January 2001
On the Beach by Neville Shute
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse by David Ferry
Thee, Hannah by Marguerite de Angeli
The Graveyard Game by Kage Baker
Signals: An Inspiring Story of Life after Life by Joel Rothschild
February
The Epic of Gilgamesh: A New Translation by Andrew George
The Fresco by Sheri S. Tepper
Do What You Are by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger
Teranesia by Greg Egan
March
The Chosen by Ricardo Pinto
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman’s World by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
April
The Belgariad: Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magician’s Gambit, Castle of Wizardry, and Enchanter’s End Game by David Eddings
Unforeseen Joy: Serving a Friends Meeting as Recording Clerk by Damon Hickey; Before Business Begins: Notes for Recording Clerks by Will Watson; and Beyond Consensus: Salvaging Sense of the Meeting by Barry Morley
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction by John Blair
The Mallorean: Guardians of the West, King of the Murgos, Demon Lord of Karanda, Sorceress of Darshiva, and Seeress of Kell by David Eddings
May
The Long Haul by Myles Horton
Unshakable Faith: Booker T. Washington & George Washington Carver by John Perry
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
Ann the Word: The Story of Ann Lee, Female Messiah, Mother of the Shakers, the Woman Clothed with the Sun by Richard Francis
Darkover Landfall by Marian Zimmer Bradley
Stormqueen! by Marian Zimmer Bradley
Hawkmistress by Marian Zimmer Bradley
Beyond Majority Rule: Voteless Decision Making in the Religious Society of Friends by Michael J. Sheeran
June
Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe
Language Play by David Crystal
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
Getting a Life: Strategies for Simple Living by Jacqueline Blix and David Heitmiller
July
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Moby-Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville
Dark Water’s Embrace by Stephen Leigh
High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
August
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Lamb’s War against the Man of Sin by James Nayler
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
The Fall of Neskaya by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross
The Other Wind by Ursula K. LeGuin
September
Wayfarer Redemption by Sara Douglass
The Blind Knight by Gail Van Asten
Kirith Kirin by Jim Grimsley
October
The Faded Sun: Kesrith, Shon’jir, and Kutath by C. J. Cherryh
Changer by Jane Lindskold
The Joy of Knitting by Lisa R. Myers
Legends Walking by Jane Lindskold
The Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper
The Shadows of God by J. Gregory Keyes
The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers by Betsy Lerner
November
Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
Knitting from the Netherlands: Traditional Dutch Fishermen’s Sweaters (“Nederlandse visserstruien”) by Henriette C. van der Klift-Tellegen
Setesdal Sweaters: The History of the Norwegian Lice Pattern (“Lusekofta fra Setesdal”) by Annemor Sundbø
Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton
The Lesser Kindred by Elizabeth Kerner
In the Shadow of William Penn: Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends by Margaret Hope Bacon
December
The Free Lunch by Spider Robinson
Everyday Spiritual Practice: Simple Pathways for Enriching Your Life edited by Scott W. Alexander
Pilgrim Heart: The Inner Journey Home by Sarah York
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Sun Dancing: A Vision of Medieval Ireland by Geoffrey Moorhouse
Hammerfall by C. J. Cherryh
The Telling by Ursula K. LeGuin
The View from a Monastery by Brother Benet Tvedten