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August 25, 2009
Poetry
Diary in Reverse by Audreyanna Garrett (Lulu)
Globetrotter & Hitler's Children by Amatoritsero (Black Goat)
Selected Poems by Diana Wier (Wave)
... and Beefheart Saved Craig by Jefferson Hansen (BlazeVOX)
Night Sweat by Nathan Leslie (Hamilton Stone)
The Logic of Clouds by Marc Pietrzykowski (BlazeVOX)
Fences by Ben Brooks (Fugue State Press)
This is the Red Door by James R. Whitley (Ironweed Press)
Posted by Caroline Eick at 12:57 AM
Nonfiction
The Brenner Assignment by Patrick K. O'Donnell
The Water Giver by Joan Ryan
The Guinea Pig Diaries by A.J. Jacobs
The Wicked Son by David Mamet
Lies My Mother Never Told Me by Kaylie Jones
Ambrose Bierce's Write it Right by Jan Freeman
Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude
Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life by Michael Greenberg
What Would Jane Say?: City-Building Women and a Tale of Two Chicagos by Janice Metzger
The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction by Suzanne Jill Levine
The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans by Ned Sublette
Death from the Skies! The Science Behind the End of the World by Philip Plait
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman
Out of My Life and Thought by Albert Schweitzer
Pistols! Treason! Murder! The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy by Jonathan Walker
Imagine: A Vagabond Story by Grant Lingel
Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville by David Freeland
Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages by Brett Edward Whalen
Napoleon in Egypt by Paul Strathern
Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies by Arthur Goldwag
The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir by Peter Grandbois
Bringing it to the Table by Wendell Berry
Along the River that Flows Uphill by Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt
Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days by Scott Donaldson
History of the Mafia by Salvatore Lupo
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba by Tom Gjelten
In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic by Peter Berger and Anton Zijderveld
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower
Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
The F Word by Jesse Sheidlower
Booklife by Jeff Vandermeer
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ by Hooman Majd
How to be Inappropriate by Daniel Nester
Creative Life by Bob Ostertag
Redeeming Features by Nicholas Haslam
Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting by Dietmar Elger
Posted by Caroline Eick at 12:14 AM
August 20, 2009
Fiction
Other Resort Cities by Tod Goldberg
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
Hell by Robert Olen Butler
A Time for Everything by Karl O. Knausgaard
The Corner Booth Chronicles by Mimi Thebo
The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease edited by Sarah Eyre and Ra Page
The Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim
Diary of a Witness by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Love is the Higher Law by David Levithan
To Siberia by Per Petterson
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
Bed and Breakfast by Lois Battle
The China Lover by Ian Buruma
The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor
New Stories from the South edited by Madison Smartt Bell
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Girl Mary by Petru Popescu
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell
Sex Dungeon for Sale! by Patrick Wensink
Whiskey Pike by Jeff Phillips
The Art Student's War by Brad Leithauser
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Sleepwalkers' Ball by Alan Bilton
Green Eyes in the Amazon by P.J. Fischer
In This Way I Was Saved by Brian DeLeeuw
Kristallnacht 1938 by Alan E. Steinweis
In Too Deep by Billy O'Callaghan
Running Away by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
But Not for Long by Michelle Wildgen
Between Nowhere and Happiness by Daniel Kine
Overqualified by Joey Comeau
The Complete Collection of People, Places and Things by John Dermot Woods
Homeland by Barbara Hambly
Andromeda Klein by Frank Portman
Undiscovered Gyrl by Allison Burnett
The Eyeball Collector by F.E. Higgins
A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living by Michael Dahlie
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Remedies by Kate Ledger
A True History of the Hula Hoop by Judith Lanigan
Big Machine by Victor LaValle
Misconception by Ryan Boudinot
The Locust and the Bird by Hanan Al-Shaykh
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith
Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk
Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle
The Book of Jokes by Momus
Self's Murder by Bernhard Schlink
The Adderall Diaries by Stephen Elliott
The Shieling by David Constantine
A Boardwalk Story by J. Louis Yampolsky
The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim
The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri
Nibble and Kuhn by David Schmahmann
Introducing Aunt Dimity, Paranormal Detective by Nancy Atherton
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
Posted by Caroline Eick at 03:00 AM
August 04, 2009
Nonfiction
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
Halfway to Each Other by Susan Pohlman
The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers by Jocelyn R. Neal
The Lost Origins of the Essay edited by John D'Agata
Dillinger: The Untold Story by G. Russell Girardin and William J. Helmer
Burying Don Imus by Michael Awkward
A Dream Within a Dream: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Nigel Barnes
The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee
Babysitter: An American History by Miriam Forman-Brunell
Hungry by Sheila and Lisa Himmel
Precious Metal edited by Albert Mudrian
The Last Founding Father by Harlowe Giles Unger
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our Worst Fears by Stephen T. Asma
Dispatches from Juvenile Hall by John Aarons, et al
Barney Ross: The Life of a Jewish Fighter by Douglas Century
Betraying Spinoza by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum by Rebecca Loncraine
Fidel and Gabo by Angel Esteban
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen
Tattoo Machine by Jeff Johnson
The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature edited by J.C. Hallman
A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland
Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words by John Bemelmans Marciano
Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers edited by Astra Taylor
Marcus Aurelius: A Life by Frank McLynn
Reading Ronell edited by Diane Davis
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City by Anthony Flint
Tiepolo Pink by Roberto Calasso
The Power of Comics: History Form and Culture by Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith
Bluebird: A Memoir by Vesna Maric
Time by Eva Hoffman
Posted by Caroline Eick at 04:29 AM