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