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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 (*****)
- Sarah Vowell: The Wordy Shipmates (*****)
- Brad Leithauser: A Few Corrections (*****)
- Jon Ronson: The Men Who Stare At Goats (****)
- Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air (*****)
- Daniel Akst: The Webster Chronicle (****)
- James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce (*****)
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