March 2019 Book List
I slipped and fell on my icy driveway, and after just getting a manicure too (which I rarely indulge in). My productivity declined in a fog of muscle relaxers that were a bit too mild for the job for the three weeks it took for my back to recover. When your body fails you, however temporarily, you begin to understand all the trendy talk about a mind-body connection. I had to fit my blogging in when I was functional, but my brain was not exactly firing on all cylinders. All of this is my excuse for why this book list is so late. The dog did not eat my homework; I blame this one on winter. Hope you find some good books in here. It looks very promising.
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Fiction
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
The Wall: A Novel by John Lanchester
The Old Drift: A Novel by Namwali Serpell
The Altruists by Andrew Ridker
A Woman is No Man: A Novel by Etaf Rum
The Parade by Dave Eggers
Daisy Jones and the Six: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself: A Novel by William Boyle
Little Faith by Nickolas Butler
The River: A Novel by Peter Heller
Mysteries and Thriller
The Lost Night: A Novel by Andrea Bartz
Wolf Pack (A Joe Pickets Novel) by C. J. Box
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
The Terminal List: A Thriller by Jack Carr
Run Away by Harlan Coben
The River by Peter Heller
Unto Us a Son Is Given (Guido Brunetti) by Donna Leon
The Border: A Novel (Power of the Dog) by Don Winslow
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
Cemetery Road: A Novel by Greg Iles
Biographies and Memoirs
Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War by Samantha Seiple
The Sun is a Compass: A 4,000 mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert
Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution by Amber Tamblyn
Good Talk: A Memoir on Conversation by Mira Jacobs
I.M.: A Memoir by Isaac Mizrahi
Too Much is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood by Andrew Rannells
Magic is Dead: My Journey into the World’s most Secretive Society of Magicians by Jan Frisch
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life by Mark Synnott
No Happy Endings: A Memoir by Nora McInerny
First: Sandra Day O’Connor by Evan Thomas
Nonfiction
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World by Paul Morland
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity by Amy Webb
The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five Hundred Year Odyssey by Margaret Leslie Davis
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotiowitz
The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors by Matthew O. Jackson
Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11 by James Donovan
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Brian Switek
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves by Frans de Waal
Horizon by Barry Lopez
All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality and Solving Crimes by Sue Black DBE FRSE
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Giant Superbug by Steffanie Strathdee, Thomas Patterson
Science Fiction and Fantasy
One Way by S.J. Morden, Bk. 1
No Way by S.J. Morden, Bk. 2
Winter World by A.G. Riddle
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
Women’s War by Jenna Glass
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
The Municipalists: A Novel by Seth Fried
The New York Times Book Review
Feb. 8
Fiction
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, 1stvolume, Dark Star Trilogy by Marlon James
Same, Same by Peter Mendelsund
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
I Am God by Giacomo Sartori
Nonfiction
Unexampled Courage by Richard Gergel
The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
A Bright Future by Joshua Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvist
Maid by Stephanie Land
An Indefinite Sentence by Siddharth Dube
The Short List – Einstein’s Legacy
Einstein’s Shadow by Seth Fletcher
Einstein’s Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes by Chris Impey
Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects by Chad Orzel
New and Noteworthy
The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman
Only in New York by Sam Roberts
Jimmy Neurosis by James Oseland
The Missing Pages by Heghnar Zietlian
The Wild Bunch by W. K. Stralton
9 Books Recommended by Editors
Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary: Selected Works of Kathleen Collins by Kathleen Collins
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
As Long as We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Choney
The Plotters by Un-Su Kim, trans. by Sara Kim-Russell
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah E. Lipstadt
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why it Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts by Jill Abramson
The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash
Political Tell-Alls
Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in Trump’s White House by Cliff Sims
Let Me Finish by Chris Christie
The Threat: How the FBI protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump by Andrew McCabe
Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharrara
Feb. 15
Fiction
Landfall by Thomas Mallon
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Nonfiction
All the Lives We Never Lived by Katharine Smyth
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
Wild Bill by Tom Calvin
Lady First by Amy Greenberg
Walk This Way by Geoff Edgers
The Short List – 5 Essay Collections by Women of Color
Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life by Kim McLarin
Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary: Selected Works of Kathleen Collins by Nina Lorez Collins
Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Religion by Nishta J. Mehra
Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottam
Blockchain Tech
Blockchain and Law: The Rule of Code by Primavera De Filippi and Aaron Wright
The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust by Kevin Warback
Crime
Stalker by Lars Kepler
Careless Love by Peter Robinson
The Wedding Guest by Jonathan Kellerman
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
New This Week – Audio Books
Atomic Marriage by Curtis Sittenfelf
The Stranger Inside by Laura Benedict
Power Moves by Adam Grant
The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm by Christopher Paolini
The Last Days of August by Jon Ronson
9 New Books We Recommend
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
Nobody’s Looking at You: Essays by Janet Malcolm
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring by Richard Gergel
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything that Comes After by Julie Yip-Williams
An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex by Siddharth Dube
Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to see the Unseeable by Seth Fletcher
Feb. 24
Nonfiction
How to Disappear by Akiko Busch
Silence by Jane Brox
Separate: The Story of Plessy v Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Luxemberg
Notes on a Shipwreck by Davide Enia
If We Can Keep it by Michael Tomasky
Sleeping with Strangers by David Thomson
Shortest Way Home by Pete Buttigieg
Fiction
The Cassandra by Sharma Shields
Good Riddance by Elinor Lipman
Leading Men by Christopher Castellani
New Fantasy Fiction
The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyon (Series – Chorus of Dragons
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
Fiction
Wella and Hesper by Amy Feltman
Coming of Age Overseas
What Hell is Not by Alessandro D’Avenia
99 Night in Logas by Jamil Jan Kochai
March 1
Nonfiction
Mama’s Last Hug by Frans de Waal
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Empires of the Weak by J.S. Sharman
The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
The Third Pillar by Raghuram Rajan
Memoirs of Love and Loss
How to Be Loved by Eva Hagberg Fisher
Joy Enough by Sarah McColl
The Art of Leaving: A Memoir in Essays by Ayelet Tsabari
Fiction
The White Book by Han Kang
Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa
Zuleikha by Guzel Yakim
Crime
The Border (last in a trilogy) by Don Winslow
Unto Us a Son is Given (Guido Brunetti) by Donna Leon
A Friend is a Gift Yourself by William Boyle
Cemetery Road by Greg Iles
Fiction
The Heavens by Sandra Newman
Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
NYT’s article – Sabra Embury, a writer, asks authors to draw 10 second drawings of rabbits (bunnies). Not a book, but fun to check out.
www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/books/sabra-embury.html
A few books recommended by editors
The Threat by Andrew McCabe
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman
Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire by David Thomson
Good Riddance by Elinor Lipman
Publishers Weekly Tip Sheets
Feb. 4
Stalin’s Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokov by Brian J. Boeck NF
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson NF
Europe: A Natural History by Tim Flannery NF
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America by Carrie Gibson NF
Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk by Amy S. Greenberg NF
What We Did: A Novel by Christobel Kent F
A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams F – short story anthology
The Ruin of Kings: A Chorus of Dragon’s, Book 1, by Jenn Lyons F
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken F
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides F
Magical Negro by Morgan Parker F
I Am God by Giacomo Sartori F
The Age of Light by Whitney Sharer F
Off Season by James Sturm F, graphic novel
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang NF, essays
The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber F
Feb. 11
The Pianist from Syria: A Memoir by Aeham Ahmad NF, Memoir
Leading Men by Christopher Castellani F
The Night Tiger by Yongsze Choo F
Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving by Caitlyn Collins NF
Parkland by Dave Cullen NF
Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts F
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli F
Rag by Maryse Farrar F, short stories
Honey in the Carcase by Josip Novakovich F
The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir, trans. from Icelandic by Victoria Cobb F
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, trans. from Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt F
American Spy by LaurenWilkinson F
Feb. 18
Trump Sky Alpha by Mark Doten F
Where Oblivion Lives by T. Frohock F
In the Dark by Cara Hunter F
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr NF
The Darkest Year: The American Homefront, 1941-1942 by William K Klingaman NF
Broken Stars (Anthology) edited and trans. from the Chinese by Ken Liu F, science fiction short stories
American Heroin by Melissa Scrivner F
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II by Adam Mako NF
Nobody’s Looking at You: Essays by Janet Malcolm NF, essays
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America edited by Nikesh Shukla, NF, essays
Feb. 25
Vacuum in the Dark by Jen Beagin F
The Very Best of the Best: 25 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozios F, short stories
After She’s Gone by Camilla Grebe, trans. from Swedish by Elizabeth Clark Wessel F
Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement by David K Johnson NF
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe NF
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie F
Mother Country by Irina Reyn F
PTSD by Guillaume Singelin “This is a glorious meditation on the lingering horrors of war.” F
Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America by Michael P Winship NF
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