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Best Books of 2000 (Amazon Editors' Picks)

1.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
J.K. Rowling

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling offers up equal parts danger and delight--and any number of dragons, house-elves, and death-defying challenges. Now 14, her orphan hero has only two more weeks with his Muggle relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yet ... read more
2.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
J.K. Rowling

For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who's forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling's ... read more
3.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
J.K. Rowling

It's hard to fall in love with an earnest, appealing young hero like Harry Potter and then to watch helplessly as he steps into terrible danger! And in J.K. Rowling's ... read more
4.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 1)
J.K. Rowling

Say you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that come ... read more
5.Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Spencer Johnson

Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of ... read more
6.Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength
Bill Phillips

Bill Phillips had been publishing bodybuilding magazines and marketing nutritional supplements for years when he had a weird revelation at a trade show: many of the most loyal and enthusiastic readers he had were totally out of shape. From that uncomfortable... read more
7.The Brethren
John Grisham

John Grisham's novels have all been so systematically successful that it is easy to forget he is just one man toiling away silently with a pen, experimenting and improving with each book. While not as gifted a prose stylist as Scott Turow, Grisham is among... read more
8.The Beatles Anthology
Beatles

"Who knows why the Beatles happened?" John Lennon asked in 1980: if anyone did, it would be the Fab Four themselves, who tell their own storyDwith plenty of visual aidsDin this giant compendium. Festooned with more than 1,300 photographs, posters and ... read more
9.The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club)
Barbara Kingsolver

Oprah Book Club Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the ... read more
10.The Bear and the Dragon
Tom Clancy

Power is delightful, and absolute power should be absolutely delightful--but not when you're the most powerful man on earth and the place is ticking like a time bomb. Jack Ryan, CIA warrior turned U.S. president, is the man in the hot seat, and in this ... read more
11.Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not
Robert T. Kiyosaki

Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend... read more
12.The Land
Andrew Weil

Hopefully, years from now, Eating Well for Optimum Health will be looked upon as the book that saved the health of millions of Americans and transformed the way we eat--not as the book we overlooked at our own peril. It clarifies the mishmash of conflicting news, research, hype, and ... read more
13.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
J.K. Rowling

Say you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that come ... read more
14.The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life
Bill O'Reilly

The O'Reilly Factor isn't just the name of Bill O'Reilly's popular talk show on the Fox News Channel anymore--it's also the title of his book, which, appropriately enough, actually reads like a TV show. The narrative rarely proceeds for more than a few paragraphs before a bold-faced "This Just ... read more
15.The Seat of the Soul
Gary Zukav

Gary Zukav's American Book Award-winning The Dancing Wu Li Masters masterfully introduces the layman to quantum and particle physics, as well as Einstein's relativity theories. With a similar dose of amiable, easy-to-understand prose, Zukav guides readers into the spiritual realm in his bestselling The Seat of the Soul ... read more
16.Flags of Our Fathers
James Bradley

The Battle of Iwo Jima, fought in the winter of 1945 on a rocky island south of Japan, brought a ferocious slice of hell to earth: in a month's time, more than 22,000 Japanese soldiers would die defending a patch of ground a third the size of Manhattan,... read more
17.The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession (Left Behind #7)
Tim F. LaHaye

The Antichrist is dead... or is he? The city of Chicago lies in ruins, the safe house is blown, and the Global Community police are hot on the heels of the Tribulation Force. And who assassinated Nicolae Carpathia?... read more
18.Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom

This true story about the love between a spiritual mentor and his pupil has soared to the bestseller list for many reasons. For starters: it reminds us of the affection and gratitude that many of us still feel for the significant mentors of our past. It... read more
19.From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
Jacques Barzun

In the last half-millennium, as the noted cultural critic and historian ... read more
20.It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Lance Armstrong

People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong--a world-class athlete nearly struck down by cancer, only to recover and win the Tour de France, the multiday bicycle race famous for its grueling intensity. Armstrong is a... read more
21.Relationship Rescue: A Seven Step Strategy for Reconnecting with Your Partner
Ph.d., Phillip C. Mcgraw

As a follow-up to his bestselling book Life Strategies, Oprah acolyte Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D., moves from aiding the aimless individual to coaching the disconnected couple. McGraw has distilled his more than two decades of counseling experience into a seven-step strategy he calls "Relationship Rescue." "I'm prepared to ... read more
22.The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
Joshua Piven

How to Wrestle Free from an Alligator: 4. If its jaws are closed on something you want to remove (for example, a limb), tap or punch it on the snout. Though it's being marketed as a humorous title--after all, it's unlikely you'll be called upon to land ... read more
23.The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Don Miguel Ruiz

Sit at the foot of a native elder and listen as great wisdom of days long past is passed down. In ... read more
24.Gap Creek: A Novel
Robert Morgan

Oprah Book Club Selection, January 2000: Robert Morgan's Gap Creek opens with one wrenching death and ends with another. In between, this novel of turn-of-the-century Appalachian life works in fire, flood, swindlers, sickness, and starvation--a truly biblical assortment of plagues, all visited on the sturdy shoulders of 17-year-old Julie ... read more
25.Talking Dirty With The Queen Of Clean
Linda Cobb

Stand back, Heloise, here comes the Queen of Clean. Armed with both common sense and ingenuity, Linda Cobb made a name for herself on ... read more
26.Drowning Ruth
Christina Schwarz

Oprah Book Club Selection, September 2000: For 19th-century novelists--from Jane Austen to George Eliot, Flaubert to Henry James--social constraint gave a delicious tension to their plots. Yet now our relaxed morals and social mobility have rendered many of the classics untenable. Why shouldn't Maisie know what she knows? It .... read more
27.The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta)
Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell's legendary crime fiction creation, Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, has logged a host of fans among mystery readers and, within the bounds of her fictional world, an equally impressive tally of individuals intent on ... read more
28.While I Was Gone (Oprah's Book Club)
Sue Miller

Oprah Book Club Selection, May 2000: In her still startling debut, The Good Mother, Sue Miller explored the premium we put on passion--and the terrible burden it places on a mother and child. Her fourth novel, While I Was Gone, is another study in familial crime and punishment... read more
29.The Pilates Body: The Ultimate At-Home Guide to Strengthening, Lengthening, and Toning Your Body--Without Machines
Brooke Siler

Thin-but-fit supermodels like Amber Valletta and Shalom Harlow and actresses like ... read more
30.The Mark: The Beast Rules the World (Left Behind #8)
Tim LaHaye

It's the dawn of the Great Tribulation, "the bloodiest season in the history of the world." After lying in state for three days, Nicolae Carpathia has risen from the dead. As the world responds in awe, statues of the potentate and "god" are erected in... read more
31.Daughter of Fortune (Oprah's Book Club)
Isabel Allende

Oprah Book Club Selection, February 2000: Until Isabel Allende burst onto the scene with her 1985 debut, The House of the Spirits, Latin American fiction was, for the most part, a boys' club comprising such heavy hitters as Gabriel Garca Mrquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mario Vargas Llosa... read more
32.A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story
Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is a terrifically talented writer; don't hold his cleverness against him. What to make of a book called ... read more
33.Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver

There is no one in contemporary literature quite like Barbara Kingsolver. Her dialogue sparkles with sassy wit and earthy poetry; her descriptions are rooted in daily life but are also on familiar terms with the eternal. With ... read more
34.Back Roads (Oprah's Book Club)
Tawni O'Dell

Oprah Book Club Selection, March 2000: Not since S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders) has a female novelist penned such a tough and titillating portrait of lower-class, crime-ridden manhood. Set in "beautiful, ruined" western Pennsylvania, amid Eat n' Parks and Lick n' Putts, Tawni O'Dell's Back Roads follows Harley Altmyer as ... read more
35.Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Seamus Heaney

In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our imagination has been less ... read more
36.Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869
Stephen E. Ambrose

Abraham Lincoln, who had worked as a riverboat pilot before turning to politics, knew a thing or two about the problems of transporting goods and people from place to place. He was also convinced that the United States would flourish only if its far-flung ... read more
37.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
J. K. Rowling

It's hard to fall in love with an earnest, appealing young hero like Harry Potter and then to watch helplessly as he steps into terrible danger! And in J.K. Rowling's ... read more
38.House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club)
Andre Dubus III

Oprah Book Club Selection, November 2000: Andre Dubus III wastes no time in capturing the dark side of the immigrant experience in America at the end of the 20th century. House of Sand and Fog opens with a highway crew composed of several nationalities picking up litter on a... read more
39.The Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw

Veteran reporter and NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw went to France to make a documentary marking the 40th anniversary of D-day in 1984. Although he was thoroughly briefed on the historical background of the invasion, he was totally unprepared for how it would affect him emotionally. Flooded with ... read more
40.Take Time for Your Life
Cheryl Richardson

Personal coach Cheryl Richardson helps people create the lives they want. In ... read more
41.The Cider House Rules
John Irving

"Gardner serves up the beautiful prose and fascinating characters with considerable aplomb."... read more
42.Organizing from the Inside Out
Julie Morgenstern

It's about time! Julie Morgenstern has written an organizing book that covers a new way of looking at the task of organizing effectively without labeling or blaming the person behind the lack of organization. Rather, she says, people who don't organize just... read more
43.The Red Tent
Anita Diamant

The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life of a... read more
44.In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick

The appeal of Dava Sobel's Longitude was, in part, that it illuminated a little-known piece of history through a series of captivating incidents and engaging personalities. Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea is certainly cast from the same mold, examining the 19th-century Pacific whaling industry through the ... read more
45.Home Comforts : The Art and Science of Keeping House
Cheryl Mendelson

Virtually everyone enjoys a crisply ironed dress shirt, clean sheets on a well-made bed, and a savory home-cooked meal. Yet housekeeping today stands as a somewhat neglected, if not maligned, job. But as author Cheryl Mendelson points out in ... read more
46.The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison

Oprah Book Club Selection, April 2000: Originally published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me." Perhaps we can chalk ... read more
47.The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet: The Lifelong Solution to Yo-Yo Dieting (Signet)
Rachael F. Heller

If you've been a yo-yo dieter for years or if you can eat a pound of pasta at one sitting, this book may very well be an eye opener. In simple--but never condescending--language, it explains the roots of carbohydrate cravings and teaches you how to... read more
48.Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, Book 9)
Robert Jordan

Is Robert Jordan still doing the Light's work? Even loyal fans have to wonder. (And if you're not a fan yet, you'll have to read ... read more
49.The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell

"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, ... read more
50.Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris

David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of "SantaLand Diaries," a scathing, hilarious account of his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's. (It's in two separate ... read more
   

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