Browsing Books: Paperback Row. Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

TBR: Inside the List. Ted Turner’s “Call Me Ted” enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 8, while “The Snowball,” Alice Schroeder’s biography of Warren Buffett, slips to No. 5 in its seventh week.

Browsing Books: Editors’ Choice. Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Up Front. Tom Bissell writes, “Having David Vann’s book fall into my hands so shortly after the suicide of Dave Wallace made me a highly resistant audience.”

Archive: Book Review Podcast. This week: an extended conversation with Toni Morrison, Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field and best-seller news from Jennifer Schuessler. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.

Notable Children’s Books of 2008. Eight exceptional books published in the last year.

Holiday Books: 100 Notable Books of 2008. The Book Review picks outstanding works from the last year.

Essay: The Well-Tended Bookshelf. To toss or not to toss? There seem to be two general approaches to pruning one’s library.

Letters: Freudian Blip. To the Editor:.

Letters: J Is for Joyce. To the Editor:.

Letters: George, Remembered. To the Editor:.

Nonfiction Chronicle. New nonfiction books reviewed.

Annals of Malpractice. Fiction about a long line of quack doctors in pursuit of spontaneous combustion, animal magnetism, lobotomies and more.

Cycles of Doom. How government managers encouraged inflation in the 1960s and ’70s and led the American economy into recession.

Mayflower Power. Sarah Vowell’s pop history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony hums along with chipper personal details and genial talk-show banter. It’s also really annoying.

A World of a Different Color. A colorfully detailed analysis of why horses, paradoxically, thrived in the age of industrialization.

The Sophisticated Table. An exploration of the 17th-century shift in French cooking, when chefs rejected pseudomedical dictates to emphasize a more novel merit of food: its taste.

Gunsmoke. A fictionalized account of the short life and squalid death of Henry McCarty, a k a Billy the Kid.

A Passage From India. The novelist Amitav Ghosh reimagines the lives of Indian peasants on the eve of the Opium Wars.

Exit Wounds. In his first story collection, set mostly in Alaska, David Vann exorcises demons born from the suicide of his father.

'The Doves Were Right'. How McGeorge Bundy, a key architect of the Vietnam War, began an agonized search to understand himself.

Chance and Circumstance. Malcolm Gladwell says success depends not only on brains and drive, but on where we come from — and what we do about it.

Original Sins. In this novel of the 17th century, Morrison performs her deepest excavation yet into America’s history and exhumes our twin original sins: the enslavement of Africans and the near extermination of Native Americans.