Sunday, November 27, 2005

NY Times 100 Notable Books of the Year-- I've read not one

Fiction & Poetry


BEYOND BLACK. By Hilary Mantel. (John Macrae/Holt, $26.)

A CHANGED MAN. By Francine Prose. (HarperCollins, $24.95.)

COLLECTED POEMS, 1943-2004. By Richard Wilbur. (Harcourt, $35.)

EMPIRE RISING. By Thomas Kelly. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.)

ENVY. By Kathryn Harrison. (Random House, $24.95.)

EUROPE CENTRAL. By William T. Vollmann. (Viking, $39.95.)

FOLLIES: New Stories. By Ann Beattie. (Scribner, $25.)

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE. By J. K. Rowling. Illustrated by Mary GrandPré. (Arthur A. Levine/ Scholastic, $29.99.)

HOME LAND. By Sam Lipsyte. (Picador, paper, $13.)

THE HOT KID. By Elmore Leonard. (Morrow, $25.95.)

HOW WE ARE HUNGRY: Stories. By Dave Eggers. (McSweeney's, $22.)

IN CASE WE'RE SEPARATED: Connected Stories. By Alice Mattison. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $23.95.)

INDECISION. By Benjamin Kunkel. (Random House, $21.95.)

KAFKA ON THE SHORE. By Haruki Murakami. (Knopf, $25.95.)

LUNAR PARK. By Bret Easton Ellis. (Knopf, $25.)

MAPS FOR LOST LOVERS. By Nadeem Aslam. (Knopf, $25.)

THE MARCH. By E. L. Doctorow. (Random House, $25.95.)

MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES. By Gabriel García Márquez. (Knopf, $20.)

MIGRATION: New and Selected Poems. By W. S. Merwin. (Copper Canyon, $40.)

MISSING MOM. By Joyce Carol Oates. (Ecco/ HarperCollins, $25.95.)

MISSION TO AMERICA. By Walter Kirn. (Doubleday, $23.95.)

MOTHER'S MILK. By Edward St. Aubyn. (Open City, $23.)

NATURAL HISTORY: Poems. By Dan Chiasson. (Knopf, $23.)

NEVER LET ME GO. By Kazuo Ishiguro. (Knopf, $24.)

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. By Cormac McCarthy. (Knopf, $24.95.)

ON BEAUTY. Zadie Smith. (Penguin Press, $25.95.)

OVERLORD: Poems. By Jorie Graham. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $22.95.)

THE PAINTED DRUM. By Louise Erdrich. (HarperCollins, $25.95.)

PLEASE DON'T COME BACK FROM THE MOON. By Dean Bakopoulos. (Harcourt, $23.)

PREP. By Curtis Sittenfeld. (Random House, $21.95.)

SATURDAY. By Ian McEwan. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $26.)

THE SEA. By John Banville. (Knopf, $23.)

SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY. By Elliot Perlman. (Riverhead, $27.95.)

SHALIMAR THE CLOWN. By Salman Rushdie. (Random House, $25.95.)

SLOW MAN. By J. M. Coetzee. (Viking, $24.95.)

STAR DUST. Frank Bidart. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20.)

THE SUCCESSOR. By Ismail Kadare. (Arcade, $24.)

TOWELHEAD. By Alicia Erian. (Simon & Schuster, $22.)

VERONICA. By Mary Gaitskill. (Pantheon, $23.)



Nonfiction



THE ACCIDENTAL MASTERPIECE: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa. By Michael Kimmelman. (Penguin Press, $24.95.)

AHMAD'S WAR, AHMAD'S PEACE: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq. By Michael Goldfarb. (Carroll & Graf, $25.95.)

AMERICAN PROMETHEUS: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. By Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. (Knopf, $35.)

ARE MEN NECESSARY? When Sexes Collide. By Maureen Dowd. (Putnam, $25.95.)

ARMAGEDDON: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945. By Max Hastings. (Knopf, $30.)

THE ASSASSINS' GATE: America in Iraq. By George Packer. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.)

THE BEATLES: The Biography. By Bob Spitz. (Little, Brown, $29.95.) S

BECOMING JUSTICE BLACKMUN: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey. By Linda Greenhouse. (Times Books/Holt, $25.)

BEYOND GLORY: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink. By David Margolick. (Knopf, $26.95.)

BOSS TWEED: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York. By Kenneth D. Ackerman. (Carroll & Graf, $27.)

BREAK, BLOW, BURN. By Camille Paglia. (Pantheon, $20.)

BURY THE CHAINS: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves. By Adam Hochschild. (Houghton Mifflin, $26.95.)

COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. By Jared Diamond. (Viking, $29.95.)

CONSPIRACY OF FOOLS: A True Story. By Kurt Eichenwald. (Broadway, $26.)

DE KOONING: An American Master. By Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan. (Knopf, $35.)

DREAM BOOGIE: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. By Peter Guralnick. (Little, Brown, $27.95.)

ELIA KAZAN: A Biography. By Richard Schickel. (HarperCollins. $29.95.)

AN END TO SUFFERING: The Buddha in the World. By Pankaj Mishra. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.)

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. By Charles C. Mann. (Knopf, $30.)

FREAKONOMICS: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow, $25.95.)

GARBAGE LAND: On the Secret Trail of Trash. By Elizabeth Royte. (Little, Brown, $24.95.)

THE GLASS CASTLE: A Memoir. By Jeannette Walls. (Scribner, $25.)

A GREAT IMPROVISATION: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. By Stacy Schiff. (Holt, $30.)

IN COMMAND OF HISTORY: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War. By David Reynolds. (Random House, $35.)

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU: Restless Genius. By Leo Damrosch. (Houghton Mifflin, $30.)

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. By Richard Parker. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $35.)

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE BRONX IS BURNING: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City. By Jonathan Mahler. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.)

THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOWELL. Edited by Saskia Hamilton. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $40.)

LINCOLN'S MELANCHOLY. By Joshua Wolf Shenk. (Houghton Mifflin, $25.)

THE LOST PAINTING. By Jonathan Harr. (Random House, $24.95.)

MADE IN DETROIT: A South of 8-Mile Memoir. By Paul Clemens. (Doubleday, $23.95.)

MAO: The Unknown Story. By Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. (Knopf, $35.)

MARK TWAIN: A Life. By Ron Powers. (Free Press, $35.)

MATISSE THE MASTER: A Life of Henri Matisse. The Conquest of Color, 1909-1954. By Hilary Spurling. (Knopf, $40.)

MIRROR TO AMERICA: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.)

NEW ART CITY. By Jed Perl. (Knopf, $35.)

NIGHT DRAWS NEAR: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War. By Anthony Shadid. (Holt, $26.)

OH THE GLORY OF IT ALL. By Sean Wilsey. (Penguin Press, $25.95.)

OMAHA BLUES: A Memory Loop. By Joseph Lelyveld. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22.)

102 MINUTES: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers. By Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. (Times Books/Holt, $26.)

THE ORIENTALIST: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life. By Tom Reiss. (Random House, $25.95.)

OUR INNER APE: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are. By Frans de Waal. (Riverhead, $24.95.)

POSTWAR: A History of Europe Since 1945. By Tony Judt. (Penguin Press, $39.95.)

THE PRINCE OF THE CITY: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life. By Fred Siegel with Harry Siegel. (Encounter, $26.95.)

THE RISE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: Jefferson to Lincoln. By Sean Wilentz. (Norton, $35.)

THE RIVER OF DOUBT: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey. By Candice Millard. (Doubleday, $26.)

1776. By David McCullough. (Simon & Schuster, $32.)

SPOOK: Science Tackles the Afterlife. By Mary Roach. (Norton, $24.95.)

THE SURVIVOR. By John F. Harris. (Random House, $29.95.) An assessment of Bill Clinton's performance in the White House; by a reporter for The Washington Post.

A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS. By Amos Oz. (Harcourt, $26.)

TEAM OF RIVALS: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. By Doris Kearns Goodwin. (Simon & Schuster, $35.)

THE TENDER BAR: A Memoir. By J. R. Moehringer. (Hyperion, $23.95.)

THEATRE OF FISH: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador. By John Gimlette. (Knopf, $25.)

TULIA: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town. By Nate Blakeslee. (PublicAffairs, $26.95.)

VINDICATION: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft. By Lyndall Gordon. (HarperCollins, $29.95.)

A WAR LIKE NO OTHER: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. By Victor Davis Hanson. (Random House, $29.95.)

WARPED PASSAGES: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions. By Lisa Randall. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $27.95.)

WITHOUT APOLOGY: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight. By Leah Hager Cohen. (Random House, $24.95.)

WODEHOUSE: A Life. By Robert McCrum. (Norton, $27.95.)

THE WORLD IS FLAT: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. By Thomas L. Friedman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50.)

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING. By Joan Didion. (Knopf, $23.95.)

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