November Books

These are some titles from last month's New York Times Book Review section that I might like to read at some point:

Fiction

Art and Max - David Wiesner; "Two artists mix methods and media."

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey - Walter Mosley; "The tale of an aged superhero who performs valiant deeds with the aid of a devoted young sidekick (pointedly named Robyn) may sound like the charming stuff of myth. But Mosley invests his wish-fulfillment fantasy with deeper meaning and higher purpose."

An Object of Beauty - Steve Martin; "The actor's third novel is a dramedy of manners that doubles as an immersion course in the rarefied world of high-end art."

Shadow - Suzy Lee; "More impressive than Lee's cartooning, however, is her understanding of the properties unique to the printed book as storytelling devices."

A Tale Dark & Grimm - Adam Gidwitz; "Hansel and Gretel wander through a succession of lesser-known Grimm tales."

Nonfiction

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste - Pierre Bourdieu "set out to show the social logic of taste: how admiration for art, appreciation of music, even taste in food, came about for different groups, and how 'superior' taste was not the result of an enchanted superiority in scattered individuals."

Googled: The End of World As We Know It - Ken Auletta; "Depicts the sofware company, created in the mid-1990s by two Stanford graduate students, as a game-changing behemoth that, to the dismay of many media chiefs, has become synonymous with user-friendly efficiency and has the potential to disrupt whole industries."

In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Value - Lauren Weber; "Combining personal memoir, social history and political manifesto, Weber guides readers on a history of America's complicated relationship with spending, and explores creative alternatives."

In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks - Adam Carolla; "The radio host and comedian assesses modern culture through personal anecdotes."

Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World's Population and How It Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation - Ted C. Fishman; "Grew out of the research for Fishman's first book, China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, and the two books share a fast pace, global scope and jaw-dropping facts."