Original Fiction
1. Never Too Late, by Cathy Kelly (Poolbeg) 2. Last Chance Saloon, by Marian Keyes (Poolbeg) 3. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, by Helen Fielding (Pan) 4. City Lives, by Patricia Scanlan (Poolbeg) 5. The Testament, by John Grisham (Century)
Hardback Non-Fiction
1. 'Tis: A Memoir, by Frank McCourt (Flamingo) 2. Irish Times Book of the Century, by Fintan O'Toole (Gill & Macmillan) 3. The Whoseday Book, by various (Irish Hospice Foundation) 4. Guinness World Records 2000 (Guinness) 5. Managing My Life, by Alex Ferguson (Hodder & Stoughton)
Paperback Fiction
1. Suddenly Single, by Sheila O'Flanagan (Headline) 2. The Magdalen, by Marita ConlonMcKenna (Bantam) 3. The Pilot's Wife, by Anita Shreve (Abacus) 4. Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett (Corgi) 5. Every Dead Thing, by John Connolly (Coronet)
Paperback Non-Fiction
1. This Great Little Nation, by Gene Kerrigan and Pat Brennan (Gill & Macmillan) 2. Bandit Country, by Toby Harnden (Hodder) 3. Suffer the Little Children, by Mary Raftery and Eoin O'Sullivan (New Island) 4. Aches & Pains, by Maeve Binchy (Poolbeg) 5. Black Cat in the Window, by Liam O'Murchu (Collins Press)
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