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AFRICA

Africa is Not A Country -- reportage 

After Lives by Abdulrazak Gurnah 

Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful by Alan Paton 

Born A Crime Trevor Noah 

Diamonds Gold and War: The British, the Boers and the Making of SA by Martin Meredith 

A History Of South Africa by Leonard Thompson 

The Inheritors -- decades spanning nonfiction on South Africa 

I Write What I Like: Selected Writings of Stephen Biko 

The Plot To Save South Africa -- history 

The Covenant by James Michener *** 1/2 

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton **** 

Jock of the Bushveld by J. Percy FitzPatrick *** 

July's People by Nadine Gordimer *** 

Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane *** 

The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham *** 1/2 

The Steam Pig by James McClure *** 1/2 

The Story of An African Farm by Olive Schreiner ***  

When The Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith **

MUST READS

An African Millionaire 

At Freddie's by Penelope Fitzgerald 

Beeswing by Richard Thompson 

Burmese Days by George Orwell 

Charles Portis Collected LOA 

City Of Quartz by Mike Davis 

Hotel Splendide by Ludwig Bemelmans

The Jazz Standards by Ted Gioia (second edition) 

Legacy of Violence -- history of British Empire by Pulitzer Prize winner 
Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer  

Memoirs Of A Midget

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 

Revelator by Daryl Gregory author of Spoonbenders, 1930s bootleggers in TN

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Booker winner) 

Shy Mary Rodgers memoir w Jesse Green 

Sing Unburied Sing litfic 

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka 

Touba: And The Meaning Of The Night by Shahrnush Parispur, Iranian novelist 

Winter in Wartime by Jan terlouw YA WW II NYRB

NYT BEST BOOKS OF 2022

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan 

JANUARY 2023

1-3-2023 

THEATER MUSIC FIC The Piano Tuner by Taiwanese writer

MYS CLASSIC Penguin Pool Murder -- teacher sleuth OTTO 

1-10-2023

LITFC CLIMATE The Deluge by Stephen Markley 

YA LGBT ROYALTY A Tale Of Two Princes

1-17-2023 

LITFIC The Shards by Brett Easton Ellis 

LITFIC NONFIC GAY A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin

1-24-2023 

LGBT FIC The New Life by Tom Crewe 

MYS The Twyford Code kids book mys

PARADE MOVIES HISTORY The Way We Were making of by Robert Hoffler

HISTORY CULTS Waco by Jeff Guinn (author of Jonestown book) 

HISTORY -- Pirate Enlightenment true story of Liberteria 

LGBT FIC YA POC The Minus One Club

WW II FUC THRILLER The Book Spy

1-31-2023 

HISTORY SCIENCE CURR EVENTS Cobalt Red: How the Blood Of the Congo Powers Our Lives

SCI FI The Terraformers 

LITFIC BOOKER WINNER INTL INDIA LITFIC Tomb of Sand

FEBRUARY 2023 

2-7-2023

LITFIC POC Stealing by Margaret Verble ***** 

SHOWBIZ CINEMA POC The Black Guy Dies First

POC HISTORY CIVIL RIGHTS Saying It Loud 1966 Black Power

LITFIC Skull Water -- Korean coming of age; great blurbs

THEATER FILM -- Acting Naturally David Thomson on film performances 

THEATER GAY Up With The Sun by Thomas Mallon

HISTORY CRIME An Assassin In Utopia -- Oneida community link to assassination of President Garfield

2-14-2023

HISTORY WAR Fire and Rain nixon Kissinger etc

HISTORICAL FICTION Essex Dogs -- set during 100 years war

MEMOIR NYRB The Story Of A Life Russian classic 

MEMOIR ART MET All the Beauty in the World | Patrick Bringley | 9781982163303 | NetGalley

THEATER LITFIC Playhouse by Richard Bausch mounting of King Lear in comm theater

HISTORY COMICS BIO WW II The American Way a true story 

THEATER MUSIC LGBT YA ISH Always The Almost by Edward Underhill

2-21-2023

THEATER MYS Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes

THEATER LITFIC Empty Theatre King Ludwig Empress Sisi by Jac Jemc

MEMOIR SCIENCE HEALTH CARE Code Gray | Farzon A Nahvi | 9781982160296 | NetGalley

CLIMATE RADIO CURR EVENTS The Great Displacement | Jake Bittle | 9781982178253 | NetGalley 

HISTORY CURR EVENTS ECO The Big Myth lie of american capitalism and hating govt

2-28-2023

PARADE MOVIES FIC Jamie MacGillivray by John Sayles

HISTORY UK Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera -- history of UK as forged by imperialism 

NONFIC SELF HELP Win Every Argument

MARCH 2023

3-7-2023 

PARADE YA KIDS Leeva at Last by Sarah Pennypacker, author of Pax 

LITFIC WW I LGBT In Memoriam

HISTORY The Blazing World England 1608-1689 

FIC Little Poems anthology

LGBT ROM  HISTORICAL The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen | KJ Charles 

THRILLER LGBT Confidence --   queer con artists found NuLife self help group 

MYS CLASSIC A Gentle Murderer by Dorothy Salisbury RELIGION 

MURDER TV FOOD -- The Golden Spoon -- murder at British Bake Off style show

FANTASY The Curator by Owen King cats scholars etc

FANTASY The God Of Endings -- teacher who is vampire 

3-14-2023

PARADE MOVIES HISTORY -- The Way We Were making of book 

SPAIN THRILLER Red Queen first in trilogy

LITFIC Fairy Poems 

LITFIC FAITH NUNS ROME When In Rome by Liam Callahan

SCI FI SERIES Antimatter Blues by Edward Ashton Mickey7 series

HISTORY GREECE The Shortest History of Greece

CLASSIC REISSUE -- The Best Of Everything by Ronna Jaffe women in the workplace 

3-21-2023

CURR EVENTS Poverty by MATTHEW DESMOND of EVICTED **********

CURR EVENTS FAITH CRISIS The Undertow civil war by Jeff Sharlet 

LITFIC POC FANTASY The Lies Of The Ajungo 96 pages

FAITH SCHOLARSHIP Armageddon by Bart D Ehrman what Revelations really says

SUPERNATURAL WESTERN Lone Women by Victor LaValle set in 1915

FAITH Armageddon by bart D Ehrman 

SPORT PHILOSOPHY All The Time In The World ode to fly fishing

3-28-2023

THEATER LITFIC NYRB HUNGARY The Fawn reissue 

CLASSIC The Girls by Edna Ferber

SHOWBIZ SANDBOX TV MUSIC -- Music for Prime Time by Jon Burlingame

CURR EVENTS Women Without Kids by Ruby Warrington

YA LGBT POC Into The Light by Mark Oshiro 

APRIL 2023 

4-4-2023 

THEATER -- Enter Ghost Hamlet in West Bank 

RADIO CURR EVENTS Crack Up Capitalism screw democracy 

LITFIC POC House of Cottton debut author blurb George Saunders

HISTORY WESTERN LAW DAVID FOLLOW ME TO HELL TEXAS RANGERS frontier justice

SPAIN FAMILY ROM Open Heart 

THRILLER MYS NATURE Panther Gap by author of Bearskin

CLI FIC ECO DYS POC Camp Zero novel

HISTORY POC SOUTH AFRICA The Plot To Save South Africa

4-11-2023

THEATER BIO True West life of Sam Shepard

THEATER -- Enough memoir pianist 

THEATER -- Shakespeare's Book -- First Folio -- bio of book 

THEATER LITFIC POC UK HISTORICAL The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho Stephen Fry recommended

CLIMATE -- Beginning to End The Climate Crisis 

4-18-2023

HISTORY MYSTERY NONFIC The Wager by David Grann killers of the flower moon author 

HISTORY SCI Pathogenesis -- history of world via eight plagues

PARADE THRILLER THEATER CLASSICAL HISTORY Symphony of Secrets by author of The Violin Conspiracy

PARADE MOLLY RINGWALD MOVIES My Cousin Maria Schneider Last Tango 

CURR EVENTS -- The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts -- nonfic on diff paths of Arkansas friends

4-25-2023 

FAN In The Lives Of Puppets inspired by Pinocchio 

MUSIC On Minimalism in words of composers

MAY 2023

5-2-2023

LITFIC ROM -- The Secret Book Of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

MYS NIGERIA The Niger Wife debut

FAN LGBT Loki by Melvin Burgess 

THEATER NONFIC Shakespeare Wa A Woman and Othe Heresies

PARADE MYS HUMOR FLORIDA Swamp Story by DAVE BARRY

PARADE FIC FAN The Secret Book Of Flora Lea by PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY

CURR EVENTS TRANSIT -- The Great American Transit Disaster 

5-9-2023

PARADE MOVIES FIC TOM HANKS novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece | Tom Hanks | 9780525655596 | NetGalley 

LITFIC SHORT STORIES MEXICOS  Mothers and Dogs

CURR EVENTS PRIVATE EQUITY These Are The Plunderers

FIC POC MOVIES Did You Hear About Kitty Karr 

LITFIC HISTORICAL POC The East Indian DEBUT

CLASSIC REISSUE WESTERN LOA Charles Portis collected True Grit etc

5-16-2023

LITFIC FRENCH ACCLAIM The Postcard

LITFIC PREP SCHOOL MURDER Foster Dade Explores The Cosmos -- prep school scandal 

MEMOIR CHI_AMER Meet me Tonight In Atlantic City

5-23-2023

HISTORY The West -- dissecting the idea of Western culture

THRILLER CRIME FEMINIST PARADE Sing Her Down by Ivy Pochoda

5-30-2023 

LITFIC SCI-FI LGBT Uranians short stories by Theodore McCombs 

JUNE 2023

6-6-2023 

THEATER LGBT Gays On Broadway by Ethan Mordden

HIS FIC PIRATES Deep As The Sky Red As The Sea Chinese pirate queen

LITFIC JAPAN CLASSIC Kappa by Akutagawa

THEATER MUSIC Mozart in Motion

THRILLER MYS POC All The Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby

MYS HISTORICAL RUSSIA LGBT The Dissident

LITFIC GRMANY Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

YA POP LGBT Darkhearts boy band romance

6-13-2023 

WEST DAVID HISTORY WESTERNS The Summer of 1876

6-20-2023 

LITFIC GENTLE JAPAN RENT A DAD Mr kato Plays Family 

LITFIC HOLLYWOOD MEMOIR -- The Brightest Star -- novel of life of Anna May Wong

LGBT MEMOIR FLA WOMAN JOURNALISM Through The Groves by Anne Hull

HISTORY CULT PSYCHOTHERAPY The Sullivanians history of commune clinic 

LIT NONFIC Every Day Is Today by Gertrude Stein essays

6-27-2023 

JULY 2023 

7-4-2023

7-11-2023 

LITFIC CIVIL WAR Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke stand-alone

STORIES LITFIC CHINA Elsewhere by Yan Ge 

SCI FI KOREA Counterweight | Djuna | 9780593317211 | NetGalley

WOMEN WAR BIO HISTORY First To The front Dickey Chapelle

THEATER MYS PERIOD The Murder Wheel series #2

FANTASY CULT SRI LANKA The Saint Of Bright Doors 

FIC HORROR Boys in the Valley 

WW II JEWS NONFIC SHOAH Jews In The Garden 

7-18-2023 

CRIME SERIES PARADE Crook Manifesto by COLSON WHITEHEAD

LITFIC WWII WOMEN Canary Girls

STORIES LITFIC CURRENT EVENTS Onlookers by Ann Beattie set in Charlottesville 

7-25-2023 

LITFIC RICHARD RUSSO PARADE Somebody's Fool | Richard Russo  

8-1-2023 

TRUE CRIME HISTORY GHANA SCAM Anansi's Gold

8-8-2023 

8-15-2023

THEATER BIO Au8gust Wilson

MYS WW II LGBT NEW SERIES The Dark Edge Of Night by Mark Pryor

8-22-2023

LITFIC NOBEL Abdulrazak Gurnah -- two reissues Desertion and By The Sea

LITFC LGBT GAY DAD Unexpecting

8-29-2023 

SEPTEMBER 2023

9-5-2023

9-12-2023

9-19-2023 

9-26-2023 

OCTOBER 2023

10-3-2023 

10-10-2023

10-17-2023 

10-24-2023 

1-31-2023 

NOVEMBER 2023 

11-7-2023

11-14-2023

11-21-2023

11-28-2023

DECEMBER 2023 

12-5-2023

12-12-2023

12-19-2023

12-26-2023

SEPTEMBER 2022 

Theater: Warholcapote play 

Lessons by Ian McEwan (a stretch) 

We Traveled: Essays and Poems by david hare (who has new play out) 

Loud Mouse picture book by Idina Menzel 

Wild Things Are Happening: The Art Of Maurice Sendak 

Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe 

9-6-2022 

ECO The Middle Out economic prosperity for all

HISTORY CURR VENTS -- Africa is Not A Country -- reportage 

LITFIC LGBT CUBA POC Sacrificio by Ernesto Mestre-Reed

NATURE RELIGION -- Sacred Nature by Karen Armstrong 

PARADE MYS PERIOD Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade

CLASSIC REISSUE The King Must Die and The Bull From The Sea by Mary Renault

LITFIC POC If I Survive You Jamaican author debut short stories blurb Ann Patchett 

9-13-2022 

MYS -- Marple: Twelve New Mysteries penned by modern writers 

HISTORY SPIES Wise Gals -- women who built the CIA 

LITFIC Lessons  by Ian McEwan 

LITFIC Two Nurses Smoking by david means short stories

SCIENCE MENTAL HEALTH Strangers to Ourselves by New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv

9-20-2022 

SCIENCE -- The Biggest Ideas In The Universe by Sean Carroll 

THEATER LGBT Warholcapote by Rob Roth 

****LGBT FIC Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer 

ART The 12 Hour Art Expert

KIDS Odder by Katherine Applegate

MYS TRUE CRIME LGBT Leopold and Loeb Nothing But The Night

CURR VENTS CLIMATE The Petroleum Papers far right cover up of climate

HISTORY Espana a brief history by Giles Tremlett

9-27-2022 

COPYRIGHT ARTS BIZ Chokepoint Capitalism by Cory Doctorow

THEATER MOVIES Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe

SCI-FI CLASSIC Growing Up Weightless by John M Ford

SCIENCE Fen Bog and Swamp by Annie Proulx

OCTOBER 2022 

10-4-2022

THEATER LITFIC -- The Whalebone Theatre -- WW II 

CURR EVENTS -- What's Prison For? by Bill Keller of NYT

SCIFI The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Nayler first contact...in ocean

FAIRY TALES Nordic Fairy tales

HISTORY POC CIVIL RIGHTS waging A Good War by Pulitzer winner Thomas Ricks 

10-11-2022 

SPORTS HISORY DAVID -- The GrandestStage history of World Series by TYler Kepner

HISTORY -- The Wolf Age Vikings v Anglo Saxons history 

SHOWBIZ SANDBOX MOVIES -- The Academy and the Award by former Acad Exec Dir Bruce Davis

THRILLER WW II CLASSIC MOVIES The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger

SCI-Fi FANTASY ALAN MOORE STORIES Illuminations

SCI-FI MYS The Spare Man w a dash of The Thin Man

FILM TV POP CULTURE Nerd by NYT critic Maya Phillips

SCIENCE Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness

10-18-2022 

THEATER MEMOIR -- Madly Deeply Alan Rickman diaries 

THEATER LITFIC Listening For Ghosts by David Rabe

THEATER DANCE Diagheliv's Empire the Ballet Russe 

THEATER MOVIES TV Muppets In Moscow history 

LITIFC The Last Chairlift by John Irving 

MYS LGBT HISTORICAL Lavender House 

10-25-2022

THEATER BIO DANCE Martha Graham bio by Neil Baldwin 

LITFIC LGBTQI TAIWAN -- Ghost Town acclaimed novel by Kevin Chen tran Derryl Sterk about gay man who leaves Taiwan for Berlin and at start of novel is coming out of jail after having killed his bf and returning home 

SCIENCE MEDICINE -- The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukerjee sic 

NOVEMBER 2022 

11-1-2022 

SCI-FI LGBT Ocean's Echo PW pick best of year 

PARADE MYS Laws of Depravity by Eriq La Salle SERIES LAUNCH 

THEATER MYS NONFIC CRIME - Deliberate Cruelty : Truman Capote Millionaire's Wife and the Murder of the Century 

HISTORY INDIGENOUS WAR -- The Last Campaign -- Sherman Geronimo by Tyler Brand 

11-08-2022 

CLASSICS OVID Metamorphoses new trans

11-15-2022 

NONFIC NYRB The Right To Be Lazy 

THEATER BIO Jack In The Box by Jack O'Brien 

THEATER DANCE LGBT LITFIC They're Going To Love you by Meg Howrey

ROYALTY BIO -- The Queen by Andrew Morton 

RADIO POLITICS China After Mao

MYS HISTORICAL -- PAPERBACK JACK by Loren D. Estleman -- hack pulp writer heads into paperbacks after WW II 

FAITH Acts Of The Apostles 

11-22-2022 

FILM BIO Lady Director Joyce Chopra

11-29-2022

DECEMBER 2022 

12-6-2022 

HISTORY LIT LGBT UK Young Bloomsbury by Nino STRACHEY 

MYS LITFIC A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley period mys

SCI FI LGBT A Fractured Infinity

MYS Bryant and May peculiar London

HISTORY Empire of Ice and Stone about voyage of Karluk 

MYS DEBUT INDIA 1975 Bombay Monsoon

LGBT LITFIC At Certain Points We Touch

MYS CLASSIC The Album by Mary Roberts Rinehart


12-13-2022 

LITFIC BRAZIL STORIES The Looking Glass by Machado De Assis

12-20-2022 

12-27-2022 

BACKLIST

The Age of Eisenhower bio 
Agent Running In The Field by John Le Carre 

Alec aka Scudder from maurice by William di Canzio

Amatka sci-fi female 

America and Iran: A History by John Ghazvinian  

American Comics a history by Jeremy Dauber

American Moonshot b Douglas Brinkley history of space race 

And In The End: Last Days of Beatles by Ken McNab  

And Then We Danced -- memoir history dance by New Yorker writer Henry Alford 
Angel Mage by Garth Nix fantasy 
Anniversaries by Uwe Johnson German fiction epic 1600+ pages 

The Annotated Arabian Nights

Antiquities by Cynthia Ozick boys boarding school

Aristophanes Four Plays trans Aaron Poochigian 

Arrowood -- Holmes competitor
Augustown -- Jamaican novel 
Autumn Light by Pico Iyer nonfic on Japanese culture and grief 

The Barbizon by Paulina Bren history of women's only hotel/apt 

The Battle For Beverly Hills -- history
Bearskin by James McLaughlin lit thriller

The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo 

The Beauties Chekhov short stories new trans

Beeswing by Richard Thompson 

Before The Fall -- thriller by creator of TV Fargo
Behemoth: A History of the Factory 

Being and Nothingness Sartre

The Benson Murder Case: Philo Vance #1 by SS Van Dine 

The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 4 (2018/19) edited Neil Clarke

The Best Short Stories of 2021 O'Henry Awards 

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

The Big Book of Modern Fantasy by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer 

Big Sky thriller by Kate Atkinson 
Binstead's Safari by Rachel Ingalls author of Mrs. Caliban 2-26-2019

Bi: The Hidden Culture History and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw 

Black Edge -- business nonfic hedge fund shenanigans
Black Flags Blue Waters -- history pirates US

Black Shack Alley by Jospeh Zobel Penguin reissue 

Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby 

Blood Grove by Walter Mosley Easy Rawlins 
Blood Moon Cherokee nation history two rivals
The Book Of Disquiet new edition

The Book of Dragons anthology 

Boom Town by Sam Anderson history of Oklahoma City

Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken litfic 2-5-2019

Boys Of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson 

The Boy With A Bird In His Chest 

A Bright Ray of darkness by Ethan Hawke 

The Brothers York by Thomas Penn 
Bryant and May Hall of Mirrors

Bryant and May: Oranges & Lemons by Christopher Fowler 

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

The Butchering Art medicine history

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan 

Career of Evil (Robert Galbraith mys)
Central Station 

Chicago by David Mamet

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir (book club fiction)

A Childhood and The Gospel Singer by Harry Crews Penguin Classics  

The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen mys reissue
A Christmas Carol and other Christmas stories by Charles Dickens

City on Fire by Don Winslow 

Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s edited by Leslie S Klinger 

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 

The Committed by Viet Than Nguyen 

The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjornsen and Moe 

The Complete Musashi Book of Five Rings by Musashi trans Alexander bennett

Conclave by Robert Harris Vatican thriller 

Confessions of the Flesh by Foucault 
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett 
A Country Road, A Tree follow-up to Longbourne 
A Crisis Wasted by Reed Hundt Obama CURR EVENTS 4-2-2019 
The Crooked Hinge by JOhn Dickson Carr reissue Amer Mys Classics

Crying In H Mart by Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast band

Cuba by Ada Ferrer 

Culdesac

The Dairy Restaurant by Ben Katchor 

Darwin's Backyard science history PW PICK 9-5
Daughter Of The Pirate King (ya fantasy)
Days Without End -- gay historical fic Sebastian Barry 
D-Day Girls history of WW II by Sarah Rose 
Death Going Down (mystery) 
Death on the Aisle a Mr and Mrs North mystery 3-5-2019 THEATER 

The Deviant's War by Eric Cervini gay history of fight for rights 

The Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally 

Dirty Pictures history of underground comics by Brian Doherty 

Dodge City (popular history)

Donald Barthelme complete short stories LoA

Drive -- nonfiction about early years of auto industry
Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of The dead Polish mystical mystery by Olga Tokarczuk 

Duino Elegies by Rilke, classic trans by Vita Sackville West

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Eleanor by David Michaelis 

Elena Ferrante

Elizabeth Spencer Novels and Stories LoA

Empire of Cotton

Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche  

Entropy in Bloom by Jeremy Robert Johnson **** Panera Parisian 

Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave 
Fall or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson 

False Witness by karin Slaughter 

Farthest Field 

Faust Part One by Goethe new trans Ozsvath 

Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard new trans 

Fifth Sun: A New History Of The Aztecs 

52 AWARD Winning Titles Every Book Lover Should Read 

52 YA Books... 

The Fine Art of Murder

The First Christmas by Stephen Mitchell 

Foregone by Russell Banks 

Forget The Alamo -- by Bryan Burrough etc three Texas historians debunk the Alamo 

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah short stories
Future Home of the Living God dystopia by Louise Erdrich 
Galileo's Error by Philip Goff 

Garner's Quotations by Dwight Garner 

A Gentleman In Moscow -- lit fic

George Michael: A Life by James Gavin 

Ghost Town acclaimed novel by Kevin Chen tran Derryl Sterk 

The Gilded Razor
The Girl at the Baggage Claim (social commentary East-West) 

The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel author of Station Eleven 

The Glorious American Essay edited by Phillip Lopate 
Gods of the Upper air by Charles King SCIENCE HISTORY Frank Boas margaret Mead 

Golden Age Of Detective Stories edited by Otto Penzler  

Gone To The Woods by Gary Paulsen 

The Good Daughter Karin Slaughter 
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Green by Sam Graham-Felsen

The Green New Deal and Future Of Work

Growing Up Weightless by John M Ford 

Hallelujah Anyway Anne Lamott -- 4-4

The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood
Here Comes The Sun -- fic debut
Heroes Of The Frontier by Dave Eggers  
A High Five For Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner QUEER SPORTS MIDDLE GRADE 

H is for Hawk

The History Of Jazz by Ted Gioia 

History Of Violence by Eduard louis

Holding by Graham Norton
Home By Nightfall Mys London period
Home sweet Homicide by Craig Rice mys reissue 
House Of Names by Colm Toibin

How Do You Live by Genzaburo Yoshino Jap YA inspired Miyazaki 

How To Survive A Plague 

How To Survive A Summer (gay conversion camp)
Huck out West -- by Robert Coover
I'll Have What She's Having -- Nora Ephron rom-com 
The Impeachers history of Andrew Johnson impeachment by Brenda Wineapple 

The Impossible Art: Adventures In Opera by Matthew Aucoin

Indecent Advances by James Polchin history of queer sex crimes before Stonewall 

Indigo by Padgett Powell collected nonfic 

Infomocracy (not on Kindle) 

The Inheritors -- decades spanning nonfiction on South Africa

In West Mills by De-shawn Charles Winslow litfic black community 1940s-80s 

I Want To Be Where The Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom 

Jack by Marilynne Robinson 

The Japanese Lover by Isabelle Allende

The Jazz Standards by Ted Gioia (second edition) 

Jean Stafford complete stories 

Jim Hanvey, Detective by Octavus Roy Cohen REISSUE MYS CLASSIC

Joe Gould's Teeth 

Junk Science and the Criminal Justice System 

K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches by Tyler Kepner  
Katharine Of Aragon -- Alison Weir fiction

Killer Come back To me: The Mysteries Of Ray Bradbury 

The Kingdom Of Sand by Andrew Holleran 

The King Must Die and The Bull From The Sea by Mary Renault 

Lapvona by Otesa Moshfegh  

Last Best Hope America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer 

The Last Chairlift by John Irving 

The Last Great Road Bum by Hector Tobar 

Last Stories by William Trevor 
Last Witnesses kid oral history by Svetlana Alexievich 
Leading Men by Christopher Castellani fic on Tennessee Williams and lover 

Legacy of Violence -- history of British Empire by Pulitzer Prize winner

The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini novel in verse 

The Lessons of Ubuntu nonfic on race 
Liarmouth by John Waters 

Lie With Me gay french novel trans by Molly Ringwald 

The Little Grey Men Go Down The Bright Stream by BB NYRB

A Little Life

Little Snow Landscape by Robert Walser 

The Long-Legged Fly by James Sallis mys classic reissue introing Lew Griffin 
Lost and Gone Forever Alex Grecian mystery
The Lost Art of Scripture by karen Armstrong FAITH
The Lost Boys by 4-2-2019 famous psychological experiment in 1950s
Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo

Love and Youth by Ivan Turgenev 

Loving, Caught, Back all by Henry Green reissue NYRB

Loyalty by Avi *****  

The Magician by Colm Toibin (book about Thomas Mann) 

Major Labels by Kalefa Sanneh -- history of music by genre New Yorker guy 

Manhattan Beach by jennifer egan
The Man Who Spoke Snakish

Mapp Lucia reissues Worshipful and Queen and Lucia
The Maze at Windermere by Gregory Blake Smith
Melmoth by Sarah perry author of Essex Serpent
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Metamorphoses new trans 

Middle England by Jonathan Coe
The Mirror Thief
Mister Monkey -- fiction/theater 

Moon Witch Spider King by Marlon James 

Motley Stones by Adalbert Stifter novellas NYRB

Mrs. Engels

Music Is History by Questlove 

My German Brother by Chico Barques, Brazilian pop star

My Old Kentucky Home by Emily Bingham 

My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents Best Mystery Stories of 2021 edited by Lee Child

The Mystery of Three Quarters by Sophie Hannah new Poirot

Nancy Mitford The Pursuit Of Love and Love in A Cold Climate 

New Yorkers by Craig Taylor 

Nietzsche by Stefan Zweig 

Night Boat To tangiers 

Ninefox Gambit (not on Kindle)

Nine Lives new Mys series Wendy Corsi Staub
The Nix
Nobody does It Better oral history of james Bond by Edward Gross Mark A Altman
Noir by Christopher Moore

Nordic Fairy tales 

Notes From A Dead House by Dostoevsky trans Pevear/Volo  

The Novel of Ferrara by Giorgio Bassani (six volume epic)
Number one Chinese Restaurant lit fic

An Ocean Without A Shore by SCOTT SPENCER 

Octavia Butler Kindred, Fledgling Stores LOA  

The Odyssey by Emily Wilson trans 

O. Henry 101 Stories LoA

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpal 

The Old Man in The Corner: The teahouse Detective vol 1 mys by baroness Orczy reissue 
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout 
On Democracy by EB White 5-7-2019 reissue 
On Streisand by Ethan Mordden 

Other Worlds by Teffi, folk tales etc  NYRB

Our Man by george Packer bio of Richard Holbrooke politico 5-7-2019 
The Paper Menagerie
Passing by Nella Larsen
Patriot Number One -- bio/curr events Chinese activist

Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories 

The Penguin Book Of The Modern American Short Story edited by John Freeman 

Persians history 

The Personality Brokers by Merve Emre history of Myers-Briggs 

Phase Six by Jim Shepard -- pandemic 
Pirate Utopia sci-fi fantasy by Bruce Sterling

The Plague by Camus new trans

The Plague Court Murders by John Dickson carr reissue OTTO PENZLER 

Posthumous Memoirs Of Bras Cubas 

Powers and Thrones history of Middle Ages by Dan Jones

A Previous Life by Edmund White

Probable Impossibilities by Alan Lightman 

The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan by Stuart Palmer mys reissue

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby two ex-cons tracking down the killers of their sons, who were married. 

Rebellion by Joseph Roth 

The Red Lamp by mary Rinehart mys reissue
Red Milk by Sjon 

Religion and the Rise Of Capitalism by Benjamin M Friedman 

Renoir's Dancer history
Requiem for the American Dream -- Noam Chomsky

The Return of The Pharaoh by Nicholas Meyer (7% Solution) Dr watson memoir 

Revelator by Daryl Gregory author of Spoonbenders, 1930s bootleggers in TN

Richard Nixon bio John Farrell

Ridgeline by Michael Punke author of The Revenant 

Rilke in Paris trans in English
Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay LITFIC PENGUIN CLASSIC LGBT BLACK
Room To Dream David Lynch

Run Towards The Danger by Sarah Polley essays on life and fallible memory 

The Sacred Hunt Duology 

A Saint From Texas by Edmund White

Samak The Ayyar persian classic a la Robin Hood, King Arthur by Freydoon Rassouli 

Sand by Wolfgang Herrndorf NYRB

The Science of Middle Earth 

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 

The Season Social History of Debutante by Kristen Richardson
Secondhand Time

The selected stories of guy de maupassant 

Seven Samurai Swept Away In A River

Shark Drunk -- two guys true story catch shark, makes em drunk!
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
The Ship of Dreams Titanic by Gareth Russell
Shoot For The Moon by James Donovan nonfic space race Apollo 11

Shy by Mary Rodgers 

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse 

Silver Sword and Stone -- a lens on Latin America by historian marie Arana

Singular Sensation by Michael Riedel Sunset Blvd to The Lion King 

Sing Unburied Sing litfic 

The 6:41 To Paris
Sleeping Giants (not on Kindle)

The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukerjee 

The Soul Of An Octopus
Speak No Evil litfic by Iweala
The Spirit Photographer his fic 
A Sportsmans Notebook by Ivan Turgenev
Spring by Ali Smith litfic third in quartet 
Squeezed current events economics  
Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen 
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman nonfic NYRB

The Stone Face NYRB

The Stone Reader NYT philosophy column

Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock foreward Michael Chabon

The Stranger In The Woods -- RS reporter on hermit
Strangers In Their Own Land -- nonfic look at American right on ground level
Substitute -- Nicholson Baker memoir sub teacher 
Suffrage by Ellen Carol DuBois -- HISTORY fight for the vote
A Summer With Montaigne essays by Antoine Compagnon 
Superior: The Return Of Race Science by Angela Saini science cur events 5-21-2019 

A Swim In A Pond In The Rain by George Saunders 

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka 

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski Polish teens

Swing Time Zadie Smith

The Sympathizer

Telephone Tales by Gianni Rodari kids author

Tell Them Of Battles, Kings and Elephants by Mathias Enard

Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson 

That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry short stories 

That Thin Wild Mercury Sound by Daryl Sanders making of Blonde on Blonde
There There -- litfic urban Native Americans

Thirteen Ways Of Looking 
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar FANTASY 
This Storm by James Ellroy 
Thrice The Brinded cat Hath Mewed new flavia de luce
The Tide -- popular science on tides

This Is Why They Hate Us LGBT YA 

To Fight Against This Age --fascism essays
Tomorrow's Kin  sci-fi alien first contact
Too Like The Lightning

Topeka School 

The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith by Diane Johnson NYRB

Truly Madly Vivien Leigh and Olivier romance bio THEATER

Twelve Kings (fantasy)  
Twenty Years After by Dumas new trans of Three Musketeers by Lawrence Ellsworth  

The Twilight World by Werner Herzog 

Valley Of Genius Silicon Valley by Adam Fisher history tech
Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

A Very Irish Christmas Toibin, Yeats etc

Victorian Fairy Tales edited by Michael Newton

The Viral Underclass 

Virginia Hamilton Five Novels (but also read MC Higgins The Great) LoA

Vision Quest (ya)

Walking With Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne 

Weather by Jenny Offill LITFIC NYT PICK AUTHOR read Dept of Speculation 

We'll Always Have Casablanca (pop culture)
We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It Irish memoir 3-5-2019
The Whalebone Theatre -- WW II 

When Einstein Walked With Godel science essays by Jim Holt 

When Two Feathers Fell From The Sky by Maragret Verble  

When We cease To Understand The World NYRB 

Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri 
Where The Crawdads Sing litfic
Why Superman Doesnt Take Over The World -- using comics to explain economic ideas 

The White Ghost by James R Benn WW II Mys

Willodeen by Katherine Applegate 

Winter -- Ali Smith
Winter in Wartime by Jan terlouw YA WW II NYRB
With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (The Poet X)
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands -- autobio of nurse

Yes Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage (film rights) LGBT

Young Mungo by author of Shuggie Brain Douglas Stuarty 

Young Radicals -- nonfic about six radicals prior to WW I
The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford

Yvgeny Onegin -- new trans of Pushkin