Aravind Adiga’s debut novel has won the Man Booker Prize in the U.K.

The Best Links:

1. The White Tiger on Amazon.com
2. How Did The White Tiger Capture the Booker?
3. Aravind Adiga, First-Time Novelist, Wins Booker!

The former White House press secretary’s new tell-all book, What Happened , comes out on Monday, and is already generating a lot of press.

The Best Links:

1. A Striking Criticism From a Former Bush Supporter
2. Scotty Pleads For History to Remember Him as Misled
3. Why Does McClellan Needs Us to Know He Still “Likes” Bush?
4. “McClellan Shocker: Bush Too Drunk to Remember How Much Cocaine He Did”
5. Commenters Weigh In
6. From Puppet to “Left-Wing Blogger” in One Fell Swoop!

A new book from New York Times Magazine columnist Rob Walker about our relationship with the brands we consume.

The Best Links:

1. Buying In: A Sneak Peak of the Book
2. Interview with Rob Walker
3. “His theory is that we have a deep relationship and dialogue with the products we consume.”
4. “A fantastic read for anyone engaged in brands”
5. Book Review: “Buying In”
6. Walker’s Blog: murketing

Arianna Huffington’s new book exposes the “Lunatic Fringe” of the Republican Party.

The Best Links:

1. Lunatic Fringe Definition: “The Fanatical, Extremist, Or Irrational Members of a Society Or Group”
2. San Francisco Chronicle On the “Lunatic Fringe”, Arianna’s Crusade, and the Huffington Post
3. Right Wing’s “Lunatic Fringe” Gets Mainstream Attention on ABC’s 20/20
4. Official Site of the Anti-Lunatic Fringe
5. The Lunatic Fringe Book: “Right Is Wrong” on Amazon

A professor dying of pancreatic cancer gives a final lecture for his kids.

The Best Links:

1. Randy Pausch Has Passed Away
2. The Last Lecture Official Site
3. Randy Pausch’s Home Page
4. An Interview With Randy Pausch: “Dealing with Bad News”
5. Updates on Pausch’s Health Status
6. Here Comes the Booking From the Amazing Lecture
7. But “The Last Lecture” Here
8. Why Don’t We Do More for Pancreatic Cancer Research?
9. Randy Pausch Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
10. Speaking Only to the Children

New York City’s most popular publicist’s first book, I Was Told There’d Be Cake , is receiving lots of attention and the requisite amount of backlash.

The Best Links:

1. Sloane Crosley’s writing makes me sleepy
2. An Essay from The Book “The Best-laid Plans”
3. Daily Candy Thinks She “Takes the Cake”
4. Crosley’s Essay: I Am Not a Piece of Candy Twisted Symmetrically at the Ends
5. Why I Want to Hate Sloane Crosley…but Can’t Actually Seem to
6. Sloane Crosley Official Site
7. “Boring and Trifling”: A Salon.com Reader On Sloane Crosley’s Essay The Best Laid Plans
8. Sloane Crosley’s Lesson in Self-Effacement [Making It]
9. The New York Observer Really Really Loves Sloane Crosley

The new novel, by author Graham Rawle, is composed entirely of phrases clipped from women’s magazines of the ’60s.

The Best Links:

1. Jezebel’s Book Of The Month Club Selection
2. What “Woman’s World” Looks Like
3. “Woman’s World: A Novel” by Graham Rawle
4. “This project suggests an author with a touch of obsessive-compulsive disorder.”