Every year, there are certain books that stand out, certain books that I say, "Wow, I wish I never read that so I could read it again for the first time." Here they are in no particular order, my favorites from each year since I began keeping my list in 1990 at the age of 23.

2000

• 1. Timeline, Michael Crichton
• 2. The Forest, Edward Rutherfurd
• 3. The Agony and teh Ecstasy, Irving Stone
• 4. Akenfield, Ronald Blythe
• 5. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
• 6. On Writing, Stephen King
• 7. All Things Bright and Beautiful, James Herriot

1999

• 1. The Weaker Vessel, Antonia Fraser
• 2. Dog Stories, James Herriot
• 3. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
• 4. A Gentle Madness, Nicholas Basbanes
• 5. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
• 6. The Whirlpool, George Gissing
• 7. The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant, Pamela Horn
• 8. Where Angels Fear to Tread, EM Forester
• 9. How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn

1998

• 1. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
• 2. London, Edward Rutherfurd
• 3. Dickens Fur Coat and Charlote's Unanswered Letters, Daniel Post
• 4. Dan Lemo and the Limehouse Golem, Peter Ackroyd
• 5. Russka, Edward Rutherfurd
• 6. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie