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The author of "The Browser's Ecstasy" picks five 19th century novels that "Masterpiece Theatre" missed.
By Geoffrey O'Brien
September 8, 2000
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The author of "Love Invents Us" and "A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You" picks five great books that are way out of fashion.
By Amy Bloom
September 1, 2000
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The author of "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt" picks five great books that play with numbers.
By Aimee Bender
August 25, 2000
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The author of "The 27th City" picks five great American novels about slavery.
By Jonathan Franzen
August 18, 2000
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The author of "Nothing to Declare" picks six great books about the Midwest.
By Mary Morris
August 4, 2000
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The author of "The Ice Storm" picks seven favorite books with veils in them.
By Rick Moody
July 28, 2000
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The mortician author of "The Undertaking" picks five books to remind you that poetry can save your life.
By Thomas Lynch
July 21, 2000
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The author of "Being Dead" picks five great books about islands.
By Jim Crace
July 14, 2000
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The author of "Black Hawk Down" picks five great books about the U.S. space program.
By Mark Bowden
June 26, 2000
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How do you arrange your body so you can lose yourself in a book?
By Beth Kephart
June 21, 2000
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The author of "Let It Blurt" picks five great sleazy rock 'n' roll biographies.
By Jim DeRogatis
June 19, 2000
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The author of "The Best Thing I Ever Tasted" picks five novels about kick-ass secret-agent women.
By Sallie Tisdale
June 12, 2000
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The author of "One Woman Short" and "Hip Hop America" picks five great urban books.
By Nelson George
May 22, 2000
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The author of "Mistler's Exit" celebrates three deplorable protagonists.
By Louis Begley
May 15, 2000
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The author of "Music for Torching" recommends five books for the information-addled.
By A.M. Homes
May 8, 2000
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The author of "Autobiography of a Face" picks five classics about life abroad.
By Lucy Grealy
April 17, 2000
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I turn away, so my dyslexic son won't see my tears.
By Virginia Tubeck-Drozd
April 12, 2000
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The author of "White Oleander" picks five great trashy reads.
By Janet Fitch
April 10, 2000
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The author of "Interpreter of Maladies" checks in with great fiction about hotels.
By Jhumpa Lahiri
April 3, 2000
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The author of "A Prayer for the Dying" picks five tales of creeping madness.
By Stewart O'Nan
March 27, 2000
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The author of "Why The Tree Loves the Ax" picks five great alphabetical books.
By Jim Lewis
March 20, 2000
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The bestselling author of "A Vast Conspiracy" picks five favorite political books.
By Jeffrey Toobin
March 13, 2000
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The poet and translator picks five seriously ridiculous novels.
By Richard Howard
March 6, 2000
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The New Yorker cartoonist picks five books you'd better hide from the kids.
By Roz Chast
February 28, 2000
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The author of "Wonders of the Invisible World" picks five great literary walk-ons.
By David Gates
February 14, 2000
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Chained
Incognito
Rescued by the Word
Cut off from the mainland
Far-out
The uncomfortable reader
The boys in the bands
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Gritty city
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