纽约时报，December 7, 2008

100 Notable Books of 2008 ，部分书目

Fiction & Poetry

INDIGNATION. By Philip Roth.

A MERCY. By Toni Morrison.

DIARY OF A BAD YEAR. By J. M. Coet­zee.

NETHERLAND. By Joseph O’Neill.

2666. By Roberto Bolaño.

LUSH LIFE. By Richard Price.

非虚构

HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America. By Thomas L. Friedman.

HOW FICTION WORKS. By James Wood

MORAL CLARITY: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists. By Susan Neiman. (Harcourt, $27.) Neiman champions Enlightenment values with no hint of over­simplification, dogmatism or misplaced piety.

THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD. By Fareed Zakaria. (Norton, $25.95.) This relentlessly intelligent examination of power focuses less on American decline than on the rise of China, trailed by India.

THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.