Happy Holidays to all you book lovers out there!
The year-end tradition continues with my ninth annual Recommended Reading List—nearly a decade of good books. Here, in no particular order, is my list of the best read in 2001. Happy reading!
- The Thurber Carnival, James Thurber (1944)
- Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser (1911)
- Fast Food Nation—The Dark Side of the All American Meal, Eric Schlosser (2001)
- Aiding and Abetting, Muriel Spark (2001)
- A Star Called Henry, Roddy Doyle (1999)
- Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris (2000)
- What It Felt Like, Henry Allen (2000)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling (1999)
- In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer, Irene Gut Opdyke (1999)
- On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, Kaye Gibbons (1998)
- In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson (2001)
- Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde, Brad Dimock (2001)
- Travels With Charley In Search of America, John Steinbeck (1962)
- The Mystery of the Lilac Inn, Carolyn Keene (1931)
- One for the Road, Tony Horwitz (1987)
- Lying Awake, Mark Salzman (2000)
- The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood (2000)
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