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    Books I Have Read This Year

    • Eric Idle: The Road To Mars (***)
    • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: A Midwife's Tale (***)
    • Richard Rayner: Los Angeles Without A Map (***)
    • Francesca Duranti: The House On Moon Lake (**)
    • Classic English Short Stories: Charmed Lives (***)
    • Georges Simenon: The Clockmaker (***)
    • David Hajdu: Positively 4th Street (*****)
    • Max Apple: The Oranging Of America (***)
    • John Maxwell Hamilton: Casanova Was A Book Lover (****)
    • Robert Dessaix: Night Letters (*)
    • Ben Hecht: A Child of The Century (**)
    • Saul Bellow: The Dean's December (***)
    • Helen Schulman: The Revisionist (***)
    • Jerome Charyn: The Tar Baby (*****)
    • The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (***)
    • "The Secret Sharer" And Other Great Stories (****)
    • John Cornwell: Earth To Earth (****)
    • The Time Out Book Of New York Short Stories (*)
    • Carol Shields: The Stone Diaries (*****)
    • Slavenka Drakulic: S. (***)
    • Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason: The Rule Of Four (**)
    • Peter Manso: Brando (****)
    • Alastair Cooke: Talk About America 1951-1968 (***)
    • Penelope Fitzgerald: Offshore (*****)
    • Simon Singh: Fermat's Enigma (***)
    • Abigail Pogrebin: Stars Of David (****)
    • Graham Greene: Our Man In Havana (*****)
    • Johanna Fiedler: Molto Agitato (***)
    • Qiu Xiaolong: Death Of A Red Heroine (*****)
    • David Stenn: Clara Bow (****)
    • Bill Buford: Heat (****)
    • Muriel Barbery: The Elegance Of The Hedgehog (*****)
    • Stephen Jay Gould: Triumph And Tragedy In Mudville (***)
    • Ray Davies: X-Ray (***)
    • Dave Davies: Kink (****)
    • Robert Chalmers: Who's Who In Hell (***)
    • David Foster Wallace: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (****)
    • Robert Grudin: Book (***)
    • Paul Bowles: The Delicate Prey (*****)
    • Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke (**)
    • Cecil B. DeMille: Autobiography (****)
    • Ethan Canin: Blue River (****)
    • Tin House 10 (*)
    • Louis J. Weichmann: A True History Of The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln And Of The Conspiracy Of 1865 (***)
    • Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road (*****)
    • Philip Dunne: Take Two (***)
    • Mike Nelson: Mind Over Matters (***)
    • Jean Rouaud: Fields Of Glory (***)
    • Theodore H. White: The View From The Fortieth Floor (***)
    • Kobo Abe: The Woman In the Dunes (*****)
    • Cordelia Edvardson: Burned Child Seeks The Fire (*****)
    • Cynthia Ozick: Quarrel And Quandary (****)
    • Christopher Miller: Sudden Noises From Inanimate Objects (***)
    • George Cooper: Lost Love (****)
    • Bobby Murcer: Yankee For Life (*****)
    • Granta: Best New American Novelists (****)
    • Writer's Harvest (****)
    • Penelope Fitzgerald: Human Voices (****)
    • Anthony Curtis (ed.): The Rise And Fall Of The Matinee Idol (****)
    • Norman Thomas Di Giovanni: The Lesson Of The Master (*****)
    • Patrick Marnham: The Man Who Wasn't Maigret (***)
    • Marianne Faithfull: Faithfull (****)
    • Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation (*)
    • Phyllis McGinley: The Province Of The Heart (****)
    • Peter Golenbock: Amazin' (*****)
    • Humberto Costantini: The Gods, The Little Guys, And The Police (**)
    • James Ellroy: Hollywood Nocturnes (*****)
    • Graham Greene: The Power And The Glory (*****)
    • Edward Swift: Splendora (*)
    • The Best Of TriQuarterly (****)
    • Willa Cather: Alexander's Bridge (****)
    • Giovanni Guareschi: Comrade Don Camillo (****)
    • G.K. Chesterton: The Scandal Of Father Brown (**)
    • Graham Greene: The Ministry Of Fear (*****)
    • Joe Queenan: True Believers (***)
    • Alice B. Toklas: Staying On Alone: Letters (****)
    • Terence Blacker: Kill Your Darlings (*)
    • Patrick McGilligan: George Cukor---A Double Life (***)
    • Eric Lax: Woody Allen (****)
    • James Baldwin: The Devil Finds Work (***)
    • Will Leitch: God Save The Fan (*****)
    • Richard Lederer: The Miracle Of Language (***)
    • Sidney Lumet: Making Movies (****)
    • Steven Sherrill: The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break (***)
    • Leonard J. Leff & Jerold L. Simmons: The Dame In The Kimono (****)
    • Nigel Williams: The Wimbledon Poisoner (****)
    • Ann Beattie: Love, Always (**)
    • John Lahr (ed.): The Orton Diaries (*****)
    • Ken Follett: A Dangerous Fortune (*****)
    • John Barth: Chimera (*****)
    • Michael Shapiro: The Last Good Season (****)
    • Steve Dublanica: Waiter Rant (****)
    • Stephen King: Everything's Eventual (****)
    • Goffredo Parise: Solitudes (***)
    • Wilfrid Sheed: Essays In Disguise (****)
    • Thomas Pynchon: Inherent Vice (*****)
    • Doug Marlette: The Bridge (***)
    • William Golding: Free Fall (**)
    • William Styron: Havanas In Camelot (*****)
    • Kurt Vonnegut: Deadeye Dick (*****)
    • Alan Lightman: The Diagnosis (****)
    • Per Petterson: Out Stealing Horses (***)
    • Ben Travers: Mischief (****)
    • George Saunders: The Brief And Frightening Reign Of Phil (*****)
    • H. L. Mencken: Prejudices (***)
    • Harold Rabinowitz & Rob Kaplan (eds.): A Passion For Books (****)
    • Per Olov Enquist: The Royal Physician's Visit (****)
    • David McCullough: Brave Companions (****)
    • Axel Munthe: The Story Of San Michele (****)
    • Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao (*****)
    • Bruce Catton: Reflections On The Civil War (***)
    • Andre Gide: The Immoralist (****)
    • Thomas Hauser: The Hawthorne Group (*****)
    • Jeannette Walls: Dish (****)
    • Cormac McCarthy: The Road (*****)
    • Ammon Shea: Reading The OED (*****)

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