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Best of 1999: Barnes & Noble

Among the Best of 1999 lists compiled by Barnes & Noble editors is this one for Science Fiction & Fantasy. The titles are listed in this order but are not numbered.

• Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
• Neil Gaiman, Stardust
• Robert J. Sawyer, Flashforward
• Michael Crichton, Timeline
• Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
• Elizabeth Haydon, Rhapsody
• Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: House Atreides
• Brian Jacques, Marlfox: A Tale from Redwall
• L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams
• Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium
• George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
• Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky
• Richard Bowes, Minions of the Moon
• Elizabeth Hand, Black Light
• Frank M. Robinson, Waiting
• Terry Goodkind, Soul of the Fire
• Ken MacLeod, The Cassini Division
• Brendan DuBois, Resurrection Day
• Ben Bova, Return to Mars
• Sean McMullen, Souls in the Great Machine
• Thomas Harlan, The Shadow of Ararat

• Thomas Harris, Hannibal
• Boston Teran, God Is a Bullet
• Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
• Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
• Thomas M. Disch, The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft
• Andrew Klavan, Hunting Down Amanda
• Peter Straub, Mr. X
• Bentley Little, The House
• Elizabeth Engstrom & Alan Clark, The Alchemy of Love
• Tess Gerritsen, Gravity
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Communion Blood
• Christopher Golden, Strangewood
• Patrick Redmond, Something Dangerous
• Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks

B&N's fiction and literature list includes Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn. There isn't a children's fiction category, and despite the Millennial lists (see below), J.K. Rowling's book doesn't appear on any of B&N's various Best of 1999 lists.

Barnes & Noble has posted 'Millennium Countdown' lists that identify one 'significant' book and musical work from each year from 1900 through 1999. Quite a few of the books are of SF/F/H genre interest, including this year's.

1999: J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
1984: William Gibson, Neuromancer
1977: Stephen King, The Shining
1976: Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
1975: E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
1973: Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
1969: Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
1965: Frank Herbert, Dune
1959: William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
1954: William Golding, Lord of the Flies
1953: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
1950: C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
1945: George Orwell, Animal Farm
1943: Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
1938: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
1932: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
1914: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
1904: J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

(Thu 2 Dec 1999)

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