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June 24, 2009
Nonfiction
Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What It Says About the Economic Crisis by Kari Lydersen
The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism edited by Danya Ruttenberg
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell
Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past by Patrick Alexander
Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by Brad Kessler
The Elements of Story: Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing by Francis Flaherty
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen
The Essays of Leonard Michaels
Her Brilliant Career: The Life of Stella Miles Franklin by Jill Roe
Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France's Belle Epoque by Kate Cambor
Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton by Mark Polizzotti
In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemmings Sex Scandal by William G. Hyland Jr.
Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records by John Cook
Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir by Sue William Silverman
Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters by Jonathan Nossiter
Why cant U teach me 2 read?: Three Students and a Mayor Put Our Schools to the Test by Beth Fertig
Capture the Flag: A Political History of American Patriotism by Woden Teachout
I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago by Hape Kerkeling
We Did Porn by Zak Smith
Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary by Paul Dickson
Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being by Esther M. Sternberg, M.D.
The Sixties by Jenny Diski
Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider by Tim Page
Dreaming of Baghdad by Haifa Zangana
Mean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway
Paranoia and Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Jvenile Facility by Jerome Gold
The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes
The Death of Why?: The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy by Andrea Batista Schlesinger
The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World by Paul Collins
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles
Unsuspecting Souls: The Disappearance of the Human Being by Barry Sanders
Justice: What's the Right Thing to do? by Michael J. Sandel
This I Believe II: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women edited Jay Allison
The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry by Susan B. A. Somers-Willett
Between the Monster and the Saint by Richard Holloway
The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief by David Plante
Dear Sound of Footstep by Ashley Butler
Booker T. Washington by Raymond W. Smock
Devil's Sanctuary: An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes by Alex A. Alston Jr. and James L. Dickerson
Intimate Stranger by Breyten Breytenbach
The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals by Charles Siebert
Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival by Greg Dawson
Jean-Luc Nancy On the Commerce of Thinking Translated by David Wills
How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely
Bjork by Nicola Dibben
Posted by Caroline Eick at 02:20 AM
June 23, 2009
Fiction
My Goat Ate its Own Legs: Tales for Adults by Alex Burrett
A Secret Alchemy by Emma Darwin
Pop Salvation by Lance Reynald
Picking Bones from Ash by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
The Little Secret by Kate Saunders
Vanilla Ride by Joe R. Lansdale
Angel Time by Anne Rice
Gravity Vs. the Girl by Riley Noehren
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardham
The Jewish Husband by Lia Levi
Lime Tree Can't Bear Orange by Amanda Smyth
Alyzon Whitestarr by Isobelle Carmody
Fairy Tale by Cyn Balog
The Word Book by Mieko Kanai
Western by Christine Montalbetti
Jerusalem by Goncalo M. Tavares
Jarrettsville by Cornelia Nixon
The Embers by Hyatt Bass
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
Mind's Eye by Hakan Nesser
Sugarless by James Magruder
The Trial of Robert Mugabe by Chielo Zona Eze
The Black Death by John Hatcher
The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu by Michael Stanley
Baddies by David Stromberg
Kamby Bolongo Mean River by Robert Lopez
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg
Heart of the Old Country by Tim McLoughlin
is/was by Jenny Sampirisi
The Evolution of Shadows by Jason Quinn Malott
The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine
The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin
The Blindfold Test by Barry Schechter
The Fall of Iman by Nawal El Saadawi
The Lie by O.H. Bennett
And What Have You Done? by Jose Castro Urioste
Better by John O'Brien
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Women's Room by Marilyn French
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
Rasskazy by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker
The Book of Jokes by Momus
Fall by Colin McAdam
Castration Celebration by Jake Wizner
The Love Children by Marilyn French
A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein
The Bird Catcher by Laura Jacobs
The Beijing of Possibilities by Jonathan Tel
The Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy
Delhi Noir by Hirsh Sawhney
Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
It Feels So Good When I Stop by Joe Pernice
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie
Ballads of Surburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert
Bitten: Dark Erotic Stories edited by Susie Bright
Homer and Lagley by E.L. Doctorow
The German Woman by Paul Griner
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
The Truth About Love by Josephine Hart
Social Lives by Wendy Walker
The Good Mayor by Andrew Nicoll
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
As God Commands by Niccolo Ammaniti
Seen the Glory by John Hough, Jr.
Strangers by Anita Brookner
For Grace Received by Valeria Parrella
No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon
David Inside Out by Lee Bantle
Concord, Virginia by Peter Neofotis
The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini
The Great River by Charles Dee Sharp
The Original Frankenstein (Or, The Modern Prometheus) by Mary Shelley (With Percy Shelley)
Aesop's Mirror by Maryalice Huggins
Humanoid by Miguel Burr
Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin
The Mere Future by Sarah Schulman
Posted by Caroline Eick at 03:36 AM
June 06, 2009
Poetry
Trust by Liz Waldner (Cleveland State University)
The Mind-Body Problem by Katha Pollitt (Random House)
As Is by James Galvin (Copper Canyon)
Mixology by Adrian Matejka (Penguin)
The History of Forgetting by Lawrence Raab (Penguin)
Slamming Open the Door by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno (Alice James)
Dear Sound of Footstep by Ashley Butler (Sarabande)
Self-Portrait with Crayon by Allison Benis White (Cleveland State University)
There's Something Wrong with Sven by Greg Gerke (BlazeVox)
The King by Rebecca Wolff (WW Norton)
a by Sophie Robinson (Les Figues)
Harvesting Silence by Dennis Sullivan (Benevolent Bird)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 08:14 PM
June 01, 2009
Nonfiction
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson
A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the 21st Century by Cristina Nehring
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder by Stephen Elliott
Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict by Irene Vilar
The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs by Stephen S. Ilardi, PhD
Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, the Living Dead, and Other Signs of Religious Life in the US by Gary Laderman
Kahn by David Brownlee and David DeLong
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey
Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewis Delicatessen by David Sax
The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Francoise d'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon by Veronica Buckley
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island by Vincent J Cannato
Returning to Iran by Sima Nahan
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music by Greg Milner
Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love and Spain by Lori L Tharps
No Impact Man by Colin Beavan
A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome by Alberto Angela
Hammer and Tickle: The Story of Communism, a Political System Almost Laughed Out of Existence by Ben Lewis
Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life by Edna O'Brien
Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal by Julie Metz
So Long as Men Can Breathe: The Untold Story of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Clinton Heylin
The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour by Andrei Cherny
Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York by William Grimes
A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman by Wadad Makdisi Cortas
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen
The Ride by Brian MacQuarrie
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 08:56 PM
Fiction
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival: Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone by Dene Low
The Disappearance of Seth by Kazim Ali
How to Rob an Armored Car by Iain Levison
You or Someone Like You by Chandler Burr
The Reluctant Daughter by Leslea Newman
The Boys are Back by Simon Carr
Commencement by J Courtney Sullivan
Where I Stay by Andrew Zornoza
Field of Honor by Max Aub
This Side of Jordan by Monte Schulz
Green by Jay Lake
Girl Crazy: Coming Out Erotica edited by Sacchi Green
The One That Got Away by Zoe Wicomb
How the Indians Buried Their Dead by Hilary Masters
Far North by Marcel Theroux
The Longshot by Katie Kitamura
Mixed Animal by Richard Martin
Been Here a Thousand Years by Mariolina Venezia
Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by Lara Vapnyar
Trouble by Kate Christensen
A River Called Time by Mia Couto
The World That Was Ours by Hilda Bernstein
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
Idristan by Nick Weldon
Do Not Deny Me by Jean Thompson
When to Go into the Water by Lawrence Sutin
On the Winding Stair by Joanna Howard
Appassionata by Eva Hoffman
Yesterday's Weather: Stories by Anne Enright
Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
Our Lady of the Night by Mayra Santos-Febres
Hell by Robert Olen Butler
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
Tempo Change by Barbara Hall
Arkansas by John Brandon
The Child Thief by Brom
One of These Things Is Not Like the Others by Stephanie Johnson (Keyhole)
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo
Woman with Birthmark by Hakan Nesser
Happy Trails to You by Julie Hecht
City of Strangers by Ian MacKenzie
The Children's Book by A S Byatt
The Imagination of the Heart by Barry Gifford
Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes
Pariah by Dave Zeltserman
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
The Blindfold Test by Barry Schechter
New Letters, #75
Love Today by Maxim Biller
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
The Cat in the Coffin by Mariko Koike
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 05:29 PM