|
2001 Favorite Books by Debut Authors
|
|
Search results: The best new books - Includes books by first time authors and first novelists
|
|
Page 1 of
2
|
Total books found: 10 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants
by Ann Brashares
Hardcover: Sep 2001
Paperback: 1 Mar 2003
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Reader Reviews
Author biography (Brashares)
Author interview (Brashares)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| A fresh, lively look at the friendship of four teenagers facing the possibility of growing apart. Poignant, funny, and real, this story will remind you of all the best parts of being best friends. |
|
|
|
What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows
by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Hardcover: Mar 2001
Paperback: 1 Nov 2002
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reader Reviews
Author biography (Baskin)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| A humorous and resonant novel about a girl growing up without a mother, of preteen friendships and the necessity of coming to terms with a loss before being able to move on with one's life. Ages 10+ |
|
|
|
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
Hardcover: Sep 2001
Paperback: 1 Oct 2002
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Reader Reviews
Author biography (Sijie)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| From within the hopelessness and terror of one of the darkest passages in human history, Dai Sijie has fashioned a beguiling and unexpected story about the resilience of the human spirit, the wonder of romantic awakening and the magical power of storytelling. |
|
|
|
Embers
by Sandor Marai
Hardcover: Sep 2001
Paperback: 1 Aug 2002
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Reader Reviews
Author biography (Marai)
Author interview (Marai)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| The first English translation of a brooding, densely atmospheric Hungarian novel written in 1942. Mesmerizing. A small, beautifully fashioned masterpiece. |
|
|
|
In The Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
by Michela Wrong
Hardcover: Apr 2001
Paperback: 1 Jun 2002
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Write the First Review!
Author biography (Wrong)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| "Provocative, touching, and sensitively written ... an eloquent, brilliantly researched account and a remarkably sympathetic study of a tragic land". "This book will become a classic" |
|
|
|
Bread Alone
by Judith Ryan Hendricks
Hardcover: Jun 2001
Paperback: 1 May 2002
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Reader Reviews
Author biography (Hendricks)
Author interview (Hendricks)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| Inspiring and beautifully rendered, Bread Alone is an uplifting debut novel -- dusted in the gentlest of magic, full of humor, and guaranteed to warm the heart. |
|
|
|
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of The All American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: 1 Jan 2002
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Reader Reviews
Author biography (Schlosser)
Author interview (Schlosser)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
| A groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats. |
|
|
|
The Death of Vishnu: A Novel
by Manil Suri
Hardcover: Dec 2000
Paperback: 1 Jan 2002
Publication information
|
Book Jacket & Reviews
Read an excerpt
Reading guide
Reader Reviews
Author biography (Suri)
Author interview (Suri)
|
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Rating:
|
|
|
Suffused with Hindu mythology, this story of one apartment building becomes a metaphor for the social and religious divisions of contemporary India. "Vibrantly alive, beautifully written, full of wonderfully rich and deeply human characters
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
1
2
next » |
| |
