Larry McMurtry -- author, used-book shop proprietor, peripatetic American -- has heard the call of the open highway. He answers it in...

...books, which include fiction by Danielle Steel, Larry McMurtry and Fay Weldon; and nonfiction, including essays...relationship. "Boone's Lick" (Simon & Schuster) By Larry McMurtry The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lonesome...

...Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins; and nonfiction by Larry McMurtry, David McCullough, Dan Rather, Henry Kissinger...would-be kidnapper. "Paradise" (Simon & Schuster) By Larry McMurtry McMurtry describes his 1999 trip to Tahiti, where...

...William F. Buckley, Jr.; and nonfiction, including Larry McMurtry's road journal, Ron Rosenbaum's collected essays...America's Great Highways" (Simon & Schuster) By Larry McMurtry The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (''Lonesome...

...by Lisa Scottoline (HarperCollins) 11. "If Looks Could Kill" by Kate White (Warner) 12. "Sin Killer" by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 13. "Don't Look Back" by Amanda Quick (Bantam) 14. "Everything's Eventual" by Stephen...

...Dahl Christina Ricci: ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' series by C.S. Lewis Nolan Ryan: ''Lonesome Dove'' by Larry McMurtry Olympia Snowe: ''Five Days in London: May 1940'' by John Lukacs Sada Thompson: ''Little Women'' by Louisa...

...898-page "The Double Bond: Primo Levi" (FSG). Other new and noteworthy hardcover books include fiction by Larry McMurtry, Joanna Trollope and Hortense Calisher; and nonfiction by David Halberstam, Bob Greene and Bob Kerrey. McMurtry's...

...Chodron. Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, eschewing the stereotype that jocks don't read, makes a pitch for Larry McMurtry's ''Lonesome Dove.'' Five years ago, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, then secretary-general of the United Nations...

...Kill" by Kate White (Warner) 14. "Courting Trouble" by Lisa Scottoline (HarperCollins) 15. "Sin Killer" by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) NONFICTION/GENERAL 1. "Self Matters" by Phillip C. McGraw (Simon & Schuster) 2. "Who...

...Burning Hills" Favorite book: "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry Favorite authors: Louie L'Amour, Johnny D. Boggs...genres while retaining the Western flavor. He cites Larry McMurtry's books, which often veer into the fantasy realm...