Librarians’ Choice 1999 Fiction

Selected by the staff of the Fiction Department from fiction received in 1999.

• Arnott, Jake · The Long Firm
• Bank, Melissa · The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing
• Bear, Greg · Darwin’s Radio (SF)
• Belfer, Lauren · City of Light * †
• Birmingham, Ruth · Atlanta Graves (M)
• Cunningham, Michael · The Hours *
• D’ Amato, Barbara · Hard Evidence (M)
• D’Aguiar, Fred · Feeding the Ghosts
• Devoto, Pat Cunningham · My Last Days as Roy Rogers
• Doyle, Roddy · A Star Called Henry †
• Dubus III, Andre · House of Sand and Fog
• Ellis, Alice Thomas · The Sin Eater
• Englander, Nathan · For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (SS)
• Evanovich, Janet · High Five (M)
• Farrow, John · City of Ice
• Fitzgerald, Penelope · Human Voices *
• Frayn, Michael · Headlong
• Freadhoff, Chuck · Blue Rain
• Frey, Stephen · The Insider †
• Gardiner, John Rolfe · Somewhere in France
• Gates, David · The Wonders of the Invisible World (SS)
• Gaus, P. L. · Blood of the Prodigal (M)
• Harper, Karen · The Poyson Garden (M)
• Harries, Ann · Manly Pursuits
• Harris, Joanne · Chocolat *
• Haruf, Kent · Plainsong
• Henderson, Lauren · Black Rubber Dress (M)
• Herbert, James · Others (S)
• Hess, Joan · Misery Loves Maggody (M)
• Iles, Greg · The Quiet Game
• Johnston, Wayne · The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
• Jones, Thom · Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (SS)
• Katzenbach, John · Hart’s War
• Keady, Walter · Mary McGreevy
• Kennedy, A.L. · Original Bliss
• Kluger, Steve · Last Days of Summer
• LeCarre, John · Single & Single * †
• Lee, Chang-rae · A Gesture Life
• Lennox, Judith · Some Old Lover’s Ghost
• Leslie, Diane · Fleur de Leigh’s Life Of Crime
• Lethem, Jonathan · Motherless Brooklyn
• Levien, D. J. · Wormwood
• Lippman, Laura · Butchers Hill (M)
• Mantel, Hilary · The Giant, O’Brien *
• Martin, Julia Wallis · The Bird Yard (M)
• McCafferty, Jane · One Heart
• Naslund, Sena Jeter · Ahab’s Wife, or, The Star-Gazer
• Nattel, Lilian · The River Midnight
• O’Connor, Joseph · The Salesman
• O’Nan, Stewart · A Prayer for the Dying
• Parks, Tim · Europa
• Pattison, Eliot · The Skull Mantra
• Prantera, Amanda · Letter to Lorenzo
• Proulx, Annie · Close Range: Wyoming Stories (SS) * †
• Russell, Paul Elliott · The Coming Storm
• Schanker, D.R. · A Criminal Appeal
• Scott, Willard & Bill Crider · Murder In The Mist (M) *
• Siebert, Steven · Cleopatra’s Needle (S)
• Simmons, Dan · The Crook Factory
• Slesar, Henry · Murder At Heartbreak Hospital (M)
• Stephenson, Neal · Cryptonomicon
• Strout, Elizabeth · Amy and Isabelle * †
• Trevor, William · Death in Summer *
• Trollope, Joanna · Other People’s Children * †
• Unsworth, Barry · Losing Nelson
• Van Pelt, Nicholas · The Mongoose Man
• Vreeland, Susan · Girl in Hyacinth Blue
• Wishnia, J.K.A. · Soft Money (M)
• Zeidner, Lisa · Layover