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Updated Thursday 2 January 2003

Best Books of 2002 — Lists | Tally


Click [Dir] to see links to source lists (as well as descriptions, reviews, and bestseller charts) for each title. Source lists compiled so far are from: Amazon | Amazon UK | Barnes & Noble | Book Magazine | Borders | January | New York Times | Publishers Weekly | San Francisco Chronicle | Washington Post

8 lists:

  • The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson (Bantam) [Dir]

    7:

  • The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Little, Brown) [Dir]

    6:

  • Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins) [Dir]
  • The Scar, China Miéville (Ballantine Del Rey) [Dir]

    5:

  • Summerland, Michael Chabon (Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children) [Dir]

    4:

  • White Apples, Jonathan Carroll (Tor) [Dir]
  • Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang (Tor) [Dir]
  • The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum) [Dir]
  • The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke (Scholastic) [Dir]

    3:

  • Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers, Kage Baker (Golden Gryphon Press) [Dir]
  • Baudolino, Umberto Eco (Harcourt) [Dir]
  • The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde (Viking) [Dir]
  • Everything's Eventual, Stephen King (Simon & Schuster/Scribner) [Dir]

    2:

  • City of the Beasts, Isabel Allende (HarperCollins) [Dir]
  • Feed, M.T. Anderson (Candlewick Press) [Dir]
  • Abarat, Clive Barker (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins) [Dir]
  • The Sky So Big and Black, John Barnes (Tor) [Dir]
  • Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) [Dir]
  • The Mount, Carol Emshwiller (Small Beer Press) [Dir]
  • Solitaire, Kelley Eskridge (HarperCollins/Eos) [Dir]
  • The Alchemist's Door, Lisa Goldstein (Tor) [Dir]
  • Across the Nightingale Floor, Lian Hearn (Riverhead Books) [Dir]
  • A Scattering of Jades, Alexander C. Irvine (Tor) [Dir]
  • From a Buick 8, Stephen King (Simon & Schuster/Scribner) [Dir]
  • The Birthday of the World and other stories, Ursula K. Le Guin (HarperCollins) [Dir]
  • Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer (Tor) [Dir]
  • The Visitor, Sheri S. Tepper (HarperCollins/Eos) [Dir]
  • City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer (Prime) [Dir]


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