Morrison Tops Times 10 Best Books List

Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison's most recent novel and nonfiction books about two wars feature on the New York Times list of the 10 best books of the year. They include:

• A Mercy: Morrison's tale of 17th-century slaves and masters is "part Faulknerian puzzle, part dream-song."
• 2666: Chilean author Roberto Bolaño died in 2003 and "has posthumously risen, like a figure in one of his own splendid creations, to the summit of modern fiction."

• The Dark Side: Jane Mayer's "meticulously reported descent into the depths of President Bush’s anti­terrorist policies."
• This Republic of Suffering: Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust "explores the legacy, or legacies, of the 'harvest of death' sown and reaped by the Civil War."

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