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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 (*****)