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Ellen's book list
This is a list of all the books I read in 2001, 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 2001
No. Author Title Finished Rating
(-4 to +4)
19 Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin  [Buy] 11/5 +3
18 Martin P. Seligman What You Can Change and What You Can't  [Buy] 10/21 +3
17 Adriana Trigiani Big Stone Gap  [Buy] 9/30 +2
16 Ellen Isaacs & Alan Walendowski Designing From Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology  [Buy] 9/21
+4
(well ok, we wrote it)
15 Jeff Shaara Gone For Soldiers  [Buy] 9/20 +1
14 David Snowdon Aging With Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives   [Buy] 9/11 +1
13 Joel Spolsky User Interface Design for Programmers   [Buy] 8/8 +3
12 Sheri Holman The Dress Lodger   [Buy] 8/7 +1
11 Deborah Moggach Tulip Fever   [Buy] 7/19 +2
10 Laura Hillenbrand Seabiscuit: An American Legend   [Buy] 7/11 +2
9 Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel   [Buy] 6/24 +2
8 Amy Tan The Bonesetter's Daughter   [Buy] 5/18 +3
7 Tom Kelley The Art of Innovation   [Buy] 5/4 +2
6 Dorothy Dunnett Niccolo Rising   [Buy] 4/28 -1
5 Marcus Buckingham
& Curt Coffman
First, Break All the Rules   [Buy] 3/23 +1
4 C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters   [Buy] 3/12 +2
3 Steve Krug Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability   [Buy] 2/28 +3
2 Robert Putnam Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community   [Buy] 2/25 +2
1 Bret Lott Jewel   [Buy] 1/25 +2
 
 2002 books
 
2000 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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