 1999) /10
Kurban Said: Ali And Nino (Overlook, 1999) /10
Lisa St Aubin de Teran: The Palace (Ecco, 1999) /10
Kerri Sakamoto: Electrical Field (WW Norton, 1999) /10
Geroge Saunders: Pastoralia (Riverhead, 2000) /10
Geroge Saunders: The Very Persistent Gappers Of Frip (Villard, 2000) /10
Elissa Schappell: Use Me (Morrow, 2000) /10
Gary Shteyngart: The Russian Debutante's Handbook (Riverhead, 2002) /10
Carol Shields: Unless (2002) /10
Richard Schmitt: The Aerialist (Overlook, 2000) /10
John Burnham Schwartz: Reservation Road (Knopf, 1998) /10
Leslie Schwartz: Jumping The Green (Simon & Schuster, 1999) /10
Cathleen Schine: The Evolution Of Jane (Houghton Mifflin, 1998) /10
Joanna Scott: Make Believe (Little Brown, 2000) /10
Keith Scribner: The Goodlife (Rivershead, 1999) /10
Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones (LittleBrown, 2002) /10
Vikram Seth: An Equal Music (Broadway Books, 1999) /10
Jane Shapiro: The Dangerous Husband (Little Brown, 1999) /10
Wallace Shawn: The Designated Mourner (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998) /10
Ben Sherwood: The Man Who Ate the 747 (Bantam, 2000) /10
Carol Shields: Dressing Up For The Carnival (Viking, 2000) /10
Jody Shields: Fig Eater (Little Brown & Co, 2000) /10
Anita Shreve: Fortune's Rock (Little Brown & Co, 1999) /10
Anne Rivers Siddon: Nora Nora (HarperCollins, 2000) /10
Lee Siegel: Love In A Dead Language (Arcade, 1997) /10
Daniel Silva: The Kill Artist (Random House, 2000) /10
Jane Smiley: The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (Knopf, 1998) /10
Jane Smiley: Horse Heaven (Knopf, 2000) /10
Jane Smiley: Good Faith (Knopf, 2003) /10
Carol Smith: The Neighbors (Warner, 1999) /10
Dodie Smith: I Capture The Castle (Wyatt, 1998) /10
Peter Moore Smith: Raveling (Little Brown, 2000) /10
Zadie Smith: White Teeth (Random House, 2000) 8/10
Zadie Smith: The Autograph Man (2002) 8/10
Susan Sontag: In America (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000) /10
Muriel Spark: Aiding And Abetting (Doubleday, 2001) /10
Muriel Spark: The Finishing School (Doubleday, 2004) /10
Nicholas Sparks: Message In A Bottle (Warner, 1998) /10
Scott Spencer: A Ship Made of Paper (Ecco, 2003) /10
Jerry Stahl: Perv (Morrow, 1999) /10
Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon (, 1999) /10
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver (Morrow, 2003) /10
Jane Stevenson: London Bridges (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) /10
Robert Stone: Damascus Gate (Houghton Mifflin, 1998) /10
Robert Stone: Bay of Souls (Houghton Mifflin, 2003) /10
Darin Strauss: Chang And Eng (Dutton, 2000) /10
Elizabeth Strout: Amy And Isabelle (Random House, 1999) /10
Manil Suri: Death of Vishnu (Norton, 2001) /10
Maryl Swick: Evening News (Little Brown & Co, 1999) /10
Graham Swift: The Light Of Day (Knopf, 2003) /10
Meera Syal: Life isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (New Press, 2000) /10
Erik Tarloff: Space-time (Crown, 1999) /10
Chad Taylor: Shirker (Walker, 2000) /10
Mel Taylor: The Mitt Man (Morrow, 1999) /10
Emma Tennant: Strangers (New Directions, 1999) /10
Steve Tesich: Karoo (Brace, 1998) /10
James Thackara: The Book Of Kings (Overlook, 1999) /10
Rupert Thompson: Soft (Knopf, 1998) /10
Adam Thorpe: Pieces Of Light (Carroll & Graf, 1999) /10
Colm Toibin: The Master (Scribner, 2004) /10
FX Toole: Rope Burns (Ecco, 2000) /10
Hans-Ulrich Treichel: Lost (Pantheon, 1999) /10
William Trevor: Death in Summer (Viking, 1998) /10
William Trevor: The Story of Lucy Gault (2002) /10
William Trevor: The Hill Bachelors (Viking, 2000) /10
Rose Tremain: The Way I Found Her (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998) /10
Trevanian: Incident at Twenty-mile (St Martin's Press, 1998) /10
Jeanna Trollope: Marrying the Mistress (Viking, 2000) /10
Lily Tuck: Siam (Overlook, 1999) /10
Scott Turow: Personal Injuries (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999) /10
Anne Tyler: A Patchwork Planet (Knopf, 1998) /10
Barry Unsworth: Losing Nelson (Doubleday, 1999) /10
Barry Unsworth: The Songs of the Kings (Doubleday, 2003) /10
John Updike: Gertrude And Claudius (Knopf, 2000) /10
John Updike: Licks Of Love (Knopf, 2000) /10
John Updike: Toward The End Of Time (Knopf, 1998) /10
John Updike: Bech At Bay (Knopf, 1998) /10
John Updike: Seek My Face (2003) /10
John Updike: Villages (Knopf, 2004) /10
Gore Vidal: The Smithsonian Institute (Random House, 1998) /10
Gore Vidal: The Golden Age (Doubleday, 2000) /10
Barbara Vine: Grasshopper (Harmony, 2000) /10
Kurt Vonnegut: Timequake (Putnam's Sons, 1997) /10
Diana Wagman: Skin Deep (University Press Of Mississippi, 1997) /10
Bruce Wagner: I'll Let You Go (Villard, 2001) /10
Kate Walbert: The Gardens Of Tokyo (Scribner, 2001) /10
Alice Walker: By The Light Of My Father's Smile (Random House, 1998) /10
Alice Walker: The Way Forward Is With A Broken Heart (Random House, 2000) /10
Chirs Ware: Jimmy Corrigan (Pantheon, 2000) /10
Sarah Waters: Tipping The Velvet (Riverhead, 1999) /10
Sarah Waters: Fingersmith (Riverhead, 2001) /10
Katharine Weber: The Music Lesson (Crown, 1999) /10
Fay Weldon: Big Girls Don't Cry (Atlantic Monthly, 1998) /10
Fay Weldon: Rhode Island Blues (Atlantic Monthly, 2000) /10
Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting (1992) /10
Irvine Welsh: Filth (Norton, 1998) /10
Irvine Welsh: Porno (2002) /10
Donald Westlake: Hook (Mysterious, 2000) /10
Phil Whitaker: Triangulation (Picador, 1999) /10
Edmund White: The Married Man (Knopf, 2000) /10
Colson Whitehead: The Intuitionist (Anchor, 1999) /10
Colson Whitehead: JOhn Henry Days (Doubleday, 2000) /10
John Wideman: Two Cities (Houghton Mifflin, 1998) /10
Marianne Wiggins: Evidence of Things Unseen (Simon & Schuster, 2003) /10
Dwight Williams: From The Garden Of Memory (Putnam, 1998) /10
Joy Williams: The Quick And The Dead (Knopf, 2000) /10
Sarah Willis: Some Things That Stay (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000) /10
Jeanette Winterson: The Power Book (Knopf, 2000) /10
Tom Wolfe: A Man in Full (Farrax Straus & Giroux, 1998) /10
Tom Wolfe: Hooking Up (Farrax Straus & Giroux, 2000) /10
Tom Wolfe: I Am Charlotte Simmons (Farrax Straus & Giroux, 2004) /10
Meg Wolitzer: Surrender Dorothy (Scribner, 1999) /10
Daniel Woodrell: The Death Of Sweet Mister (Putnam, 2001) /10
A.B. Yehoshua: The Jew From Tangier (Doubleday, 1999) /10
Banana Yoshimoto: Asleep (Grove, 2000) /10
Lisa Zeidner: Layover (Random House, 1999) /10
Richard Zimler: The Last Kabbalist Of Lisbon (Overlook, 1998) /10