37-Nov-Dec-2008

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Book Reviews in this Issue

Titlesort iconAuthorGenreSelection?
Alfred and EmilyDoris Lessing
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the CenturyHoward Blum
American WifeCurtis Sittenfeld
An Exact Replica of a Figment of my Imagination: A MemoirElizabeth McCracken
AnathemNeal Stephenson
Black and White and Dead All OverJohn Darnton
Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History MuseumRichard Fortey
Exit MusicIan Rankin
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3Annie Proulx
FloodStephen Baxter
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway BazaarPaul Theroux
GoldengroveFrancine Prose
HomeMarilynne Robinson
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America Thomas L. Friedman
IndignationPhilip Roth
IodineHaven Kimmel
Man in the DarkPaul Auster
Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in BloomsburyAlison Light
NationTerry Pratchett
PandemoniumDaryl Gregory
Real WorldNatsuo Kirino
Saturn's ChildrenCharles Stross
Stand the StormBreena Clarke
Supreme CourtshipChristopher Buckley
The 19th WifeDavid Ebershoff
The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other StoriesJohn Kessel
The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum MechanicsLeonard Susskind
The Black TowerLouis Bayard
The Elegance of the HedgehogMuriel Barbery
The GargoyleAndrew Davidson
The Girl With the Dragon TattooStieg Larsson
The Given DayDennis Lehane
The Good ThiefHannah Tinti
The GriftDebra Ginsberg
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie SocietyAnnie Barrows
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie SocietyMary Ann Shaffer
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African ChildhoodHelene Cooper
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime WashingtonJennet Conant
The Lace ReaderBrunonia Barry
The Last TheoremFrederik Pohl
The Last TheoremArthur C. Clarke
The LikenessTana French
The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life–His OwnDavid Carr
The Road HomeRose Tremain
The TurnaroundGeorge Pelecanos
The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American DreamJohn Zogby
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human NatureDaniel J. Levitin
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)Tom Vanderbilt
What Happened to Anna KIrina Reyn
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A MemoirHaruki Murakami
When Will There Be Good News?Kate Atkinson
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth HigginsonBrenda Wineapple