FAVORITE TITLES OF 2001
from the Fiction-L List
As
part of a listserv called Fiction-L, librarians across the United States and
Canada annually post their best-of lists, based on their own reading and
on the responses of their patrons.
Heres the list of 2001 titles - the titles are listed alphabetically
in order of the number of votes received.
(Although titles from previous years were included on the original
list, only titles with 2001 publication dates are included on this list.)
FICTION
7 votes:
Connie Willis Passage
5 votes:
Harlan Coben Tell No One
Dennis Lehane Mystic River
4 votes:
Leif Enger Peace Like a
River
Richard Russo Empire Falls
3
votes:
Janet Evanovich Seven Up
Chip Kidd The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters
Garth Nix Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr
2 votes:
Geraldine Brooks Year of
Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
Lois McMaster Bujold The
Curse of Chalion
Robert Crais Hostage
Mark Friedman Columbus Slaughters Braves
Jane Heller Female
Intelligence
Linda Howard Open Season
Laurie King Folly
Jo-Ann Mapson Bad Girl Creek
Margaret Maron Uncommon Clay
Jaclyn Moriarty Feeling Sorry for
Celia
Kathy Reichs Fatal Voyage
Nora Roberts Midnight
Bayou
Lalita Tademy Cane River
Anne Tyler Back When We Were
Grownups
1 vote:
Bruce Alexander Smuggler's
Moon
Isabel Allende Portrait in
Sepia
Donna Andrews Revenge of the
Wrought-Iron Flamingos
David Baldacci Last Man
Standing
Jill Barnett Sentimental Journey
Elizabeth Berg Never Change
Cheryl Benard Turning on the
Girls
Sallie Bissell In The Forest Of Harm
C.J. Box Open Season
Gillian Bradshaw The Wolf
Hunt
Ann Brashares The Sisterhood
of the Traveling Pants
(Young Adult Fiction)
James Lee Burke Bitterroot
Jan Burke Flight
Stella Cameron Glass Houses
Bebe Moore Campbell What You
Owe Me
Susan Carroll Midnight Bride
C.J. Cherryh Defender
Tracy Chevalier Falling
Angels
John Colapinto About the Author
Michael Connelly A Darkness More Than Night
Bernard Cornwell The
Archer's
Tale
Deborah Crombie A Finer End
Justin Cronin Mary and O'Neil
Sijie Dai Balzac and the
Little Chinese Seamstress
P.T. Deutermann Hunting
Season
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The
Unknown Errors of Our Lives
Joanne Dobson Cold and Pure
and Very Dead
Richard Flanagan Death of a River Guide
Vince Flynn Separation of
Power
Jonathan Franzen The
Corrections
Diana Gabaldon The
Fiery Cross
Mary Ladd Gavell I
Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly
Elizabeth George A Traitor to
Memory
Glen David Gold Carter Beats the Devil
Joanne Harris Five Quarters
of the Orange
Elizabeth Hay A Student of
Weather
Nalo Hopkinson Skin
Folk
Nick Hornby How to Be
Good
Sarah Hoyt Ill-met by
Moonlight
Tanya Huff The Second Summoning
James Hynes The
Lecturer's Tale
Greg Iles Dead Sleep
P.D. James Death in Holy
Orders
J. A. Jance Paradise Lost
Iris Johansen Final
Target
Douglas Kelley The Captain's
Wife
Kate Kennedy End Over End
Ross King Ex Libris
Sophie Kinsella Confessions
of a Shopaholic
Jim Kokoris The Rich Part of
Life
Elinor Lipman Dearly Departed
Margot Livesey Eva Moves the
Furniture
David Lodge Thinks...
Elizabeth McCracken Niagara
Falls All Over Again
Terry McMillan A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Joan Medlicott The
Gardens of
Covington
Brad Meltzer The
First Counsel
Sue Miller The World Below
Marcia Muller Point Deception
Kris Nelscott Smoke-Filled
Rooms
Thisbe Nissen The Good People
of New York
Han Nolan Born Blue
Owen Parry Call Each River Jordan
James Patterson Suzanne's
Diary for Nicholas
Eliot Pattison Water Touching
Stone
Meredith Ann Pierce Treasure
at the Heart of the Tanglewood
Terry Pratchett The Last Hero
Terry Pratchett Thief of Time
Lily Prior La
Cucina: A Novel of Rapture
Elizabeth Redfern Music of
the Spheres
S.J. Rozan Reflecting the Sky
Sara Ryan Empress of the
World
John Saul Manhattan Hunt Club
David Schickler Kissing in Manhattan
Anita Shreve The Last Time
They Met
Sheldon Siegel Incriminating Evidence
Julie Smith Louisiana Hotshot
Nicholas Sparks A Bend in the
Road
Leslie Stella Fat Bald Jeff
Sarah Strohmeyer Bubbles
Unbound
Manil Suri Death of Vishnu
Beverly Swerling City of
Dreams
Amy Tan The
Bonesetter's Daughter
Aimee and David Thurlo Red
Mesa
Charles Todd Watchers of Time
Adriana Trigiani Big Cherry Holler: A Big Stone Gap Novel
Laura Van Wormer Trouble
Becomes Her
Carl Weber Married Men
Tim Winton Dirt Music
Virginia Euwer Wolff True
Believer (Young Adult Fiction)
NONFICTION
3 votes:
Laura Hillenbrand Seabiscuit: An American Legend
2 votes:
Alexa Albert Brothel: Mustang
Ranch and Its Women
1 vote:
Peter Ackroyd London: The
Biography
Paul Auster, ed. I Thought My
Father Was God
Anthony Bourdain A Cook's
Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal
Rick Bragg Ava's Man
D. Graham Burnett A Trial
by Jury
Laura Claridge Norman
Rockwell: A Life
Kate Cohen A Walk Down the
Aisle: Notes on a Modern Wedding
Stephen Coote Samuel
Pepys: A
Life
Robertson Davies For Your Eye
Alone: The Letters of Robertson Davies
Diane Farr The Girl Code: The Secret Language of Single Women
(on Dating, Sex, Shopping, and Honor Among Girlfriends)
Rita Golden Gelman Tales of a
Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
Annie Hawes Extra Virgin: A
Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month is Enchanted
Tony Hillerman Seldom
Disappointed: A Memoir
Jenny McMorris The Warden of
English: The Life of H.W. Fowler
Joseph Mitchell My Ears are
Bent
Ruth Reichl Comfort Me With
Apples
Terry Ryan The Prize Winner
of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
Robert Sapolsky A Primate's Memoir
Eric Schlosser Fast Food
Nation: the Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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