Editor's Choice

FICTION

THE LAST WORTHLESS EVENING, Andre Dubus -- O-ZONE, Paul Theroux

PERFUME, Patrick Suskind -- THE PRINCE OF TIDES, Pat Conroy -- A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS, Peter Taylor -- A TASTE FOR DEATH, P.D. James

NONFICTION

CHEKHOV, Henri Troyat -- GOING SOLO, Roald Dahl -- MY FATHER, MY SON, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr. and Lieut. Elmo Zumwalt III -- THE PAPER, Richard Kluger

VN: THE LIFE AND ART OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV, Andrew Field -- THE WISE MEN, Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas