25 Books to Remember from 2000
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel
Chabon, Michael
| Random House, © 2000 | Fic C
How two cousins create a comic strip empire.
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Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861
Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover and John K. Howat, eds.
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Pre, © 2000 | 709.7471 A
New York's growth and change via art; illustrated essays.
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Bee Season
Goldberg, Myla
| Doubleday, © 2000 | Fic G
Eliza Naumann achieves renown as her school's spelling bee champ.
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Heaney, Seamus
| Farrar, Straus and Giroux, © 2000 | 829.3 Beowulf
A vivid translation of the classic tale of bravery and monsters, heroism and loss.
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Bodega Dreams
Quiñonez, Ernesto
| Vintage Books, © 2000 | Fic Q
Druglord and kingpin Willie Bodega guides a group of East Harlem youth.
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Boss Cupid
Gunn, Thom
| Farrar, Straus and Giroux, © 2000 | 821 Gunn
Provocative, humorous and elegiac poems about lust, love and death.
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The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story
Bourke, Angela
| Viking, © 1999 | 364.1523 B
When Bridget Cleary was burned to death in March, 1895, was it an accident, possession or murder?
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The Dress Lodger
Holman, Sheri
| Grove/Atlantic, © 2000 | Fic H
A Dickensian tale of cholera, prostitution and "body snatching" in 19th century England.
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The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany
Petropoulos, Jonathan
| Oxford University Press, © 2000 | 709.4309 P
A penetrating study of art crimes committed during World War II.
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For Rabbit, with Love and Squalor: An American Read
Roiphe, Anne
| Free Press, © 2000 | 813 Roiphe
One woman's examination of American maleness in literature.
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
Barzun, Jacques
| HarperCollins, © 2000 | 940.2 B
A great historian's synthesis of the last five centuries and the cultural evolution called "Western Civilization".
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Chevalier, Tracy
| Dutton, © 1999 | Fic C
The subject of Vermeer's painting as the object of fiction.
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In Siberia
Thubron, Colin
| HarperCollins, © 1999 | 957 T
An elegant and compassionate chronicle of travel in Siberia.
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The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran
Wright, Robin
| Alfred A. Knopf, © 2000 | 955.054 W
An acclaimed foreign correspondent returns to Iran to witness the "revolutions within the revolution".
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Laughter: A Scientific Investigation
Provine, Robert R.
| Viking, © 2000 | 152.43 P
A core element of Homo sapiens’ emotional life under the microscope of scientific analysis.
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Marguerite Duras: A Life
Adler, Laure
| University of Chicago Press, © 2000 | B Duras A
The life that inspired the work of one of France's most complex and sensual writers.
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Martin Bauman; or, A Sure Thing
Leavitt, David
| Houghton Mifflin, © 2000 | Fic L
"Once upon a time, and a very good time it was..." A fairy tale novel about the eighties' literary scene.
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The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
Henig, Robin Marantz
| Houghton Mifflin, © 2000 | B Mendel H
A delightful biography of the Austrian natural scientist.
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An Obedient Father
Sharma, Akhil
| Farrar, Straus and Giroux, © 2000 | Fic S
A riveting novel about an Indian family in crisis.
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Paris to the Moon
Gopnik, Adam
| Random House, © 2000 | 944.36 G
Expatriate life today--the guilty pleasures of living in Paris rather than New York.
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The Question of Bruno
Hemon, Aleksandar
| Nan A. Talese, © 2000 | Fic H
The complexities of life in communist Eastern Europe and capitalist Midwestern America.
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The Snakebite Survivors' Club: Travels among Serpents
Seal, Jeremy
| Harcourt, © 1999 | 597.9616 S
A heart-racing and original odyssey into the world of snakes.
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Stork Club: America's Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Cafe Society
Blumenthal, Ralph
| Little, Brown, © 2000 | 641.5097 B
The lighter and darker sides of human nature through the prism of a revered New York night spot.
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Ungentlemanly Acts: The Army's Notorious Incest Trial
Barnett, Louise
| Hill and Wang, © 2000 | 343.7301 B
Military and moral codes on trial in 1879 Texas.
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The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis
Dormandy, Thomas
| New York University Press, © 1999 | 616.995 D
How tuberculosis devastates both the general population and the medical profession.
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Books to Remember is an annual list of 25 titles chosen for their distinct and lasting contribution to literature and/or general knowledge for adult readers.
Selection criteria include literary excellence, information value and importance, sincerity and honesty of presentation, skill in presentation, and importance in historical context.
These books were selected by the following committee from the staff of The New York Public Library: Stewart Bodner, Jennifer Craft, Michael Hearn, Karenann Jurecki, Miriam Tuliao, Chair, Michael Watkins.
Selected titles appearing on this booklist may be available in recorded, braille or large print versions. For more information, please contact the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, 40 West 20th Street, New York NY 10011-4211, (212) 206-5400, (212) 206-5458 (TTY).
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