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2000

The Red Tent, Anita Diamant (In Dinah’s voice, from Genisis, fiction, 1998)
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, Peter Guralnick (biography, 1995)
Careless Love, Peter Guralnick (biography, 1995)
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, Dava Sobel (historical memoir, 1999).
Longitude, Dava Sobel
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier (fiction, 1999) (Vermeer's girl, fictionalized)
The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, (fiction)
Prairie Song, Cheryl Anne Anne Porter (Oklahoma land run, fiction, 2000)
Letters and Papers from Prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Nazi prison camp) (non-fiction, >1981)
Letter from the Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. (non-fiction, 1963)
Genome, Matt Ridley (Science 2000) History of humans through 23 pairs of chromosomes.

The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean, (1998)
The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence, (1993)
Women of the Silk (China), Gail Tsukiyama, (1993)
Love of a Good Woman, Alice Munroe, (1998)
Fatal Impact (Captain Cook), Alan Moorehead, (1999)

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink, (1999)
Mother Nature:A History of Mothers, Infants, & Natural Selection, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, (1999)
Woman: An Intimate Geography, Natalie Angier (99)
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most, Ronald B. Shwartz (99)

The Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond, (1992)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith (~1940)
Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron, (1993)
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, (1972)
Naked, David Sedaris, (1997)
Behind the Scenes at the Museum , Kate Atkinson, (1995)
House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, (1905)
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Melissa Bank, (1999)
Something by Flannery O’Connor

The Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner (95)

Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks (98)
The Res, Guy M. Madison (98)
The Force of Connecticut, Michael Bell
Under a Wing: A Memoir, Reeve Lindbergh (1998)
What if? : The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, Robert Cowley (99) hardcover

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict between Word & Image, Leonard Shlain (99)

Pope Joan, Donna Woolfolk Cross (97)
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner (Pulitzer-71)

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro (Pulitzer-74)

The Millstone, Margaret Drabble (65)
Angels and Insects, A.S. Byatt (94)
The Dissappearance, J.F. Freedman(99)
Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset (20)

1999

Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Delta Wedding, Eudora Welty
Everything that Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner

Southern Honor:Ethics in the Old South, Bertram Wyatt Brown
All God's Children:American Tradition of Violence, Fox Butterfield
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted, Witold Rybczynski
Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
Fatal Impact, Alan Moorehead (out of print?)
The Group, Mary McCarthy
Hanna's Daughters, Marianne Fredriksson

Women of the Silk, Gail Tsukiyama
Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
Larry's Party, Carol Shields
The Bone People, Keri Hulme

The Sin Eater, Alice Thomas Ellis
Paris in the '50s, Stanley Karnow
Talking from 9-5, Deborah Tannen
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War, Sebastian Faulks

* - Unless otherwise attributed, all linked summaries are taken from the publisher's summary.  All linked comments are original material.


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