Notable Fiction Books of 2001 from the New York Times. And the editors’ choice of the best of the best, including Booker Prize winner Peter Carey, this year’s darling Jonathan Franzen, Alice Munro’s latest, and the intriguing W.G. Sebald in fiction choices. Louis Menand’s portrait of the Metaphysical Club (somewhere in my pile of books to get to) and the new Oliver Sacks memoir hold down the nonfiction end, along with the McCullough biography of John Adams (in which I have no interest).