100 Notable Books of the Year

[Dave Monroe]

Holiday Books
100 Notable Books of the Year

The Book Review has selected this list from books
reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of Dec. 4,
2005. 

FICTION & POETRY

ABSURDISTAN. By Gary Shteyngart. (Random House,
$24.95.) A young American-educated Russian with an
ill-gotten fortune waits to return to the United
States in this darkly comic novel.

AFTER THIS. By Alice McDermott. (Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, $24.) In her effectively elliptical novel,
McDermott continues to scrutinize the lives of Irish
Catholics on Long Island.

AGAINST THE DAY. By Thomas Pynchon. (Penguin Press,
$35.) In Pynchon's globe-trotting tale, set (mostly)
on the eve of World War I, anarchic Americans collide
with quasi-psychic European hedonists and a crew of
boyish balloonists, anticipating the shocks to
come....

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/review/20061203notable-books.html


 
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