THE BEST READS OF 1997

Books that somehow made me want to put
everything else on hold and read

NOVELS
Love and Longing in Bombay / Vikram Chandra
Quarantine / Jim Crace
Underworld / Don DeLillo
The Blue Flower / Penelope Fitzgerald
Enduring Love / Ian McEwan
Ingenious Pain / Andrew Miller
The Puttermesser Papers / Cynthia Ozick
Postcards / E. Annie Proulx
American Pastoral / Philip Roth
The God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy
Larry's Party / Carol Shields
Toward the End of Time / John Updike

STORIES
Love and Longing in Bombay / Vikram Chandra

NONFICTION
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life / J.M. Coetzee
Virginia Woolf / Hermione Lee