THE BEST READS OF 2000

Books that somehow made me want to put
everything else on hold and read

NOVELS
The Hiding Place / Trezza Azzopardi
The Feast of Love / Charles Baxter
True History of the Kelly Gang / Peter Carey
A New World / Amit Chadhuri
The Keepers of Truth / Michael Collins
When I Lived in Modern Times / Linda Grant
The Human Stain / Philip Roth
An Obedient Father / Akhil Sharma
Gertrude and Claudius / John Updike

STORIES
How It Was for Me / Andrew Sean Greer
The Bridegroom / Ha Jin
Island: The Complete Stories / Alistair MacLeod
Assorted Fire Events / David Means

POETRY
The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz / Stanley Kunitz

NONFICTION
London: The Biography / Peter Ackroyd
Experience / Martin Amis
Stet: An Editor’s Life / Diana Athill
Stranger Shores: Essays 1986-1999 / J.M. Coetzee
Paris to the Moon: A Family in Paris / Adam Gopnik
The Global Soul: Jet-Lag, Shopping Malls and the Search for Home / Pico Iyer
The Flatness and Other Landscapes / Michael Martone
Bad Blood / Lorna Sage