Readings 2000

The 35 books I read in 2000 including 20 novels and 15 works of nonfiction. 

An interesting collection of novels. The first four on the list are some of my favorite novels. I discovered Ender's Game and read a sequel. I also went back and read the Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy for the third time. That's something I don't do very often. Read some other science fiction novels by Bruce Sterling, Michael Crighton, Connie Willis, Linda Nagata and an interesting Mary Doria Russell. One more by Anne Rice too. I tried a new Dune sequel by Frank Herbert's son but I don't think I will continue with any more of them.

1. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby, 1995
2. The Risk Pool - Richard Russo, 1988
3. Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier, 1997
4. Waiting - Ha Jin, 1999
5. The Island of the Colorblind - Oliver Sacks, 1996
6. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton - Jane Smiley, 1998
7. The Dylanist: A Novel - Brian Morton, 1991
8. Gone For Soldiers - Jeff Shaara, 2000
9. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card, 1985
10. Foundation - Isaac Asimov, 1951
11. The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell, 1996
12. Distraction - Bruce Sterling, 1998
13. Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov, 1952
14. Timeline - Michael Crichton, 1999
15. Doomeday Book - Connie Willis, 1992
16. Pandora - Anne Rice, 1998
17. Xenocide - Orson Scott Card, 1991
18. Vast - Linda Nagata, 1998
19. Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov, 1953
20. House Atreides - Brian Herbert, 1999

Most of the nonfiction books were history along with some politics, science and music.

I really enjoyed George Martin's book on the making of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album and the book on the making of the Oxford English Dictionary was fascinating as was the book of the flu pandemic of 1918.

1. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan, 1995
2. With a Little Help From My Friends: The Making of Sgt. Pepper - George Martin, 1994
3. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary - Simon Winchester, 1998
4. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century World - John Robert McNeill, 2000
5. Crucible of War: The Seven Year's War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 - Fred Anderson, 2000
6. Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade - Jeff Shesol, 1997
7. The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm - Stephen Oates, 1997
8. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage - Sherry Sontag, 1998
9. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love - Dava Sobel, 1999
10. The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War - Norman Friedman, 2000
11. Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It - Gina Kolata, 1999
12. The Cousin's War: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America - Kevin Phillips, 1999
13. Russia's War - A History of the Soviet Effort, 1941-1945 - Richard Overy, 1997