Top Fiction Reads of 2002
Discover the top fiction reads of 2002 with our curated list of must-read books. Explore bestsellers, award-winners, and hidden gems from this iconic year in literature.
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Zen Attitude
by Sujata Massey
2nd mystery featuring Japanese antiques dealer Rei Shimura. Follows the salaryman's wife.
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The Bride's Kimono
by Sujata Massey
Antiques dealer Rei Shimura has managed to snag one of the most lucrative and prestigious jobs of her career: a renowned museum in Washington, D.C., …
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The Floating Girl
by Sujata Massey
Japanese-American writer Rei Shimura finally feels at home in Tokyo. Working on an article about the history of comic book art, her story turns when …
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Saints and Villains
by Denise Giardina
In the charnel house that was Europe in the Second World War, there were few instances of shining moral courage, let along secular sainthood. Dietrich …
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Fall On Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their …
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American Fuji
by Sara Backer
Mount Fuji is the backdrop in this story of Gaby Stanton, an American professor living in Japan, who helps Alex Thorn investigate the death of …
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Total Recall
by Sara Paretsky
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A spectacular mystery—complex, fast-paced yet ruminative, and imbued with the grim awareness, shared by all intelligent hard-boiled novels, that the …
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Plain Truth
by Jodi Picoult
Ellie Hathaway decides to defend an unmarried Amish woman against the charge of the murder of her own child.
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Only in London
by Hanan al-Shaykh
Four strangers meet on a turbulent flight from Dubai to London: Amira, a canny Moroccan prostitute; Lamis, a 30-year old Iraqi divorcee; Nicholas, an English …
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Murder on the Iditarod Trail
by Sue Henry
The winner of Alaska's world-famous Iditarod -- a grueling, eleven-hundred-mile dog sled race across a frigid Arctic wilderness---takes home a $250,000 purse. But this year, …
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The Vine of Desire
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The beloved characters of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s bestselling novel Sister of My Heart are reunited in this powerful narrative that challenges the emotional bond between …
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Kissing the Virgin's Mouth
by Donna M. Gershten
Guadalupe Magdalena Molina Vásquez -- wife, scoundrel, courtesan, mother -- is full of contradictions: she believes in love but is suspicious of men; she rejects …
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Jim and Louella's Homemade Heart-fix Remedy
by Bertice Berry
A sizzling, smart, and utterly engaging novel about sex, love, folklore, and family history from the author of Redemption Song and The Haunting of Hip …
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A Painted House
by John Grisham
Racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder are seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy in a 1950s Southern cotton-farming community
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The Chamber
by John Grisham
While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait. Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his …
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Feeling Sorry for Celia
by Jaclyn Moriarty
An epistolary novel uses letters written between teenage friends, refrigerator notes from a crazy mother, and epistles that express the narrator's own internal feelings of …