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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 2001
A Perfect Crime   -   Peter Abrahams
Last Chance To See   -   Douglas Adams
Bastard Out of Carolina   -   Dorothy Allison
The Green Man   -   Kingsley Amis
Winesberg, Ohio   -   Sherwood Anderson
Before Night Falls   -   Reinaldo Arenas*
Cat's Eye   -   Margaret Atwood
Whatever Love Means   -   David Baddiel*
Giovanni's Room   -   James Baldwin
The Wasp Factory   -   Iain Banks*,**
Regeneration   -   Pat Barker*
The End of an Era   -   Tony Benn*
Angel in the Whirlwind   -   Benson Bobrick
The Precipice   -   Ben Bova
Fall of Neskaya   -   Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Sand Reckoner   -   Gillian Bradshaw
The Greatest Generation Speaks   -   Tom Brokaw
Fay   -   Larry Brown
Down Under/In a Sunburned Country   -   Bill Bryson*
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank   -   Thad Carhart
The Alienist   -   Caleb Carr
Girl With a Pearl Earring   -   Tracy Chevalier (x3)*,**
Disgrace   -   J.M. Coetzee*,**
As Nature Made Him   -   John Colapinto
Artemis Fowl   -   Eoin Colfer
The Lords of Discipline   -   Pat Conroy
Being Dead   -   Jim Crace*
House of Leaves   -   Mark Danielewski (x2)*,**
No Doubt About It   -   Shari Dew
The Last Samurai   -   Helen DeWitt*
Lincoln   -   David Donald
Word Freak   -   Stefan Fatsis
Barrow's Boys   -   Fergus Fleming
The Pillars of the Earth   -   Ken Follett
American Gods   -   Neil Gaiman (x2)
Storming Heaven   -   Denise Giardina
Carter Beats the Devil   -   Glen David Gold
Sword of Truth Series   -   Terry R. Goodkind (Books 1-3(x2), Books 4&5)
O is for Outlaw   -   Sue Grafton
The Wind in the Willows   -   Kenneth Grahame
Deathstalker Series   -   Simon R. Green (Books 2&3)**
The Painted House   -   John Grisham*
Skipping Christmas   -   John Grisham
East of the Mountains   -   David Guterson
Killing Dance   -   Laurell Hamilton
84 Charing Cross Road   -   Helene Hanff
Atticus   -   Ron Hansen*
Manhattan Nocturne   -   Colin Harrison*
Plainsong   -   Kent Haruf*,**
Simon's Night   -   Jon Hassler
The Vision of Emma Blau   -   Ursula Hegi
A Farewell to Arms   -   Ernest Hemingway
The Question of Bruno   -   Aleksandar Hemon
Stormy Weather   -   Carl Hiaasen*
Seabiscuit   -   Laura Hillenbrand (x3)
Practical Magic   -   Alice Hoffman*,**
How To Be Good   -   Nick Hornby*
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir   -   Richard F. Hugo*
Fourth Hand   -   John Irving*
An Artist of the Floating World   -   Kazuo Ishiguro*
Sandeagozu   -   Janann J. Jenner
Waiting   -   Ha Jin*,**
A Stranger's Eye   -   Fergal Keane
The Dreamcatcher   -   Stephen King (x3)*
Hearts in Atlantis   -   Stephen King (x2)
On Writing   -   Stephen King*
Wizard & Glass   -   Stephen King**
Prodigal Summer   -   Barbara Kingsolver*,**
I Shall Bear Witness & To The Bitter End   -   Victor Klemperer*
From the Corner of His Eye   -   Dean Koontz (x2)*
Much Mojo   -   Joe R Lansdale
The Stone Angel   -   Margaret Laurence*,**
Bloodletting in Appalachia   -   Howard B. Lee
A Drink Before the War   -   Dennis Lehane**
Mystic River   -   Dennis Lehane*
Prayers for Rain   -   Dennis Lehane*
The Diagnosis   -   Alan Lightman (x2)*
The Feast of the Goat   -   Mario Vargas Llosa
The Kingdom & the Crown: Come Unto Me   -   Gerald Lund
Four Essays on Love   -   Truman Madsen
Love in the Time of Cholera   -   Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Clash of Kings   -   George RR Martin (x5)*
A Game of Thrones   -   George RR Martin (x8)*
A Storm of Swords   -   George RR Martin (x6)*
The Chateau   -   William Maxwell*
Cities of the Plain   -   Cormac McCarthy
John Adams   -   David McCullough
The Comfort of Strangers   -   Ian McEwan*
Enduring Love   -   Ian McEwan
Souls In The Great Machine   -   Sean McMullen
King of the City   -   Michael Moorcock*
Island of the Sequined Love Nun   -   Christopher Moore
We Were Soldiers Once and Young   -   Hal Moore
Underground   -   Haruki Murakami*
The Eight   -   Katherine Neville
Treason   -   David Nevin
The Things They Carried   -   Tim O'Brien (x3)*,**
Things Can Only Get Better   -   John O'Farrell*
A Prayer For the Dying   -   Stewart O'Nan
We Were the Mulvaneys   -   Joyce Carol Oates
The Final Days   -   Barbara Olson
Anil's Ghost   -   Michael Ondaatje
The Orchid Thief   -   Susan Orlean*
Nineteen Eighty-Four   -   George Orwell*
My Year of Meats   -   Ruth Ozeki
Quarrel & Quandry   -   Cynthia Ozick
Hush Money   -   Robert Parker
Diseasing of America   -   Stanton Peele*
Eisenhower   -   Geoffrey Perret
The Face Changers   -   Thomas Perry
In the Heart of the Sea   -   Nathaniel Philbrick*
His Dark Materials Trilogy   -   Philip Pullman*
Dragon Prince Trilogy   -   Melanie Rawn
Pobby and Dingan   -   Ben Rice
Harry Potter   -   JD Rowling**
The God of Small Things   -   Arundhati Roy*
Nobody's Fool   -   Richard Russo*
Emotional Traffic:Poems   -   Ira Sadoff*
Mandela   -   Anthony Sampson*
A Primate's Memoir   -   Robert Saplowsky
Vendetta Defense   -   Lisa Scottoline
Notes on Blood Meridian   -   John Sepich*
An Equal Music   -   Vikram Seth**
Rise to Rebellion   -   Jeff Shaara (x2)
The Gravity of Sunlight   -   Rosa Shand*
Weight of Water   -   Anita Shreve
Touching the Void   -   Joe Simpson*
A Mad World, My Masters   -   John Simpson
Strange Places, Questionable People   -   John Simpson
White Teeth, Zadie Smith*
Darker Angels   -   S. P. Somtow
The Gathering of Zion   -   Wallace Stegner
Red Genesis   -   S.K. Sykes*
The Secret History   -   Donna Tartt*
A Test of Wills   -   Charles Todd
Johnny Got His Gun   -   Dalton Trumbo
Lincoln   -   Gore Vidal
A Deepness In The Sky   -   Vernor Vinge*
Slaughterhouse Five   -   Kurt Vonnegut*
The Breaker   -   Minette Walters (x2)*
B.E.F The Whole Story of the Bonus March   -   Walter C. Waters
White Crosses   -   Larry Watson
The Veracruz Blues   -   Mark Winegardner*