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This Week's Hot Reads
This week: a haunting novel about a house that sees the tides of history, a new memoir-novel from Jeannette Walls, a powerful eyewitness account of the surge in Iraq, a new thriller from David Baldacci, and a manifesto for dealing with email.
Booker Winners Through the Years
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall won the Man Booker Prize today. The Daily Beast looks back at the past decade of honorees, from Yann Martel's Life of Pi to Aravind Adiga's White Tiger.
Mantel Books the Booker
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall won the Man Booker Prize today. The Daily Beast looks back at the past decade of honorees, from Yann Martel's Life of Pi to Aravind Adiga's White Tiger.
Do Book Awards Really Matter?
Is it better to get a Pulitzer or the Booker, and does a prize from Barnes & Noble mean more than a Nobel? Sara Nelson looks inside the winners' circle.
The Booker Prize's Passage to India
Last night the honor went to a first-time Indian novelist, Aravind Adiga, for The White Tiger a murder story set among his country's very rich and very poor.

















