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FROM: Ike Pulver <[removed]@cpl.org>
REC'D: 1/23/02, 3:11 PM

Greetings, Fiction_lers,
I thought you all might be interested to know which books were selected
as this year's Notable Books for adults at the ALA Midwinter Meeting.
Here's the final list:


Fiction:
Carey, Peter. True History of the Kelly Gang. Knopf.

Chaon, Dan. Among the Missing. Ballantine.

Davis, Lydia. Samuel Johnson is Indignant. McSweeney's.

Everett, Percival. Erasure: A Novel. University Press of New England.

Franzen, Johnathan. The Corrections. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Gordimer, Nadine. The Pickup: A Novel. Norton.

MacLeod, Alistar. Island: The Complete Stories. Norton

Olds, Bruce. Bucking the Tiger. Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Sebald, W. G. Austerlitz. Random House.

Suri, Manil. The Death of Vishnu. Norton.

Winegardner, Mark. Crooked River Burning. Harcourt.


Nonfiction:
Arana, Marie. American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood. Dial.

Connell, Evan. The Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected Essays.
Counterpoint.

Elliot, Jason. An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan. Picador.

Halberstam, David. War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the
Generals. Scribner.

Hallinan, Joseph T. Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation.
Random House

Hessler, Peter. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze. HarperCollins.

Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit: An American Legend. Random House.

Lerner, Baron H. The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear and the Pursuit of
a Cure in Twentieth-Century America. Oxford University Press.

Martinez, Ruben. Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail.
Metropolitan.

McCullough, David. John Adams. Simon and Schuster.

Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American
Meal. Houghton.

Smith, Jean Edward. Grant. Simon and Schuster.

Solomon, Andrew. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. Scribner.


Poetry:
Collins, Billy. Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems.
Random House.

Mueller, Melinda. What the Ice Gets: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition
1914-1916 [A Poem]. Van West.


Ike

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