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FROM: "Ike Pulver" <[removed]@cpl.org>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 10:22 AM

Fiction-L'ers,
I don't know if you've seen it yet, but just in case you haven't, I
thought I'd send along this year's Notable Books List from ALA, which
was finalized at the Midwinter Meeting. The list can also be found at
the following www site:
http://www.ala.org/rusa/notable.html
Here's the press release from ALA:
_____________________________________________________________
ALA News Release
January 2001

Notable Books List for 2001 announced

The Notable Books Council of the Reference and User Services Association

(RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has
compiled its 2001 list of outstanding books for the general reader.
These titles have been selected for their significant contribution to
the expansion of knowledge and for the pleasure they can provide to
adult readers. Following is “The List for America's Readers.”

Fiction
Atwood, Margaret, Blind Assassin, Doubleday, $26 (ISBN: 0-8021-1658-2).

Busch, Frederich, Don’t Tell Anyone, Norton, $25 (ISBN: 0-3930-4973-6).

Chabon, Michael, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Random, $26.95
(ISBN: 0-6794-5004-1).

Coetzee, J. M., Disgrace, Viking, $23.95 (ISBN: 0-1402-90640-9).

Crace, Jim, Being Dead, Farrar Straus and Giroux, $26.96 (ISBN:
0-3741-1013-1)

DeWitt, Helen, Last Samurai, Hyperion, $24.95 (ISBN: 0-7868-6668-3)

Kalpakian, Laura, Delinquent Virgin, Graywolf, $14 (ISBN: 1-5559-7295-0)

King, Thomas, Truth and Bright Water, Atlantic Monthly, $24 (ISBN:
0-871-1391-2)

Kneale, Matthew, English Passengers, Doubleday, $25 (ISBN:
0-3854-9743-1)

Nelson, Antonya, Living to Tell, Scribner, $24 (ISBN: 0-6848-3933-4)

Ondaatje, Michael, Anil’s Ghost, Knopf $25 (ISBN: 0-3754-1053-8)

Paine, Tom, Scar Vegas, Harcourt Brace $22 (ISBN: 0-1510-04889-7)

Smith, Zadie, White Teeth, Random $24.95 (ISBN: 0-3755-0185-1)

Williams, Joy, Quick and the Dead, Knopf $25 (ISBN: 0-6794-4646-X)


Non-Fiction
Barzun, Jacques, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural
Life, 1500 to the Present, HarperCollins, $36 (ISBN: 0-0601-7586-9)

Eggers, Dave, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Simon &
Schuster $23 (ISBN: 0-6848-6347-2)

Fleming, Fergus, Barrow’s Boys, Atlantic Monthly, $26 (ISBN:
0-8711-3804-2)

Kaplan, Alice Yaeger, Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert
Brasillach, University of Chicago, $20 (ISBN: 0-2264-2414-6)

Ridley, Matt, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters,
HarperCollins, $26 (ISBN: 0-0601-9497-9)

Sciolino, Elaine, Persian Mirrors, The Elusive Face of Iran, Free Press
$26 (ISBN: 0-6848-6290-5)

Shakespeare, Nicholas, Bruce Chatwin, Doubleday, $35 (ISBN:
0-3854-9829-2)

Thubron, Colin, In Siberia, HarperCollins $26 (ISBN: 0-0601-9543-6)

Poetry

Heaney, Seamus, Beowulf, Farrar Straus and Giroux, $25 (ISBN:
0-3741-1119-7)

Kunitz, Stanley, Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz, Nortton, $27.95
(ISBN: 0-3930-5030-0)

Murray, Les, Learning Human: Selected Poems, Farrar Straus and Giroux,
$27 (ISBN: 0-3742-6073-7)

This list is available three ways: the Notable Books Web page on the
RUSA/ALA Web site (http://www.ala.org/rusa/notable.html), ALA
Fax-on-Demand service and ina camera-ready kit from ALA. For the
Fax-on-Demand service, call1-800-545-2433, press 4, then enter
document number 403. The Notable Books list is included in ALA’s
Guide to Best Reading in 2001. This kit contains all the reading lists
from ALA, for children through adult readers, and has camera-ready
brochures
and bookmarks for each list. The kit will be available after June 1.
Call ALA Order Fulfillment, 1-800-545-2433, press 7 to order. The kit
is
$29.95.

Since 1944, the goal of the Notable Books Council has been to make
available to the nation’s readers a list of 25 very good, very readable
and, at times, very important fiction, nonfiction and poetry books for
the adult reader. The Council consists of members selected from the
membership of RUSA/CODES (Collection Development and Evaluation
Section). RUSA is a division of the ALA.

___________________________________________________________
Ike
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A. Issac Pulver Email: [removed]@cpl.org
Head, Foreign Literature Dept. Phone: (216)623-2896
Cleveland Public Library Fax: (216)902-4940
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/25/01, 9:29 AM

>From: "Ike Pulver" <[removed]@cpl.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Notable Books List
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:14:16 -0500
>
>Fiction-L'ers,
>I don't know if you've seen it yet, but just in case you haven't, I
>thought I'd send along this year's Notable Books List from ALA, which
>was finalized at the Midwinter Meeting. The list can also be found at
>the following www site:
>http://www.ala.org/rusa/notable.html

Ike, does this site also offer lists from past years?
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FROM: "M. S." <[removed]@mail.creativeonline.com>
REC'D: 1/25/01, 10:13 AM

Well, I'm not Ike, but yes it does cover past years. :) From
Current List | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1993–96 | Previous 50 Years

M. Shields
NCL

Christine Jeffords wrote:

Ike, does this site also offer lists from past years?

FROM: "Ike Pulver" <[removed]@cpl.org>
REC'D: 1/25/01, 12:17 PM

The Notable Books Page: http://www.ala.org/rusa/notable.html
includes the lists from 1993 to 2001. There is a link that says
"Previous 50 Years", which is a link to the bibliographic information
for "Fifty Years of Notable Books" 180 pages paperback $16.95 ISBN
0-8389-7836-3, a Booklist publication, which includes "the more than
2,200 titles selected as Notable Books by the American Library Association

between 1944 and 1996."
Happy reading.
Ike

"M. S." wrote:

> Well, I'm not Ike, but yes it does cover past years. :) From
> Current List | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1993–96 | Previous 50 Years
>
> M. Shields
> NCL
>
> Christine Jeffords wrote:
>
> Ike, does this site also offer lists from past years?
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

--
**********************************************************************
A. Issac Pulver Email: [removed]@cpl.org
Head, Foreign Literature Dept. Phone: (216)623-2896
Cleveland Public Library Fax: (216)902-4940
325 Superior Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114 http://www.cpl.org
**********************************************************************

FROM: J Heuer <[removed]@itol.com>
REC'D: 1/25/01, 2:20 PM

Yes.

> From: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:26:49 -0000
> To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
> Subject: Re: Notable Books List
>
>
>
>
>> From: "Ike Pulver" <[removed]@cpl.org>
>> Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>> To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>> Subject: Notable Books List
>> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:14:16 -0500
>>
>> Fiction-L'ers,
>> I don't know if you've seen it yet, but just in case you haven't, I
>> thought I'd send along this year's Notable Books List from ALA, which
>> was finalized at the Midwinter Meeting. The list can also be found at
>> the following www site:
>> http://www.ala.org/rusa/notable.html
>
> Ike, does this site also offer lists from past years?
> _________________________________________________________________
> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

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