DECEMBER 2022
JANUARY 2020
1-2-2020
Breaking The Two Party Doom Loop by Lee Drutman CURR EVENTS
1-7-2020
Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid LITFIC Young black babysitter and viral moment
HISTORY Wilmington's Lies: White Supremacy by David Zucchino
Yellow Earth by John Sayles CURR EVENTS LITFIC MOVIES
FANTASY The Night Country by Melissa Albert sequel to The Hazel Wood
Boys & Sex nonfiction by Peggy Orenstein CURR EVENTS
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain HISTORY BUSINESS GBN
THEATER Rocket Man Elton John bio by Mark Bego quickie
The Gimmicks by Chris McCormick LITFIC Aremenian Genocide and pro wrestling
The Art of War by Sun TZU new trans by Michael Nylan
Don't Believe A Word by David Shariatmadari book on languages
CLASSIC
FANTASY The Lovecraft Squad: Rising created by Stephen Jones
1-14-2020
*****Arguing With Zombies by Paul Krugman CURR EVENTS
LITFC LGBT Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Bubble In The Sun: Florida Real estate leading to Great depression by Christopher Knowlton HISTORY CURR EVENTS
A World Without Work by Daniel Susskind CURR EVENTS
Tightrope by Nicholas Kristof struggling working class CURR EVENTS
A Beginning At The End by Mike Chen post-apocalyptic hopeful
*****America Manifesto by Bob Garfield WYNC CURR EVENTS
Infinity Son by Adam Silvera FANTASY launch of series
Night Theater by Vikram Paralkar India litfic fantasy
Race of Aces by James R Bruning HISTORY WW II Pilots AARP
The Peacock Detectives by Carly Nugent YA middle grade
1-21-2020
The Founding Fortunes by Tom Shachtman HISTORY
POP HUMOR FICTION Heart of Junk by Luke geddes debut, antique mall, reality tv, kidnapped beauty queen kiddie etc.
Recipe For A Perfect Wife by karma Brown -- housewife works through cookbook and notes of 50s housewife POP FIC
Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi LITFIC
The Janes by Louisa Luna book #2 MYS
1-28-2020
CURR EVENTS --
LITFIC Run Me To Earth by Paul Yoon v Oprah orphans Laos etc
MYS LITFIC The truants by Kate Weinberg debut mys, Agatha Christie, Donna Tartt
HISTORY CURR EVENTS The Bomb nuclear weapons policy by Fred Kaplan
THEATER -- MYS Mortal Music by Ann Parker -- san fran 1881-1882 opera diva comes to town
Rewriting the Rules Of The European Economy yb Joseph E Stiglitz Nobel winning economist CURR EVENTS
FANTASY Highfire by Eoin Colfer dragon and teen rebel in Louisiana
Early -- premie babies SCIENCE by Sarah DiGregorio
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell teen girl and her teacher sexual relationship LITFIC
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu -- pop culture about TV show and bit player turned Kung Fu guy. Comic tale of assimilation etc POP CULTURE
FEBRUARY 2020
2-4-2020
Independence Square by A.D. Miller Ikraine LITFIC GUARDIAN PIC
JOURNALISM Race Against Time by Jerry Mitchell investigating Birmingham bombing et al
****MYS SCIFI Golden In death by JD Robb Eve dallas #50 by Nora Roberts
HISTORY Eight Days At Yalta by Diana Presto
YA LGBT The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper teens of NASA astronauts
AARP MEMOIR Brother and Sister by Diane Keaton
FAITH LITFIC The Convert by Stefan Hertmans historical fiction noblewoman falls for Jewish boy
****** The Resisters by Gish Jen dystopian baseball novel
The Professor and the Parson by Adam Sisman FAITH CON ARTISTS
The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri litfic
AARP PARADE Unconditional Love memoir by Jocelyn Moorhouse , directing, autistic child, return to directing
MYS A Divided Loyalty by Charles Todd mys Ian Rutledge
MYS CLASSIC The Siamese twin Mystery by Ellery Queen reissue
2-11-2020
HISTORY MYS SCIENCE American Sherlock birth of CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson
MYS TRUE CRIME The Falcon Thief by Joshua Hammer
HISTORY BIO Franklin & Washington The Founding Partnership by Edward J Larson
POP CULTURE
The Bear by Andrew Krivac dystopian litfic, father and daughter alone in world
Felicity Carrol and the Murderous Menace by Patricia Marcantonio MYS NEW SERIES
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HISTORY 1774: The Long Year of Revolution by Pulitzer finalist Mary Beth Norton
POETRY Strangers by Night by Edward Hirsch
FANTASY The Unspoken name by A.K. Larkwood Fantasy debut
2-18-2020
THEATER Counterpoint: Bach and Mourning by Philip Kennicott
Real Life by Brandon Taylor GAY ALABAMA RACE LITFIC
FAITH The Hope of Glory last words of Jesus by Jon Meacham
CURR EVENTS HOUSING -- Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty public housing San fran
HISTORY Congress at War by Fergus M Bordewich Civil War focus on Congress
The Wolf Of Oren-Yaro by K.S. Villoso FANTASY series launch
The Lucky Star by William T Vollmann LITFIC 672 pages
A Beautiful Crime by Christopher Bollen MYS queer con artists in Venice
The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda JAP MYS acclaimed writer first Eng trans
Citizen Reporters by Stephanie Gorton McClure's Magazine HISTORY JOURNALISM
2-25-2020
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CLIMATE CRISIS The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
Soot by Dan Vyleta sequel to Smoke Dickensian fantasy
These Fevered Days by martha Ackmann ten days in life of Emily Dickinson BIO
Scratched by Elizabeth Tallent Memoir by writer lost i wormhole of perfectionism
The lost Diary of M by Paul Wolfe LITFIC lover of JFK, LSD user etc story of Mary Pinchot Meyer
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde -- essays and speeches GBN
MARCH 2020
3-3-2020
LITFIC Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn Hawaiian debut
HISFIC The Land Beyond The Sea by Sharon Kay Penman
LITFIC These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy card LITFIC Jamaica harlem
HISTORY Every Drop of Blood Lincoln's Second Inauguration by Edward Achorn
YA Mananaland by Pam Munoz Ryan Big push
MYS LITFIC City of Margins by William Boyle 90s Brooklyn
LITFIC The Last Taxi driver by Lee Durkee
LITFIC Deacon King Kong by James McBride
THEATER Actress by Anne Enright legendary theater actress w daughter following in footsteps
SCI-FI Docile by KM Szpara novel debut
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich litfic based on her grandfather
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry -- 80s set novel about female hockey team/witches in Salem
Dorothy Day by John Loughery ad Blythe Randolph BIO FAITH POLITICS HISTORY
3-10-2020
***********A Bond Undone by Jin Yong -- book two in Legends Of the Condor Heroes
********Gold Rush Girl by Avi
CURR EVENTS -- Pharma by Gerald Posner science big business
LITFIC My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russelll -- teen girl falls under sway of English teacher #MeToo past and present CURR EVENTS GUARDIAN PICK
THEATER AARP POP CUL Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother bio
YA City Spies by James Ponti Edgar award winner; teens in MI6
SELF HELP How To Change Anyone's Mind by Jonah Berger
THEATER Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro
The Bramble and the Rose by Tim Bouman MYS set in rural Pennsylvania, second in series
3-13-2020 ??
Cinema '62 by Stephen Farber et al POP CULTURE MOVIES
3-17-2020
My Meteorite by Harry Dodge MEMOIR BUZZ
MYS
The House In The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune QUEER FANTASY
The Mountains Sing by Que Mai Phan Nguyen LITFIC VIETNAM
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me -- memoir by granddaughter and grandmother, writer for Jimmy Kimmel first printing 100k
Brightstorm by Vashti Hardy YA steampunk UK hit
City Spies by James Ponti -- ew YA series of five kids trained by MI5
3-24-2020
NYRB Marrow and Bone by Walter Kempowski WWII LITFIC
LITFIC The Everlasting by Katy Simpson Smith -- four characters spanning centuries but linked BUZZ
HISTORY American Rebels by Nina Sankovitzh Amer revolution look at Hancocks Adams and Quincys pushed for revolt
************ The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin SCI-FI
*******The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel author of Station Eleven LITFIC
Enter The aardvark by Jessica Anthony big push, politics, sexuality, stuffed aardvark
3-31-2020
NYRB LITFUC Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
THEATER -- This is shakespeare by Emma Smith, analysis of plays etc
THEATER -- Almost Maine by John Cariani play turned into YA novel
APRIL 2020
4-7-2020
THEATER -- A Tender Thing FIC by Emily Neuberger 50s Bway as a new musical depicts romance between white woman and black man. Author debut.
HISTORY -- Lincoln On The Verge by Ted Widmer -- Lincoln's 13 day train ride to be sworn into office as President
Afterlife by Julia Alvarez LITFIC BESTSELLER
How The West Stole Democracy From The Arabs by Elizabeth F. Thompson HISTORY
The Kidnap Years by David Stout epidemic of crime during Depression HISTORY
The Age of Witches by Louisa Morgan witches in Gilded Age NYC FAN PERIOD
Sin Eater by megan Campisi HIS-FIC MYS FANTASY
Coffeeland by Augustine Sedgewick HISTORY
They Went Left by Monica Hesse YA HOLOCAUST
THEATER The Astonishing Life of August March by Aaron jackson LITFIC
THEATER Shakespeare For Every Day Of The Year by Allie Erisi
The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafa LITFIC
LITFIC Redhead by the Side Of the Road by Anne Tyler
THEATER FANTASY The Glass magician by Caroline Stevermer set in NYC Gilded Age fantasy
POETRY/THEATER Broadway For Paul by Vincent katz
4-14-2020
*****BIO MUSIC -- Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest by Ian Zack BHam Alabama born
SCIENCE -- Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of what we put in us and on us by George Zaidan
FIC Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles author of News of the World
COOKING -- Everyone Can Bake by Dominique Ansel
CLIMATE Notes From An Apocalypse by MARK O'CONNELL
SCIENCE BIO Why Fish Don't exist by Lulu Miller -- life's work cataloging fish destroyed in an instant
HISTORY The Year 1000 by Yale historian Valerie Hansen
How To Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa stories immigrants in big city
NATURE What It's Like To Be A Bird by david Allen Sibley
Fifty-Two Stories by Anton Chekhov trans by pevear and volokhonsky
LITFIC Bubblegum by Adam Levin alternate history w no internet GAINESVILLE writer
LITFIC POP Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould -- aspiring singer-songwriter in destructive relationship
MYS CLASSIC Death in Fancy Dress by Anthony Gilbert first pub 1933
4-21-2020
THEATER LITFIC -- Heree We Are by Graham Swift Brixton vaudevillians circa 1959
FISHING -- Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers by John Gierach -- essays etc fly fishing
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd FAITH JESUS LITFIC
LITFIC A Thousand Moons by Sebastian barry Tennessee post Civil War HIS FIC
The Paris Mysteries short stories by Edgar Allan Poe MYS CLASSICS
THEATER GAY YA In The Role Of Brie Hutchens by Nicole Melleby trade acclaim girl entering eighth grade determined to star in school play but afraid to come out
THEATER __ This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith analyszes flaws and inconsistencies, embraces them
4-28-2020
LITFC LGBT Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski Polish teens
The Knock0ut Queen by Rufi Thorpe LITFIC LGBTQI YA closeted teen and tall freak
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M JOhnson QUEER YA memoir manifesto essays
MAY 2020
5-5-2020
Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin LITFIC
SELF HELP -- Ask For More by Alexandra Carter
Universe of Two by Stephen P Kiernan scientist on Manhattan Project who spends life making amends
FOOD Dirt by Bill Buford cooking memoir
Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett CULT MEMOIR POP
The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver LITFIC
SPORTS FAITH Buddha Takes The Mound by Donald Lopez
HISTORY RACE On Account of Race by Lawrence Goldstone Supreme Court White Supremacy
We Need To Talk by Jennifer Risher memoir about wealth MONEY
5-12-2020
POP CULTURE TV THEATER Sunny Days rise of kids tv by David Kamp
LITFIC -- A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet
HISTORY The Black Cabinet By Jill Watts FDR and Black advisers
Lou Gehrig the Lost Memoir by Alan D Gaff AARP BIO SPORTS
THRILLER The End of October by Lawrence Wright medical thriller NYT writer
HISTORY PIRACY Enemy of All Mankind by Steven Johnson
LITFIC CLASSIC
CURR EVENTS LGBT The Pink Line by Mark Gevisser Sexual and gender identity around the world.
Pew by Catherine Lacey LITFIC FAITH oddity
Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu WWII FIC
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas -- elite school, secret pact etc big push LITFIC
THEATER Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore -- mys combined with Midsummer. Nutty, playful, detective tale.
5-19-2020
LGBT LITFIC Boys Of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson
LITFIC On Ajayi Crowther Street -- Nigerian comic novel
LITFIC QUEER The Thirty Names Of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar Syrian American trans boy, disappearing mom, birds
BEACH READ THEATER? The Lion's Den by Katherine St John -- trapped on billionaire's yacht
LITFIC ARGENTINA Don't Shed Your tears For Anyone Who Lives On These Streets by Patricio Pron -- Granta pick author, WW II merging of politics and art
HISTORY CURR EVENTS IMMIGRATION One Mighty and Irresistible Tide battle over immigration 1920s-1960s by Jia Lynn Yang
HISTORY GROUP BIO FEMINISM -- The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty -- independent study brings together artists at radcliffe poet Anne Sexton et al
5-26-2020
POLITICS -- Trumpocalypse by David Frum
LITFIC All My Mother's Lovers by Ilana Masad
Love in the Blitz by Eileen Alexander NONFIC MEMOIR WW II
1939: A People's History by Frederik Taylor HISTORY WW II
The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner BESTSELLER BOOKCLUB
The Cubans ordinary lives by NYT Anthony DePalma CURR EVENTS
Camp by L.C. Rosen YA QUEER
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JUNE 2020
6-2-2020
THEATER -- Parakeet by Marie-Helene bertino playwright etc
POLITICS ECONOMICS -- The Ages of Globalization by Jeffrey D Sachs
LITFC YA Burn by Patrick Ness (no galley yet)
SCIENCE BIO -- Galileo and the Science Deniers by Mario Livio
POP CULTURE Dolls Dolls Dolls Inside The valley of the Dolls by Stephen Rebello
LITFIC The Paris Library -- by Janet Skeslien Charles historical fiction, librarians, Paris WW II!!!
*****LITFIC INDIA CURR EVENTS A Burning By Megha Majumdar BIG DEBUT
THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF THE SKIN by Monty Lyman SCIENCE
CURR EVENTS WAR TECH The Drone Age by Michael J Boyle
YA LGBTQI -- The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson kids of Pres candidates fall in love
Where We Go From here by Lucas Rocha GAY BRAZIL YA
TRUE CRIME HISTORY Night Of The Assassins by Howard Blum. Hitlers plan to assassinate3 FDR, Churchill and Stalin. bestselling author and Pultizer nominee as journalist at NYT.
SCIENCE -- Keep Sharp by Sanjay Gupta CNN guy on memory
SCIENCE The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams
6-9-2020
LITFIC Night Sleep death Stars by Joyce Carol Oates
CURR EVENTS The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
COMIC NOVEL -- Swan Song by Lisa Alther -- cruise ship nonsense w heft
The Vanishing Sky by L Annette Binder WWII LITFIC
Alaric The Goth outsider on fall of rome by Douglas Boin HISTORY BIO
6-16-2020
LITFIC REISSUE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRAS CUBAS
THEATER LITFIC Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin woman in love w Shakespeare professor
HISTORY much acclaim
THEATER We Came Here To Shine by Susie Orman Schnall at Worlds Fair THEATER FIC
6-23-2020
THEATER MEMOIR Lot Six by David Adjmi
POP CULTURE __ Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World by matt Alt SHOWBIZ SANDBOX
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected In Water by Zen Cho FANTASY wuxia inspired
LITFIC Friends and Strangers by J Courtney Sullivan new mom and college student struggling w life
6-30-2020
MILITARY: The Button nuclear weapons history by William J Perry and Tom Collina
SCI_FI GENDER__ Blue Ticket by Sophie McIntosh -- women assigned at early age to have a baby or not
JULY 2020
7-7-2020
LITFIC GAY Lake Life by David James Poissant
THEATER SCI-FI Or What You Will by Jo Walton
YA FAN A Peculiar Peril by Jeff vandermeer first of two
TRUE CRIME MOVIES -- Ripped From The headlines -- true stories that inspired films
LITFIC The Son Of Good Fortune by Lysley Tenorio undocumented, mom stunt person light
LITFIC GAY Skyland by Andrew Durbin NO GALLEY
YA GAY Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
POP CUL LIT -- Memoirs and Misinformation by Jim Carrey+
THRILLER Out of Time by David Klass Green Man eco-terrorist
The Big Door Prize by M.O. Walsh -- southern novel about machine that reveals your potential
In The Land of Good Living -- walking Florida on foot by Kent Russell TRAVEL
The Vapors by david Hill -- Hot Springs, the firsthome of Vice in USA TRUE CRIME
7-14-2020
CRIME -- Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby ********
SCI CRYPTOCURRENCY -- The Infinite Machine by Camila Russo using Ethereum to build Internet 2.0
SCI-FI LITFIC Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
HUMOR Make Russia Great Again by Christopher Buckley
HISTORY -- The King of Confidence by Miles Harvey nonfic shyster Mormon leader
*********YA FAN The Fell of Dark p-- gay vampire by Caleb Roehrig gay
BIO SPORTS WOMEN The Divine Miss Marble by Robert Weintraub true tale of tennis star
Butch Cassidy by Leerhsen BIO HISTORY TRUE CRIME
7-21-2020
FANTASY The Big Book of Modern Fantasy by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
CURR EVENTS Baseless by Nicholson Baker on freedom of information act
BIO/HISTORY The Indomitable Florence Finch by Robert J Mrazek WW II Hero in Phillipines
LITFIC Pew by Catherine Lacey 00 rising talent w Twilight Zone style short novel about mysterious strangver in small town
POP MUSIC BIO Remain in Love by Chris Frantz of Talking Heads
7-28-2020
NATURE -- Fathoms: The Whale In The World by Rebecca Giggs *********
MYS The geometry of Holding Hands by Alexander McCall Smith -- philosophical series
POLITICS HISTORY -- To Start A War by Robert Draper Bush and Iraq
POLITICS You're Fired beating Trump by Paul Begala
MYS A Royal Affair by Allison Montclair -- second in series, investigating Prince Phillip as suitable for Queen Elizabeth
LITFIC The Five Books of (Robert) Moses by Arthur Nersesian
HISTORY LAst Mission To Tokyo Doolittle raids by Michel Paradis
Memorial Drive by Natasha Tretheway poet MEMOIR
AUGUST 2020
8-4-2020
HISTORY -- caste by Isabel Wilkerson
LITFIC Why I Don't Write by Susan Minot
MYS -- The death of Vivek Oji LGBT (no galley yet)
SCIENCE -- The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by katie Mack
NATURE -- Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C Slaght
MYS Tampa Bay Noir anthology
HISTORY/POLITICS America In The World by Robert B Zoellick -- history of US diplomacy
POLITICS -- It Was All A Lie by Stuart Stevens Republican party racism by insider
MEMOIR/BIO Life of a Klansman by edward Ball author of Slaves in the Attic *****
LITFIC LGBT
LITFIC The Brother Years by Shannon Burke sibling rivalry, Chicago, tough dad
LITFIC If I had Two Wings by Randall Kenan. First collection in 30 years.
LITFIC New Trans LITFIC CLASSIC
8-11-2020
MYS NYRB No Room at the Morgue by Jean-patrick Manchette
POLITICS CURR EVENTS On Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes
LITFIC Via Negativa by Daniel Hornsby priest on road trip
NATURE -- World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
HISTORY: Iron Empires the railroad by Pulitzer winner Michael Hiltzik
Zo by Xander Miller LITFIC about romeo and juliet in 2010 Haiti
Olive The Lionheart by Brad Ricca HISTORY MYS TRUE CRIME Olive heads to Africa in 1910 to find lost naturalist. Spies, etc.
Veritas by Ariel Sabar -- Harvard prof, con man, gospel of Jesus's wife TRUE CRIME FAITH
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8-18-2020
POP CUL BIO b
LITFIC Aria by Nazanine Hozar Tehran in the 1950s Dr Zhivago
LITFIC Summer by Ali Smith Book four
CURR EVENTS Accountable Citizen Capitalism by Michael O'Leary and Warren Valdmanis
POLITICS HISTORY Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein
LITFIC CURR EVENTS IMMIGRATION The New American by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
LITFIC Red Ants by Pergentino Jose MEXICAN magic realism short stories
SCIENCE The Butterfly Effect by Edward DeMillo -- science book on ties between humans and insects
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie MEMOIR Canada two sisters disowned by parents must care for their tyrannical mother and cowed father
******SCI-FI The House of Styx by Derek Kunsken first in new series out on ebook 8-20-2020 and physical 4-13-2021
8-25-2020
HISTORY The Hidden History of Monopolies by Thom Hartmann
SCIENCE CURR EVENTS Winning The Green new deal essays
MYS
CULTURAL CRITICISM? The Sprawl: on suburbs by Jason Diamond
The Last Great Road Bum by Hector Tobar -- LITFIC based on true story of journalist from urbana IL chasing down hotspots in 1960s and 1970s
GAY LITFIC TRANS GOD Slum Virgin by gabriela Cabezon Camara reporter interviewing trans person who has visions of Virgin Mary
SEPTEMBER 2020
9-1-2020
YA Before The Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
LITFIC Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
***LOA -- The Western The Ox-Bow Incident, Shane, The Searchers, Warlock edited by Ron Hansen
MYS Squeeze Me by carl Hiaasen Trump supporter goes missing
LITFIC -- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi -- Ghanaian tale in Alabama
THEATER YA -- Sing Like No One's Listening by vanessa Jones (author performed on West End)
THEATER MYS The great Hotel Murder by Vincent Starrett critic sleuth reissue
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld LITFIC three women in diff centuries
SCIENCE -- The Human Cosmos by Jo Marchant (connection to the stars throughout history)
LITFIC Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
9-8-2020
*********Creativity by John Cleese
LITFIC What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
LGBT Splash by JR Hart
LITFIC Best American Poetry of 2020 editor david Lehman
MYS The Forger's Daughter by Bradford Morrow
LITFIC The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley short stories etc
9-15-2020
WAR MEMOIR Among Elms In Ambush by bruce Weigl endorsed by Tim O'Brien
BIO POP Wild Thing by Philip Norman on Jimi Hendrix
GAY FIC These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever college students
LIT BESTSELLER The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett prequel Pillars of the Earth
HISTORY The Nazi Spy Ring In America by Rhodri Jeffrey-Jones
LITFIC SCI-FI BESTSELLER -- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke ***********
CURR EVENTS Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About... by Angela Chen
BESTSELLER -- Th Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett prequel to Pillars of earth
MYS ANTHOLOGY -- The Nicotine Chronicles edited by Lee Child
NONFIC Burning Down The House Newt Gingrich et al by Julian E Zelizer
THEATER Here We Are by Graham Swift -- seaside resort performers LITFIC
LITFIC Northernmost by Peter Geye
YA LGBT The Ninth Live by Taylor B Barton -- cat is reincarnated as a 17 year old gay boy
9-22-2020
**********MYS The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman UK quiz show presenter, rave reviews, old people solving crimes
THEATER -- Here We Are by Graham Swift, seaside performers
ECO The Climate Crisis and the Green NEW Deal by Noam Chomsky
THEATER YA The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life by Dani Jensen
9-29-2020
THEATER LGBT -- All The Sonnets Of Shakespeare -- he's bisexual!
HISTORY CURR EVENTS On Fascism 12 Lessons by Matthew C MacWilliams
BIO HISTORY His Very Best: Jimmy Carter by Jonathan Alter
FANTASY -- A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik new series NO COPY YET *******
CURR EVENTS Big Dirty Money by Jennifer Taub white collar crime
OCTOBER 2020
10-1-2020
THEATER YA STAND UP Pretty Funny For A Girl by Rebecca Elliott
LITFIC NONFIC JANE AUSTEN: writing, society and politics By Tom Keymer analysis
10-6-2020
HISTORY The Zealot and the Emancipator by HW Brand John Brown and Lincoln
LITFIC CLASSIC Independent People by Haldor Laxness
LOA SCI-FI FANTASY Ursula K LeGuin Annals of the Western Shore Gifts/Voices/Powers
BIO HISTORY Eleanor by David Michaelis
HISTORY Chicago's Great Fire by Carl Smith
SELF HELP Keep Moving by Maggie Smith (not THAT one)
HUMOR THEATER STANDUP Is This Anything? best of by Jerry Seinfeld
CURR EVENTS TRUMP What Were We Thinking by Carlos Lozada books on Trump and how they fail
***********SCI-FI The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson *******
LITFIC THEATER GAY The Piano Student by Lea Singer -- Vladimir Horowitz secret love for young male student
LITFIC Cuyahoga by Pete Beatty -- outrgeous fiction, high praise
CURR EVENTS Invisible China by Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell (urban rural divide)
LITFIC BIO -- Inside Story by Martin Amis -- story of his life w Hitchens dad etal but called a novel
10-13-2020
THEATER POP CULTURE MOVIES -- Cary Grant by Mark Glancy
SCI-FI Dune: The Duke Of Caladan by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson
CURR EVENTS -- In Defense Of Looting by Vicky Osterweil
POP CULTURE 150 Glimpses of the Beatles by Craig brown
POP CULTURE How To Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
SCI-FI FAN -- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse launch of new series matriarchs
10-20-2020
LITFIC -- The Silence by Don Delillo
MOVIES The Nolan Variations by Tom Shone on Christopher Nolan
10-27-2020
BIO HISTORY FIRST NATION Tecumseh and the Prophet by Peter Cozzens
RELIGION The Bible With and Without Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine and Mark Zvi Brettler
LITFIC Memoiral by Bryan Washington -- queer couple
POP FIC The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop by Fannie Flagg
ESSAYS KIDS Happy Half-Hours by AA Milne
NOVEMBER 2020
11-3-2020
HISTORY The Fighting Bunch by Chris DeRose -- WW II heroes come home and must fight literally to free their small town and ensure a fair vote count.
HISTORY Britain At Bay 1938-1941 by Alan Allport
HISTORY CURR EVENTS TRAVEL The Deepest South of All by Richard Grant on Natchez Mississippi
11-10-2020
COMICS BIO HAWAII No One Else by R Kikuo Johnson
THEATER -- Singular Sensation by Michael Riedel Sunset Blvd to The Lion King
MISC Garner's Quotations by Dwight Garner
HISTORY Metropolis: A History of the City by Ben Wilson
HISTORY First Principles by Thomas E Ricks on founding fathers and their love of Greek and Roman thought
THRILLER Comrade Koba by Robert Littell (author of The Company and cold war stuff; boy and dictator) FIC
11-17-2020
COOKING
THEATER POP CULTURE
LITFIC The Sun Collective by Charles Baxter
LITFIC HISTORY JEWISH The Tale of A Niggun by Elie Wiesel narrative poem
ESSAY HISTORY
11-24-2020
11-30-2021 LITFIC IRELAND Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan endorsed by Colm Toibin
DECEMBER 2020
12-1-2020
LITFIC The Opium Prince by jasmine Aimaq Afghanistan in the 1970s
THEATER --0 The Oxford Book Of Theatrical Anecdotes by Gyles Brandreth
RELIGION The Bible: What Everyone needs To Know by Michael Coogan
MYS Vultures In The Sky by Todd Downing mys classic
MOVIES ANIMATION Wild Minds: The Golden Age of Animation by Reid Mitenbuler
*****LITFIC SPORTS HORSES Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley . A horse, dog duck and boy in Paris.
NONFIC On EDUCATION A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door by Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire
12-8-2020
THEATER POP YA LGBT If This Gets out
POP CULTURE BIO MUSIC THEATER Mozart by Jan Swafford bio
POP CULTURE Can't Slow Down by Michaelangelo Matos 1984 pop music explosion
WW II HISTORY Unsinkable by James Sullivan bio of USS Plunkett
LITFIC REISSUE Ferdinand, the Man With The Kind Heart by Irmgard Keun
12-15-2020
12-22-2020
12-29-2020
JANUARY 2021
1-5-2021
LITFIC LGBT The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
THEATER LITFIC The Waste Land by Harper Jameson TS Eliot gets inspired after gay romance
HISTORY The Eagles Of Heart Mountain by Bradford Pearson (Japanese interned in camps in US play high school football against neighboring schools and kick ass. Then they get drafted.
MYS CLASSIC The Man Who Didn't Fly by Margot Bennett
SOCIAL JUSTICE How To Blow Up A Pipeline by Andreas Malm
1-12-2021
LITFIC A Swim In A Pond In The Rain by George Saunders -- russian masters and what he's learned
LITFIC
HISTORY TRAVEL Icebound by Andrea Pitzer
BIO YA Gone To The Woods by Gary Paulsen
MYS The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O'Donnell Victorian mys w duo of Cambridge dropout and inspector
MYS Bryant and May: Oranges & Lemons by Christopher Fowler
CURR EVENTS Freedom From The Market by Mike Konczal
HISTORY -- the Crooked Path To Abolition by james Oakes on Lincoln using Constitution to undermine slavery
1-19-2021
THEATER Faust Part One by Goethe new trans Ozsvath
PHILOSOPHY Nietzsche by Stefan Zweig
LITFIC SCIFI LOA Octavia Butler Kindred, Fledgling Stores LOA
1-26-2021
SCIENCE How To Prepare For Climate Change by David Pogue
SCIENCE This Is The Voice by John Colapinto
RELIGION AND ECONOMICS Religion and the Rise Of Capitalism by Benjamin M Friedman
HISTORY: America and Iran: A History by John Ghazvinian
SCIENCE Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb top Harvard astronomer says we've just spotted an alien craft in our solar system
LITFIC Sophomores by Sean Desmond maybe LGBT
FEBRUARY 2021
2-2-2021
MYS LITFIC
FIC CHINA Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen short stories of China
FIC THRILLER The Low Desert by Tod Goldberg author of Gangsterland MYS
CUR EVENTS Broke In America by Joanne Samuel Goldblum
THEATER FIC (got it)
CLASSIC FICTION BIO
THEATER MOVIES -- Mike Nichols by Mark Harris
THEATER LGBT 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
THEATER Funny Thing About Minnesota by Patrick Strait standup history
MYS CLASSIC The Plague Court Murders by John Dickson carr reissue OTTO PENZLER
RELIGION A Most Peculiar Book by Kristin Swenson
LITFIC Foregone by Russell Banks
LIT BESTSELLER HUMOR -- Truly Like Lightning by David Duchovny
SCI FI Speculative Los Angeles edited by Denise Hamilton -- sci-fi compilation surrounding cities
2-9-2021
SCIENCE ESSAYS Probable Impossibilities by Alan Lightman
SCIENCE CLIMATE Under A White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
HISTORY LGBT Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin history personal and cultural
HISTORY George Washington: Political Rise by david O Stewart
HISTORY TRUE CRIME The Rope (birth of NAACP) by Alex Trezniowski
2-16-2021
PHILOSOPHY
MYS SCI-FI The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey cloned wife kills husband
LITFIC How to Order The Universe by Maria Jose ferrada dad and daughter
THEATER Aristophanes Four Plays trans Aaron Poochigian
THEATER YA FANTASY -- The Memory Theater by Karen Tidbeck
THEATER INDIGENOUS AMER COMEDY We Had A Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff
LITFIC -- Cowboy Graves -- Three Novellas by Roberto Bolano
2-23-2021
*********** MYS LITFIC Smoke by Joe Ide AN IQ NOVEL **********
SCIENCE The Genome Odyssey by Dr. Euan Angus Ashley
THEATER Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee
HISTORY WW II Three Ordinary Girls: Netherlands underground teenagers fighting Nazis
MARCH 2021
3-2-2021
HISTORY The Barbizon by Paulina Bren history of women's only hotel/apt
THEATER MAGIC Amoralman by Derek DelGaudio
HISTORY The Complet Musashi Book of Five Rings by Musashi trans Alexander bennett
LITFIC NYRB Little Snow Landscape by Robert Walser
HISTORY WOMEN Women in White Coats by Olivia Campbell
LITFIC
LITFIC Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro narrator is AI
HISTORY FEMINISM -- The Barbizon by Paulina Bren women's hotel
POP CULTURE MUSIC The History Of Jazz by Ted Gioia
FANTASY The Stolen Kingdom by Jillian Boehme
FANTASY MYS YA The Conductors by Nicole Glover conductor on Underground railroad solves crimes in post Civil War Philly. Char of Color.
3-9-2021
THEATER Midnight in Cairo by Raphael Cormack Cairo in 20s/30s w women flourishing in stage and screen
SCIENCE The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson CRISPR
HISTORY WW I The Western Front History of the Great War 1914-1918 by Nick Lloyd
SCIENCE __ Life's Edge by Carl Zimmer, how to define life
SCIENCE HISTORY Beloved Beasts by Michelle Nijhuis history poof conservation movement
BIO BAMA HISTORY Shaking The Gates Of Hell by John Archibald Birmingham Pulitzer winner
LITFIC SHORT STORIES The Ghost Variations by Kevin Brockmeier short stories
TRUE CRIME LGBT Last Call queer serial killer by Elon Green
CURR EVENTS MEDICINE The Hospital by Brian Alexander death of a small town hospital
YA Things That Grow by Meredith Goldstein burying grandma, spreading ashes in garden
LITFIC CLASSIC SHORT STORIES Love and Youth by Ivan Turgenev
3-16-2021
MOVIES -- Shooting Midnight Cowboy by Glenn Frankel
RACE This Is The Fire by Don Lemon how I talk to my friends about race
HISTORY The Measure Of Man by Lawrence Rothfield Florentine Renaissance
HISTORY Terror To the Wicked by Tobey Pearl first jury trial in US
SHOWBIZ SANDBOX MOVIES Naked Screenwriting by Lew Hunter
FOOD NASHVILLE Hot Hot Chicken by Rachel Louise Martin
The Road Less Traveled by Philip Zelikow HISTORY WW I peace
3-23-2021
NEW YORK ORAL -- New Yorkers by Craig Taylor
HISTORY TRAVEL -- Horizontal Vertigo by Juan Villoro history of Mexico City combined with current flavor
TAX ECONOMICS RACE The Whiteness Of Wealth by Dorothy A Brown tax code
POP MOVIES
3-30-2021
THEATER North by Shakespeare new theory by Michael Blanding
THEATER MUSIC Finding The raga by Amit Chaudhuri ESSAY
LITFIC SHORT STORIES Stories With Pictures by Antonio Tabucci
BASEBALL RACE Our Team by Luke Epplin Satchel Paige Cleveland Indians
SCIENCE NATURE Rescuing the Planet by Tony Hiss, setting aside 50% of earth to save it
SCIENCE BIRDS -- A World On The Wing by Scott Weidensaul bird migration global
APRIL 2021
4-1-2021
THEATER A Wonderful Guy by Eddie Shapiro interviews w leading men
4-6-2021
FANTASY
LITFIC FAN Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian -- Indian American/decades spanning fantasy
HISTORY Valcour: 1776 Campaign That Saved The cause of History by Jack Kelly
LITFIC LOA SHORT STORIES Jean Stafford complete stories
THEATER MUSIC Last Chance texaco by Rickie Lee Jones granddaughter of vaudeville performers
THEATER fearless by Hamilton star mandy gonzalez
LITFIC SHORT STORIES First Person Singular stories by Haruki Murakami
YA LGBT The Sky Blue by Robbie Couch
YA The Anti Book by Raphael Simon
4-13-2021
THEATER FIC MYS Death of a Showman by Mariah Fredericks
CURR EVENTS Jackpot How The Superrich Really Live by Michael Mechanic
HISTORY Stampede Gold Rush by Brian Castner
POETRY
WAR POLITICS The generals have No Clothes by William M Arkin (endless war)
POLITICS Social Security Works For Everyone by Nancy Altman etc
POLITICS Tax The Rich by Morris Pearl
MOVIES The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock by Edward White
YA THEATER Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve trans teen playing Romeo in high school prod
LITFIC Antiquities by Cynthia Ozick boys boarding school
SCI-FI The House of Styx by Derek Kunsken first in new series out on ebook 8-20-2020 and physical 4-13-2021
4-20-2021
NYRB REISSUE SHORT STORIES Other Worlds by Teffi, folk tales etc
SHORT STORIES Are You Enjoying by Mira Sethi Pakistani actress
MEMOIR POP Crying In H Mart by Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast band
SHORT STORIES Florence Stories edited by Ellen Carr
PHILOSOPHY HISTORY The Free World by Louis Menand (art and thought in the Cold War)
THEATER PICTURE BOOK Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare's Globe UK Jane Ray illo
FIC The Golden Ass new trans by Apuleius and Ellen Finkelpearl
4-27-2021
MYS WRITING How To Write A Mystery handbook by MWA Lee Childs
THEATER GAY How Y'all Doing by Leslie Jordan Will & grace, one man shows, etc.
THEATER Music Math and Mind by david Sulzer
WESTERN Go West Young Man by JA Johnstone and William W Johnstone
LITFIC
MAY 2021
5-4-2021
LITFIC Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman, much acclaim
SCI-FI Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir of The Martian
LITFIC SHORT STORIES The Penguin Book Of The Modern American Short Story edited by John Freeman
LITFIC LOA SHORT STORIES Donald Barthelme complete short stories
MYS DEBUT CHINA Thief of Souls by Brian Klingborg
LITFIC Great Circle by maggie Shipstead female aviatrix
SCI-FI Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon -- Afrofuturist sci-fi
LITFIC NYRB REISSUE Motley Stones by Adalbert Stifter novellas
ROYALTY -- The Windsor Diaries by friend Of Elizabeth 1940-1945
THEATER TV BIO Sunshine Girl by Julianna Marguiles member of MCC board ER and The Good Wife
THEATER YA -- Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson two teen girls head to NYC for Broadway show and crazy night
HISTORY WOMEN The Secret history of Home Economics
LITFIC The Radio Operator by Ulla Lenze
5-11-2021
LITFIC CHINA HISTORICAL Swimming Back To Trout River by Linda Ru9 Feng
FANTASY CAIRO Master Of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark steampunk Cairo
5-18-2021
LITFIC THRILLER
LITFUC ESSAY Reflections of a Nonpolitical MAN by THOMAS MANN
LITFIC WW II The Stars We Share by Rafe Posey book club ready romance
LITFIC FOLK SHORT STORIES Stories From The Hills Of Puerto Rico by Rafael Ocasio SHORT STORIES
HISTORY -- The Indispensables by Patrick K O'Donnell Revolutionary War spotlight
LITFIC Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford -- 1944 five people die but Spufford reanimates them
YA GAY Fence Disarmed by Sarah Rees Brennan fencing gay
THEATER The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini novel in verse
NATURE Water by Giulio Boccaletti biography of water and how it shaped history
HISTORY War On The Border by Jeff Guinn (Villa v Pershing)
5-25-2021
FANTASY The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman
WW II MYS SERIES DEBUT A Peculiar Combination by Ashley Weaver
SHOWBIZ SANDBOX -- becoming a producer by Boris Kachka
THEATER Footnotes by Caseen gaines Making of on Shuffle Along
THEATER GAY ROMANCE Playing The Palace by Paul Rudnick
YA FANTASY Shadows Over London by Christian Klaver Golden Compass-y they say
YA CLASSIC The Goldsmith and the Master Thief by Tonke Dragt Reissue
HISTORY -- The Panzer Killers by Daniel P Bolger WW II
