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November 06, 2010
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Stephen King
849 pages
Umberto Eco
464 pages
David Guterson
320 pages
Leo Thorsness
160 pages
"How does someone survive one day in hell on Earth, let alone six years? When you read Leo's book, you can't help being humbled by what a human being can endure."
Michael Knight
208 pages
In quiet, spare prose, Michael Knight introduces us to Van, a newly married, morally upright loner who just happens to be the fastest U.S. army typist in the occupied nation of post World War II Japan.
Kevin Wilson
320 pages
What can you say for a novel about performance artists that begins "Mr. and Mrs. Fang called it art. Their children called it mischief"? That it reads like a cross between The Addams Family and Arrested Development. That it's totally weird, and pretty wonderful. Most of all, that it manages to be brainy without sacrificing heart.
Peter Godwin
384 pages
Passionate, personal, and exhaustively researched, this memoir by journalist and Zimbabwe native Peter Godwin exposes the ravages of dictator Robert Mugabe's reign.
Barry Hannah
464 pages
Audacious, thrilling, and astute, the stories in this collection—written over the course of nearly half a century—showcase the genius of the late, great Southern writer.
Edward Conlon
464 pages
Fans of Edward Conlon's Blue Blood, a memoir about his career in the New York City Police Department, have waited seven long years for his debut novel, Red on Red (Spiegel & Grau). And it was so worth the wait.
Andre Dubus III
400 pages
The author of House of Sand and Fog reveals a youth spent fighting on the streets and in the ring—and a lifetime of trying to connect with his father.
Kenneth Slawenski
464 pages
Kenneth Slawenski's exhaustively researched, affectionate biography, J.D. Salinger: A Life, should partially satisfy curiosity about the writer, although it finds neither bombshell nor masterpiece. Instead, drawing on never-before-published letters, fiction, and photographs, Slawenski weaves literary criticism with the author's personal history.
Joshua Foer
320 pages
In this charming piece of participatory journalism, Foer—the younger brother of novelist Jonathan Safran Foer—explores the role of memory in both public and private life, while also telling the story of his efforts to compete in the U.S. Memory Championship.
Wallace Shawn
186 pages
Cathleen Medwick reviews Essays by Wallace Shawn, in which the playwright and actor speaks his mind about morality, politics, privilege, nationalist fantasies, collective guilt, and art.
Larry McMurtry
192 pages
Kristy Davis reviews Literary Life by Larry McMurtry, a memoir (the second in a trilogy) of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's life.
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Ralph Ellison
1136 pages
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Isabel Wilkerson
640 pages
In The Warmth of Other Suns, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson illustrates how the early-20th-century migration of blacks to northern cities precipitated the civil rights movement and created our cities and art forms.
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Edward M. Kennedy
532 pages
These biographies of Andre Agassi, Ted Kennedy, and Pat Tillman make heroic gifts for the men in your life.
Cathleen Medwick reviews Akashic Books' noir anthologies, each one of which features the dark tales of a particular city or even neighborhood.
Bill Bryson
270 pages
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Eugene Linden
272 pages
From Borneo to sub-Saharan Africa, globalism is dramatically affecting people and cultures—as shown in these firsthand accounts by a veteran environmental journalist.
Jim Shepard
240 pages
Each story takes you to a different place and time; from a British cartographer's circa 1930 exploration of the Arabian desert to a futuristic take on global warming, these exterior worlds are as fantastically fashioned as the characters themselves.
Manuel Munoz
272 pages
An eerily cinematic novel about the filming of Psycho, in which the offscreen action takes a Hitchcockian turn.
Jerald Winakur
304 pages
Cathleen Medwick reviews Memory Lessons by physician Jerald Winakur, a brave, achingly tender look at the end of life.
Susan Maushart
288 pages
One family, six months, zero digital devices. Read this true story for inspiration. Read it for laughs. Maybe even read it on your iPad.
Jonathan Franzen
576 pages
In his latest novel, Jonathan Franzen returns to fiction with a comic and tragic epic of contemporary love and marriage.
Philip Roth
292 pages
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Martin Kihn
224 pages
An irreverent memoir about a recovering alcoholic and the pet whose antics could drive a man to drink.
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