Massachusetts Book Census for the Year 2001
Each year the Massachusetts Center for the Book will report on books published by Massachusetts writers or about Commonwealth themes. Contact us to add a book published in 2001 to the list at massbook@hampshire.edu.
Fiction
Abrahams, Peter, Last of the Dixie Heroes ( Ballantine / Random House)
Benedict, Elizabeth, Almost ( Houghton Mifflin)
Blake, Michelle, Earth Has No Sorrow ( G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Blessington, Frances, The Last Witch of Dogtown ( Curious Traveller Press (Gloucester))
Cooke, Carolyn, The Bostons ( Mariner / Houghton Mifflin)
Emmet, Alan, The Mr & Mrs Club ( Permanent Press)
Henry, Dewitt, The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts ( University of Tennessee Press)
Kafka-Gibbons, Paul, DuPont Circle ( Houghton Mifflin)
Kenney, Charles, The Last Man ( Ballantine / Random House)
Klass, Perri, Love and Modern Medicine ( Mariner / Houghton Mifflin)
Langton, Jane, Murder at Monticello ( Viking / Penguin Putnam)
LeClaire, Anne D, Entering Normal ( Ballantine / Random House)
Lee, Don, Yellow: Stories ( W.W. Norton & Co)
Lehane, Dennis, Mystic River ( William Morrow / HarperColliins)
Leithauser, Brad, A Few Corrections ( Knopf / Random House)
Lipman, Elinor, The Dearly Departed ( Random House)
Lippincott, Robin, Our Acadia ( Viking / Penguin Putnam)
Livesey, Margot, Eva Moves the Furniture ( Henry Holt)
Maguire, Gregory, Lost ( Regan Books / HarperCollins)
Marshall, Alexandra, The Court of Common Pleas ( Houghton Mifflin)
McCauley, Stephen, True Enough ( Simon & Schuster)
McLarin, Kim, Meeting of the Waters ( William Morrow / HarperColliins)
Messud, Claire, The Hunters ( Harcourt)
Nunez, Sigrid, For Rouenna ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
O'Neill, Susan, Don't Mean Nothing ( Ballantine / Random House)
Parker, Robert B., Death in Paradise ( G.P. Putnam's Sons)
__________, Potshot ( G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Rambach, Peggy, Fighting Gravity ( Steerforth Press)
Salvatore, R.A., Ascendance ( Ballantine / Random House)
Schmidt, Heidi Jon, Darling? ( Picador USA)
Searle, Elizabeth, Celebrities in Disgrace ( Graywolf Press)
Treadway, Jessica, And Give You Peace ( Graywolf Press)
Ward, Jane, Hunger ( Tom Doherty Associates)
Nonfiction
Atkinson, Jay, Ice Time ( Crown / Random House)
Bacon, Mardges, LeCorbusier in America ( MIT Press)
Basbanes, Nicholas, Patience and Fortitude ( HarperCollins)
Beam, Alex, Gracefully Insane ( Public Affairs)
Bernstein, Anya, The Moderation Dilemma ( University of Pittsburgh Press)
Blais, Madeleine, Uphill Walkers ( Grove / Atlantic)
Booker, Margaret Moore, Nantucket Sprit ( Mill Hill Press (Nantucket))
Burns, James M. & Susan Dunn, The Three Roosevelts ( Grove / Atlantic)
Caroll, James, Constantine's Sword ( Houghton Mifflin)
Chaplin, Joyce E., Subject Matter ( Harvard University Press)
Cohen, Lawrence J., Playful Parenting ( Ballantine Books)
Cohen, Leah Hager, The Stuff of Dreams ( Viking Books / Penguin Putnam)
Corbett, William, All Prose ( Zoland Books)
Cox, Harvey, Common Prayers ( Houghton Mifflin)
Cramer, Deborah, Great Waters ( W.W. Norton & Co.)
Downing, Michael, Shoes Outside the Door ( Counterpoint)
Ellison, Peter T., On Fertile Ground ( Harvard University Press)
Feldman, Alan, State College 101: A Freshman Writing Class ( Xlibris)
Gambee, Robert, Nantucket Impressions ( W.W. Norton & Co)
Gitter, Elizabeth, The Imprisoned Guest ( Farrar, Straus & Girous)
Golub, L & J. Pasachoff, Nearest Star ( Harvard University Press)
Grover, Kathryn, The Fugitive's Gibraltar ( University of Massachusetts Press)
Hirsch, Kathleen, A Sabbath Life ( North Point Press / Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)
Hobson, J. Allan, The Dream Drugstore ( Northeastern University Press)
Kaysen, Susanna, The Camera My Mother Gave Me ( Knopf / Random House)
Ker Conway, Jill, A Woman's Education ( Knopf / Random House)
Klare, Michael T., Resource Wars ( Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt)
Leamer, Laurence, The Kennedy Men 1901-1963 ( William Morrow / HarperColliins)
Light, Richard J., Making the Most of College ( Harvard University Press)
Mann, William J., Behind the Screen ( Viking Books / Penguin Putnam)
Manson, Joann and P. Amend, The 30-Minute Fitness Solution ( Harvard University Press)
McCullough, David, John Adams ( Simon & Schuster)
Menand, Louis, The Metaphysical Club ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Mitchell, John Hanson, The Wildest Place on Earth ( Counterpoint Press / Perseus)
Norfleet, Barbara, When We Liked Ike ( W.W. Norton & Co.)
O'Connor, Thomas, The Hub: Boston Past and Present ( Northeastern University Press)
Palumbi, Stephen R., The Evolution Explosion ( W.W. Norton & Co.)
Putney, Clifford, Muscular Christianity ( Harvard University Press)
Ranalli, Ralph, Deadly Alliance ( HarperTorch)
Ratey, John J., A User's Guide to the Brain ( Pantheon Books)
Rawls, John, Justice as Fairness: a Restatement ( Harvard University Press)
Reich, Robert B., The Future of Success ( Knopf / Random House)
Reindl, Sheila M, Sensing the Self ( Harvard University Press)
Reiss, Fern, Terrorism and Kids: Comforting your Child ( Peanut Butter and Jelly Press)
Richardson, Heather Cox, The Death of Reconstruction ( Harvard University Press)
Robb, Daniel, Crossing the Water ( Simon & Schuster)
Rowley, Hazel, Richard Wright: the Life and Times ( Henry Holt)
Russell, Dick, Eye of the Whale ( Simon & Schuster)
Schacter, Daniel, The Seven Sins of Memory ( Houghton Mifflin)
Schneider, Mark Robert, We Return Fighting ( Northeastern University Press)
Stauffer, John, The Black Hearts of Men ( Harvard University Press)
Stavans, Ilan, On Borrowed Words ( Viking Books / Putnam Penguin)
Tawa, Nicholas, From Psalm to Symphony ( Northeastern University Press)
Taylor, Anne-Marie, Young Charles Sumner ( University of Massachusetts Press)
Thompson, Michael et al., Best Friends, Worst Enemies: ( Ballantine Books)
Tucker, Louis Leonard, Worthington Chauncey Ford ( Northeastern University Press)
Tye, Larry, Home Lands ( Henry Holt)
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, The Age of Homespun ( Knopf / Random House)
Weinstein, Miriam, Yiddish: A Nation of Words ( Steerforth Press)
Wideman, John Edgar, Hoop Roots ( Houghton Mifflin)
Winchester, Simon, The Map that Changed the World ( HarperCollins)
Wolfe, Alan, Moral Freedom ( W.W. Norton & Co)
Zeiger, Genie, How I Find Her ( Sherman Asher Publishing)
Poetry
Barrett, Ed, Sheepshead Bay ( Zoland Books)
Bosselaar, Laure-Anne, Small Gods of Grief ( BOA Editions)
Donnelly, Susan, Transit ( Iris Press)
Doty, Mark, Source ( HarperCollins)
Dugan, Alan, Poems Seven ( Seven Stories Press)
Ferry, David, The Epistles of Horace ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
George, Faye, A Wound on Stone ( Perugia Press )
Gizzi, Michael, My Terza Rima ( The Figures)
Glück, Louise, The Seven Ages ( HarperCollins)
Mazur, Gail, They Can't Take That Away From Me ( University of Chicago Press)
Pernice, Joe, Two Blind Pigeons ( Ashmont Books)
Richards, Peter, Oubliette ( Verse Press)
Robards, Brooks, Off Season ( Summerset Press)
Steinbergh, Judith W., Writing My Will ( Talking Stone Press)
Szumowski, Margaret, I Want This World ( Tupelo Press)
Tate, James, Memoir of the Hawk ( HarperCollins)
Thomas, Gail, No Simple Wilderness ( Haley's)
Updike, John, Americana and Other Poems ( Knopf / Random House)
Widershien, Marc, The Life of All Worlds ( Ibbetson Street Press)
Wier, Dara, Hat on a Pond ( Verse Press)
Wier, Dara, Voyages in English ( Carnegie Mellon Universtiy Press)
Wright, Franz, The Beforelife ( Knopf / Random House)
Children's/Young Adult Literature
Alter, Anna, Estelle and Lucy ( Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins)
__________, The Three Little Kittens ( Henry Holt & Co.)
Anderson, M.T., Handel: Who Knew What He Liked ( Candlewick Press)
Anderson, Stephen Axel, I Know the Moon ( Philomel / Penguin Putnam)
Atkins, Jeanine, Becoming Little Women ( G.P. Putnam's Sons)
__________, Robin's Home ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Bonners, Susan, Above and Beyond ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Carrier, Lark, Five Little Goblins ( Harper Festival / HarperCollins)
Clements, Andrew, Brave Norman: A True Story ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
__________, Jake Drake: Bully Buster ( Aladdin / Simon & Schuster)
__________, Jake Drake: Know-It-All ( Aladdin / Simon & Schuster)
__________, Jake Drake: Teacher's Pet ( Aladdin / Simon & Schuster)
__________, Ringo Saves the Day! A True Story ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
__________, The School Story ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Collins, Pat Lowery, Just Imagine ( Houghton Mifflin Co.)
Costello, Emily, Lonely Lamb ( Avon / HarperCollins)
DePalma, Mary Newell, The Strange Egg ( Houghton Mifflin Co.)
Donahue, John, Till Tomorrow ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Edwards, Pamela Duncan, Boston Tea Party ( G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Gantos, Jack, Rotten Ralph Helps Out ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Golden, Christopher, Prowlers ( Pocket Pulse / Simon & Schuster)
__________, Prowlers: Laws of Nature ( Pocket Pulse / Simon & Schuster)
__________, Prowlers: Predator and Prey ( Pocket Pulse / Simon & Schuster)
Golden, Christopher & Rick Hautala, Brain Trust (Body of Evidence) ( Pocket Pulse / Simon & Schuster)
__________, Burning Bones (Body of Evidence) ( Pocket Pulse / Simon & Schuster)
Goldin, Barbara Diamond, A Mountain of Blintzes ( Gulliver Books / Harcourt)
Goodman, Susan, Blasting Off to Space Academy ( Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Harley, Bill, Bear's All-Night Party ( August House LittleFolk)
Harper, Dan, Sit, Truman! ( Harcourt)
Harrar, George, Parents Wanted ( Milkweed Editions)
Harris, Carol Flynn, A Place for Joey ( Boyds Mill Press)
Harris, Robie H., Goodbye Mousie ( McElderry Books / Simon & Schuster Books)
Holm, Jennifer, Boston Jane: An Adventure ( HarperCollins)
Hurst, Carol Otis, Rocks in his Head ( Greenwillow / HarperCollins)
__________, Through the Lock ( Walter Lorraine / Houghton Mifflin Co.)
Jango-Cohen, Judith, Desert Iguanas ( First Avenue Editions / Lerner)
Krensky, Stephen, How Santa Lost His Job ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
__________, Pearl Harbor ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
__________, Shooting for the Moon ( Melanie Kroupa Books / Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Lang, Glenna, Looking Out for Sarah ( Talewinds / Charlesbridge)
Lasky, Katherine, Dear America: Christmas After All ( Scholastic)
__________, Born in the Breezes ( Orchard Books / Scholastic)
__________, Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles ( Candlewick Press)
Lester, Julius, When Dad Killed Mom ( Silver Whistle / Harcourt)
Littlefield, Bill, The Circus in the Woods ( Houghton Mifflin Co.)
MacLachan, Patricia, Caleb's Story ( Joanna Cotler / HarperCollins)
Mallory, Kenneth, Swimming with Hammerhead Sharks ( Houghton Mifflin Co.)
Meade, Holly, A Place to Sleep ( Marshall Cavendish)
Morrissey, Dean & Stephen Krensky, The Moon Robber ( HarperCollins)
Muten, Burleigh, The Lady of Ten Thousand Names ( Barefoot Books)
Newman, Leslea, Cats, Cats, Cats! ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Nolan, Dennis, Shadow of the Dinosaurs ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Noyes, Deborah, It's Vladimir! ( Marshall Cavendish)
O'Connor, Barbara, Moonpie and Ivy ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Pallotta, Jerry, Underwater Counting (Even Numbers) ( Charlesbridge)
Rees, Celia, Witch Child ( Candlewick Press)
Reynolds, Peter H., Sydney's Star ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Sewall, Marcia, James Towne: Struggle for Survival ( Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Sheehan, Valerie Thomas, My Nantucket ABC Book ( Whales' Tales (Nantucket))
Sleator, William, Marco's Millions ( Dutton / Putnam Penguin)
Steig, Jeanne, A Gift from Zeus: 16 favorite myths ( Joanna Cotler Books / HarperCollins)
Steig, William, Toby, What Are You? ( Joanna Cotler Books / HarperCollins)
Sturges, Philemon, I Love Trains! ( HarperCollins)
Tang, Greg, The Grapes of Math ( Scholastic)
Turner, Ann, Abe Lincoln Remembers ( HarperCollins)
Werlin, Nancy, Black Mirror ( Dial / Penguin Putnam)
Wilson, Nancy Hope, Mountain Pose ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Wittlinger, Ellen, Razzle ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Yolen, Jane, Welcome to the River of Grass ( Putnam)
Yolen, Jane and Robert J. Harris, Odysseus in the Serpent Maze ( HarperCollins)
Yolen, Jane and H. Stemple, Dear Mother, Dear Daughter ( Boyds Mill Press)
Ziefert, Harriet, Birdhouse for Rent ( Walter Lorraine Books / Houghton Mifflin Co.)
__________, Murphy Meets the Treadmill ( Walter Lorraine Books / Houghton Mifflin Co.)
__________, Ode to Humpty Dumpty ( Walter Lorraine Books / Houghton Mifflin Co.)
__________, Squarehead ( Walter Lorraine Books / Houghton Mifflin Co.)
Zschock, Martha Day, Journey Around Boston from A to Z ( Commonwealth Editions)