BookLoons Columns - Feature: Recommended Reads 2001

BookLoons Recommended Reads 2001
by Hilary Williamson

Looking for gift ideas in books released this year? I polled our reviewers to see what they would recommend as the best of BookLoons 2001 reading, across genres. These were our favorites (limited, with difficulty, to three hardcover and three paperback titles per genre).

Recommended Hardcover Releases

These great reads were released in hardcover this year:

Contemporary	Fantasy	Historical
The Cheese Monkeys The Evidence Against Her Postmodern Pooh	Destiny The Onion Girl Thief of Time	Carter Beats the Devil Kleopatra The Wolf Pit
Mystery	Non-Fiction	Romance
Folly Hang My Head and Cry A Traitor to Memory	An Open Heart Atom John Adams	A Bend in the Road Envy Open Season
SF	Teens	Travel
Hammerfall Look To Windward Passage	Artemis Fowl The Skies of Pern The Vampire's Assistant	Crescent & Star French Lessons Tales of a Female Nomad

Recommended Paperbacks

These wonderful novels were paperback releases in 2001:

Contemporary	Fantasy	Historical
Anil's Ghost Blackberry Wine Blind Assassin	Lord of Emperors Mendoza in Hollywood The Telling	The Angel and the Sword English Passengers Gemini
Mystery	Non-Fiction	Romance
Legacy of the Dead The Skull Mantra True Justice	An American Story Fighting Terrorism	Betrayal in Death Over The Edge Secret of the Wolf
SF	Teens	Travel
Blind Waves Tangled Up In Blue Time Future	The Amber Spyglass Arthur: The Seeing Stone Tamsin	A Garden In Lucca Honeymoon In Purdah In A Sunburned Country

If we missed any books that you believe qualify as best reads of the year, please drop us a line and share the titles and authors with us - we'd love to add them to our holiday reading lists!

Find more scintillating suggestions for holiday gifts at:
Holiday Central at Amazon.com
Stocking Stuffers, Holiday Music, Videos & DVD's, Books & Gift Baskets, Gift Certificates, Best of 2001, Gift Wizard to refine selections.
Holiday Gifts at Time Warner Bookmark
Holiday's Hottest Gifts, Cook's Corner, Kids Favorites, AudioBooks, titles for Pet Lovers, Literary Lights, Christmas Classics & Stocking Stuffers.
Book gift ideas can also be found in recent BookLoons features:
Between the Lines(Nov, Dec), Books for Cooks, Hobbit Holidays, See the World

Note: Opinions expressed in reviews and articles on this site are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of BookLoons.