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2001 Books
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 141 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,600,852 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 92 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,576,744 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 91 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,269,744 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 90 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,939,318 ratings — published 1999
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,197,129 ratings — published 1954
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,029,573 ratings — published 1996
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.10 — 997,391 ratings — published 2001
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.85 — 200,820 ratings — published 2001
Dreamcatcher (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.66 — 187,982 ratings — published 2001
A Painted House (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.78 — 103,677 ratings — published 2001
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,769,639 ratings — published 2001
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,152,481 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 38 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,064,840 ratings — published 1955
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones, #2)
by (shelved 36 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.63 — 116,843 ratings — published 1999
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,536,057 ratings — published 1937
Skipping Christmas (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.58 — 91,876 ratings — published 2001
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.95 — 420,474 ratings — published 2001
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.95 — 570,716 ratings — published 2001
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.17 — 155,900 ratings — published 2001
Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.86 — 564,270 ratings — published 2001
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.21 — 637,264 ratings — published 1997
1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.10 — 361,701 ratings — published 2001
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.31 — 735,481 ratings — published 2001
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.93 — 787,783 ratings — published 1999
Prodigal Summer (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,991 ratings — published 2000
House of Sand and Fog (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.86 — 136,927 ratings — published 1999
Quidditch Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.79 — 190,187 ratings — published 2001
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,950,119 ratings — published 1951
The Brethren (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.78 — 102,010 ratings — published 2000
Icy Sparks (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.69 — 43,590 ratings — published 1998
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.97 — 563,310 ratings — published 2001
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.85 — 737,470 ratings — published 2001
Mystic River (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.18 — 168,399 ratings — published 2001
Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.96 — 132,328 ratings — published 1999
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.69 — 184,305 ratings — published 2000
The Bonesetter's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,708 ratings — published 2001
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.11 — 802,188 ratings — published 1998
We Were the Mulvaneys (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.75 — 105,898 ratings — published 1996
Seven Up (Stephanie Plum, #7)
by (shelved 21 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.16 — 134,394 ratings — published 2001
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.00 — 368,774 ratings — published 1999
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,362,942 ratings — published 2001
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,126,737 ratings — published 1997
Open House (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.70 — 61,390 ratings — published 2000
The Fourth Hand (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.34 — 31,883 ratings — published 2001
Bel Canto (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.94 — 329,014 ratings — published 2001
The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7)
by (shelved 19 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.97 — 155,572 ratings — published 2001
Tell No One (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.05 — 194,628 ratings — published 2001
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 2001)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,023,429 ratings — published 1925
The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as 2001)
avg rating 4.10 — 178,952 ratings — published 2001
“Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn’t analyze at first and didn't fully grasp (partly because I was far from my family in Washington, who had a very grueling day) until the day itself was nearly over. I am only slightly embarrassed to tell you that this was a feeling of exhilaration. Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.”
― Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
― Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
“If the essential task of middle managers is reinvention, when is that task to be carried out? The answer is, during time that is not used up directing day-to-day business. The fact that managers have time on their hands (i.e., their operations tasks take up less than eight hours per day) gives them time for reinvention. The extra time is not waste, but slack. Without it they could function in only their operational roles. Reinvention would be impossible because the people who could make it happen are just too busy to take the time.
Even companies that didn't fire their change centers have hurt themselves by encouraging their middle managers to stay extremely busy. In order to enable change, companies have to learn that keeping managers busy is a blunder. If you have busy managers working under you, they are an indictment of your vision and your capacity to transform that vision into reality. Cut them some slack.”
― Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
Even companies that didn't fire their change centers have hurt themselves by encouraging their middle managers to stay extremely busy. In order to enable change, companies have to learn that keeping managers busy is a blunder. If you have busy managers working under you, they are an indictment of your vision and your capacity to transform that vision into reality. Cut them some slack.”
― Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
