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Notable Fiction 2002

Titles are alphabetically arranged by author. A star indicates the book received at least one starred review (indicating that review source felt the title was exceptional) from the following sources: Booklist (BL), Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ). Notable listings include selected award nominees and winners, New York Times Book Review Notable books, Washington Post Book World Raves, PW Notable books, Library Journal Best books, Booklist Best Books and ALA Notable books.

Genre, print run and debut/first novel information is noted when possible - this data is derived from a variety of sources and may not be comprehensive. The genre listing information is apt to be rather subjective since. Books can often be categorized in several genres. Overbooked encourages omnivorous reading across all genres. A * indicates a large print run (+ 35,000) - this information may not be comprehensive.

Genre codes: A = African American, F = Fiction, GL = Gay or Lesbian, H = Historical, I=Inspirational/Christian, L = Literary, M = Multicultural, R = Romance or Romantic Suspense, SP = Speculative Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror), SS = Short Stories,W = Western.

AUTHOR	TITLE	Stars ~ Notes	Genre	Debut
Adams, Alice	The Stories of Alice Adams	NYTBR Notable LJ Best Books	L/SS
Alai	Red Poppies	LA Times Best Books	H	1st
Alumit, Noel	Letters to Montgomery Clift	Lambda Gay Men's Fiction Finalist	F/GL
Anderson, Ho Che	King: Vol 2		graphic novel
Anderson, Kevin J.	Hidden Empire: Saga of Seven Suns		SP
Andrew, Miles Keaton	Final Arrangements		F	1st
Anshaw, Carol	Lucky in the Corner	Booklist Top Gay and Lesbian Books Washington Post Rave Lambda Lesbian Fiction Finalist	F
Antunes, Antonio Lobo	The Return of the Caravels	NYTBR Notable	L
Ashcom, Robert	Winter Run			1st
Auchincloss, Louis	Manhattan Monologues	PW Best of 2002	F
Auster, Paul	The Book of Illusions	PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books ALA Notable Books	F/L
Axelsson, Majgull	April Witch		F
B., David	Epileptic, Book 1		grapic novel
Babcock, Richard	Bow's Boy		F
Baggot, Juliana	Miss America Family		*
Bail, Murray	Camouflage: Stories	NYTBR Notable	L/SS
Baker, Kage	Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers	PW Best of 2002	SP
Baker, Kevin	Paradise Alley	PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy	H
Balogh, Mary	A Summer to Remember	Booklist Top 10 Romance	R
Barbash, Tom	The Last Good Chance	PW Best of 2002	F/L	1st
Barfoot, Joan	Critical Injuries	Booker Prize 2002 Long List	L
Barker, Raffaella	Summertime		F
Barnes, John	The Sky So Big and Black	Booklist Best Adult Books for Young Adults	SP
Barnes, Judith	Salthill		H	1st
Barnes, Steven	Charisma		SP
Barrett, Andrea	Servants of the Map: Stories	Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable	SS
Barry, Lynda	One Hundred Demons	Alex Award	F
Barry, Sebastian	Annie Dunne	Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy Booklist Editor's Choice	F
Bass, Rick	The Hermit's Story: Stories	LA Times Best Books	L/SS
Basu, Jay	The Stars Can Wait	Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Finalist	F/L	1st
Bauman, Christian	The Ice Beneath You		F	1st
Bausch, Robert	The Gypsy Man		F/L
Bear, Greg	Vitals	Booklist Top 10 SF/F	SP
Beattie, Ann	Doctor's House	NYTBR Notable	F/L
Beckman, John	The Winter Zoo	NYTBR Notable	F
Bennett, Alan	The Laying of Hands	NYTBR Notable	SS
Benoit, Brent	All Saints' Day		F
Bergen, David	See the Child		F
Bialosky, Jill	House Under Snow	LJ Best Debut	L
Bierce, Ambrose	Shadows of Blue and Gray: Civil War Writings
Biguenet, John	Oyster	LJ Best Debut	L
Bloom, Rebecca	Girl Anatomy		F	1st
Boffa, Alessandro	You're an Animal, Viskovitz	LA Times Best Books	L	1st
Bonanno, Margaret	Preternatural 3: The Third Thing	NYTBR Notable	SP
Bond, Nelson	The Far Side of Nowhere		SP/SS
Borders, Lisa	Cloud Cuckoo Land		F	1st
Boswell, Robert	Century's Son	PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable   Booklist Editor's Choice	L
Bowles, Paul	The Sheltering Sky/Let It Come Down/The Spider's House	Library Of America	L
Boylan, Clare	The Collected Stories	NYTBR Notable	F/SS
Bragg, Melvyn	The Soldier's Return	PW Best of 2002 Washington Post Rave Booklist Editor's Choice	H
Braverman, Kate	The Incantation of Frida K.		H/L
Breedlove, Lynn	Godspeed	Lambda Lesbian Fiction Finalist	F	1st
Brin, David	Kiln People	Hugo Nominee	SP
Brockman, Suzanne	Into the Night		R*
Brockmeier, Kevin	Things That Fall From the Sky: Stories		SS	1st
Brockway, Connie	Bridal Favors		R
Brown, Rita Mae	Hotspur		F
Brownstein, Gabriel	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt 3w		F/L	1st
Buckley, Christopher	No Way to Treat a First Lady	NYTBR Notable	F
Buckley, William F.	Nuremberg		H*
Bujold, Lois McMaster	Dipolomatic Immunity	PW Best of 2002	SP
Bukiet, Melvin Jules (ed)	Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors		L/SS
Bunin, Ivan	Sunstroke
Burns, Anna	No Bones (trade paper)	Orange Prize shortlist LJ Best Books	L
Butler, Robert Olen	Fair Warning	NYTBR Notable	L*
Byler, Stephen Raleigh	Searching for Intruders: A Novel in Stories	Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable	F/SS	1st
Cabot, Patricia	Kiss the Bride (paper)		R
Caldwell, Joseph	Bread for the Baker's Child		GL
Calisher, Hortense	Sunday Jews	PW Best of 2002	L
Cameron, Peter	The City of Your Final Destination	PW Best of 2002 LA Times Book Prize Fiction Finalist	F
Campbell, Bonnie Jo	Q Road		F	1st
Campbell, Rebecca	Slave to Fashion	LJ Best Debut	F	1st
Cantrell, Catherine	Constance		F	1st
Card, Orson Scott	Shadow Puppets (Ender)		SP*
Carey, Jacqueline	Kushiel's Chosen		SP
Carlyle, Liz	No True Gentleman (paper)	Booklist Top 10 Romance	R
Carter, Stephen	The Emperor of Ocean Park	PW Best of 2002 LJ Best Debut NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books	A/F	1st
Chaudhuri, Amit	Real Time: Stories	Washington Post Rave	F/SS
Cheng, Terrence	Sons of Heaven	LJ Best Debut	F	1st
Cherryh, C.J.	Explorer		SP
Chiang, Ted	Stories of Your Life and Others	PW Best of 2002 Washington Post Rave	SP/SS
Chiaventone, Frederick	Moon of Bitter Cold		W
Chidgey, Catherine	The Strength of the Sun	NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books
Chong, Kevin	Baroque-A-Nova		F	1st
Cisneros, Sandra	Caramelo	PW Best of 2002 Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books Christian Science Monitor Booklist Editor's Choice Booklist Best Adult Books for Young Adults ALA Notable Books	L
Clegg, Douglas	The Hour Before Dark		SP
Clevenger, Craig	The Contortionist's Handbook		F/L	1st
Clute, John	Appleseed	NYTBR Notable	SP
Coady, Lynn	Saints of Big Harbour		11.20.02
Coberly, Lenore M.	The Handywoman Stories		L/SS
Codrescu, Andrei	Casanova in Bohemia		H*
Coe, Jonathan	The Rotter's Club	Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable	F/L
Cohen, Paula	Gramercy Park		H	1st
Cohen, Paula Marantz	Jane Austin in Boca		F	1st
Cohen, Robert	The Varieties of Romantic Experience: Stories	NYTBR Notable	SS
Constantine, Storm	The Way of Light		SP
Cook, Elizabeth	Achilles		H
Coover, Robert	The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Raw Footage		L
Costello, Mark	Big If	National Book Award Finalist PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy	F
Crafts, Hannah / Henry Louis Gates (ed)	The Bondswoman's Narrative		A*
Craig, Charmaine	The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy		H	1st
Criswell, Millie	The Trials of Angela (paper)		R
Crowley, John	The Translator	NYTBR Notable	L*
Cruisie, Jennifer	Faking It		R*
Crummey, Michael	River Thieves		H
Cullin, Mitch	From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest (paper)
Cumming, Alan	Tommy's Tale		F	1st
Cunningham, Laura Shaine	Beautiful Bodies		F/L
Danvers, Dennis	The Watch	Booklist Top 10 SF/F NYTBR Notable	SP
Dark, Alice Elliott	Think of England		SS	1st
Date, S.V.	Black Sunshine		F
David, James F.	Before the Cradle Falls		SP
David, Peter	The Woad to Wuin: Sir Aproppos of Nothing, Bk 2		SP
David, Peter	Knight Life		SP
Davidar, David J.	The House of Blue Mangoes	NYTBR Notable	H*	1st
Davis, Jill	Girls' Poker Night	LJ Best Debut	F	1st
Davis, Kathryn	Versailles	NYTBR Notable	H
Davis-Goff, Annabel	This Cold Country	NYTBR Notable	H*
Dawidoff, Nicholas (ed)	Baseball: A Literary Anthology		L/SS
Day, Angie	Way to Somewhere		F*	1st
Dee, Jonathan	Palladio	NYTBR Notable	F
Deitch, Kim	The Boulevard of Broken Dreams		graphic novel	1st
Delahunt, Meaghan	In the Casa Azul		F
Deveraux, Jude	Forever (paper)		R
Dimmick, Barbara	Heart-Side Up		L
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee	The Vine of Desire		M*
Dixon, Stephen	I	Washington Post Rave	F/L
Djaout, Tahar	The Watchers		F
Doerr, Anthony	Shell Collector: Stories	PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable ALA Notable Books NYPL Young Lion Award	SS	1st
Donoghue, Emma	Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Short Stories	Washington Post Rave	F/SS*
Dooling, Richard	Bet Your Life	NYTBR Notable	F
Doster, Stephen	Lord Baltimore		L
Dozois, Gardener	The Year's Best Science Fiction		SP
Drayson, Nicholas	Confessing a Murder		H	1st
Dry, Richard	Leaving		A	1st
Dufresne, John	Deep in the Shade of Paradise		F
Duncan, Alice	Just North of Bliss: Meet Me at the Fair (paper)	Booklist Top 10 Romance	R
Duncan, Dave	Paragon Lost: A Chronicle of the King's Blades		SP
Dunmore, Helen	The Seige	2001 Whitbread Shortlist Orange Prize shortlist Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable	L/H
Dunn, Mark	Welcome to Higby	PW Best of 2002	F
Duong, Thu Huong	Beyond Illusions		L
Durham, David Anthony	A Walk Through Darkness	NYTBR Notable	A
Durrant, Sabine	Havng It & Eating It		F	1st
Dyja, Tom	Meet John Trow		F
Earling, Debra Magpie	Perma Red	LJ Best Debut Booklist Top First Novel Willa Winner - Women Writing the West	H/L
Ebershoff, David	Pasadena	Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy	F
Eco, Umberto	Baudolino	NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books Booklist Editor's Choice	L
Edgehill, India	Queen Maker: A Novel of King David's Queen		H*	1st
Edric, Robert	The Broken Lands: A Novel of Artic Disaster		H
Edric, Robert	The Book of the Heathen: A Novel of the Congo		H
Egan, Greg	Schild's Ladder		SP
Eggers, Dave	You Shall Know Our Velocity	NYTBR Notable Village Voice Top Shelf	F/L
Eggers, Paul	How the Water Feels		F/L
Egof, Tristan	Skirt and the Fiddle		L
Eisenberg, Nora	The War at Home (trade paper)		H
Emshwiller, Carol	The Mount	Village Voice Top Shelf	SP
Epps, Cindy	South of Reason		*	1st
Ermelino, Louisa	The Sisters Mallone		F
Eskridge, Kelley	Solitaire	Borders Original Voices Selection NYTBR Notable	SP	1st
Estrin, Marc	Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa	PW Best of 2002 LJ Best Debut Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy	L
Eugenides, Jeffrey	Middlesex	PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Editors' Choice LA Times Best Books LJ Best Books NBCC Award Nominee Booklist Top of the List Pulitzer Prize Winner	H/L
Evaristo, Bernadine	The Emperor's Babe		L
Faber, Michel	Crimson Petal and the White	PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable Time Best Novel Booklist Editor's Choice   Booklist Top 10 Historical Novel	H
Farrington, Tim	The Monk Downstairs	NYTBR Notable	F
Faulks, Sebastian	On Green Dolphin Street		H
Faulks, Sebastian	The Vintage Book of War Stories (paper)		L/SS
Fforde, Jasper	The Eyre Affair	Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy Alex Award	SP*	1st
Flagg, Fannie	Standing in the Rainbow	PW Best of 2002 Washington Post Rave	F*
Flanagan, Richard	Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish	Commonwealth Writers Prize PW Best of 2002 Washington Post Rave   NYTBR Notable   LA Times Best Books Christian Science Monitor	F
Foer, Jonathan Safran	Everything is Illuminated	PW Best of 2002 LJ Best Debut Booklist Top First Novel NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books NYPL Young Lion Award Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Finalist	H	1st
Ford, Richard	A Multitude of Sins	NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books	L/SS
Ford, Jeffrey	The Fantasy Writer's Assistant	PW Best of 2002	SP/SS
Ford, Jeffrey	The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
Ford, Michael Curtis	Gods and Legions: A Novel		H
Fowler, Nick	A Thing or Two About Curtis and Camilla		L	1st
Frayn, Michael	Spies	Booker Prize 2002 Long List NYTBR Notable Whitbread Winner	L*
Freed, Lynn	House of Women	Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable	F
Freeman, Judith	Red Water	LA Times Best Books	H
Frost, Gregory	Fitcher's Brides		SP
Gaddis, William	Agape Agape	NYTBR Notable	L
Garrett, Greg	Free Bird		F	1st
Gay, William	I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories		L/SS
Gerrold, David	The Martian Child	Lambda Gay Men's Fiction Finalist
Gibbons, James	Searching for Johnny			1st
Gilchrist, Ellen	I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting With My Daddy: And Other Stories	Washington Post Rave	F/SS
Gilling, Tom	The Adventures of Miles and Isabel	NYTBR Notable	H
Glass, Julia	Three Junes	National Book Award Winner PW Best of 2002 LJ Best Debut NYTBR Notable	F	1st
Godfrey, Rebecca	The Torn Skirt (trade paper)		F	1st
Goldblatt, Mark	Africa Speaks		L
Goldsmith, Olivia	Pen Pals		F*
Goldstein, Lisa	The Alchemist's Door	Washington Post Rave Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy	SP/H
Goonan, Kathleen Ann	Light Music	Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy	SP
Gordimer, Nadine	The Pickup	NYTBR Notable	L
Gornick, Lisa	A Private Sorcery			1st
Gotlieb, Phyllis	Mindworlds		SP
Grand, David	The Disappearing Body		L
Greenwood, T.	Undressing the Moon		L
Gregory, Philippa	The Other Boleyn Girl
Grenville, Kate	The Idea of Perfection	NYTBR Notable Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy	F
Griffith, Nicola	Stay	Lambda Lesbian Fiction Finalist	F
Griffiths, Niall	Sheepshagger		F/L
Grimsley, Jim	Boulevard	Lambda Gay Men's Fiction Finalist	F
Grossman, David	Be My Knife	NYTBR Notable
Gullick, Charlotte	By Way of Water		F	1st
Gurley-Highgate, Hilda	Sapphire's Grave		A	1st
Hackett, Joyce	Disturbance of the Inner Ear	PW Best of 2002	F	1st
Hadley, Tessa	Accidents in the Home	NYTBR Notable	F	1st
Haines, Lise	In My Sister's Country		L	1st
Hamilton, Julia	Forbidden Fruits		F
Hamilton, Peter F.	Fallen Dragon		SP
Hansen, Brooks	The Monsters of St. Helena		H
Hansen, Erik Fosnes	Tales of Protection	PW Best of 2002	L
Hardie, Kerrie	A Winter Marriage		F
Harington, Donald	13 Albatrosses		F
Harris, Joanne	Coastliners		F
Harrison, Kathryn	The Seal Wife	NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books	F/L
Hart, Lenore	Waterwoman		I	1st
Hartmann, Elizabeth	The Truth About Fire		L	1st
Hartwell, David G. (ed)	The Hard SF Renaissance		SP/SS
Harvor, Elisabeth	Excessive Joy Injuries the Heart		F	1st
Haslett, Adam	You Are Not a Stranger Here	National Book Award Finalist NYTBR Notable Time Best Novel  Village Voice Top Shelf	L	1st
Hearn, Lian	Across the Nightingale Floor, Bk1	NYTBR Notable	H	1st
Heighton, Steven	The Shadow Boxer (trade paper)	PW Best of 2002	F
Hemans, Donna	River Woman		A
Hemon, Aleksandar	Nowhere Man: The Pronek Fantasies	PW Best of 2002 Washington Post Rave LA Times Best Books Village Voice Top Shelf NBCC Award Nominee LA Times Book Prize Fiction Finalist	L
Henderson, Dee	True Valor ( paper)		I
Henley, Patricia	In the River Sweet		F
Hensher, Philip	The Mulberry Empire	Booker Prize 2002 Long List Booklist Top 10 Historical Novel	H
Heppner, Mike	The Egg Code	PW Best of 2002 Washington Post Rave	L	1st
Herbert, Brian & Kevin J. Anderson	Dune: Butlerian Jihad	LJ Best Genre Fiction	SP*
Hern, Candice	The Bride Sale (paper)	LJ Best Genre Fiction	R
Hetley, James A.	The Summer Country (paper)	Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy	SP	1st
Higgins, Aidan	Flotsam & Jetsam	Washington Post Rave	L
Hijuelos, Oscar	A Simple Habana Melody	PW Best of 2002 Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable Booklist Editor's Choice	L*
Hill, Tobias	The Love of Stones		F
Hirshberg, Glen	The Snowman's Children		F	1st
Hobb, Robin	Fool's Errand	PW Best of 2002	SP
Hodgen, Christie	A Jeweler's Eye for Flaw: Stories		L/SS
Hoffman, Eva	The Secret	NYTBR Notable	F/SP
Holden, Craig	The Jazz Bird		H*
Holthe, Tess Uriza	When the Elephants Dance		H*	1st
Homes, A.M.	Things You Should Know: Stories	NYTBR Notable	L/SS
Hooper, Chloe	A Child's Book of True Crime	Orange Prize shortlist NYTBR Notable	U*	1st
Horch, Daniel	The Angel With One Hundred Wings	B&N Discover New Writers	F	1st
Horn, Dara	In the Image	Christian Science Monitor	H	1st
House, Silas	A Parchment of Leaves		F
Howzell, Rachel	A Quiet Storm (trade paper)		F/A
Huddle, David	LA Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl		F
Hudson, Gabe	Dear Mr. President: Stories and a Novella	Village Voice Top Shelf	F	1st
Hughes, Mary-Beth	Wavemaker 2	NYTBR Notable
Humphreys, Helen	The Lost Garden	NYTBR Notable	H
Indiana, Gary	Depraved Indiffernence	Village Voice Top Shelf	F
Inness-Brown, Elizabeth	Burning Marguerite		L	1st
Irvine, Alexander C.	A Scattering of Jade	Washington Post Rave	SP
Jackson, Jeremy	Life at These Speeds	Booklist Best Adult Books for Young Adults	F	1st
Jackson, Mick	Five Boys		H
Jenkins, Emily	Mister Posterior and the Genious Child (paper)	B&N Discover New Writers	H
Jennings, Kate	Moral Hazard	NYTBR Notable LA Times Book Prize Fiction Finalist	F
Jiles, Paulette	Enemy Women	PW Best of 2002 LJ Best Debut NYTBR Notable Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy Willa Winner - Women Writing the West	H	1st
Jin, Ha	The Crazed	Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books Booklist Editor's Choice	L
Johnson-Hodge, Margaret	True Lies		A
Johnston, Wayne	The Navigator of New York	NYTBR Notable Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy	F/L
Jones, Stephen (ed)	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (paper)		SP
Jones, Tayari	Leaving Atlanta	Washington Post Rave	A*	1st
Joyce, Graham	Smoking Poppy		F
Just, Ward	Weather in Berlin	NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books	F
Kadare, Ismail	Spring Flowers, Spring Frost	LA Times Best Books Booklist Editor's Choice	L
Karon, Jan	In This Mountain		F/I*
Kaye, John	The Dead Circus	NYTBR Notable Booklist Editor's Choice
Keller, Nora Okja	Fox Girl	LA Times Best Books	L
Kennedy, William	Roscoe	Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels Washington Post Rave NYTBR Editors' Choice Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy  NBCC Award Nominee Booklist Top of the List	L/H*
Kerstan, Lynn	The Golden Leopard (paper)		R
Kesey, Ken	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kidd, Sue Monk	The Secret Life of Bees		F*	1st
Killham, Nina	How To Cook a Tart	Washington Post Rave	F	1st
Kimmel, Haven	The Solace of Leaving Early	LJ Best Debut	F	1st
Kincaid, Jamaica	Mr. Potter		F/L
King, Roger	A Girl from Zanzibar (trade paper)		F/L
King, Stephen	Everything's Eventual: Stories	PW Best of 2002	SP*
King, Stephen	From a Buick 8	PW Best of 2002 Washington Post Rave	SP*
Kingsbury, Suzanne	Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me		F/H*	1st
Kirshenbaum, Binnie	Hester Among the Ruins		L
Kitchen, Judith	The House on Eccles Road		L
Klein, Rachel	The Moth Diaries		L/SP
Kleypas, Lisa	When Strangers Marry (paper)		R
Kleypas, Lisa	Lady Sophia's Lover (paper)		R
Kliment, Alexandr	Living Parallel		L	1st
Knauss, Sibylle	Eva's Cousin	NYTBR Notable	H
Knox, Elizabeth	Billie's Kiss		H
Kobin, Joann	Woman Made of Sand (trade paper)
Kraft, Eric	Inflating a Dog		F/L
Krauss, Nicole	Man Walks Into a Room	LA Times Best Books Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Finalist	F	1st
Krusoe, Jim	Iceland (trade paper)	Washington Post Rave LA Times Best Books	L
Kundera, Milan	Ignorance	NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books	L
Kunzru, Hari	The Impressionist	PW Best of 2002 LJ Best Debut	L*	1st
Kwa, Lydia	A Place Called Absence	Lambda Lesbian Fiction Finalist		1st
La Farge, Tom	Zuntig	Washington Post Rave	SP
Labiner, Norah	Minatures	ALA Notable Books	F
Lackey, Mercedes	Gates of Sleep		SP
LaMon, Jacqueline Jones	In the Arms of One Who Loves Me		A	1st
Lamott, Anne	Blue Shoe	PW Best of 2002	L*
Lanchester, John	Fragrant Harbor	NYTBR Notable	L/H
Lang, Adle	Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber		F	1st
Lansens, Lori	Rush Home Road		F*	1st
Larsen, Deborah	The White	Washington Post Rave	H	1st
Lasdun, James	The Horned Man	LJ Best Debut NYTBR Notable	L	1st
Lasser, Scott	All I Could Get: A Novel of Wall Street		F
Lavalle, Victor D.	The Ecstatic	PW Best of 2002	F/L	1st
Lawrence, Carole	Looking for Mary Gabriel		F	1st
Lawson, Mary	Crow Lake	PW Best of 2002 Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable Alex Award	F	1st
Le Guin, Ursula K.	The Birthday of the World: Stories	PW Best of 2002	SP/SS
Lee, Andrea	Interesting Women: Stories	NYTBR Notable	SS
Lee, Michael	Paradise Dance (paper)		L/SS
Leebron, Fred	In the Middle of All This		L
Leithauser, Brad	Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse	NYTBR Notable Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy	L
Lemann, Nancy	Malaise	NYTBR Notable
Lent, Jeffrey	Lost Nation	Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy	H*
Leonard, Hugh	A Wild People		F	1st
Lerner, Lisa	Just Like Beauty	NYTBR Notable	L
Lessing, Doris	The Sweetest Dream	PW Best of 2002 Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable	L
Lewis, Sinclair/Lingeman, Richard R., ed	Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth		L
L'Heureux, John	The Miracle	PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable	F
Lickiss, Rebecca	Never After (paper)	Booklist Best Adult Books for Young Adults	SP
Lin, Ed	Waylaid (paper)	Booklist Top First Novel Booklist Editor's Choice	F/L
Lopez, Lorraine	Soy La Avon Lady		L/SS
Lustig, Arnost	Lovely Green Eyes	ALA Notable Books	L
Lowenthal, Michael	Avoidance (paper)	Lambda Gay Men's Fiction Finalist	G/L
Macleod, Sally	Passing Strange	LA Times Best Books	F	1st
Maguire, Elizabeth	Thinner, Blonder, Whiter		L	1st
Major, Marcus	A Man Most Worthy		A
Makine, Andre	The Music of a Life		L
Malladi, Amulya	A Breath of Fresh Air		F	1st
Malloy, Brian	The Year of Ice	Booklist Best Adult Books for Young Adults Alex Award	F/GL	1st
Manley, Frank	True Hope		L
Manning, Jo	Seducing Mr. Heywood	Booklist Top 10 Romance	R
Manning, Kate	Whitegirl		F
Mansbach, Adam	Shackling Water		F	1st
Maraini, Dacia	Darkness		F
Marcus, Ben	Notable American Women (trade paper)		F
Marillier, Juliet	Child of the Prophecy	Booklist Top 10 SF/F	SP
Marion, Stephen	Hollow Ground		F	1st
Mark, Laurie J.	Fire Logic		SP
Markoe, Merrill	It's My F***ing Birthday		F	1st
Marks, Gabrielle	Palermo Story		F	1st
Marks, Laurie J.	Fire Logic		SP
Martel, Yann	Life of Pi	Booker Prize 2002 Winner PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books LJ Best Books	L*
Masiel, David	2182 kHz	NYTBR Notable	F	1st
Mason, Daniel	The Piano Tuner	PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy Booklist Top 10 Historical Novel	H	1st
Matheson, Richard	Abu and the 7 Marvels		SP
Matsuoka, Takashi	Cloud of Sparrows		H*	1st
Matthews, Laura	A Rival Heir (paper)	Booklist Top 10 Romance	R
Mayes, Frances	Swan		F*	1st
Mayhew, Margaret	Our Yanks		H	1st
Mazur, Grace Dane	Trespass (paper)	LJ Best Debut	F/L	1st
McAuley, Paul	Whole Wide World		SP
McBride, James	Miracle at St. Anna	LJ Best Debut	A/H*	1st
McCammon, Robert L.	Speaks the Nightbird		H
McDermott, Alice	Child of My Heart	NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books Booklist Editor's Choice	F/L
McDevitt, Jack	Chindi	Washington Post Rave	SP
McDonnell, Nick	Twelve	NYTBR Notable	L	1st
McEvoy, Dermot	Terrible Angel: A Novel of Michael Collins in New York		H
McEwan, Ian	An Atonement	Booker Prize Shortlist 2001 2001 Whitbread Shortlist   PW Best of 2002  NYTBR Editors' Choice LA Times Best Books Time Best Novel  Village Voice Top Shelf   Christian Science Monitor NBCC Award Nominee ALA Notable Books LA Times Book Prize Fiction Winner	L*
McGahern, John	By the Lake	NYTBR Notable Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy ALA Notable Books	L
McGuane, Thomas	The Cadence of Grass	NYTBR Notable	L*
McKillip, Patricia A.	Ombria in Shadow	LJ Best Genre Fiction	SP
McLaughlin, Emma & Nicola Kraus	The Nanny Diaries	PW Best of 2002 LJ Best Debut	F*	1st
McMullen, Sean	Voyage of the Shadowmoon		Sp
McMurtry, Larry	Sin Killer	NYTBR Notable	H*
McPhee, Martha	Gorgeous Lies	National Book Award Finalist	F
Mda, Zakes	Heart of Redness	Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable	L
Meloy, Maile	Half in Love: Stories	NYTBR Notable	L/SS
Merullo, Roland	In Revere, in Those Days	Booklist Editor's Choice ALA Notable Books	F
Metzger, Barbara	A Debt to Delia (paper)		R
Michaels, Kasey	Be My Baby Tonight (paper)	Booklist Top 10 Romance	R
Mieville, China	The Scar	PW Best of 2002 LJ Best Genre Fiction Hugo Nominee	SP
Miller, Adrienne (ed)	Esquire's Big Book of Fiction
Miller, Andrew	Oxygen	2001 Whitbread Shortlist NYTBR Notable	L*
Miller, Christopher	Simon Silber: Works for Solo Piano	Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy	F/L	1st
Millet, Lydia	My Happy Life		L
Minot, Susan	Rapture	NYTBR Notable	L
Mistry, Rohinton	Family Matters	Booker Prize 2002 Short List PW Best of 2002 Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books LJ Best Books Booklist Editor's Choice   ALA Notable Books	F/L
Mitchell, David	Number9Dream	Booker Prize Short List 2001	L
Mixon, Laura J.	Burning the Ice		SP
Mlynowski, Sarah	Fishbowl (paper)		F/R
Modesitt, L.E.	Legacies,Corean Chronicles		SP
Modesitt, L.E.	Shadowsinger	Booklist Top 10 SF/F	SP*
Modesitt, L.E.	Archform: Beauty		SP
Moning, Karen Marie	The Dark Highlander (paper)		R
Monroe, Mary Alice	The Beach House (paper)		R
Moon, Elizabeth	The Speed of Dark		SP
Moor, Margriet De	Duke of Egypt
Moring, Marcel	The Dream Room		L*
Morrow, Bradford	Ariel's Crossing		F
Morse, C. Scott	Ancient Joe: El Bizarron		graphic novel
Mosby, Katherine	The Season of Lillian Dawes	NYTBR Notable	F
Moyer, Marsha	The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch	Washington Post Rave	F
Mukherjee, Bharati	Desirable Daughters	NYTBR Notable	M/L*
Murakami, Haruki	After the Earthquake: Stories	Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable Village Voice Top Shelf	L/SS
Murphy, Garth	Indian Lover		H	1st
Murray, Sabina	The Caprices (trade paper)	Washington Post Rave PEN/Faulkner Award	H
Murray, Yxta Maya	The Conquest	LA Times Best Books	L
Mutabaruka, Mustafa	Seed (paper)	LJ Best Debut Washington Post Rave	A
Nailah, Anika	Free: Short Stories		A/SS
Nair, Meera	Video: Stories	Washington Post Rave	SS	1st
Neate, Patrick	Twelve Bar Blues	2002 Whitbread Award Winner	L
Nelson, Antonya	Female Trouble: Stories	NYTBR Notable	SS
Nguyen, Kien	The Tapestries		F*
Nichols, Linda	Not a Sparrow Falls		I
Nicholson, Geoff	Bedlam Burning	NYTBR Notable	F/L
Nigam, Sanjay	Tranplanted Man	PW Best of 2002
Norman, Howard A.	The Haunting of L		L
Oates, Joyce Carol	I'll Take Your There	NYTBR Notable	L
O'Brien, Edna	In the Forest	Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable	L*
O'Brien, Tim	July, July	NYTBR Notable Booklist Editor's Choice	L*
Oe, Kenzaburo	Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age	ALA Notable Books	L
O'Leary, Patrick	The Impossible Bird		SP
O'Nan, Stewart	Wish You Were Here	NYTBR Notable	L
O'Neill, Jamie	At Swim, Two Boys	Booklist Top Gay and Lesbian Books Booklist Top First Novel NYTBR Notable Booklist Editor's Choice Lambda Gay Men's Fiction Winner	L/H*
Otsuka, Julie	When the Emperor Was Divine	Booklist Top First Novel NYTBR Notable Booklist Editor's Choice Booklist Best Adult Books for Young Adults Alex Award	H	1st
Otto, Whitney	A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity		H*
Packer, Ann	The Dive from Clausen's Pier	PW Best of 2002 LJ Best Debut NYTBR Notable Alex Award	L	1st
Palahniuk, Chuck	Lullaby	PW Best of 2002 Village Voice Top Shelf	F*
Papaleo, Joseph	Italian Stories (trade paper)		SS
Paral, Vladimir	Lovers & Murderers		L
Parini, Jay	The Apprentice Lover		F*
Park, David	The Big Snow		F/L
Parra, Nancy J.	A Wanted Man		R
Parry, Owen	Our Simple Gifts: Civil War Christmas Tales		H/SS
Passaro, Vincent	Violent, Nudity, Adult Content		F	1st
Pearson, T.R.	Polar	NYTBR Notable Booklist Editor's Choice	F
Pearson, Allison	I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother	PW Best of 2002 Booklist Top First Novel NYTBR Notable	F*	1st
Phillips, Arthur	Prague	PW Best of 2002 LJ Best Debut NYTBR Notable Christian Science Monitor Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Winner	F	1st
Plumley, Lisa	Reconsidering Riley (paper)		R
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin	Three Daughters	Booklist Top First Novel	F	1st
Poirer, Mark Jude	Unsung Heroes of American Industry: Stories	NYTBR Notable	L/SS
Pontiggia, Giuseppe	Born Twice		L
Porter, Joe Ashby	Touch Wood (paper)		F
Pousson, Martin	No Place, Louisiana		F	1st
Power, Nani	The Good Remains	NYTBR Notable	F
Pressfield, Steven	Last of the Amazons		H*
Price, Reynolds	Noble Norfleet	NYTBR Notable	L
Proctor, Candice	Midnight Confessions		R
Putney, Mary Jo	The Spiral Path (paper)	Booklist Top 10 Romance	R
Quindlen, Anna	Blessings	NYTBR Notable	F*
Rabinyan, Dorit	A Strand of a Thousand Pearls	PW Best of 2002	F
Rakow, Mary	The Memory Room		L	1st
Rasker, Maya	Unknown Destinations		L	1st
Ravenel, Shannan (ed)	New Stories from the South: Year's Best 2002		F/SS
Ray, Jeanne	Step-Ball-Change: A Novel		F*
Redhill, Michael	Martin Sloane (trade paper)		F
Reding, Jaclyn	Highlander Heros: the Adventurer (paper)		R
Reding, Jaclyn	The Pretender (paper)	Booklist Top 10 Romance	R
Reid, Van	Peter Loon		H
Reynolds, Alastair	Chasm City	Booklist Top 10 SF/F	SP
Reza, Yasmina	Desolation	Booklist Top First Novel	L	1st
Rice, Anne	Blackwood Farm: Vampire Chronicles		SP
Rice, Patricia	Must Be Magic (paper)
Richler, Nancy	Your Mouth is Lovely		F/L
Robinson, Kim Stanley	The Years of Rice and Salt	Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable LJ Best Genre Fiction Hugo Nominee	SP
Robinson, Mary	Tell Me: 30 Stories	NYTBR Notable	L/SS
Rodi, Robert	Bitch Goddess (trade paper)	Booklist Top Gay and Lesbian Books	F
Roper, Martin	Gone		L	1st
Ross, JoAnn	Blue Bayou (paper)	Booklist Top 10 Romance	R
Roth, Joseph	The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth	Washington Post Rave LA Times Best Books	SS
Rowell, Charles H.	Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature (trade paper)		A
Rowland, Russell	In Open Spaces (trade paper)		F
Rucker, Rudy	Spaceland	Washington Post Rave	SP
Russo, Richard	The Whore's Child: And Other Stories	NYTBR Notable	L/SS
Samuel, Barbara	No Place Like Home	LJ Best Genre Fiction	R
Saramago, Jose	The Cave	NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy ALA/RUSA Notable	L*
Sawyer, Robert J.	Hominids	Hugo Nominee	SP
Scholz, Carter	Radiance		L
Schroeder, Karl	Permanence	Booklist Best Adult Books for Young Adults	SP
Schwartz, John Burnham	Claire Marvel		F
Schwarz, Christina	All Is Vanity	LA Times Best Books	F
Scott, Joanna	Tourmaline	NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books LA Times Book Prize Fiction Finalist	F
Searcy, David	Last Things		SP
Sebold, Alice	The Lovely Bones	PW Best of 2002 LJ Best Debut Washington Post Rave Booklist Top First Novel NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books Time Best Novel  Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy Booklist Best Adult Books for Young Adults	F*	1st
Shaara, Jeffrey M.	The Glorious Cause	PW Best of 2002 Booklist Top 10 Historical Novel	H
Sheffield, Charles	The Amazing Dr. Darwin	PW Best of 2002	SP
Shepard, Sam	Great Dream of Heaven	NYTBR Notable	L/SS
Sherwood, Frances	The Book of Splendor	PW Best of 2002	H
Shields, Carol	Unless	Booker Prize 2002 Short List NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books Time Best Novel  Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy Booklist Editor's Choice Orange Prize shortlist	L
Shinn, Sharon	Jenna Starborn (trader paper)	LJ Best Genre Fiction	SP
Shreve, Anita	Sea Glass	PW Best of 2002	H*
Shteyngart, Gary	The Russian Debutante's Handbook	LJ Best Debut Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable ALA Notable Books	F	1st
Skvorecky, Josef	When Eve Was Naked	Washington Post Rave	L
Slouka, Mark	God's Fool	Washington Post Rave ALA Notable Books	H	1st
Small, Bertrice	Rosamund (paper)		R
Smith, Lee	The Last Girls	Booklist Editor's Choice	F
Smith, Zadie	The Autograph Man	Booker Prize 2002 Long List NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books Orange Prize shortlist	F/L*
Snoe, Eboni	The Ties That Bind (paper)		R/A
Sobin, Gustaf	In Pursuit of a Vanishing Star		H
Sole, Linda	A Rose Out of Winter		R
Southgate, Martha	The Fall of Rome	Alex Award	F
Spragg, Mark	The Fruit of Stone (trade paper)	Booklist Top First Novel Booklist Editor's Choice	F/L	1st
Stansbury, Nicole	Places to Look for Mother		F	1st
Steinbeck, Thomas	Down to a Soundless Sea		F	1st
Stevens, Marcus	The Curve of the World		F	1st
Stevenson, Jane	The Winter Queen		H
Stewart, Sally	The Daisy Chain	Booklist Top 10 Romance	R
Stirling, S.M.	T2 Rising Storm		SP
Stollman, Aryeh Lev	The Illuminated Soul		L
Stone, Sarah	The True Sources of the Nile	LJ Best Debut LJ Best Books	F	1st
Strauss, Darin	The Real McCoy	NYTBR Notable	H*
Swankwick, Michael	Bones of the Earth	Hugo Nominee	SP
Tartt, Donna	The Little Friend	PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable LJ Best Books Booklist Editor's Choice Booklist Best Adult Books for Young Adults   Orange Prize shortlist	F*
Templeton, Edith	The Darts of Cupid and Other Stories	NYTBR Notable NBCC Award Nominee	SS
Tennant, Emma	Adele: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story		H
Tepper, Sheri S.	The Visitor	PW Best of 2002	SP
Thien, Madeline	Simple Recipes: Stories		L/SS
Thompson, Jean	Wide Blue Yonder	NYTBR Notable
Tillman, Lynne	This Is Not It	Village Voice Top Shelf
Toer, Pramoedya	The Girl from the Coast	LA Times Best Books	M/L
Tolkin, Michael	Under Radar	Village Voice Top Shelf	F
Tosches, Nick	In the Hand of Dante	NYTBR Notable	F
Toure	Portable Promised Land: Stories	Village Voice Top Shelf	A/SS
Towler, Katherine	Snow Island	LJ Best Debut	H
Trevor, William	The Story of Lucy Gault	Booker Prize 2002 Short List NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books Booklist Editor's Choice	L
Trillin, Calvin	Tepper Isn't Going Out	Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable Christian Science Monitor - Noteworthy	F
Troop, Alan F.	The Dragon Delasangre (paper)		SP
Trotter, William R.	The Sands of Pride		H
Tuck, Lily	Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived	NYTBR Notable	F/SS
Turtledove, Harry	Ruled Britannia	Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy	SP
Updike, John	Seek My Face	NYTBR Notable Booklist Editors' Choice	L
Uppal, Priscila	The Divine Economy of Salvation		F
Urquhart, Jane	The Stone Carvers		H
Valentine, Katherine	A Miracle for St Cecilia's		F
VanderMeer, Jeff	City of Saints and Madmen	PW Best of 2002	SP
Verne, Jules	The Mysterious Island
Vickers, Salley	Instances of the Number 3		H
Volpi, Jorge	In Search of Klingsor		L
Vreeland, Susan	The Passion of Artemesia	Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels	H*
Wagner, Bruce	I'll Let You Go		F
Walters, Tony	Burden		F	1st
Ward, Anne	The Making of June
Warner, Marina	The Leto Bundle	Washington Post Rave Booklist Editor's Choice	H
Waters, Sarah	Fingersmith	Orange Prize shortlist Booker Prize 2002 Short List NYTBR Notable Lambda Lesbian Fiction Winner	*H
Watson, Brad	The Heaven of Mercury	National Book Award Finalist	F
Watson, Ian	The Great Escape	Washington Post Rave	SP
Weber, David	War of Honor	Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy	SP*
Weiner, Jennifer	In Her Shoes	PW Best of 2002	F*
Weisbert, Joe	10th Grade	NYTBR Notable Alex Award	F	1st
West, Paul	Cheops: A Cupboard for the Sun		H
Wiesel, Elie	The Judges		L
Wiggs, Susan	Passing Through Paradise (paper)		R
Wilber, Ken	Boomeritis		F	1st
Wilcken, Hugo	The Execution		L	1st
Williams, Darren	Angel Rock	PW Best of 2002	F	1st
Wilson, Susan	The Fortune Teller's Daughter	LJ Best Genre Fiction	R
Winegardner, Mark	That's True of Everybody: Stories		L/SS
Winton, Tim	Dirt Music	Booker Prize 2002 Short List PW Best of 2002	L*
Wittenborn, Dirk	Fierce People		F
Wright, John C.	The Golden Age		SP
Wright, Richard B.	Clara Callan	Giller Prize Winner	H
Wright, Ronald	Henderson's Spear	Washington Post Rave	H/L*
Xingjian, Gao	One Man's Bible	PW Best of 2002	L
Zafris, Nancy	The Metal Shredders	NYTBR Notable	F
Zebrowski, George	Swift Thoughts		SP