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Books Update NYT

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Books Update
On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves'
By KAREN JOY FOWLER
Reviewed by BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The narrator of Karen Joy Fowler's latest novel spent part of her childhood in a long household experiment with an adopted chimpanzee for a twin sister.

Also in the Book Review

Khaled Hosseini: By the Book

The author of "And the Mountains Echoed" keeps a handy copy of "I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, 'The Big Lebowski,' and What Have You" on his bookshelf.

By the Book: Archive

'The Last Man in Russia'
By OLIVER BULLOUGH
Reviewed by ELLEN BARRY

Oliver Bullough suggests one man's life reveals much about the country's demographic ills.

'Submergence'
By J. M. LEDGARD
Reviewed by FLOYD SKLOOT

J. M. Ledgard's novel of love, espionage and scientific discovery.

'We Need New Names'
By NOVIOLET BULAWAYO
Reviewed by UZODINMA IWEALA

A Zimbabwean moves to Detroit in NoViolet Bulawayo's novel.

'Americanah'
By CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
Reviewed by MIKE PEED

Being black, in America and Africa, draws a novelist's scrutiny.

ArtsBeat Q. & A.: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena'
By ANTHONY MARRA
Reviewed by MADISON SMARTT BELL

Anthony Marra's first novel is set during a decade of war in Chechnya.

'Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father'
By ALYSIA ABBOTT
Reviewed by ALEXANDRA STYRON

Alysia Abbott searches for the truth about her father's life.

'She Left Me the Gun'
By EMMA BROCKES
Reviewed by ANNA ALTMAN

Emma Brockes searches for the truth about her mother's life.

'The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America'
By GEORGE PACKER
Reviewed by DAVID BROOKS

Stories of our hard times, with a nod to John Dos Passos.

Revolution Redux
By JOYCE E. CHAPLIN

In two retellings, the War for Independence has a modern veneer.

'The Yonahlossee Riding Camp For Girls'
By ANTON DISCLAFANI
Reviewed by ALEX KUCZYNSKI

Equestrian boarding school, romance and Southern snobbery in the 1930s.

The Fortress of Solicitude
By AMANDA FORTINI

Some mothers with means are re-embracing hearth and home, complete with a D.I.Y. twist.

'One and Only'
By LAUREN SANDLER
Reviewed by LORI GOTTLIEB

Dispelling the myths about only children and their mothers.

'The Slippage'
By BEN GREENMAN
Reviewed by S. KIRK WALSH

Ben Greenman's novel examines barren lives in the suburbs.

'Paranoia'
By VICTOR MARTINOVICH. Translated by DIANE NEMEC IGNASHEV.
Reviewed by ARKADY OSTROVSKY

In this novel's police state, following your heart can be perilous.

'The Science Delusion'
By CURTIS WHITE
Reviewed by ERIC BANKS

The novelist and social critic Curtis White takes aim at the triumphalism of a technology- and science-obsessed world.

'Brilliant Blunders'
By MARIO LIVIO
Reviewed by CARL ZIMMER

Science can be so messy that even great scientists make fantastic mistakes, an astrophysicist writes.

Fiction Chronicle
By TOM LeCLAIR

New books by Giorgio Vasta, Christina Schwarz, Isabel Allende, Christina Baker Kline and Muriel Rukeyser.

'Mortal Sins'
By MICHAEL D’ANTONIO
Reviewed by JANET REITMAN

Michael D'Antonio recounts the priest abuse scandal, with lawyers and advocates for victims battling a church in denial.

BEST SELLERS

Combined Print & E-Book Fiction

Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

Hardcover Fiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

Paperback Trade Fiction

Paperback Mass-Market Fiction

Paperback Nonfiction

All the Lists

OPEN BOOK
Expo Takes Manhattan
By JOHN WILLIAMS

The publishing industry recently gathered in Manhattan, partly to promote the fall season's big books.

Back Page

Dark Places
By ELAINE SHOWALTER

The stories of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight could join a distinguished tradition of captivity narratives.

Inside the List
By GREGORY COWLES

Dean Koontz's "Deeply Odd," at No. 3 on the hardcover fiction list, features the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock and an aesthetic argument about the nature of good and evil.

Paperback Row
By IHSAN TAYLOR

Paperback books of particular interest.

Editors' Choice

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Book Review Podcast

This week, Anthony Marra discusses his novel, "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena"; Lauren Sandler talks about "One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One"; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.