Editors' Choice

FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth sb A House in the Country, Jose Donoso sb Leaving the Land, Douglas Unger sb Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee sb Pitch Dark, Renata Adler sb The Salt Line, Elizabeth Spencer

NONFICTION: Charles de Gaulle, Don Cook sb The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, edited by Robert Kimball E.B. White: A Biography, Scott Elledge sb Killings, Calvin Trillin Mayor, Edward I. Koch sb Tales from the Secret Annex, Anne Frank