“Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History”
The real-life "Ocean's Eleven"-style caper that plundered a supposedly impenetrable vault
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Christmas insanity unwrapped
"Tinsel" investigates the allure -- and demented poignancy -- of America's holiday obsession
Monday, Nov 23, 2009 2:01 AM UTC 24Entertainment Recommended books, Christmas
How memoirs took over the literary world
A new book says: Fiction is dead, long live the age of autobiography
Monday, Nov 16, 2009 2:01 AM UTC 36Entertainment Recommended books, Memoirs
Investigating his father’s murder
A memoirist searches for the truth about a fatal shooting in 1960s Phoenix
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Archaeologists behaving badly
Mystery and conspiracy plague a dig at the site of ancient Sparta in "The Hidden"
Monday, Nov 2, 2009 1:31 AM UTCEntertainment Recommended books, Must Read
Elizabeth Taylor: How to Be a Movie Star
A new biography of the most beautiful woman in the world says her greatest talent lay in being famous
Monday, Oct 19, 2009 7:15 AM UTC 25Entertainment Recommended books, Biography
The murder she didn’t commit
A reformed alcoholic learns she's innocent of the crime that changed her life in "Blame"
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Must read: “Glover’s Mistake”
A lovelorn schoolteacher uses the Internet to exact his romantic revenge in Nick Laird's chilling tale
Thursday, Jul 23, 2009 10:23 AM UTCEntertainment Fiction, Recommended books
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Aleksandar Hemon's fictional alter ego drinks and writes his way through exile in these superb coming-of-age tales.
Thursday, Jun 4, 2009 10:20 AM UTCEntertainment Fiction, Recommended books
Must Read: “How to Sell”
Diamonds are a boy's best friend in this crackling novel of scams, sex and druggy escapades in the jewel trade.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:23 AM UTCEntertainment Fiction, Recommended books
“Sag Harbor”
Colson Whitehead's autobiographical summer-nostalgia novel mixes nerdy teen boys and barbecues gone awry in this affectionate portrait of an African-American seasonal community.
Monday, May 11, 2009 10:39 AM UTCEntertainment Must Read, Our Picks, Books
“The Little Stranger”
This astonishing novel by the author of "Tipping the Velvet" gives the traditional ghost story a creepy twist -- and a dose of class resentment.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 10:36 AM UTCEntertainment Must Read, Our Picks, Books
“The Song Is You”
Love among the iPods: A divorced TV director is content to be left alone with his old songs -- until he meets a new singer.
Tuesday, Apr 14, 2009 10:35 AM UTCEntertainment Fiction, Must Read, Our Picks
“The Seance”
The cursed and the dead haunt this elegantly gothic tale, tracing the line between the scientific and the paranormal.
Monday, Mar 16, 2009 10:44 AM UTCEntertainment Fiction, Must Read, Our Picks
“The Believers”
The members of a radical leftist family lose their patriarch and are forced to cope with disillusionment and secrets in Zoe Heller's sharply etched new novel.
Thursday, Mar 12, 2009 10:37 AM UTCEntertainment Must Read, Our Picks, Books
“The Birthday Present”
This dark literary thriller -- written under Ruth Rendell's pen name -- masterfully folds adultery, kidnapping and lies into a tale of psychological suspense.
Friday, Mar 6, 2009 11:44 AM UTCEntertainment Must Read, Our Picks, Books
“Lark and Termite”
War, suicide and quasi-incestuous desire swirl through "Lark and Termite," Jayne Anne Phillips' evocative novel of Southern revelations.
Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009 11:40 AM UTCEntertainment Must Read, Our Picks, Books
All-American terrorist
A '60s activist-turned-vigilante is tortured by a handsome interrogator in Glen Duncan's gripping new novel. So which one is the villain?
Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008 11:32 AM UTCEntertainment Fiction, Terrorism, Must Read
“Serena”
A lumber baron, a ruthless sexpot and a one-handed henchman star in this wildly entertaining tale of passion, murder and deforestation set in Depression-era North Carolina.
Tuesday, Dec 16, 2008 11:43 AM UTCEntertainment Fiction, Environment, Must Read
“Winnie and Wolf”
What if Hitler had a love child? A.N. Wilson's "Winnie and Wolf" is a chilling fictional tale of a clandestine affair.
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