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Why We Love to Read: The Best Fiction of 1997
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December 1997
Compiled by Roberta S. Johnson
from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
(Indicates multiple votes)
Ackroyd, Peter -- Milton in America
Anderson, Catherine -- Simply Love
Atwood, Margaret -- Alias Grace (4)
Baer, Ann -- Down the Common
Baker, Larry -- Flamingo Rising
Bellow, Saul -- The Actual
Benson, Ann -- The Plague Tales (4)
Berg, Elizabeth -- Joy School
Berg, Elizabeth -- Pull of the Moon (2)
Bergland, Martha -- Idle Curiosity
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane -- Working Parts
Bohjalian, Chris -- Midwives (2)
Brockway, Connie -- As You Desire
Brust, Steven and Emma Bull -- Freedom & Necessity (2)
Cameron, Peter -- Andorra (two votes, and "I also hunted down and read, and really enjoyed the 1926 book Crewe Train by Rose Macauly that inspired the characters in Andorra.")
Carkeet, David -- Error of Our Ways
Carr, Caleb -- Angel of Darkness (3)
Case, John -- The Genesis Code
Chappell, Helen -- Dead Duck
Cohen, Leah Hager -- Heat Lightning
Cook, Karin -- What Girls Learn
Crowell, Jenn -- Necessary Madness
Dallas, Sandra -- Diary of Mattie Spenser
Deaver, Jeffrey -- The Bone Collector (3)
DeLillo, Don -- Underworld
de Lint, Charles -- Trader
DeMille, Nelson -- Plum Island (2)
Diamant, Anita -- The Red Tent (2)
Dobyns, Stephen -- The Church of Dead Girls (2)
Dorris, Michael -- Cloud Chamber
Ekman, Kerstin -- Blackwater
Elliott, Kate -- King's Dragon
Ephron, Amy -- A Cup of Tea
Fallon, Nick -- A Time of Feasting
Faust, Ron -- Lord of the Dark Lake
Fitzgerald, Penelope -- The Blue Flower
Fitzhugh, Bill -- Pest Control
Fox, Catherine -- Benefits of Passion
Fox, Catherine -- Angels and Men
Frazier, Charles -- Cold Mountain (8)
Garland, Alex -- The Beach
George, Margaret -- Memoirs of Cleopatra
George, Elizabeth -- Deception On His Mind
George, Elizabeth -- In the Presence of the Enemy
Gowdy, Barbara -- Mister Sandman
Haien, Jeannette -- Matters of Chance
Hall, James W. -- Red Sky at Night
Hall, Brian -- The Saskiad
Hambly, Barbara -- Free Man of Color
Hamill, Pete -- Snow in August (3)
Harmetz, Aljean -- Off the Face of the Earth
Harpman, Jacqueline -- I Who Have Never Known Men
Harris, Charlaine -- Shakespeare's Landlord
Heath, Lorraine -- Texas Destiny
Hecht, Julie -- Do the Windows Open?
Hegland, Jean -- Into the Forest
Hillerman, Tony -- The Fallen Man
Hoeg, Peter -- The Woman and the Ape
Hoffman, Alice -- Here on Earth
Johnson, Diane -- Le Divorce
Kanon, Joseph -- Los Alamos
Karon, Jan -- Out to Canaan
Kay, Terry -- The Runaway
Kennedy, William -- Flaming Corsage
Kennedy, Douglas -- The Big Picture
Keyes, J. Gregory -- The Waterborn
King, Laurie R. -- A Letter of Mary
Kress, Nancy -- Oaths and Miracles
Lambert, Joyce Dahr -- Circle of Stones
Landvik, Lorna -- Your Oasis on Flame Lake
Laurie, Hugh -- The Gun Seller (2)
Lennon, J. Robert -- Light of Falling Stars
Macdonald, Ann-Marie -- Fall on Your Knees
Magnuson, Mike -- The Right Man for the Job
Makine, Andrei -- Dreams of My Russian Summer
Mantel, Hilary -- Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
Martinez, Demetria -- Mother Tongue
Maxwell, Robin -- The Secret Diary Of Anne Boleyn (2)
Maxwell, William -- Time Will Darken It
McCaffrey, Anne -- No One Noticed the Cat
McCracken, Elizabeth -- The Giant's House
McMurtry, Larry -- Comanche Moon
Medwed, Mameve -- Mail (2)
Meltzer, Brad -- Tenth Justice
Michael, Judith -- Acts of Love
Michaels, Anne -- Fugitive Pieces
Murakami, Haruki -- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Nava, Michael -- The Death of Friends
O'Connell, Carol -- Stone Angel ("Don't read it unless you've read the previous ones, they just keep getting better.")
Ozick, Cynthia -- The Puttermesser Papers
Parini, Jay -- Benjamin's Crossing
Park, Jacqueline -- The Secret Book of Grazia Dei Rossi
Patchett, Ann -- Magician's Assistant (3)
Pearson, Ridley -- Beyond Recognition
Perez-Reverte, Arturo -- The Club Dumas
Perrotta, Tom -- The Wishbones
Perry, Anne -- Ashworth Hall
Powers, Charles T. -- In the Memory of the Forest
Preston,Carolyn -- Jackie by Josie (2)
Preston, Doug -- Reliquary
Pullman, Philip -- The Subtle Knife (4 votes, but you must read The Golden Compass first!)
Reynolds, Sheri -- A Gracious Plenty
Richards, Emilie -- Iron Lace
Richards, Emilie -- Rising Tides
Richardson, Bill -- Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast
Roberts, Nora -- Sanctuary
Rose, Joanna -- Little Miss Strange
Ross, Kate -- The Devil in Music
Roy, Arundhati -- The God of Small Things (2)
Russell, Mary Doria -- The Sparrow (6)
Russells, Alan -- Multiple Wound
Russo, Richare -- Straight Man (5)
Saenz, Benjamin Aline -- House of Forgetting
Sapphire -- Push
Savage, Tom -- Valentine
Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg -- The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat (3)
Schlink, Bernhard -- The Reader
Scofield, Sandra -- Plain Seeing
Shields, Carol -- Larry's Party
Siddons, Anne Rivers -- Up Island
Simons, Paullina -- Red Leaves
Smith, Lee -- News of the Spirit (Short Stories)
Sparks, Nicholas -- The Notebook (2)
Stabenow, Dana -- Blood Will Tell
Stewart, Mary -- Rose Cottage
Sullivan, Faith -- Empress of One
Swick, Marly -- Paper Wings
Troy, Judy -- West of Venus
Vonnegut, Kurt -- Timequake
Waitman, Katie -- The Merro Tree
Wells, Rebecca -- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Williams, Niall -- Four Letters of Love
White, Ellen Emerson -- All Emergencies, Ring Super
Wright, Ronald -- A Scientific Romance
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