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Notable Books2001 NonFiction List


Notable Books
2004 Fiction List
2004 NonFiction List
2002 Fiction List
2002 NonFiction List
2001 Fiction List
2001 NonFiction List
Title Author Editor Translator Known Publishers
Buddha Karen Armstrong UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; USA:Penguin
Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment Richard Bernstein USA: Alfred A. Knopf
Mao's China and the Cold War Jian Chen USA: University of North Carolina Press
Bones: Discovering the First Americans Elaine Dewar Canada: Random House
Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World (published in the USA as Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha) Lesley Downer UK: Hodder; USA: Broadway Books
Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago Luis H. Francia USA: Kaya Press
Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Ghandi Katherine Frank UK: HarperCollins; USA: Houghton Mifflin,
Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America Alma Guillermoprieto Pantheon
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze Peter Hessler UK: John Murray; USA: HarperCollins
The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia Brij V. Lal and Kate Fortune USA: University of HawaiĦi Press
The Monkey and the Dragon Linda Jaivin Australia: Text Publishing
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story 1965-2000 Lee Kuan Yew USA: HarperCollins
The Transforming Image Bill McLennan and Karen Duffek Canada: University of British Columbia Press (distributed in the USA by University of Washington Press)
Villa and Zapata Frank McLynn USA: Carroll & Graf
Red Dust Ma Jian (translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew) UK: Chatto & Windus; USA: forthcoming from Pantheon
Inside Passage: A Journey Beyond Borders Richard Manning USA: Island Press/Shearwater Books
Borderline: Australia's Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers Peter Mares Australia: University of New South Wales Press
Peking Susan Naquin USA: University of California Press
North Korea Through the Looking Glass Kongdon Ho and Ralph C. Hassig USA: Brookings Institution Press
The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan Donald Richie, compiled, edited, and with an introduction by Arturo Silva USA: Stone Bridge Press
Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China William T. Rowe Stanford University Press, USA
Treason by the Book Jonathan D. Spence Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, UK;Viking, USA
Burma: The State of Myanmar David I. Steinberg Georgetown University Press, USA
Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle Shih-Shan Henry Tsai University of Washington Press, USA (Distributed in Canada by UBC Press)
The Changing Face of Australia Kate Walsh Allen & Unwin, Australia


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