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| 2007 |
| Pillars of the Earth |
Ken Follett
Library Journal
: A radical departure from Follett's novels of international suspense and intrigue, this chronicles the vicissitudes of a prior, ...More |
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| 2005 |
| A Million Little Pieces |
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James Frey
Publishers Weekly
: Frey is pretender to the throne of the aggressive, digressive, cocky Kings David: Eggers and Foster Wallace. Pre-pub comparisons ...More |
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| 2004 |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Library Journal
: Two modern giants (LJ 2/15/70 and LJ 11/1/61, respectively) join Knopf's venerable "Everyman's Library." If you've been s ...More |
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| 2002 |
| Sula |
Toni Morrison
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| 2001 |
| A Fine Balance |
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Rohinton Mistry
Library Journal: In mid-1970s urban India-a chaos of wretchedness on the streets and slogans in the offices-a chain of circumstances tosses four var ...More |
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| 2001 |
| The Corrections |
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Jonathan Franzen
Library Journal: As her husband's health deteriorates, Enid faces the disappointments in her life including her three grown children. Copyright 2001 ...More |
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| 2001 |
| Cane River |
Lalita Tademy
Library Journal: First novelist Tademy turns fact (the story of her antebellum Southern family) into fiction. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Infor ...More |
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| 2001 |
| Icy Sparks |
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Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Library Journal: Kentucky writer Rubio's big-hearted first novel features Icy Sparks, a brave and lovable child with Tourette Syndrome. Her involunt ...More |
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| 2001 |
| We Were the Mulvaneys |
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Joyce Carol Oates
Library Journal: Everyone knows the Mulvaneys: Dad the successful businessman, Mike the football star, Marianne the cheerleader, Patrick the brain, ...More |
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| 2000 |
| House of Sand and Fog |
Andre Dubus
Library Journal: In his second novel (after Bluesman, LJ 5/15/93), the son of noted writer Andre Dubus manages to get deep inside the heads of two v ...More |
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| 2000 |
| Drowning Ruth |
Christina Schwarz
Library Journal: Why did Ruth's mother, Mathilda, drown on that fateful night in 1919 and Ruth survive? That is the central question that this novel ...More |
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| 2000 |
| The Poisonwood Bible |
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Barbara Kingsolver
Library Journal: It's been five years since Kingsolver's last novel (Pigs in Heaven, LJ 6/15/93), and she has used her time well. This intense famil ...More |
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| 2000 |
| While I Was Gone |
Sue Miller
Library Journal: Thirty years ago, Joey Becker's carefree bohemian life was shattered by the brutal, unsolved murder of her best friend, Dana. Joey ...More |
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| 2000 |
| Back Roads |
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Tawni O'Dell
Library Journal: Harley Altmyer might be the only 20-year-old virgin in the small Pennsylvania coal town where he lives, but for sure he is the only ...More |
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| 2000 |
| Daughter of Fortune |
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Isabel Allende
Publishers Weekly: Allende expands her geographical boundaries in this sprawling, engrossing historical novel flavored by four cultures--English, Ch ...More |
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| 1999 |
| A Map of the World |
Jane Hamilton
Library Journal: This second novel by Hamilton (The Book of Ruth, LJ 11/1/88) is a stunning exploration of how one careless moment can cause irrevoc ...More |
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| 1999 |
| River, Cross My Heart |
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Breena Clarke
Library Journal: YA-Set in Georgetown, this poignant coming-of-age story begins with the drowning death of six-year-old Clara Bynum. Johnnie May, at ...More |
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| 1999 |
| Tara Road |
Maeve Binchy
Library Journal: Abandoned by her husband, a Dublin woman named Ria meets American Marilyn via the phone, and they end up swapping houses--with surp ...More |
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| 1997 |
| The Meanest Thing to Say |
Bill Cosby
School Library Journal
: K-Gr 3--Cosby turns his hand to writing, telling stories about situations that children often face. In The Best Way to Play, ...More |
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| 1997 |
| The Treasure Hunt |
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Bill Cosby
School Library Journal
: K-Gr 3--Cosby turns his hand to writing, telling stories about situations that children often face. In The Best Way to Play, ...More |
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| 1997 |
| The Best Way to Play |
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Bill Cosby
School Library Journal
: K-Gr 3--Cosby turns his hand to writing, telling stories about situations that children often face. In The Best Way to Play, ...More |
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| 1997 |
| Songs in Ordinary Time |
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Mary McGarry Morris
Publisher's Weekly
: Set in Vermont during the summer of 1960, Morris's latest concerns a dysfunctional family that falls prey to a dangerous ...More |
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