A reading list for 2010

THE DOUBLE COMFORT
SAFARI CLUB
by Alexander McCall Smith
(Knopf Doubleday, 256 pp., $23.95)
The latest in McCall Smith’s “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” series, in which Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi journey to a Botswana safari lodge where several guests have mysteriously perished. (April)

THE CHANGELING
by Kenzaburo Oe and Deborah Boehm
(Grove/Atlantic, 480 pp., $26)
Tokyo film director Goro Hanawa commits suicide and leaves a series of tapes to his brother-in-law Kogito, laying out plans for a possible film. Kogito becomes obsessed with the tapes and discovers a haunting connection in Goro’s past. (March)

THE GOLDEN MILE
by Martin Cruz Smith
(Simon & Schuster, 352 pp., $25.99)
The seventh book in the Arkady Renko series. When the Moscow police don’t believe Maya’s story that her baby was stolen, she enlists a young man to help her scour a dubious neighborhood. Meanwhile, Arkady gets involved in an intriguing case in the same area. (March)

NONFICTION

DARING YOUNG MEN
by Richard Reeves
(Simon & Schuster, 336 pp., $28)
The story of the American pilots behind the year-long Berlin Airlift. They delivered food, medicine, and fuel to the 2 million citizens of Soviet-blockaded West Berlin in 1948, buying the Allies enough time to create the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (January)

OUR TIMES: THE AGE OF ELIZABETH II
by A.N. Wilson
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 496 pp., $30)
This third volume in Wilson’s trilogy of modern British history recounts the sweeping changes in Britain and the world over the past 56 years. Wilson opines on everything from the Profumo affair and the Vietnam War to Princess Diana and England’s membership in the European Union. (January)

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