I often send myself emails of books that sound interesting with the intention of adding them to my wish list. Apparently I have not gathered these random emails since April 2009 so thought I better do so.
Biblio Mysteries
Here are some links to some great lists:
Green Chair Press Books on Books list
Manchester Public Library Death Among Books
Evanstan Public Library Bibliomysteries
Amazon List Top Biblio Mysteries
The Last Book by Zoran Zivkovic
Homicide in Hard Cover by Kate Carlisle (series)
Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop by Otto Penzler (short stories)
Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett (series)
Japanese Literature
Ryunosuke Akutugawa – Rashomon & 17 other stories – translator Jay Rubin
Hitching Rides with Buddha: A Journey Across Japan
The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata
Spring Snow' by Yukio Mishima
Japanese Science Fiction
Japan Sinks - Sakyo Komatsu
Paprika – Yasutaka Tsutsui
Shinju by Laura Joh Rowland
Science Fiction / Fantasy
Dark Universe – Daniel Galouye
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
Palimpsest by Catherynne Valente
Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler (Erika Bann recommended)
Viriconium by M. John Harrison
Cowboy Angels by Paul McAuley
Home Fires by Gene Wolfe
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Literature
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
Lethem – Chronic City
Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan (about the Brontes)
Various Flavors of Coffee, A Novel by Anthony Capella
The Blind Contessa’s New Machine by Carey Wallace
Golden Tulip by Rosalind Laker
Death as a Side Effect by Ana Maria Shua
The Unburied by Charles Palliser
Scary Stories
The Beetle by Richard Marsh
Curios: Some Strange Adventures of Two Bachelors
Edited by Ellen Datlow:
Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe
Lovecraft Unbound
Charles Stross - the Atrocity Archives (Lovecraft inspired)
Cory Doctorow – Someone Comes to Town and Someone Leaves Town – Project Guttenberg
The Red Tree by Caitlin Kiernan
Washington Post List
Amazon Listmania
Awards and Best of Lists
Locus Award Finalists
Man Booker 2009
Vandermeer Best of 2009
Best of the Decade
Best of 2010 Publisher Weekly
Time Best of 2009
Books on Books
How Reading Changed my Life by Anna Quindlen
List on Savage Reads
Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co. by Jeremy Mercer
How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
The Case for Books by Robert Darnton
Magic and Madness in the Library editor Eric Graeber
Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill
Book by Robert Grudin
Art Books
The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
Making Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Thomas Hoving
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Foger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
Post by Citizen Reader about Art Thrillers
About Van Gogh
Irving Stone’s Lust for Life, Adam Braver’s Crows Over the Wheatfield, Alyson Richman’s The Last Van Gogh and Sheramy Bundrick’s Sunflowers.
Antarctica
Polar Reading List
The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and Antarctica
Antarctica: Life on the Ice by Traveler’s Tales
Nonfiction
Collapse by Jared Diamond
The Power of the Sea by Bruce Parker
The Siege of Shangri-la by Michael McRae
1 comment:
Wow, that is quite the wonderful list. I need to print it off for myself.
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