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    Here On Earth
    Monk & Riddle
    Brothers of Gwynedd
    Home Waters
    Daughter of Fortune
    Charming Billy
    Tuesdays with Morrie
    For Love
    Web Usability
    Good Mother
    While I Was Gone
    Book of Ruth
    America Calling
    River Cross My Heart
    East of Mountains
    Map of the World
    All the Pretty Horses
    Aztec
    Night of Many Dreams
    Inmates .. Asylum
    Women of the Silk
    Sword of Truth
    Nudist on Late Shift
  Books read in 1999
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Ellen's book list
This is a list of all the books I read in 2000, along with my ratings. (On the left are links to the rest of the books I've read since 1988, when I first started keeping track.) The "Buy" links take you to that book on Amazon (the paperback version) and the author links take you the Amazon page that lists all of that author's books. My -4 to +4 ratings scale is explained below the list.

Books Read in 2000
No. Author Title Finished Rating
(-4 to +4)
26 Alice Hoffman Here on Earth   [Buy] 12/27 +1
25 Randy Komisar The Monk and the Riddle   [Buy] 12/7 +2
24 Edith Pargeter The Brothers of Gwynedd   [Buy] 12/1 -1
23 Joseph Monninger Home Waters   [Buy] 10/20 +2
22 Isabel Allende Daughter of Fortune   [Buy] 10/10 +3
21 Alice McDermott Charming Billy   [Buy] 8/29 +1
20 Mitch Albom Tuesdays With Morrie   [Buy] 8/12 +3
19 Sue Miller For Love   [Buy] 8/10 +2
18 Jakob Nielsen Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity   [Buy] 8/7 +3
17 Sue Miller The Good Mother   [Buy] 7/28 +2
16 Sue Miller While I Was Gone   [Buy] 7/15 +4
15 Jane Hamilton The Book of Ruth   [Buy] 6/26 +2
14 Claude Fischer America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940   [Buy] 6/16 +2
13 Breena Clarke River, Cross My Heart   [Buy] 5/24 +1
12 J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   [Buy] May +3
11 David Guterson East of the Mountains   [Buy] 5/14 +3
10 Jane Hamilton A Map of the World   [Buy] 4/28 +4
9 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses   [Buy] 4/19 +1
8 J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone   [Buy] 4/16 +3
7 J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   [Buy] 4/13 +3
6 Gary Jennings Aztec   [Buy] 3/27 +2
5 Gail Tsukiyama Night of Many Dreams   [Buy] 2/14 +2
4 Alan Cooper The Inmates are Running the Asylum   [Buy] 2/4 +2
3 Gail Tsukiyama Women of the Silk   [Buy] 1/27 +2
2 Gilbert Morris The Sword of Truth   [Buy] 1/17 0
1 Po Bronson The Nudist on the Late Shift   [Buy] 1/6 +3
 
 2001 books
 
1999 books 

Rating Scale
-4 -3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 +4
All-time worst Hated it, struggled through it Annoyingly bad Sorry I read it Could take it or leave it Okay, enjoyable enough Good book, enjoyed it Great book, loved it All-time favorite

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