What's your Best Book of 2000?
tstitt@primenet.com
"A Distant Crossing" by Thomas Parks. No publicity, no media splash, just great writing. Found it at Amazon.
SMSEIFR@aol.com
THE RESCUE by Nicholas Sparks
LW25193@aol.com
Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible. Can she ever write! This was the first of her works I had read and I plan to read them all.
bluhrig@inct.net
Best book - Stephen King's On Writing.
MKaspari@aol.com
The Red Tent
Ferrellac@aol.com
The Quiet Game by Greg Iles!!!!
ATESSL@aol.com
Mine has to be Ahab's Wife
Bookgranna@aol.com
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood was the outstanding book I read this year. Her handling of the multiple stories was brilliant and her exquisite language was addictive. I couldn't stop reading.
JmkWild@aol.com
I don't know if it came out in 2000, but that's when I read it: Poisonwood Bible was the most compelling novel I have read in some years. I look forward to Barbara Kingsolver's newest book. Harry Potter's first book was a close second! Hope to finish the series.
Cipsi2@aol.com
A MAP OF THE WORLD by Jane Hamilton A stunning work, jabs right to the heart. What we would do if a child not belonging to us but in our care died is too awful to even consider. Watching the protagonist, her family, her marriage and her struggle for balance requires a superb writer who can sustain the goodness of each character in spite of the desolation that surrounds them all.
WB6TCA@aol.com
HI Gotta say that Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer was the best book of the year!!!!! Although I've loved everything she has written, not since her first book has she reached my heart so well!!! I love the way she writes... AND this one was better than Poisonwood Bible, although I liked it, too.
Sheppard1@aol.com
Poisonwood Bible! It just captivated me and drew me into the story!
Mobetubious@aol.com
Gap Creek was definitely my favorite book of 2000.
AMYASL100@aol.com
I liked the Harry Potter series
Momclg@aol.com
Amy & Isabele
MoM3g2b@aol.com
The next book I read will most definitely be my favorite. I am a very eclectic reader and love to expand my library.
ROSpring@aol.com
"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down:..." by Anne Fadiman is a wonderful book which illustrates cultural differences and problems in a most readable format. You won't be able to put it down!!! It is mainly about the Hmong from Asia and their problems living in the United States and, in particular, problems with the medical establishment. My description does not sound interesting, but the book is a real pageturner.
Pugpals@aol.com
My favorite book this year, among many, was The Poisonwood Bible.
JEarh13191@aol.com
Grace in China: An American Woman Beyond the Wall, 1934-1974 by Eleanor McCallie Cooper and William Lui
Pugpals@aol.com
My favorite book this year, among many, was The Poisonwood Bible.
Fgiitter@aol.com
The best book I read during Year 2000 was "Flags of Our Fathers." The battle descriptions were as vivid as the first 30 minutes of the film "Saving Private Ryan." It told a moving, heroic true story that I won't forget.
D55HM@aol.com
Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan
DCCJ1@aol.com
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The best of the four. I could read a new one every week from now own.
JGB41056@aol.com
The Oath by Frank Peretti
The Southerner by Lori Wick
and The Chanur Saga by C.J.Cherrhy
ansmith@netdoor.com
Best Book of 2000: Jimmy Corrigan, Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
EllynPolansky@webtv.net
My favorite work of fiction was Hotel Paradise by Martha Grimes; favorite non-fiction was A Place in the Country by Laura Shaine Cunningham.
DThomas201@aol.com
Tom Clancy's The Bear and the Dragon
Patty2213@aol.com
Sister of my Heart by Chitra Divakaurni
REVTEV@prodigy.net
The book I'm giving for Christmas is Robert Heinlein's 1950's sci-fi classic, The Door Into Summer. Wonderful look at the "future" which turns out to be the '70's and 2000.
LSSDJS@aol.com
My favorite book of the year was First They Killed My Father by Long Ung. It was a moving story about her childhood in Cambodia during Pol Pot. It's a book that will probably be with me for the rest of my life. It should be required reading for every American, it makes us realize how good we truly have it.
Butters@johnrmcadams.com
A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON - Robert Wilson
Dodge360mag@aol.com
Battleground USA The Beginning
CuddlePal@aol.com
THE DROWNING PEOPLE
ZMEFLYHI@aol.com
Harry Potter series---Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
lilly@thecomp.com
Here's my pick for best of 2000: Dream Catcher by Margaret Salinger. It has avoided the middle of the road inoffensiveness of most bestsellers. It is loved or loathed. (I must say most detractors either haven't read it or wear their particular ax-to-grind on their sleeves.) Love your site. Many thanks.
rivrpath@intelos.net
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
