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Books I Have Read This Year
- Paul E. Erdman: The Billion Dollar Sure Thing (*****)
- Paul E. Erdman: The Silver Bears (****)
- Robert Harris: Conclave (*****)
- Rosemary Mahoney: The Early Arrival Of Dreams (****)
- Pat Conroy: The Water Is Wide (*****)
- Paul E. Erdman: The Crash Of '79 (****)
- Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow (*)
- Michael Gold: Jews Without Money (***)
- Rachel Ingalls: Mrs. Caliban (*****)
- William Goldman: Tinsel (***)
- Richard Greene: The Unquiet Englishman (*****)
- Donald Barthelme: The Teachings Of Don B. (*****)
- Max Beerbohm: A Christmas Garland (*****)
- Jack Higgins: Year Of The Tiger (****)
- Lawrence Block: Hit List (***)
- Julian Barnes: Letters From London (***)
- Gore Vidal: Clouds And Eclipses (***)
- William Donaldson: Brewer's Rogues, Villains, And Eccentrics (*****)
- P. G. Wodehouse: Hot Water (****)
- Thomas Harris: Red Dragon (***)
- E. L. Doctorow: Andrew's Brain (*****)
- Patricia Highsmith: Deep Water (****)
- Rumer Godden: In This House Of Brede (***)
- Paul Gallico: The Poseidon Adventure (*****)
- Robin Cook: Critical (***)
- Larry Woiwode: What I'm Going To Do, I Think (**)
- Joshua Ferris: The Unnamed (***)
- J. R. Moehringer: Sutton (*****)
- Peter Lovesey: The Last Detective (****)
- James A. Michener: Caravans (*****)
- Gregory McDonald: Fletch's Fortune (****)
- Harry Kemelman: Tuesday The Rabbi Saw Red (****)
- Brooke Hayward: Haywire (***)
- Truman Capote: Portraits And Observations (*****)
- Bret Easton Eliis: American Psycho (*)
- Martin Cruz Smith: Gorky Park (****)
- Calvin Trillin: Remembering Denny (*****)
- John Ford: 'Tis Pity She's A Whore (*****)
- Agatha Christie: Cards On The Table (****)
- Joseph Heller: Portrait Of An Artist, As An Old Man (*****)
- Joe David Brown: Paper Moon (*****)
- Arthur Hailey: Detective (****)
- P. G. Wodehouse: Jeeves In The Morning (*****)
- Henry Cecil: Portrait Of A Judge (*****)
- Vincent Starrett: The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes (*****)
- George MacDonald Fraser: Black Ajax (***)
- Robert Harris: V2 (****)
- Mary Norton: The Borrowers (*****)
- Gerald A. Browne: 11 Harrowhouse (***)
- Ross MacDonald: The Name Is Archer (*****)
- Gunter Grass: Cat And Mouse (**)
- Leo Durocher (with Ed Linn): Nice Guys Finish Last (*****)
- Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (**)
- Stanley Elkin: Pieces Of Soap (**)
- Calvin Trillin: Tepper Isn't Going Out (***)
- George MacDonald Fraser: The Pyrates (****)
- Tom Sharpe: Grantchester Grind (*****)
- Paul Auster: The Brooklyn Follies (*****)
- Don Floyd: Sun Records: An Oral History (****)
- Evelyn Waugh: Helena (***)
- Yann Martel: The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios (****)
- James Leo Herlihy: The Season Of The Witch (**)
- Eliot Asinof: Say It Ain't So, Gordon Littlefield (**)
- Gore Vidal: In A Yellow Wood (****)
- John Nichols: The Sterile Cuckoo (***)
- Avery Corman: Kramer Versus Kramer (*****)
- Robert Harris: The Ghost (*****)
- Earl Derr Biggers: The House Without A Key (****)
- Len Deighton: City Of Gold (****)
- Agatha Christie: The Thirteen Problems (*****)
- Muriel Spark: The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (*****)
- Vladimir Nabokov: Strong Opinions (*****)
- Roald Dahl: My Uncle Oswald (****)
- William Hazlitt: On The Pleasure Of Hating (****)
- Studs Terkel: American Dreams: Lost And Found (*****)
- Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case Of The Caretaker's Cat (*****)
- John Steinbeck: The Moon Is Down (*****)
- Ruth Rendell: A Judgement In Stone (*****)
- Vladimir Nabokov: Invitation To A Beheading (****)
- James Carroll: Family Trade (***)
- Richard Ford: The Sportswriter (****)
- Dylan Thomas: Quite Early One Morning (*****)
- Ellery Queen: The Egyptian Cross Mystery (*****)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan Of The Apes (**)
- Henning Mankell: Italian Shoes (***)
- Calvin Trillin: Travels With Alice (*****)
- Philip Roth: American Pastoral (*****)
- Janwillem van de Wetering: Just A Corpse At Twilight (***)
- Davis Grubb: Fool's Parade (***)
- Agatha Christie: Partners In Crime (*)
- Grazia Deledda: After The Divorce (****)
- John D. MacDonald: Condominium (****)
- Henry Miller: Tropic Of Cancer (**)
- W. Somerset Maugham: The Moon And Sixpence (*****)
- Willie Mays and Jeff Harris: Danger In Centerfield (*****)
- Ira Levin: The Stepford Wives (*****)
- David Graham Phillips: Susan Lenox (*)
- Samuel Shem: The House Of God (**)
- the UNPROFESSIONALS (Paris Review anthology) (***)
- Gustav Flaubert: Flaubert In Egypt (*****)
- William Golding: Pincher Martin (*****)
- Paul Theroux: Dark Star Safari (*****)
- Tom Roland: The Billboard Book Of Number One Country Hits (*****)
- Alexander Theroux: Einstein's Beets (****)
- Richard Brautigan: The Abortion (*****)
- Len Deighton: Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy (***)
- Thomas McGuane: Ninety-Two In The Shade (****)
- Russell Baker: Growing Up (****)
- Henning Mankell: Faceless Killers (****)
- Gore Vidal: The Season Of Comfort (****)
- William Trevor: Cheating At Canasta (****)
- Thomas McGuane: The Bushwhacked Piano (**)
- Mickey Spillane: Survival Zero (*****)
- P. G. Wodehouse: Mr Mulliner Speaking (*****)
- Raymond Kennedy: Columbine (*****)
- Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (*****)
- William Boyd: Brazzaville Beach (****)
- Carson McCullers: Reflections In A Golden Eye (*****)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Death Of Methusaleh (*****)
- Charles Chaplin: My Autobiography (****)
- Paul Auster: Baumgartner (****)
- Norman Mailer: The Castle In The Forest (*****)
- Erik Larson: Devil In The White City (****)
- B. Traven: The Death Ship (****)
- Agatha Christie: Hickory Dickory Death (*****)
- Randall Jarrell: Pictures From An Institution (*****)
- Graham Greene: No Man's Land (*****)
- Jane Gardam: Old Filth (****)
- James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce (*****)
- Agatha Christie: The Murder At The Vicarage (*****)
- Henry Darcy Curwen (ed.): A Johnson Sampler (*****)
- John Barth: Lost In The Funhouse (*****)
- Christopher Isherwood (ed.): Great English Short Stories (*****)
- Kip Kotzen, Thomas Beller (eds.): With Love And Squalor (**)
- Dylan Thomas: The Doctor And The Devils (*****)
- Gary Hart: The Strategies Of Zeus (***)
- Claudia Roth Pierpoint: Roth Unbound (*****)
- The Intellectual Devotional: American History (*****)
- Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr.: Philip Roth (****)
- Philip Roth: Why Write? (*****)
- H. R. F. Keating: Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books (****)
- Natalia Ginzburg: The City And The House (****)
- L. P. Hartley: The Go-Between (****)
- William Kennedy: Riding The Yellow Trolley Car (*****)
- Robert Graves: Goodbye To All That (*****)
- Kenneth Tynan: Diaries (***)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Bluebeard (*****)
- Sándor Márai: Embers (****)
- Penelope Fitzgerald: The Bookshop (*****)
- John McPhee: Oranges (*****)
- Ernest Hemingway: The Dangerous Summer (****)
- Anthony Burgess: On Mozart (***)
- Tove Jansson: The Summer Book (****)
- John Gardner: October Light (***)
- Thomas W. Gilbert: How Baseball Happened (****)
- Anne Edwards: Vivien Leigh (*****)
- Ha Jin: The Crazed (****)
- William Trevor: The Story Of Lucy Gault (****)
- Michel Rio: Dreaming Jungles (****)
- Carol Clark: French Literature (Beginner's Guides) (****)
- McSweeney's: Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans (****)
- Michael Crichton: Prey (****)
- Elizabeth Gaskell: The Poor Clare (***)
- Larry McMurtry: Horseman, Pass By (***)
- Anthony Powell: O, How The Wheel Becomes It! (*****)
- David Wolf: Foul! (****)
- P. D. James: Talking About Detective Fiction (*****)
- Raymond Chandler: The High Window (****)
- Morris West: Harlequin (****)
- Willa Cather: The Professor's House (***)
- Shirley Jackson: The Lottery and Other Stories (****)
- Shirley Jackson: Dark Tales (*****)
- Joe David Bellamy (ed.): SuperFiction (***)
- Gertrude Stein: Three Tales (****)
- C. S. Forester: The African Queen (*****)
- Hunter S. Thompson: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (*****)
- Boze Hadleigh: Hollywood Lesbians (*****)
- Peter Weiss: Marat/Sade (*****)
- Andrew Crumey: Pfitz (****)
- Alan Bennett: Untold Stories (****)
- Mo Yan: The Garlic Ballads (***)
- Stephen King: Cell (****)
- Vladimir Nabokov: Poems And Problems (*****)
- Tim Ckissold: Chinese Rules (****)
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Milestones---Jim Bouton
This one hurts. Ball Four was a book that changed my reading life, as an 11-year-old in 1973. Somewhere in the archives is my review of Home Games, written by Bobbie Bouton, and a necessary counterpoint to her husband's book. Look for it. RIP Jim Bouton, and thanks. I think it was David Halberstam who said that Ball Four was about baseball like Moby Dick was about whaling.