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"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites. It gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." Elizabeth Hardwick

The Barn's Best Reads of 2000
Agee, Jonis - The Weight of Dreams
Alborn, Mitch - Tuesdays With Morrie
Atwood, Margaret - The Robber Bride
Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin ( x 2)
Baldacci, David - Wish You Well
Banks, Ian - The Wasp Factory ( x 2)
Bardach, Janusz and Gleeson, Kathleen - Man Is Wolf to Man
Barry, Dave - Big Trouble
Barry, Lynda - Cruddy
Bausch, A Hole in the Earth
Beevor, Antony - Stalingrad ( x 2)
Berger, Thomas- Little Big Man
Bishop, Anne - The Black Jewels Trilogy
Borchardt, Alice - Silver Wolf
Boyle, T.C - Riven Rock
Brady, Lois Smith - Love Lessons
Brite, Poppy Z. - Exquisite Corpse
Brown, Mary - Playing the Jack
Bryson, Bill - A Walk in the Woods ( x 2)
Bujold, Lois McMaster - Komarr
Bujold, Lois McMaster - A Civil Campaign
Bush, George - All the Best
Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game
Carnegie, Dale - The Unknown Lincoln
Carter, Alden - Bull Catcher
Chernoff - A Boy in Winter
Chevalier, Tracy - Girl With a Pearl Earring ( x 2)
Coetzee, J.M. - Disgrace
Cook, Thomas H. - Instruments of Night
Cook, Thomas H. - Places in the Dark
Cooper, Douglas - Amnesia
Coupland, Douglas - Microserfs
Crace, Jim - Quarantine
Crais, Robert - LA Requiem
Crichton, Micheal - The Great Train Robbery
Chrichton, Michael - Timeline
Cunningham, Michael - The Hours
Danielewski, Mark Z. - House of Leaves
Debus, Andre - House of Sand and Fog ( x 2)
Deaver, Jeffrey - The Bone Collector
Dibdin, Michael - Cabal
Dunker, Patricia - Hallucinating Foucault
Dunnett, Dorothy - Gemini
Eggers, Dave - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Egolf, Tristan - Lord of the Barnyard (x2)
Ellis, Hellen - Eating the Cheshire Cat
Englander, Nathan - For Relief of Unbearable Urges
Erikson, Steven - Gardens of the Moon
Evanovich, Janet - One for the Money
Evanovich, Janet - Two for the Dough
Evanovich, Janet - Three to Get Deadly
Evanovich, Janet - Four to Score
Evanovich, Janet - High Five
Ferguson, Will - Hokkaido Highway Blues
Fiffer, Steve - Tryannosarus Sue
Bill Fitzhugh - Cross Dressing
Frayn, Michael - Headlong
Gaffney, Patricia - The Saving Graces
Gaiman, Neil - Neverwhere
Garland, Alex - The Beach
Gearino, G. D. - Counting Coup
George - The Autobiography of Henry VIII
Giardina, Denise - Good King Harry
Gibson, William - Idoru
Gibson, William - All Tomorrow's Parties
Grass, Gunter - Dog Years
Green, Simon R. - Deathstalker
Greene, Graham - The End of the Affair
Gutcheon, Beth - More Than You Know
Guterson, David - Snow Falling on Cedars
Harrigan, Stephen - Gates of the Alamo
Haruf, Kent - Plainsong
Hartley, L P - The Go-Between
Hatcher, Paul - The World Stare-Out Championship Finals
Hegi, Ursula - Stones From the River
Hesse, Herman - Demian
Hiaasen, Carl- Sick Puppy
Hoffman, Barry - Born Bad
Hoffman, Alice - Practical Magic
Holman, Sheri - The Dress Lodger
Hornby, Nick - High Fidelity
Hospital, Janette Turner - The Last Magician
Inman, Robert - Home Fires Burning
Irving, John - The Cider House Rules
Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
Jin, Ha - Waiting ( x 2)
Kaplan, Robert D. - Balkan Ghosts
Kay, Guy Gavriel - Lord Of Emperors
King, Stephen - Drawing of the Three (x 2)
King, Stephen - The Dark Tower Series
King, Stephen - Wizards and Glass
Kingsolver, Barbara - Prodigal Summer
Kingsolver, Barbara - The Poisonwood Bible
Korelitz, Jean Hanff - The Sabbathday River
Kowlaski, William- Eddie's Bastard
Laurence, Margaret - The Diviners
Laurence, Margeret - The Fire-Dwellers
Laurence, The Stone Angel
Le Guin, Ursula - The Left Hand of Darkness
Lehane, Dennis- A Drink Before the War
Lehane, Dennis - Gone Baby Gone ( x 2 )
Lent, Jeffrey- In the Fall ( x 2)
Lethem, Jonathon - Motherless Brooklyn
Lott, Bret - Jewel
Lund, Gerald - Fire of the Covenant
Lurie, Alison - Foreign Affairs
Maugham, M. Somerset - The Razor's Edge
Maurensig, Paolo - The Luneberg Variation ( x 3)
Maurensig, Paulo - Canone Inverso ( x 2)
McCarthy, Cormac - Blood Meridian
McCarthy, Cormac - Child of God
McCarthy, Cormac - All The Pretty Horses ( x 2)
McCullough, David-Truman
McCullough, David- The Path Between the Seas
McDermid, Val - A Place of Execution
McGinniss, Joe - The Miracle of Castel di Sangro (x 2)
Mill, John Stuart - On Liberty
Montalbano, William D. - Basilica
Moore, Brian - The Statement
Murakami, Haruki - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
O'Brien, Tim - If I Die in a Combat Zone
O'Brien, Tim - The Things They Carried
Oates, Joyce Carol - American Appetites
Ondaatje, Michael - The English Patient
Orwell, George - Down and Out in Paris and London
Overy, Richard - Russia's War
Pears, Iain - The Raphael Affair
Perry, Anne - Face of a Stranger
Picoult, Jodi - Keeping Faith
Powers, Charles T. - In the Memory of the Forest
Pratchett, Terry - Men at Arms
Price, Reynolds - Kate Vaiden
Reich, Robert - Locked in the Cabinet
Ridley, John - Everybody Smokes in Hell
Roth, Philip - Portnoy's Complaint
Rowling, JK - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Russell, Maria Doria - The Sparrow
St. John, David - Study for the World's Body : New and Selected Poems
Saramago, Jose - Blindness (x2)
Saramago, Jose - All The Names
Schippers, David - Sell Out
Schulman, Audrey - The Cage
Scottoline, Lisa - Moment of Truth
Seife, Charles - Zero: the Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Seth, Vikram - An Equal Music
Simmons, Dan - Song of Kali
Smiley, Jane - Horse Heaven ( x 2)
Sobel, Dava - Longitude ( x 2)
Sobel, Dava - Galileo's Daughter
Sontag & Drew, Blind Man's Bluff
Sotos, Peter - Lazy
Stephenson, Neal- Cryptonomicon (x 6)
Stephenson, Neal - Snow Crash
Stewart, Sean - Mockingbird
Tannahill, Reay - The World, The Flesh and The Devil
Thackery, William - Vanity Fair
Tolkien, J. R. R. - The Lord of the Rings
Tsukiyama, The Samurai's Garden
Turner, Nancy E. - These Is My Words: the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine
Twain, Mark - A Tramp Abroad
Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Plante
Vachss, Andrew - Down In The Zero
Walters, Minette - The Sculptress
Wiesel, Elie - All Rivers Run to the Sea
Williams, Juan- Thurgod Marshall
Wilson, John Morgan - Limits of Justice
Winokur, Jon - The Portable Curmudgeon