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Lone Wolf's Reviews with Amazon.com: Best Books of 2001
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Editor, Tim Appelo
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November
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Best of 2001: Editors'
Choice
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Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
Of course we like the National Book Award winner
The
Corrections--who doesn't? (Don't say it.) But
the editors of Amazon.com chose Jonathan Franzen's touching,
wicked family romance as the second-best book of 2001. Our
choice for the year's top title is another Midwest classic:
Peace
Like a
River. Leif Enger's first novel follows Reuben
"Rube" Land, an asthmatic 11-year-old who lights out for the
Badlands in the literary footsteps of Huck Finn.
Look
inside the book: there are 10 colorful pages waiting for
your perusal on Amazon.com.
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich plunged into the scary world of
America's $7-an-hour working class to research the No. 3 book
of 2001:
Nickel
and Dimed:
On (Not) Getting By in America. With outrage, a
sense of humor, and a superb prose style, Ehrenreich relates
her firsthand experience of the humiliations and privations of
the low-income life. I think it's better than Orwell's
Down and Out in Paris and London, and certainly
more mature.
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Hostage
by Robert Crais
With his latest novel,
Hostage,
a pulse
pounder about an LAPD SWAT team refugee battling three panicky
punks who take a family captive, Robert Crais transcends the
routine thriller and joins the ranks of Michael Connelly,
Dennis Lehane, and James Lee Burke. It's our No. 10 choice of
the year.
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Read More of the Year's 100
Best
Books
- No. 6:
Seabiscuit:
An
American Legend, a heroic (and true) horse story
by heroic author Laura Hillenbrand, who defied crippling
illness to pen a masterpiece.
- No. 8:
Uncle
Tungsten:
Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver
Sacks.
- No. 12:
The
Land, Newbery Medal winner Mildred D. Taylor's
brilliant children's book about an African American family in
the Deep South during and after the Civil War. Also, read the
boxed-set
sequels
to the novel.
- No. 13:
Soul
Survivor: How
My Faith Survived the Church, Philip Yancey's
account of his "lover's quarrel" with the church, as well as a
group portrait of 13 exemplary characters from Chesterton to
Koop.
- No. 14:
An
Intimate Look at
the Night Sky, Chet Raymo's lyrical, scientific
celebration of the life and death of stars.
Look
inside this book: we have 22 eye-popping pages on view
at Amazon.com.
- No. 34:
April
1865: The
Month That Saved America by Jay Winik. When
President Bush was spotted carrying this around, it shot up the
bestseller list. We liked it, too.
- No. 37:
The
War Against
Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 by
Martin Amis, John Updike's rival as a great novelist-critic.
His chapter on "psychotic Santa of volubility" Updike is among
the funniest literary essays I've ever read.
- No. 46:
The
Seven Sins of
Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, by
Daniel L. Schacter, chairman of Harvard's Department of
Psychology. Don't forget to
look
inside this book and browse 25 memorable
pages.
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 See
all 100 of our
editors' choices for the best books of 2001
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