Library Journal’s annotated list of fiction and mystery titles for the holiday season offers 16 books, including a some food-themed cozies, a new Sneaky Pie Brown (Santa Clawed: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery), and a short Austrian tale of literary fiction by Adalbert Stifter, Rock Crystal.
LJ’s similar list of romance titles has another 14 holiday titles [...]
And so it begins.
USA Today’s 10 Talkers, offered with publication date, ‘talking points’ and a tiny excerpt each, includes books by Wally Lamb, Bob Woodward (The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008), Toni Morrison, Candace Bushnell, actor Alec Baldwin (A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey through Fatherhood and Divorce), the Laura Bush novel [...]
Reminder: More content added daily to the recommended lists of summer books!
USA Today posts its lengthy interactive list of summer fiction and non-fiction. You can sort by title, author or release date, and look at all the books at once or only fiction or non-. Excerpts available for some. [22 May]
Politics and Prose Bookstore’s Summer Favorites 2008, with separate lists for hardcover fiction, paperback fiction, pb [...]
The National Book Critics Circle announced its Spring 2008 Good Reads List this weekend, comprised of 10 fiction, 5 non-fiction, and 5 poetry titles. (More Spring Book recommendations here.)
it’s that time again … Here are links to the first of the Spring Books Preview lists:
>> Washington Post: Lists about 35 fiction, mystery and suspense, and short story titles , and the same number of non-fiction titles, organised by topic (biography, the world, sports, memoir, etc.)
>> Village Voice: Features a review of Martin Amis’s [...]
“‘It is a spectacular fall,’ says Carole Horne, general manager of the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. ‘One of the best that I’ve seen.’” (Oscar Villalon at SFGate agrees.)
Horne is reported in the Christian Science Monitor to have particularly high hopes for the new Philip Roth book, Exit Ghost, and the new Richard Russo, [...]