2002 Book Award Winners

Miles Roby manages the Empire Grill in Empire Falls, Maine, a town whose textile mill and shirt factory closed and whose river still floods. He has...

Piscine Molitor Patel, called Pi, grows up in Pondicherry as the son of a zookeeper, and becomes a practicing Hindu, Christian and Muslim...

Three Junes, three panels, one Scottish family. In the first, June 1989, Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher just widowed, drifts through a package...

In an unnamed South American country, in a story Patchett has called "very, very loosely based" on the 1996 hostage crisis at the Japanese embassy...

On a hot day in 1935 at the Tallis family's country house, thirteen year old Briony, who writes plays and wants to be a novelist, watches from a...

In an unnamed South American country, in a story Patchett has called "very, very loosely based" on the 1996 hostage crisis at the Japanese embassy...

Diane McWhorter grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, in a prominent white family, and Carry Me Home is both a history of the city's central role in the...

Louis Menand's Metaphysical Club takes its title from a real discussion group that met briefly in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early 1870s, and...

David McCullough follows John Adams from a Braintree, Massachusetts boyhood and a Harvard education that led him first toward teaching and then...

Master of the Senate is the third volume of Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson, and its 1,167 pages contain the greatest study of...

For six months in 1919, Paris was the government of the world. The victors of the Great War gathered to remake the map, and MacMillan's history...

A Brief History of Time made Hawking the most famous scientist alive and was also more bought than finished. This sequel is his answer to the...

Practical Gods reimagines biblical and classical figures inside the texture of ordinary contemporary American life, letting gods, prophets, and...

Dart is a single book length poem that follows the River Dart from its source on Dartmoor to the sea at Dartmouth, and its method had no real...

Shadow is three days from the end of a prison sentence when he is released early, because his wife has died in a car accident. He learns at the...

Shadow is three days from the end of a prison sentence when he is released early, because his wife has died in a car accident. He learns at the...

Caleb Prentiss comes back from Christmas break to his snowbound upstate college and finds a stain on his dormitory room floor and a silence in the...

The Other Wind is the fifth and last of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea novels, published by Harcourt in September 2001, and it opens with a small man...

Joe Trona's face is the first fact anyone learns about him: burned in infancy when his father threw acid at him, a scar he has grown up watching...

In twelfth century Korea, an orphan called Tree ear lives under a bridge in the potters' village of Ch'ulp'o with Crane man, an older man whose...

Three pigs build their houses exactly as the old story says, and the wolf blows down the straw house and the stick house exactly as expected, until...

Gyorgy Koves is fourteen when he is pulled off a Budapest bus with other Jewish men and boys and deported, first to Auschwitz, then to Buchenwald...