Selected by the staff of the Fiction Department from fiction received in 2000.
- · A Gathering of Spies
- · The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
- · A Recipe for Bees
- · The Blind Assassin (H)
- · Dark Sleeper (S)
- · Like Normal People
- · Man of the Hour
- · Cover Story (M)
- · A Friend of the Earth
- · Fay
- · A Good House
- · Girl with a Pearl Earring (H)
- · Fortune Like the Moon (M)
- · The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living
- · Suspension (H)
- · Winter Range
- · Diamond Dust (SS)
- · The Last Samurai
- · Jim the Boy (H)
- · After Life
- · Amnesia (M)
- · Smart Vs. Pretty
- · Dead Men Living
- · Swimming Sweet Arrow
- · Crazy for Cornelia
- · Fork in the Road
- · The Blood Latitudes
- · The Old American (H)
- · The Dress Lodger (H)
- · Hot Springs
- · So I Am Glad
- · Prodigal Summer
- · My Life on a Plate
- · The constant gardener
- · Pagan Babies
- · Storm Riders
- · Madame
- · Diagnosis
- · Shaded Light (M)
- · The Twins
- · The Barbarians Are Coming
- · Morgan’s Run (H)
- · A Place of Execution
- · Shadow Baby
- · The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love
- · Wild Decembers
- · The Distance Between
- · The Dark Side of the Sun
- · Plowing the Dark
- · Blue Angel
- · Lost Girls
- · The Runner
- · The End of War
- · The Human Stain
- · Memory’s Tailor
- · The Song and the Truth
- · A House Named Brazil
- · Fortune’s Rocks (H)
- · Abe (H)
- · Horse Heaven
- · Raveling
- · Chang and Eng (H)
- · Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee
- · The Book of Revelation
- · The Eye of Horus
- · Legacy of the Dead (M)
- · Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
- · Music and Silence (H)
- · The Stolen Blue (M)
- · Affinity
- · Laura
- · Some Things That Stay
- · The Poisoned Serpent (H)
- · Dating Big Bird