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January
1 Neal Stephenson 5 In
the Beginning was the Command Line AMERICA 20th 1 ESSAY 1
2 Petronius 1 The
Satyricon ROMAN 1st 1 NOVEL 1
3 Seneca 2 Hippolytus ROMAN 1st 2 PLAY 1
4 Plautus 1 The Menaechmi Twins ROMAN BC 1 PLAY 2
5 Plautus 2 Prisoners of War ROMAN BC 2 PLAY 3
6 Plautus 3 The Rope ROMAN BC 3 PLAY 4
7 Plautus 4 The Merchant ROMAN BC 4 PLAY 5
8 Terence 1 The Brothers ROMAN BC 5 PLAY 6
9 Terence 2 Phormio ROMAN BC 6 PLAY 7
10 Terence 3 The Woman of Andros ROMAN BC 7 PLAY 8
11 J. K. Rowling 2 ***Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (out loud) ENGLISH 20th 1 NOVEL 2
review
12 Tim Berners-Lee 1 *Weaving
the Web : The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
ENGLISH 20th 2 INTERNET 1 review
13 Robert Parker 27 Family
Honor AMERICAN 20th 3 MYSTERY 1
14 Dave Barry 9 Big
Trouble AMERICAN 20th 4 HUMOR 1
15 Kinky Friedman 1 Spanking
Watson AMERICAN 20th 5 HUMOR 2
16 J. K. Rowling 3 ***Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (out loud) ENGLISH 20th 3 NOVEL
3 review
17 Robert Graves 3 **I,
Claudius ENGLISH 20th 4 NOVEL 4
18 Robert Graves 4 *Claudius
the God ENGLISH 20th 5 NOVEL 5
February
19 Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, David Weinberger, and Doc Searls
1 **The
Cluetrain Manifesto AMERICAN 20th 6 INTERNET 2 review
20 Eric Raymond 1 ***The
Cathedral and the Bazaar AMERICAN 20th 7 INTERNET 3 review
21 Tracy Chevalier 1 **Girl
with a Pearl Earring AMERICAN 20th 8 NOVEL 6 review
22 Martin Amis 1 London
Fields ENGLISH 20th 6 NOVEL 7
23 Linda Hall 5 **Katheryn's
Secret CANADIAN 1 21st MYSTERY 1 review
24 John Cramer 1 Einstein's
Bridge AMERICAN 20th 9 SCIFI 1
March
25 Robert Penn Warren 18 Portrait
of a Father AMERICAN 20th 10 ESSAY 2
26 Orson Scott Card 5 ***Ender's
Shadow (out loud) AMERICAN 20th 11 SCIFI 2 review
27 Robert Penn Warren 19 *Jefferson
Davis Gets His Citizenship Back AMERICAN 20th 12 ESSAY 3
28 Jared Diamond 2 ****Guns,
Germs, and Steel AMERICAN 20th 13 SCIENCE 1
29 Kurt Vonnegut 19 God
Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian AMERICAN 21st 1 ESSAY 4
30 Kurt Vonnegut 20 Bagombo
Snuff Box AMERICAN 21st 2 SHORT STORIES 1
31 Eusebius 1 The
History of the Church PALESTINE 4th 1 HISTORY 1
32 Pascal James Imperato 2 *Quest
for the Jade Sea AMERICAN 20th 16 HISTORY 2 review
33 John Updike 12 **Gertrude
and Claudius AMERICAN 21st 3 17 NOVEL 8 review
April
34 Alexander Solzhenitsyn 13 November
1916: The Red Wheel: Knot II RUSSIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 9 HISTORY 3 review
35 Jose Saramgo 1 **The
History of the Siege of Lisbon PORTUGUESE 20th 1 NOVEL 10 review
36 Jack Trout 1 Differentiate
or Die AMERICAN 21st 4 INTERNET 4 excerpt,
related
article
37 Michael Seltzer 2 Life [manuscript] AMERICAN 21st 5 NOVEL 11
38 Michael Ondaatje 3 Handwriting
SRI LANKA/CANADA 20th 1 POETRY 1
39 Jerry Kaplan 1 **Startup
AMERICAN 20th 20 BUSINESS 1
40 Michael Ondaatje 4 ***Anil's
Ghost SRI LANKA/CANADA 21st 1 NOVEL 12 review
41 David Pottruck and Terry Peace 1 Clicks
and Mortar AMERICAN 21st 6 BUSINESS 2
42 Saul Bellow 7 Ravelstein
AMERICAN 21st 7 NOVEL 13
43 Plato Apology (third time) GREEK BC 1 PHILOSOPHY 1
44 Plato Crito (third time) GREEK BC 2 PHILOSOPHY 2
45 Plato Phaedo (second time) GREEK BC 3 PHILOSOPHY 3
46 Plato 9 Charmides GREEK BC 4 PHILOSOPHY 4
47 Plato 10 Laches GREEK BC 5 PHILOSOPHY 5
48 Zadie Smith 1 **White
Teeth ENGLISH 21st 1 NOVEL 14 review
49 Jeffrey Thomas 1 **Punktown
AMERICAN 21st 8 STORIES 2
50 Stanislaw Lem 11 **A
Perfect Vacuum POLISH 20th 1 STORIES 3 review
51 Jeff Edmunds 1 Metro [electronic
book] AMERICAN 21st 9 NOVEL 15 review
June
52 James Branch Cabell 1 **Jurgen
AMERICAN 20th 25 NOVEL 16
53 Frank Conroy 1 ** Stop-Time
AMERICAN 20th 26 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1
54 Stanislaw Lem 12 Highcastle
POLISH 20th 2 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2
55 Plato 11 Lysis GREEK BC 6 PHILOSOPHY 6
56 Tom Robbins 6 **Fierce
Invalids Home from Hot Climates AMERICAN 21st 10 NOVEL 17 review
57 Richard Powers 7 ** Plowing
the Dark AMERICAN 21st 11 NOVEL 18 review
58 Stanislaw Lem 13 The
Chain of Chance POLISH 20th 3 NOVEL 19
July
59 Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov 1 The
Twelve Chairs RUSSIAN 20th 2 NOVEL 20
60 Alain de Botton 5 **The
Consolations of Philosophy ENGLISH 21st 2 ESSAY 5
61 Jeff Vandermeer 1 The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of AmergrisAMERICAN
20th 27 NOVEL 21
62 Jaroslav Hasek 1 The
Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk, Book One CZECH 20th 1
NOVEL 22 review
63 J.K Rowling 4 ***Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire (outloud) ENGLISH 21st 3 NOVEL 23
64 Philip Roth 3 I
Married a Communist AMERICAN 20th 28 NOVEL 24
65 Franz Kafka 5 Amerika
CZECH 20th 2 NOVEL 25
66 Charles Ferguson 1 *High
Stakes, No Prisoners AMERICAN 20th 29 INTERNET 5 review
67 Philip K. Dick 1 The
World Jones Made AMERICAN 20th 30 SCIFI 3
68 Philip K. Dick 2 Now
Wait for Last Year AMERICAN 20th 31 SCIFI 4
69 Philip K. Dick 3 The
Game-Players of Titan AMERICAN 20th 32 SCIFI 5
70 Victor Pelevin 1 **Buddha's
Little Finger RUSSIAN 20th 3 NOVEL 26 review
August
71 Hermann Hesse 9 Rosshalde
GERMAN 1 20th NOVEL 27
72 C.D.B. Bryan 1 Close
Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference
at MIT
AMERICAN 20th 33 ESSAY 6
73 Michael Seltzer 2 Life [manuscript, second draft] AMERICAN 21st
12 NOVEL 28
74 Plato 12 Hippias GREEK BC 7 PHILOSOPHY7
75 Plato 13 Ion GREEK BC 8 PHILOSOPHY 8
76 Fawn M. Brodie 1 The
Devil Drives: a Life of Sir Richard Burton AMERICAN 20th 33 BIOGRAPHY
3
77 John Maddox 1 **What
Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the
Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race ENGLISH 20th 7 SCIENCE
2 review
78 Norman Mailer 6 *The
Naked and the Dead AMERCAN 20th 34 NOVEL 29
79 Alexandre Dumas 9 The Man in the Iron Mask (from Celebrated Crimes)
FRENCH 19th 1 HISTORY 4
80 Alexandre Dumas 10 Martin Guerre (from Celebrated Crimes) FRENCH
19th 2 HISTORY 5
81 Alexandre Dumas 11 Joan of Naples (from Celebrated Crimes) FRENCH
19th 3 HISTORY 6
82 Granta #70, Australia: The New New World ENGLISH 21th 4 MAGAZINE
1
83 Victor Pelevin 2 The
Yellow Arrow RUSSIAN 20th 4 NOVEL 30
84 Laura Esquivel 1 Like
Water for Chocolate MEXICAN 20th 1 NOVEL 31
September
85 Louise Erdrich 6 *The
Antelope Wife AMERICAN 20th 34 NOVEL 32
86 Rick Moody 4 *The
Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven AMERICAN 20th 35 NOVEL 33
87 Victor Pelevin 3 *Omon
Ra RUSSIAN 20th 5 NOVEL 34
88 Philip K. Dick 4 Flow
My Tears, the Policeman Said AMERICAN 20th 36 SCIFI 6
89 Julian Barnes 8 England,England
ENGLISH 20th 8 NOVEL 35
90 Patrick O'Leary 1 *Other
Voices, Other Doors AMERICAN 21st 13 STORIES 4 review
91 Victor Pelevin 4 *A
Werewolf Problem in Central Russia RUSSIAN 20th 6 STORIES 5 review
92 Joanne Harris 1 *Chocolat
ENGLISH 20th 9 NOVEL 36
93 Patrick O'Leary 2 **Door
Number Three AMERICAN 20th 37 SCIFI 7 review
94 Philip K. Dick 5 * The
Man in the High Castle AMERICAN 20th 38 SCIFI 8
95 Alan Lightman 3 **The
Diagnosis AMERICAN 21th 14 NOVEL 36
96 Victor Pelevin 5 The
Life of Insects (well worth a second reading) RUSSIAN 20th 7 NOVEL
37 review
97 Ralph Waldo Emerson 2 Representative
Men AMERICAN 19th 1 ESSAY 7
October
98 Alexandre Dumas 12 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (part 2 of 2) [en francais]
19th FRENCH 4 NOVEL 38
99 John Updike 13 Nelson and Annabelle (a Rabbit novella) AMERICAN
21st 14 NOVEL 39
100 Michael Lewis 1The
New New Thing AMERICAN 21st 15 INTERNET 6 review
101 ed. Ian Jack, Granta #59, France: The Outsider ENGLISH 20th 10
MAGAZINE 2
102 ed. Ian Jack, Granta #78, Love Stories ENGLISH 20th 11 MAGAZINE
3
stroke, 10/17/2000
103 Plato 13 Gorgias GREEK BC 9 PHILOSOPHY 9
104 Plato 14 Protagoras GREEK BC 10 PHILOSOPHY 10
105 Saul Bellow 8 Seize the Day AMERICAN 20th 30 NOVEL 40
106 Saul Bellow 9 The Last Analysis AMERICAN 20th 31 PLAY 9
107 ed. Bill Buford Granta #41, Biography ENGLISH 20th 12 MAGAZINE
4
November
108 Patrick O'Leary 3 **The
Gift AMERICAN 20th 32 NOVEL 41
109 Zak Mucha 1 **The
Beggar's Shore AMERICAN 20th 33 NOVEL 42 review
110 Saul Bellow 10 *Mr.
Sammler's Planet AMERICAN 20th 34 NOVEL 43 review
111 Plato 15 Euthydemus GREEK BC 11 PHILOSOPHY 11
112 Alexandre Dumas 13 Massacres of the South (Celebrated Crimes) FRENCH
19th 4 HISTORY 7
113 M.J. Rose 1 In
Fidelity AMERICAN 21st 16 NOVEL 44
114 Plato 16 Cratylus GREEK BC 12 PHILOSOPHY 12
115 Thomas Bulfinch 1 Legends of Charlemagne AMERICAN 19th 2 HISTORY
8
116 John Barth 5*** The
Sot-Weed Factor AMERICAN 20th 35 NOVEL 44 review
December
117 Clayton Christensen **The
Innovators Dilemma AMERICAN 20th 36 BUSINESS 3
118 Thomas Pynchon 6 Mason
and Dixon AMERICAN 20th 37 NOVEL 45 review
119 Raymond Carver 2 Short
Cuts AMERICAN 20th 38 SHORT STORIES 6
120 Anonymous The Thousand and One Arabian Nights trans. by William
Lane PERSIAN 13th 1 NOVEL 46
121 William Faulkner 12 *The
Hamlet (part of the Snopes trilogy) (published 1931, set c. 1905) AMERICAN
20th 39 NOVEL 47
122 Geoffrey Moore 3 Living
on the Fault Line: Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the
Internet AMERICAN 21st 7 INTERNET 7, BUSINESS 4
122 William Faulkner 13 *The
Town (part of the Snopes trilogy) (published 1957 set c. 1905-1925)
AMERICAN 20th 40 NOVEL 48
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