Editors' Choice

FICTION

THE BOYS OF WINTER, Wilfrid Sheed -- THE CHILD IN TIME, Ian McEwan -- FIRST LIGHT, Charles Baxter -- MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK, Saul Bellow -- OUTLAWS, George V. Higgins -- YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS, Joyce Carol Oates

NONFICTION

CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE, Barrie Penrose and Simon Freeman -- IN SEARCH OF MELANCHOLY BABY, Vassily Aksyonov -- MAN OF THE HOUSE, Tip O'Neill with William Novak -- THE MAKING OF THE AFRICAN QUEEN, Katharine Hepburn -- MIAMI, Joan Didion -- THE SONGLINES, Bruce Chatwin