LIT LISTS

Helena Frith Powell is the author of All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation Into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets ...

Tom Whitwell, assistant editor at the (London) Times online, named a critic's chart of "books with big ideas." One title on t...

Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century , which won the...

Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, a former rare-books dealer, named a five best list of "rare books on early America" for the Wall Stre...

Powells.com invited David Zirin to "[r]ecommend five or more books on a single subject of personal interest or expertise." He reco...

At the Guardian , author and deputy editor of the Saturday Guardian Charlie English named his top ten snow books. His introduction and Num...

Chris Power, who reviews fiction for the Times (London), picked a "critic's chart" of six linguistic experiments. One title o...

John Hollander's books include A Draft of Light: Poems (2008) and Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse (2001). At the Wall Str...

At Paper Cuts, the New York Times ' blog for books, Barry Gewen named five works of nonfiction for the Kalima project, an initiative ba...

Back in 2005 Robert Collins , author of Soul Corporation , named a top ten list of dystopian novels for the Guardian. His preface and Number...

A few years ago at the Wall Street Journal , advertising executive Jerry Della Femina named a five best list of books on advertising. One ti...

At the Wall Street Journal , Nicholas Wapshott named a five best list of books about "leaders paired by history." One title on the...