Some thoughts about books:

Books I've read in 2001 :

Paper Shadows - by Wayson Choy

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - by Dave Eggers

Any Given Day - by Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux

The Russian Album - by Michael Ignatieff

Blood of the Liberals - by George Packer

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood - by Janisse Ray

The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling - by Angus Wilson

Hail Babylon: In search of the American City at the End of the Millennium - by Andrei Codrescu

Affluenza - by John De Graff, David Wann and Thomas Naylor

Nickel and Dimed - by Barbara Ehrenreich - More thoughts

Who Moved My Cheese? - by Spencer Johnson

Songbirds, Truffles and Wolves - by Gary Paul Nabhan

It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP - by Peter Robinson

Triage - by Scott Anderson

Little America - by Henry Bromell

The Songcatcher - by Sharyn McCrumb

The True History of Paradise - by Margaret Cezar-Thompson

Grasshopper - by Barbara Vine

The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World - by Larry Zuckerman

The Ferryman Will Be There - by Rosemary Aubert

Murdering Ministers - by Alan Beecher

Earth Has No Sorrow - by Michelle Blake

Slow Dissolve - by Della Borton

My Body Lies Over the Ocean - by JS Borthwick

Evan can Wait - by Rhys Bowen

Death on the Downs - by Simon Brett

Guns and Rose - by Taffy Cannon

Evil Among the Angels - by Kate Charles

Endpeace by Jon Cleary

Murder is an Art - by Bill Crider

The Raven and the Nightingale - by Joanne Dobson

The Anubis Slayings - by P C Doherty

A Streetcar Named Expire - by Mary Daheim

Skeleton Dance - by Aaron Elkins

Sympathy for the Devil - by Jerrilyn Farmer

The Bishop's Tale - by Margaret Frazer

The Prioress' Tale - by Margaret Frazer

Murder & Sullivan - by Sara Hoskinson Frommer

Blood of the Prodigal - by P L Gaus

Murder Shoots the Bull - by Anne George

A Traitor to Memory - by Elizabeth George

The Blue Last - by Martha Grimes

The Lamorna Wink - by Martha Grimes

murder@maggody.com - by Joan Hess

Maggody and the Moonbeams - by Joan Hess

Closer than the Bones - by Dean James

Death in Holy Orders - by PD James

Uncommon Clay - by Margaret Maron

The Floating Girl - by Sujata Massey

The PMS Outlaws - by Sharyn McCrumb

Book of Kills - by Ralph McInery

Murder on Usher's Planet - by Atanielle Annyn Noel

Stone Angel - by Carol O'Connell

The Immaculate Deception - by Iain Pears

Helen Hath No Fury - by Amanda Pepper

The Whitechapel Conspirary - by Anne Perry

Lost Daughters - J M Redmann

A Trust Betrayed - by Candace Robb

Death and Strudel - by Dorothy and Sidney Rosen

Whom the God's Love - by Kate Ross

The Eve of Saint Hyacinth - by Kate Sedley

The Wicked Winter - by Kate Sedley

Murder of a Sweet Old Lady - Denise Swanson

Foreign Body - by Kathleen Taylor

Murder on St Mark's Place - by Victoria Thompson

Bone House - by Betsy Tobin

Desert Noir - by Betty Webb

Hard Green - by Peter Huber

Defending the Cavewoman - by Harold Klawans

The Great Arc - by John Keay

Murder on Usher's Planet - by Atanielle Annyn Noel

The Fifth Elephant - by Terry Pratchett

The Golden Compass - by Philip Pullman

Neither Here nor There - by Bill Bryson

Hunting Mister Heartbreak - by Jonathan Raban - 2/20/01