October 2018 Book List
I am attempting to be a bit more interactive so I am turning this book list into
A Survey and a Drawing.
Choose 5 titles that interest you from this book list. Write them on a post card or a on a sheet of paper to place in an envelope. Send your list to PO Box 3876, Syracuse, NY 13220.
Drawing: After I receive 50 surveys I will pick a winner and send a mug (see picture at the end of the list. You will need to add your email address to the card or note (I will not keep it after the drawing) so I can contact you if you win. You will also need to say whether you want the cup that has the flowered armchair, or the cheap seats.
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Literature and Fiction
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
Killing Commendatore: A Novel by Haruki Murakami *
Unsheltered: a Novel by Barbara Kingsolver *
Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners by Gretchen Anthony
A Spark of Light: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
Waiting for Eden: A Novel by Eliot Ackerman
Little: A Novel by Edward Carey
November Road: A Novel by Lou Berney
Gone So Long: A Novel by Andre Dubus III
Mysteries and Thrillers
The Other Wife by Michael Robotham
Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anna Waterhouse
The Reckoning by John Grisham *
Wrecked (An IQ Novel) by Joe Ide
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
The Craftsman: A Novel by Sharon Bolton
Consumed (Firefighters Series) by JR Ward
Thin Air: A Novel by Richard K. Morgan
November Road: A Novel by Lou Berney
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920’s by Leslie S Klinger, Otto Penzier
The Witch Elm by Tana Frence
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Nonfiction
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Brand by Hand: Blisters, Calluses, Clients: A Life of Design by Jon Contino
Last Days of the Concorde: The Crash of Flight 4500 and the End of Supersonic Passenger Travel by Samme Chittum
Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion and Revolution by Ben Fountain *
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List by James Mustich *
Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts by Brené Brown
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World by Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham
Impossible Owls: Essays by Brian Phillips
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz
Like War: The Weaponization of Social Media by PW Singer, Emerson T Brooking
The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang
Biographies and Memoirs
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History by Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally
I Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson
My Love Story by Tina Turner *
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee by Sam Kashner, Nancy Schoenberger *
Everything’s Trash But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson, Ilana Allzer
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife
This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Phillips
Who is Michael Orvitz? By Michael Orvitz
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce by Colm Toibin
Roger Daltry: Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story by Roger Daltrey
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir by Casey Gerald
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W Blight
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron de Hart
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
New York Times Book Review
Sept. 2
Nonfiction
The Splintering of the American Mind by William Egginton
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault
Bitwise by David Auerbach
Identity by Francis Fukuyama
The Lies that Bind by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Dead Girls by Alice Bolin
Against Memoir by Michelle Tea
Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods by William Logan
Fiction
Red, White, Blue by Lea Carpenter
Safe Houses by Dan Fesperman
The Garden Party of Fugitives: A Literary Tale of Love and Obsession by Ceridwen Dovey
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Read Me by Leo Benedictus
The Shortlist
A Walk Through Paris by Eric Hazan
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle *
A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment by Stéphane Hénaut and Jeni Mitchell
(not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living by Mark Greenside
Crime Novels
Gravesend by William Boyle
Depth of Winter by Craig Johnson
In Her Bones by Kate Moretti
Sunrise Highway by Peter Blauner
Sept. 9
Nonfiction
The 21 Lessons for the 21stCentury by Yuval Noah Hazari
Fashion Climbing by Bill Cunningham
Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity by Michael Kinch
Boom Town by Sam Anderson (Oklahoma City)
Small Trip by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire by Deborah Baker
Fiction
Presidio by Randy Kennedy
The Devoted by Blair Hurley
The World is a Narrow Bridge by Aaron Their
Cherry by Nico Walker
Open Men by Lisa Locascio
Babylon by Yasmina Reza
Katerina by James Frey
Sept. 16
Nonfiction
How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley
These Truths by Jill Lepore *
The Browns of California by Miriam Powell
Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg
Heartland by Sarah Smarsh
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers by Michele Gelfand
Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Embattled Vote in America by Allan J. Lichtman
The Fall of Wisconsin by Dan Kaufman
The Improbable Wendell Willkie by David Levering Lewis
The Oath and the Office by Corey Brett Schneider
America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges *
Fiction
Conscience by Alice Mattison
Crime
The Man Who Came Uptown by George Pelicanos
A Forgotten Place by Charles Todd
When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica
Paris in the Dark by Robert Olen Butler
Essays
Rising Out of Hatred by Eli Saslow
Sept. 23
Fiction
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Still Life with Monkey by Katharine Weber
Romance
The Governess Game by Tessa Dare
Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
Stripped by Zoey Castile
Free Fall by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner
The Duke I Tempted by Scarlett Peckham
The Shortlist (Fiction-Lost young men)
Empire of Light by Michael Bible
aBrother: A Novel by David Chariandy
A Diet of Worms by Erik Rasmussen
Nonfiction
Can You Tolerate This? By Ashleigh Young
The Schoolhouse Gate by Justin Driver
A Chill in the Air by Iris Origo
Underbug by Lisa Margonelli
The Victorian and the Romantic by Neil Stevens
Big Game by Mark Leibovich
The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman
Rust and Stardust by T. Greenwood
Ticker by Mimi Swartz
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy by Anne Boyd Rioux
Disordered Brain by Eric Kandel
Sept. 30
Fiction
My Struggle, Bk. 6, by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart *
His Favorites by Kate Walbert
The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Ohio y Stephen Markley
Immigrant Montana by Amitava Kumar
The Piranhas by Roberto Saviano
Nonfiction
The Field of Blood by Joanne Freeman
Passing for Human by Liana Finch
Publisher’s Weekly Tip Sheet
Sept. 3
Better Times by Sara Batkie (Short Stories)
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs (NF)
Terra Nullius by Claire G Coleman (F)
Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs by Bill Cunningham (Memoir)
Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Life in Contemporary Palestine by Marcello DiCintio (NF)
The Last Palace: Europe’s Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House by Norman Eisen (NF)
Pale Horse Rider by William Cooper (F)
The Rise of Conspiracy and the Fall of Trust in America by Mark Jacobson (NF)
Every Day is Extra by John Kerry (Memoir)
The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling (F)
And the Ocean was Our Sky by Patrick Ness (F)
After the Winter by Guadalupe Nettel, trans. from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey (F)
We That Are Young by Preti Taneja (F)
Ponti by Sharlene Teo (F)
Sept. 17
Kafka’s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy by Benjamin Balint (NF)
American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shana Bauer (NF) *
Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity by Nick Bunker (NF)
A Heart in the Body of the World by Deb Coletti (F)
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (F)
Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin (NF)
The Infinite Blacktop by Sarah Gran (F)
Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar (NF)
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre (NF)
The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America during World War II by Mary Jo McConahay (NF)
How to Invent Everything: A Survival’s Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North (Humorous)
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh (Memoir)
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood and the World by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope (NF)
Pride by Ibi Zoboi (YA+)
Sept. 21
Waiting for Eden by Eliot Ackerman (F)
Bad Friends by Ancco, trans. from the Korean by Janet Hong (F)
Transcription by Kate Atkinson (F)
Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution by Ben Fountain (Essays)
The War Outside by Monica Hesse (YA+)
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee by Sam Kasher and Nancy Schoenberger (NF)
The Governesses by Anne Serre, trans. from the French by Mark Hutchinson (F)
Home After Dark by David Small (F)
The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (F)
Oct. 1
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (Memoir)
The Ice Swimmer by Kjell Ola Dahl, trans. from the Norwegian by Dan Bartlett (F)
Gone So Long by Andre Dubus III (F)
Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray (NF)
What If this Were Enough? Essays by Heather Havrilesky (NF)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by NK Jemisin (Sht. Stories)
The Taiga Syndrome by Christine Rivera Garza trans. from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana (F)
Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman (YA+)
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides (NF)
Reagan: An American Journey by Bob Spitz (NF)
Photo Credit: From a Google Image Search – Ector County Library
So Many Books, Choose Wisely 