Worth Reading

Reminder: More content added daily to the recommended lists of summer books!

Filed under: readers advisory, seasonal previews on June 11th, 2008 | No Comments »

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 […]

Filed under: book reviews, readers advisory, booklists, fiction, publishing, seasonal previews, oprah, non-fiction on May 29th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

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.)

Filed under: readers advisory, booklists, seasonal previews, best of on May 5th, 2008 | No Comments »

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 […]

Filed under: publishing, seasonal previews on April 7th, 2008 | No Comments »

“‘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, […]

Filed under: book reviews, readers advisory, history, booklists, fiction, publishing, seasonal previews on September 10th, 2007 | 1 Comment »