25 Books to Remember from 2000
Annotation:How two cousins create a comic strip empire.
Annotation:New York's growth and change via art; illustrated essays.
Annotation:Eliza Naumann achieves renown as her school's spelling bee champ.
Annotation:A vivid translation of the classic tale of bravery and monsters, heroism and loss.
Annotation:Druglord and kingpin Willie Bodega guides a group of East Harlem youth.
Annotation:Provocative, humorous and elegiac poems about lust, love and death.
Annotation:When Bridget Cleary was burned to death in March, 1895, was it an accident, possession or murder?
Annotation:A Dickensian tale of cholera, prostitution and "body snatching" in 19th century England.
Annotation:A penetrating study of art crimes committed during World War II.
Annotation:One woman's examination of American maleness in literature.
Annotation:A great historian's synthesis of the last five centuries and the cultural evolution called "Western Civilization".
Annotation:The subject of Vermeer's painting as the object of fiction.
Annotation:An acclaimed foreign correspondent returns to Iran to witness the "revolutions within the revolution".
Annotation:A core element of Homo sapiens’ emotional life under the microscope of scientific analysis.
Annotation:The life that inspired the work of one of France's most complex and sensual writers.
Annotation:"Once upon a time, and a very good time it was..." A fairy tale novel about the eighties' literary scene.
Annotation:A delightful biography of the Austrian natural scientist.
Annotation:Expatriate life today--the guilty pleasures of living in Paris rather than New York.
Annotation:The complexities of life in communist Eastern Europe and capitalist Midwestern America.
Annotation:A heart-racing and original odyssey into the world of snakes.
Annotation:The lighter and darker sides of human nature through the prism of a revered New York night spot.
Annotation:Military and moral codes on trial in 1879 Texas.
Annotation:How tuberculosis devastates both the general population and the medical profession.
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Books to Remember is an annual list of 25 titles chosen for their distinct and lasting contribution to literature and/or general knowledge for adult readers. Selection criteria include literary excellence, information value and importance, sincerity and honesty of presentation, skill in presentation, and importance in historical context. These books were selected by the following committee from the staff of The New York Public Library: Stewart Bodner, Jennifer Craft, Michael Hearn, Karenann Jurecki, Miriam Tuliao, Chair, Michael Watkins. Selected titles appearing on this booklist may be available in recorded, braille or large print versions.
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