FICTION
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas--This first novel explores the fragmented pesonal histories behind four desperate days in a black writer's life.**
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson--In this short Norwegian novel translated by Anne Born, an Oslo professional hopes to cure his loneliness with a plunge into solitude.*
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano. Translated by Natash Wimmer, this is a crafitlty autobiographical novel about a band of literary guerrillas.
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris--Layoff notices fly in Ferris's acidely funny first novel set in a white-collar office during the dot-com debacle.*
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson. The author offers a soulful novel about the travails of a large cast of characters during the Vietnam War.**
NONFICTION
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran--The author catalogs the arrogance and ineptitude that marked America's governance of Iraq.**
Little Heathens: Hard Times & High Spirts on an Iowa Farm During the Depression by Mildred Kalish--This long-titled book is a memoir of childhood memories filled with joy and wonder.**
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin--An outsider's account of the cloistered court's inner workings.**
Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley--Colley tracks the "compulsively itinerant" Marsh across the 18th century and several continents.**
Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross--In his own feat of orchestration, The New Yorker's music critic presents a history of the last century as refracted through its classical music.**
*-in library now
**ordered
Source: New York Times December 9, 2007
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