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2000

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Discover honored books by category:

Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Young People's Literature

WINNER

In America

Susan Sontag

FINALISTS

The Feast of Love

Charles Baxter

The Diagnosis

Alan Lightman

Blonde

Joyce Carol Oates

Blue Angel

Francine Prose

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