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Surviving marriage

BY CONNIE OGLE, Miami Herald | Jan. 17 at 10:47 a.m.

"Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage" by Elizabeth Gilbert (Viking, 285 pages, $26.95)

Book's view of future not black, white

BY LISA McLENDON, The Wichita Eagle | Jan. 17 at 10:45 a.m.

A Jasper Fforde novel is always a treat for the imagination — and good for a lot of laughs. His Thursday Next series mixes time travel and books that come to life, while his Nursery Crimes series stands traditional tales — and detective stories — on their heads. His stories soar with madcap ingenuity, flying by so fast that if you don’t pay attention, you’re bound to miss some of the jokes. And you don’t want to miss them: They’re absurd, they’re funny, and his references are so clever they’ll make you glad you haven’t forgotten everything you learned in history or English class.

Warmer side of Elvis emerges

BY MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, Associated Press | Jan. 17 at 10:49 a.m.

"Elvis: My Best Man" by George Klein (Crown, 320 pages, $25)

An ode to life

BY GAYLORD DOLD | Jan. 10 at 8:08 a.m.

"The Farmer's Daughter" by Jim Harrison (Grove Press, 320 pages, $24)

A magical romance that has a darker side

Jan. 10 at 8:09 a.m.

"The Girl With Glass Feet" by Ali Shaw (Henry Holt, 287 pages, $24)

Top-selling books of 2009

Jan. 8 at 12:10 a.m.

Ever wonder what the best-selling novels were in the year just gone by? We're not necessarily talking about the best fiction of the year, but rather, the books that garnered the most sales. According to marketingcharts.com, they were, in order:

Hellraisers

Jan. 3 at 12:04 a.m.

"Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed" by Robert Sellers (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, 304 pages, $25.99)

Change the White House? No

Jan. 3 at 12:04 a.m.

"Dream House: The White House as an American Home" by Ulysses Grant Dietz and Sam Watters (Acanthus Press, 312 pages, $75)

Warm up with delectable children's books

BY mary-liz shaw, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Dec. 31 at 12:04 a.m.

A good children's book is nourishment for the soul, as fine as a bowl of chicken soup on a winter's day.

Four bests and a worst

Dec. 27 at 12:04 a.m.

It's the end of the year, so it must be time for a list. From the books I read in 2009 — those I reviewed in The Eagle and others — I've selected standouts in several categories:

More Munro mastery

BY GORDON HOUSER | Dec. 27 at 8:02 a.m.

"Too Much Happiness" by Alice Munro (Knopf, $25.95, 304 pages)

Different sides of the same Jane

BY LISA MCLENDON, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 20 at 3:42 a.m.

"A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen" edited by Susannah Carson (Random House, 320 pages, $25)

Out of the ashes

BY GAYLORD DOLD | Dec. 20 at 3:41 a.m.

"The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire That Saved America" by Timothy Egan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 324 pages, $27)

'Cleaving' fails to make cut

BY PETER GIANOTTI, Newsday | Dec. 20 at 3:40 a.m.

"Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession" by Julie Powell (Little, Brown, 307 pages, $24.99)

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST SELLERS

Dec. 13 at 12:03 a.m.

1. "U is for Underflow" by Sue Grafton

Restoring U.S. Grant

Dec. 13 at 12:03 a.m.

"U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth" by Joan Waugh (University of North Carolina Press, 384 pages, $30)

Saving the world, or at least one corner of it

BY LISA MCLENDON, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 13 at 8:03 a.m.

"La's Orchestra Saves the World" by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, 294 pages, $23.95)

Wambaugh back in top form

Dec. 13 at 12:03 a.m.

"Hollywood Moon" by Joseph Wambaugh (Little, Brown, 344 pages, $26.99)

Powers fuses fiction and social analysis

Dec. 6 at 12:08 a.m.

"Generosity: An Enhancement" by Richard Powers (A Frances Coady Book/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 296 pages, $25)

Sea plus

BY TIM RUTTEN, Los Angeles Times | Dec. 6 at 8:15 a.m.

When it comes to popular entertainment, the late Michael Crichton was about as successful as any writer could hope to be.

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