Happy Holidays to all you book lovers out there!
The year-end tradition continues with my Eighth Annual Recommended Reading List. Here, in no particular order, is my list of the best read in 2000. Enjoy and happy reading.
“Books are the plane and the train and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” — How Reading Changed My Life, Anna Quindlen
- Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure, Frank Worsley (1931)
- The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition (1999)
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (1813)
- Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir, Frank McCourt (1996)
- Duane’s Depressed, Larry McMurtry (1999)
- The Hours, Michael Cunningham (1998)
- How Reading Changed My Life, Anna Quindlen (1998)
- Fay, William Wegman (1999)
- The Black Flower, Howard Bahr (1997)
- Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park, Marie Winn (1998)
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone & Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J. K. Rowling (1999)
- Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden (1997)
- Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe (1719)
- Isaac’s Storm: A Man, A Time and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, Erik Larson (1999)
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Wallace Stegner (1943)
- Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks (1998)
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