November 2019 Book List

November 2019 Book List

I have a recurring dream. I am escorted to a well-appointed studio apartment with all the new books for the month piled on every available surface. I am given a key, a valet robot who can cook and clean, and an AI virtual presence to handle my business and social interactions. I can read as long as I like but I can’t take any books out of the apartment and if I leave I can’t come back in. Am I obsessed? Actually this is a dream that could turn into a nightmare. However if you could take books out into the world with you and if you could come and go as you please, it might just be perfect.

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Literature and Fiction

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern  F*

This is Pleasure: A Story by Mary Gaitskill F

On Swift Horses: A Novel by Shannon Pufahl F

Girl, Woman, other: A Novel by Berndine Evaristo F*

The Innocents: A Novel by Michael Crummay F

Find Me: A Novel by André Aciman F

The Revisioners: A Novel by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton F

The Confession Club: A Novel (Mason) by Elizabeth Berg F*

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson  F*

Mary Toft: or The Rabbit Queen: A Novel by Dexter Pullman  F*

Mysteries and Thrillers

The Lost Causes of Beale Creek: A Novel by Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal

Broken Glass (A Nik Pohl Thriller) by Alexander Hartung and Fiona Beaton

A Christmas Gathering by Anne Perry

Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens

The Family Upstairs: A Novel by Lisa Jewell

Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry: A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark

The Siberian Dilemma 9 (The Arkady Renko Novels) by Martin Cruz Smith

An Equal Justice (David Adams) by Chad Zunker

A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci

36 Righteous Men by Steven Pressfield

Nonfiction

Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy by Donald L Miller

Valley Forge by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin

Acid for the Children: A Memoir by Flea, Patti Smith *

When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets, Dreadful Orbits, and the Origins of the Night Sky by Erik Asphang

Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals can Transform our Lives and Save Theirs by Richard Louv

The Beautiful Ones by Prince

Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Years of the American Civil War by S. C. Gwynne

Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Iain McGregor *

Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation by Michael Powell

The Great Pretender – The Undercover Mission that Changed our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan *

The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West

User Unfriendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, Work and Play by Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant

Why Are We Yelling: The Art of Productive Disagreement by 
Buster Benson

Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed its Founding Principles – and all of us by Rana Foroohar

Volume Central: Hearing in a Deafening World by David Owen.

Science Fiction and Fantasy

The Deep by Rivers Solomon and Daveed Diggs

The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North

Call Down the Hawk (The Dreamer Trilogy, Bk. 1 by Maggie Stiefvater

Star Wars – Resistance Reborn: The Rise of Skywalker by Rebecca Roanhorse

Made Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fate of the Fallen (Shroud of Prophecy) by Kel Kade

New York Times Book Update

Oct. 4 th

The Topeka School by Ben Lerner F

Sarah Jane by James Sallis – Crime

Bloody Genius by John Sanford – Crime

Gallows Court by Martin Edwards – Crime 

The Bird Boys by Lisa Sandlin – Crime

Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis F

Akin by Emma Donoghue *

Growing Things by Paul Tremblay – Short stories – Horror

The Cabin at the End of the Lane by Paul Tremblay – Horror

Sealed by Naomi Booth – Horror

Nonfiction

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev

What was Liberalism? The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea by James Traub

The Stakes – 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy by Robert Kuttner

The Accusation by Edward Berenson

Scarred by Sarah Edmondson – Nxivm

Super Pumped by Mike Isaac (Uber)

The Anarchy by William Dalrymple

Oct. 11 th

Fiction

The Shadow King by Namwali Serpell

The Sweetest Fruits by Moneque Truong

A Pure Heart by Rajia Hassib

The World that We Knew by Alice Hoffman

A Man in Love by Martin Walser (Göethe)

The Shortlist – Love and War in European Fiction

Country by Michael Hughes

Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth

The Girl at the Door by Veronica Raimo

Nonfiction

Transaction Man by Nicholas Lemann

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

The Second Founding by Eric Foner

Beaten Down, Worked Up by Steven Greenhouse

Homesick by Jennifer Croft (Memoir)

Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas

We are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer

Syria Secret Library by Mike Thompson

A Polar Affair by Lloyd Spencer Davis (promiscuous penguins)

New York Times does Halloween but I don’t.

Nov. 1 st

The Old Success by Martha Grimes – Crime

Death in Focus by Anne Perry – Crime

Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay – Crime

The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney – Crime

Grand Union by Zadie Smith – Short Stories

The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott

Fiction

Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout

Girl by Edna O’Brien

Call Upon the Water by Stella Tillyard

Lampedusa by Steven Price

Nonfiction

Edison by Edmund Morris – Bio.

To Build a Better World by Condoleezza Rice and Philip Zelikow

Sontag by Benjamin Moser – Bio.

Who is an Evangelical? by Thomas S. Kidd

The Immoral Majesty by Ben Howe

The Problem with Everything by Meghan Daum

The Economist’s Hour by  Binyamin Appelbaum

The Marginal Revolutionaries by Janek Wasserman

The Shortlist – 3 Memoirs by Famous Women

Inside Out by Demi Moore

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews with Emma Walton Hamilton

Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie by Carly Simon 

Publisher’s Weekly

Oct. 7 th

Salt Show by Julia Armfield

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes

Older Brother by Mahir Guven, trans. from French by Tina Kover Europa

American Radicals: How Nineteenth Century Protest Shaped the Nation by Holly Jackson

How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones

Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death by Michael Korda

Anti-Social: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

Cosmosknights: Book One by Hannah Templer

Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame by Erin Williams

Oct. 14

Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi trans. from Arabic by Marilyn Booth (Oman) F

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur 

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson NF

Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha F – based on true case

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox Memoir

Music: A Subversive History by Ted Gioia History

One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir by David Lehman Memoir

The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols: Adapted from the Journals of John H. Watson, MD by Nicholas Meyer F

The First Cell: And the Human Cost of Pursuing Cancer to the Last by Azra Razer NF

Salvaged by Madeleine Roux Science Fiction Thriller

It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo trans. from Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer (Caracas, Venezuela) F

Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout

Oct. 21

All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg F *

The Peanut Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the Gang, and the Meaning of Life – Edited by Andrew Blauner (Essays, Poems, Cartoons) (Valentines to Charles M. Schultz)

The Night Fire by Michael Connelly F

The Deserter by Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille Thriller *

Initiated: Memory of a Witch by Amanda Yates Memoir

Janis: Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren Biography *

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell Thriller

Edison by Edmund Morris Biography

The Promise by Silvina Ocampo trans. from Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Jessica Powell F

The Fragility of Bodies by Sergio Olguin, trans. from Spanish by Miranda France, Bitter Lemon Crime

The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys (Franco, Madrid) F

Famous in Cedarville by Erica Wright F

Oct. 28

Blue Moon: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child F

The Lives of Lucien Freud: The Restless Years, 1922-1968 by William Feaver Biography

Overview: A New Perspective of Earth by Benjamin Grant Photos

Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer Memoir

Shadow Network: Media, Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right by Anne Nelson NF*

The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada, trans from Japanese by David Boyd F

The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna by Mira Ptacin NF

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (humor) F

Nov. 4

The Movie Musical! by Jeanine Bassinger NF

The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling NF

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (“a contemporary page-turning winner”) F

In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Mava Machado (same sex domestic abuse) Memoir

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern F

The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel Jose Older F

The Arab of the Future 4: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1987-1992 by Riad Sattouf, trans. from Frenchy by Sam Taylor Autobiography *

The Siberian Dilemma by Martin Cruz Smith (Arkady Renko #9) by Thriller

Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop by Thomas Travisano Biography and Literary Study