Nov. 8, 2007 9:35 AM PT Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Copy Link URLCopied! Print Los Angeles Times book reviews of literature aimed at aging baby boomers Read more 1 California A British family’s pathos and humor ‘A Spot of Bother’ by Mark Haddon (Doubleday: 354 pages)Sept. 5, 2006 2 California Imitation of life ‘The Lay of the Land’ by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf: 488 pages)Nov. 22, 2006 3 California Scientific meditations on the passage of time ‘The Sea Lady: A Late Romance’ by Margaret Drabble (Harcourt: 346 pages)May 7, 2007 4 California The counterlife ‘Exit Ghost’ by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin: 304 pages)Sept. 30, 2007 5 California Love letters ‘The End of the Alphabet’ by C.S. Richardson (Doubleday: 120 pages)Aug. 12, 2007 6 California All you need is love ‘The Maytrees’ by Annie Dillard (HarperCollins: 216 pages)June 24, 2007 7 California Maupin visits old friends but can’t go home again ‘Michael Tolliver Lives’ by Armistead Maupin (HarperCollins: 288 pages)June 1, 2007 8 California From McMurtry, a multilayered saga ‘When the Light Goes’ by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster: 196 pages)March 7, 2007 9 California Years apart, lovers reconnect ‘Spring and Fall’ by Nicholas Delbanco (Warner: 290 pages)Nov. 7, 2006
