The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Michael Chabon
$26.95 / HBS $21.56

This brilliant novel by "the young star of American letters," in the words of Jonathan Yardley, is a stupendous literary triumph in which two misfit young men make it big by creating comic-book superheroes.

Another World
Pat Barker
$13.00 / HBS $10.40

From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy, the uncanny tale of a family caught in the grip of a mysterious past.

Bee Season
Myla Goldberg
$22.95 / HBS $18.36

"Myla Goldberg's Bee Season is a thrill ride for serious intellectuals, for word-o-philes (lexiphiles), lexicographers, ex-spelling bee contestants, Scrabble players, crossword puzzle-addicts, kleptomaniacs, kabbalists, and Hare Krishnas. Read to understand the mystical search for God in the extraordinary. - Hilary Brant, Used Books

Best American Mystery Stories 2000
Donald Westlake, Editor
$13.00pb / HBS $10.40

Grand Master Donald E. Westlake offers the year's twenty best, including stories by Tom Franklin, Jeffery Deaver, Shel Silverstein, and Dennis Lehane.

Best American Short Stories 2000
E.L. Doctorow, Editor
$13.00pb / HBS $10.40

New work by Raymond Carver, Amy Bloom, Ha Jin, Walter Mosley, and Jhumpa Lahiri, among others.

The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
$26.00 / HBS $20.80

Atwood stretches the limits of her accomplishments with this breathtaking novel-within-a-novel, both divertingly entertaining and profoundly serious.

Winner of the 2000 Booker Prize

The Bridegroom: Stories
Ha Jin
$22.00 / HBS $17.60

From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting comes a new collection of short fiction that confirms Ha Jin's reputation as a master storyteller.

Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende
$14.00pb / HBS $11.20

Allende's masterful tale of an adventurous young woman, Eliza Sommers, struggling to make her own way in a world rife with prejudice, dishonesty, and danger.

The Diagnosis
Alan Lightman
$25.00 / HBS $20.00

"The Diagnosis is packed with dark power and awful humor. Lightman's intelligence, imagination, and clarity of style mark him as one of the most brilliant contemporary American writers."--Annie Proulx

National Book Award Finalist

Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee
$13.00pb / HBS $10.40

Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize, Disgrace is deft, lean, quiet, and brutal; a heartbreaking novel about a man and his daughter, and a portrait of the new South Africa that is ultimately about grace and love.

Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize

The Feast of Love
Charles Baxter
$24.00 / HBS $19.20

"The Feast of Love is hilarious and at the same time desperately sad, full of wit and poetry and exquisitely observed perceptions of the human condition, erudite and streetwise at once....What a brilliant, powerful novel!"--Alan Lightman

Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland
$11.00pb / HBS $8.80

This novel traces the story of the Vermeer painting by the same name. As the painting moves through the hands of owner after owner, Vreeland characters remind us how beauty transforms and why we reach for it.

Hill Bachelors
William Trevor
$22.95 / HBS $18.36

Much like his collection After Rain, these twelve beautifully rendered tales once again prove Trevor's unrivaled sympathy for the human condition.

The Hours
Michael Cunningham
$13.00pb / HBS $10.40

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this novel is a trio of interwoven tales about a poet, a suburban housewife, and Virginia Woolf.

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered"
John Updike
$25.00 / HBS $20.00

The dozen short stories in this collection revisit many of the locales in Updike's fiction. Love, including an old woman's for her cats and a boy's for his embattled father, exerts its spell in all twelve.

Lying Awake
Mark Salzman
$21.00 / HBS $16.80

Sister John of the Cross lives in a Carmelite monastery outside present-day Los Angeles. The powerful and dazzling visions she experiences are accompanied by equally powerful headaches; if her spiritual gifts are only symptoms of illness, will a cure mean the drying up of her soul? A novel of remarkable empathy and imagination.

Map of Love
Adhaf Soueif
$14.00pb / HBS $11.20

With her first novel, In the Eye of the Sun, Soueif garnered comparisons to Tolstoy, Flaubert, and Eliot. In her latest novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker prize, she combines the romantic skill of the nineteenth-century novelists with a very modern sense of culture and politics--both sexual and international.

Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem
$13.00pb / HBS $10.40

A virtuoso riff on the classic detective novel. A National Book Critics Circle Award Winner.

National Book Critics Circle winner

The Night Listener
Armisted Maupin
$26.00pb / HBS $20.80

A hypnotically engrossing tour de force. Maupin explores the boundaries of the human heart in this suspense novel about a cult-hit radio talk show host who develops an extraordinary friendship with one of his listeners.

Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
$13.00pb / HBS $10.40

The first novel by the acclaimed author of Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, the poignant story of a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.

Plainsong
Kent Haruf
$13.00pb / HBS $10.40

A National Book Award finalist. The NBA citation reads, in part: "Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers. From simple elements, Haruf achieves a novel of wisdom and grace...."

1999 National Book Award Finalist

The PowerBook
Jeanette Winterson
$24.00 / HBS $19.20

Winterson enfolds her seventh novel within the world of computers, and transforms the signal development of our time into a wholly human medium; The PowerBook reinvents itself as it travels from London to Paris, Capri, and cyberspace, using fairy tales, contemporary myths, and popular culture to weave a story if failed but requited love.

Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver
$26.00pb / HBS $20.80

A writer praised for her "extravagantly gifted narrative voice" (New York Times Book Review) gives us a beautiful new novel: a hymn to wildness that celebrated the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself.

When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro
$25.00 / HBS $20.00

Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai is orphaned at nine and sent to live in England. When he returns 20 years later as a detective to solve the mystery of narrative skill and soaring imagination; Ishiguro at his best.

White Teeth
Zadie Smith
$24.95 / HBS $19.96

"Zadie Smith's fizzing first novel is about how we all got here--from the Caribbean, from the Indian subcontinent, from thirteenth place in a long ago Olympic bicycle race--and about what "here" turned out to be. It's an astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious, and the voice has real writerly idiosyncrasy. I was delighted by White Teeth and often impressed. It has...bite." --Salman Rushdie

Years with Laura Diaz
Carlos Fuentes
$26.00 / HBS $20.80

This richly woven story presents Fuentes's first major female protagonist, and traces a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath. Laura Diaz grows into a politically committed artist who is also a wife and mother, a lover of great men, and a heroine whose brave honesty prevails despite personal losses to Mexico's corrupt politics.