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Book list: Kate White's 6 favorite books
feature The editor of "Cosmopolitan" magazine — and best-selling author behind the new thriller "Hush" (Harper) — lists the books that affected her the most
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Book of the week: Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
feature Former novelist David Shields argues that literature must change or it will shrivel to irrelevance.
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Also of interest ... experiments in living
feature The Sabbath World by Judith Shulevitz; So Much for That by Lionel Shriver; Dog Boy by Eva Hornung; The Husbands and Wives Club by Laurie Abraham
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Author of the week: E.O. Wilson
feature With Anthill, the renowned biologist, Harvard professor emeritus, and two-time Pulitzer winner has taken a foray into fiction.
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Book of the week: Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court by Jeff Shesol
feature Shesol’s lively account of President Roosevelt’s failed attempt to add up to six seats to the U.S. Supreme Court is “splendid to read.”
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Author of the week: Yann Martel
feature A donkey and a monkey are the talking animals that feature prominently in Yann Martel’s metafictional allegory about the Holocaust, Beatrice and Virgil.
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Also of interest ... in public lives
feature This Time Together by Carol Burnett; The Bridge by David Remnick; The Bullpen Gospels by Dirk Hayhurst; George, Nicholas and Wilhelm by Miranda Carter
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Also of interest ... in campus feuds and fashions
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Author of the week: James Ellroy
feature In his new memoir, the author of The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential once again examines the murder of his mother, using it as a touchstone for looking at his lifelong obsession with women.
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Also of interest ... in food and wine
feature 97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman; The Wild Vine by Todd Kliman; Twain’s Feast by Andrew Beahrs; The I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken
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Book of the week: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
feature Jonathan Franzen’s new book is about a seemingly perfect American family that is gradually torn apart.
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Author of the week: Jonathan Franzen
feature Competition is a theme in Franzen's new book, Freedom. “It’s considered unattractive to be competitive," he said, "and yet our entire political economy is based on a mechanism of competition.”
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Also of interest ... in world-altering appetites
feature Brilliant by Jane Brox; Fur, Fortune, and Empire by Eric Jay Dolin; Losing Our Cool by Stan Cox; Extra Lives by Tom Bissell
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Books of the year: Non-fiction
feature The titles selected by critics as the best of 2009
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