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December 10, 2010 Books Update

Featured in Sunday's Book Review The 10 Best Books of 2010 The Book Review picks the year's best fiction and nonfiction. Choosing the 10 Best Books ADVERTISEMENT Also in the Book Review Biographies of Hedy Lamarr By STEPHEN MICHAEL SHEARER and RUTH BARTON Reviewed by MOLLY HASKELL Stephen Michael Shearer and Ruth Barton argue that Hedy Lamarr was more interesting than her lackluster place in film history would suggest. 'Fraser's Penguins' By FEN MONTAIGNE Reviewed by ELIZABETH ROYTE An account of an Antarctic penguin colony, and how climate change is destroying it. 'The Sixties: Diaries, Volume Two: 1960-1969' By CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Reviewed by EDMUND WHITE The dominant theme of Christopher Isherwood's diaries from the 1960s is his relationship with a much younger man. 'The Petting Zoo' By JIM CARROLL Reviewed by RICHARD HELL Jim Carroll's posthumous novel of the 1980s New York art scene suggests a poet's shift to prose, in passionate, often elegiac, quasi autobiography. 'The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires' By TIM WU Reviewed by DAVID LEONHARDT Tim Wu's ambitious history of modern communications posits that information technologies move through a cycle from open to closed systems. 'Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War' By THOMAS B. ALLEN Reviewed by DAVID WALDSTREICHER A Revolutionary War history emphasizes the strangely neglected topic of the Americans who opposed the Revolutionary War. 'Sunset Park' By PAUL AUSTER Reviewed by MALENA WATROUS In this tale of an Ivy League dropout and his underage girlfriend, Paul Auster's goal seems to be a conventionally satisfying novel that bucks many conventions of fiction. 'Atlantic' By SIMON WINCHESTER Reviewed by BRUCE BARCOTT Simon Winchester tells the story of the Atlantic Ocean. 'Why The West Rules - For Now' By IAN MORRIS Reviewed by ORVILLE SCHELL A Stanford historian views the clash between East and West from a long perspective, and argues that we face an immediate choice - East-West cooperation or catastrophe. 'Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe' By KATE BUFORD Reviewed by JAY JENNINGS A diligently researched, blow-by-blow chronicle of the athlete Jim Thorpe's life of high triumph and bitter despair. Books About Louisa May Alcott By SUSAN CHEEVER and RICHARD FRANCIS Reviewed by LEAH PRICE Susan Cheever and Richard Francis examine the lives of Louisa May Alcott and her (at times) eccentric family. 'Pirates of Barbary' By ADRIAN TINNISWOOD Reviewed by IAN W. TOLL A history of the Barbary pirates who menaced the Mediterranean for three centuries. 'Under Fishbone Clouds' By SAM MEEKINGS Reviewed by LESLEY DOWNER In Sam Meekings's fable-like first novel, a couple's devotion is tested during Mao's Cultural Revolution and beyond. Fiction Chronicle By CAMERON MARTIN Novels by Douglas Coupland, Ron Cooper, Eric Gansworth, Robert Steiner and Benjamin Percy. ADVERTISEMENT Get home delivery of The New York Times for as low as $3.15 a week.

Best Sellers Hardcover Fiction Hardcover Nonfiction Paperback Trade Fiction Paperback Mass-Market Fiction Paperback Nonfiction All the Lists » Related Columns TBR: Inside the List Editors' Choice Paperback Row Book Review Features Essay Working on the Ending By GAIL GODWIN This year, I outlived Henry James and found that now that I'm 73, writing is harder - and easier. Crime Virtual Scalpel By MARILYN STASIO Mystery novels by Patricia Cornwell, Margaret Maron, Leighton Gage and Loren D. Estleman. More Crime Columns Book Review Podcast Featuring two writers who made the Book Review's list of the 10 Best Books of 2010: Jennifer Homans and Siddhartha Mukherjee. Holiday Gift Guide 100 Notable Books of 2010 Michiko Kakutani's Top 10 Books of 2010 Janet Maslin's Top 10 Books of 2010 Dwight Garner's Top 10 Books of 2010 All the Gift Guides » More Books News and Reviews Books of The Times 'As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto' Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER Just when we thought that this potato had been peeled, out comes a book of Julia Child's correspondence. Excerpt Lusty Tales and Hot Sales: Romance E-Books Thrive By JULIE BOSMAN Romance novels are the fastest-growing segment of the e-reading market, ahead of mystery and science fiction. Christopher Isherwood's Mick Jagger Book Review Podcast: The 10 Best Books of 2010 Choosing the 10 Best Books of 2010 Archive Crime Columns Children's Books The New York Times Book Review: Back Issues Editor's Note Thanks for taking the time to read this e-mail. Feel free to send feedback; I enjoy hearing your opinions and will do my best to respond. Blake Wilson Books Producer The New York Times on the Web ADVERTISEMENT

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