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Chained
The author of "The 27th City" picks five great American novels about slavery.
By Jonathan Franzen Aug 18, 2000
Book Bag: Straight from the heartland
The author of "Nothing to Declare" picks six great books about the Midwest.
By Mary Morris Aug 4, 2000
Incognito
The author of "The Ice Storm" picks seven favorite books with veils in them.
By Rick Moody Jul 28, 2000
Rescued by the Word
The mortician author of "The Undertaking" picks five books to remind you that poetry can save your life.
By Thomas Lynch Jul 21, 2000
Cut off from the mainland
The author of "Being Dead" picks five great books about islands.
By Jim Crace Jul 14, 2000
Far-out
The author of "Black Hawk Down" picks five great books about the U.S. space program.
By Mark Bowden Jun 26, 2000
The uncomfortable reader
How do you arrange your body so you can lose yourself in a book?
By Beth Kephart Jun 21, 2000
The boys in the bands
The author of "Let It Blurt" picks five great sleazy rock 'n' roll biographies.
By Jim DeRogatis Jun 19, 2000
Spy girls
The author of "The Best Thing I Ever Tasted" picks five novels about kick-ass secret-agent women.
By Sallie Tisdale Jun 12, 2000
Gritty city
The author of "One Woman Short" and "Hip Hop America" picks five great urban books.
By Nelson George May 22, 2000
Anti-heroes
The author of "Mistler's Exit" celebrates three deplorable protagonists.
By Louis Begley May 15, 2000
Data dazed
The author of "Music for Torching" recommends five books for the information-addled.
By A.M. Homes May 8, 2000
Expatriate novels
The author of "Autobiography of a Face" picks five classics about life abroad.
By Lucy Grealy Apr 17, 2000
Ethan is on the front porch, reading
I turn away, so my dyslexic son won't see my tears.
By Virginia Tubeck-Drozd Apr 12, 2000
Great girl trash
The author of "White Oleander" picks five great trashy reads.
By Janet Fitch Apr 10, 2000
Do not disturb
The author of "Interpreter of Maladies" checks in with great fiction about hotels.
By Jhumpa Lahiri Apr 3, 2000
Tell-tale hearts
The author of "A Prayer for the Dying" picks five tales of creeping madness.
By Stewart O'Nan Mar 27, 2000
Abecedarian delights
The author of "Why The Tree Loves the Ax" picks five great alphabetical books.
By Jim Lewis Mar 20, 2000
Ruling passions
The bestselling author of "A Vast Conspiracy" picks five favorite political books.
By Jeffrey Toobin Mar 13, 2000
Indispensable frivolity
The poet and translator picks five seriously ridiculous novels.
By Richard Howard Mar 6, 2000
Childproofing
The New Yorker cartoonist picks five books you'd better hide from the kids.
By Roz Chast Feb 28, 2000
Bit parts
The author of "Wonders of the Invisible World" picks five great literary walk-ons.
By David Gates Feb 14, 2000
New bohemian classics
The author of "Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America" picks five must-reads for a new generation.
By Ann Powers Feb 7, 2000
Outskirts of the fin de siècle
Five underappreciated novels from the last time the century turned.
By Phillip Lopate Jan 31, 2000
Out of this world
A pioneering playwright and director chooses five novels of panoramic scope and world-shattering perspective.
By Richard Foreman Jan 24, 2000
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