Tuesday, January 31, 2023

A New Phrase!

 timor defectus librorum


latin for the fear of running out of books! I experienced this often while going about my day in NYC. I'd have a magazine with me...and another magazine in case I finished the first one. Or I'd have a book...and another book in case I got to the end and wasn't home yet.


Happily, Kindle ended this unease for me, but the fear of running out of something good to read is more appealing than describing the fear of my e-reader running out of battery power.

Monday, January 23, 2023

BookFilter Reading List

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

The Betsy Tacy Books

An African Millionaire 
Armageddon by Bart D Ehrman what Revelations really says 
At Freddie's by Penelope Fitzgerald 
Beeswing by Richard Thompson 
The Betsy Tacy Books
Burmese Days by George Orwell 
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan 
Charles Portis Collected LOA 
Child Of The Sun by Kyle Onstott 
City Of Dreams by Don Winslow  
City Of Quartz by Mike Davis 
The Earth Transformed | Peter Frankopan 
The Fawn reissue THEATER LITFIC NYRB HUNGARY 
Hotel Splendide by Ludwig Bemelmans
The Island Of Adventure by Enid Blyton 
The Jazz Standards by Ted Gioia (second edition) 
The Land Of Spices by Kate O'Brien 
Legacy of Violence -- history of British Empire by Pulitzer Prize winner 
Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer  
Lone Women by Victor LaValle set in 1915 
Memoirs Of A Midget
Revelator by Daryl Gregory author of Spoonbenders, 1930s bootleggers in TN
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Booker winner) 
The Shards by Brett Easton Ellis 
Shy Mary Rodgers memoir w Jesse Green 
Sing Unburied Sing litfic 
Stealing by Margaret Verble *****  
The Story Of A Life Russian classic  NYRB 
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka 
Touba: And The Meaning Of The Night by Shahrnush Parispur, Iranian novelist 
Waco by Jeff Guinn (author of Jonestown book) 
The Wager by David Grann killers of the flower moon author 
Winter in Wartime by Jan terlouw YA WW II NYRB







FEBRUARY 2024 


2-6-2024 

PAR RD LITFIC WAR The Women by Kristin Hannah 

PARADE RD SPORTS ICE SKATING OLYMPICS Gracie Gold bronze medalist

LITFIC SCIFI POC NOIR Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford

COMIX PARADE FANTAGRAPHICS Frank Johnson, Secret Pioneer of American Comics Vol. 1: Wally's Gang Early Years (1928-1949) and The Bowser Boys (1946-1950): 9781683968993: Johnson, Frank, Byrne, Chris, Mayerson, Keith: Books


2-13-2024 

THEATER -- Billy Dee Williams memoir 

THEATER MOVIE Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf play and film


2-20-2024 

THEATER LITFIC Mrs. Gulliver | Valerie Martin | 9780385549950 | NetGalley

NONFIC POC CURR EVENTS Latinoland -- portrait of America's Hispanic/Latin communities


2-27-2024 

LITFIC POC Tommy Orange Wandering Stars | Tommy Orange | 9780593318256 | NetGalley

LITFIC RUSSIA NYRB Blue Lard

FANTASY LGBT Bored Gay Werewolf

LITFIC SCI FI The Other Valley



MARCH 2024 



3-5-2024 

THEATER MYS COZY Bury The Lead

SPORTS HISTORY NYC The New York Game | Kevin Baker | 9780375421839 | NetGalley

LITFIC LGBT TALES OF THE CITY Mona of the Manor by Armistead Maupin

LITFIC American Spirits | Russell Banks | 9780593536773 | NetGalley

RUSSIAN LITFIC TRANS PEVEAR Novels, Tales, Journeys | Alexander Pushkin | 9780307959645 | NetGalley



3-12-2024 

THEATER HISTORY GENDER Shakespeare's Sisters 

POEMS ANTHOLOGY MAGIC Spellbound | Kimiko Hahn, Harold Schechter | 9780593536315 | NetGalley

CLASSIC CHINA The Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh China's Robin Hood

PARADE FAITH Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson


3-19-2024 


HISTORY MASTURBATION DIY The wonderfully weird history of

SCI FI LGBT ACCLAIM The mars House

LITFIC REMIX POC Tie in To Oscar film James | Percival Everett | 9780385550369 | NetGalley Huck Fin retelling via Jim

PAPERBACK QUEER HISTORY WAR PUSH In Memoriam | Alice Winn | 9780593534564 | NetGalley



3-26-2024 

YA MYTH LGBT CRIME Icarus retelling

FANTASY LGBT POC The Emperor and the Endless Palace 

CLIMATE CURR On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America 

SCIENCE PUZZLES Space Oddities | Harry Cliff | 9780385549035 | NetGalley


APRIL 2024 


4-02-2024

THEATER PICTURE BOOK PHILLIPA SOO Piper Chen Sings: Soo, Phillipa, Doran, Maris Pasquale, Leng, Qin: 9780593564691: Amazon.com: Books 

MEMOIR Sociopath | Patric Gagne | 9781668003183 | NetGalley

CURR EVENTS INDIA FAR RIGHT Twilight Prisoners

LITFIC CRIME WINSLOW City In Ruins by Don Winslow finale of trilogy and career

LITFIC The Titanic Survivors Book Club -- BESTSELLER 

LITFIC -- Leif Enger I Cheerfully Refuse



4-09-2024


LITFIC BESTSELLER -- The Fellowship of Puzzle Makers 

POP MUSIC POC COUNTRY My Black Country (music) 

MEMOIR -- Alexandra Fuller FI son's death 



4-16-2024

THEATER LGBT HENRY V remix Henry Henry

HISTORY NAVAL EXPLORATION The Wide Wide Sea | Hampton Sides | 9780385544764 | NetGalley

SCIENCE SETI Alien Earths | Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger | 9781250283634 | NetGalley

YA FANTASY POC Sheine Lende



4-23-2024 

NONFIC PETS Dogland Westminster dog show

THEATER PARADE Judi Dench on Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent

THEATER YA FANTASY Saint Seducing Gold Book 2 in series

PARADE BIO MEDIA WOMEN The Rulebreaker | Susan Page | 9781982197926 | NetGalley

LITFIC Lucky -- Jane Smiley novel about folkie in era of Joni and Joan and Judy et al 

ROM FANTASY LETTERS A Letter to the Luminous Deep | Sylvie Cathrall | 9780316565530 | NetGalley


4-30-2024 

THEATER BALLET HISTORY -- The Swans Of Harlem -- pathbreaking black ballerinas 



MAY 2024 


5-7-2024 

PARADE LITFIC HISTORICAL sequel to Brooklyn Long Island by Colm Toibin 

1+ WOMEN Fair Shake women and work

WOMEN BIO Troosevelt The Lovves of Theodore Roosevelt

FANTASYY LITFIC HYPE The Ministry of Time by Kailane Bradley romance etc

UKRAINE WAR MEMOIR I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv: 9781639733873: Ponomarenko, Illia: Books

SCIENCE The Light Eaters plant intelligence


LITFIC BOOKCLUB WW I COMIC The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club | Helen Simonson | 9781984801319 | NetGalley



5-14-2024 

LITFIC MAJOR BUZZ POC HISTORY This Strange Eventful History Claire Messud

LIT FIC All Fours by Miranda July

SCIENCE POPULAR Quanta and Fields | Sean Carroll | 9780593186602 | NetGalley

FANTASY KIDS Dragons Peter S Beagle 



5-21-2024 

CRIME LITFIC BEST APOCALYPTIC The Last Murder at the end of the World 

LITFIC REISSUE NYRB The Singularity on AI

LGBT CURR EVENT ETHICS On Sex and Gender

THEATER LITFIC RUSSIAN Vladivostok Circus 

LITFIC CRIME DYS The Great State Of West Florida 

COMIC LGBT PARENTS The Bump | Sidney Karger | 9780593439500 | NetGalley




5-28-2024 

LITFIC PARADE SISTERS A Good Life by Virginia Grimaldi

LITFIC PERIOD LGBT The Safekeep utrecht

RD PAR HISTORY MAGIC BBC Cunning Folk History of Practical Magic

CURR EVENTS 1% -- Poverty For Profit 




JUNE 2024 


6-4-2024 

WW II ORAL HISTORY Whne The Sea Came Alive

LITFIC LGBT HOLLYWOOD The Future Was Color period 

MYS DEBUT POC  Blood in the Cut: A Novel: 9781250326515: Nodarse, Alejandro: Books

LITFIC POC Swift River DEBUT 

ESSAYS COIC I've Tried Being Nice: Essays: Leary, Ann: 9781982120344: Amazon.com: Books

LITFIC POC Fire Exit by Morgan Talty

FAITH -- The Blue-Cliff Record new trans of zen koans by Guggenheim award winner 



6-11-2024

THEATER STAND UP LITFIC The Material | Camille Bordas | 9780593729847 | NetGalley

NONFIC SELF HELP BIO Ben & Me on Ben Franklin

SCI FI  The Stardust Grail: A Novel: 9781250875372: Kitasei, Yume: Books



6-18-2024 

FANTASY 100k First Printing The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands 

Akwaeke Emezi

SCIENCE -- Adventures in Volcanoland 

HISTORY CURR EVENTS 1% Oral history WTO 1999 protest

THEATER FANTASY POC MYS Daughter of Calamity historic al

LITFIC REISSUE -- Four James Baldwin books 


6-25-2024 

HORROR BIRD BOX author Incidents Around the House | Josh Malerman | 9780593723128 | NetGalley


JULY 2024 



7-2-2024 

HISTORY CRIME MARGALIT The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss eBook : Fox, Margalit: Kindle Store

YA SUPER HERO The Second Chance of Darius Logan | David F. Walker | 9781338826425 | NetGalley

NATURE CLI CRISIS KIDS The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change: Hendrickson, Debra: 9781501197130: Amazon.com: Books

7-9-2024 


7-16-2024 


7-23-2024 

MT ANDERSON ADULT DEBUT LITFC HIS FIC FAITH Nicked bones of St Nicholas

THEATER LITFIC PERIOD The Modern Fairies by Clare Pollard

FANTASY ACCLAIM The Dissonance | Shaun Hamill | 9780593317259 | NetGalley



7-30-2024 





AUGUST 2024 


8-6-2024 


8-13-2024

THEATER LITFIC FATHER DAUGHTER The Hypocrite | Jo Hamya | 9780593701034 | NetGalley

BIO ONE PERCENT Billlionaire nerd savior king bill gates

MEMOIR SPOTS Locker Room Talk female jorunalist breaks down barrier in sports


8-20-2024


THEATER LITFIC PERIOD MUSIC The Instrumentalist Vivaldi 



8-27-2024 



SEPTEMBER 2024 


9-3-2024

MYS SERIES KATE ATKINSON Death at the Sign of the Rook | Kate Atkinson | 9780385547994 | NetGalley FAVORITES? HOW TO READ KATE ATKINSON FAVE MYSTERIES 


LITFIC PETS HEARTWARMING JAPAN : We'll Prescribe You a Cat: 9780593818749: Ishida, Syou, Shimoda, E. Madison: Books


9-10-2024


9-17-2024 



9-24-2024  

PARADE MOVIES ALMODOVAR STORIES LITFC The Last Dream: 9780063349766: Almodóvar, Pedro, Wynne, Frank: Books

OCTOBER 20204 

10-1-2024 


10-8-2024 

BOOK POTENTIAL BREAKOUT The Puzzle Box

JEOPARDY BIO AMY SCHNEIDER


10-15-2024 


10-22-2024 


10-29-2024 

NOVEMBER 2024 



DECEMBER 2024






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 

FANTASY HISTORICAL CHINA A Song To Drown Rivers inCURR 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 

THEATER  YA FIC Dance Like No One's Watching 

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 





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  

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  

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


LITFIC BOOKER WINNER INTL INDIA LITFIC Tomb of Sand




FEBRUARY 2023 


2-7-2023

LITFIC POC 

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 

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 

SHOWBIZ -- Oscar Wars 


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


MYS PERIOD -- New series from Jacqueline Winspear post-WW II 

CURR EVENTS FAITH CRISIS The Undertow civil war by Jeff Sharlet 

LITFIC POC FANTASY The Lies Of The Ajungo 96 pages

FAITH SCHOLARSHIP 

SUPERNATURAL WESTERN 

FAITH Armageddon by bart D Ehrman 

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



3-28-2023


THEATER HISTORY Oral History Spoken Word | Joshua Bennett | 9780525657019 | NetGalley

SCIENCE -- Black Holes by UK physicist 

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 MUSIC 

THEATER -- Enter Ghost Hamlet in West Bank 

PARADE FIC POP CULTURE This Bird has Flown by Susanna Hoffs

CURR EVENTS CLIMATE Not Too Late

CURR EVENTS LEGAL -- Nine Black Robes Supreme Court tilt to the right 

FAITH HISTORY Christendom | Peter Heather | 9780451494306 | NetGalley

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 

LITFIC POC The Five Sorrowful Mysteries Of Andy Africa

HISTORY MYSTERY NONFIC  

LITFIC  COMICS POC The Double Life Of Benson Yu

CLIMATE HISTORY  | 9780525659167 | NetGalley

THRILLER FIC 

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 

THEATER -- Shakespeare's Book nonfic the first folio

FAN In The Lives Of Puppets inspired by Pinocchio 

MUSIC On Minimalism in words of composers 


MAY 2023


5-2-2023


MYS PERIOD -- New DENNIS LEHANE 

MEMOIR SELF HELP The Well Lived Life old coot advice

The Midnight News | Jo Baker | 9780593534977 | NetGalley

HISTORY His Majestys Airship worse disaster than Hindenberg

HISTORY RACE Homegrown Timothy McVeigh by Jeffrey Toobin

MYS NIGERIA The Niger Wife debut

FAN LGBT Loki by Melvin Burgess 


PARADE MYS HUMOR FLORIDA Swamp Story by DAVE BARRY


CURR EVENTS TRANSIT -- The Great American Transit Disaster 





5-9-2023

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece | Tom Hanks | 9780525655596 | NetGalley 

CURR EVENTS POC Our Migrant Souls on Latinos by Hector Tobar

LITFIC SHORT STORIES MEXICOS  Mothers and Dogs

These Are The Plunderers CURR EVENTS PRIVATE EQUITY 

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 

SHOWBIZ SANDBOX MOVIES Bio The Last Action Heroes | Nick de Semlyen

CURR EVENTS SUPREME COURT -- The Supermajority by Michael Waldman 

THEATER FIC Starring Adele Astaire 

YA LGBT POC Pedro and Daniel

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

LITFIC HISTORICAL Loot -- woodcarver in 18th century

DAVID WW II HISTORY The Devils Will Get No Rest | James B. Conroy | 9781982168681 | NetGalley

RACE HISTORY A Most Tolerant Little Town | Rachel Louise Martin | 9781665905145 | NetGalley



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



JULY 2023 


7-4-2023

LITFIC HUMOR The Librarianist by author of The Sisters Brothers

LITFIC WOMEN POC Sunshine Nails 


7-11-2023 

SHOWBIZ -- Bogie & Bacall bio 

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 YA BRAZIL FAMILY Tropicalia debut

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  

LITFIC HIS POC King of the Armadillos chinese leprosy 1950s NYC



AUGUST 2023 



8-1-2023 


LITFIC Family Lore by YA author Elizabeth Acevedo 

TRUE CRIME HISTORY GHANA SCAM Anansi's Gold 

LITFIC THRILLER TREVOR -- The Last Ranger by Peter Heller



8-8-2023 

THEATER see Knopf email Caligula and Three Other Plays (Vintage International): 9780593311271: Camus, Albert: Books

LITFIC --   Whalefall adventure tale swallowed by whale

LITFIC SCHOOL OBSESSIVE STUDENT TEACHER Pet 


8-15-2023

THEATER BIO August Wilson

THEATER -- The Great White Bard 

LITFIC 

MUSIC CRIT DAVE MARSH Kick out The Jams

LITFIC CULTS Thee Invisible Hour by ALICE HOFFMAN

LITFIC SCI FI CLIMATE The Great Transition near future 

SCIENCE MEDICINE CURR EVENTS Tyranny of the Gene | James Tabery | 9780525658207 | NetGalley

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 

KIDS SEQUEL AVI The Secret Sisters 



SEPTEMBER 2023


9-5-2023


CLASSIC COMIC BRIT Inimitable Jeeves Deluxe 

CRR EVENTS HIS The Subversisve Seventies 

LITFIC FANTASY ESSAY Tolkien in the 21st Century appreciation


9-12-2023

THEATER -- Bilingual kids audiobooks with PRH and Teatro SEA 

THEATER YA LGBT Ryan and Avery | David Levithan | 9780399553097 | NetGalley

TRAVEL HISTORICAL -- Untamed India by Victorian Fanny Parkes 

LITFIC Best Short Stories 2023 

CURR EVENTS POC ESSAY How Far to the Promised Land | Esau McCaulley 

COMICS MEMOIR This Country by New Yorker cartoonist navied Mahdavian


9-19-2023 

CURR EVENTS ETHICS The Trade Trap | Mathias Döpfner | 9781668016251 | NetGalley

LITFC STORIES ANTHOLOGY INDIGENOUS SCARY FOLK? Never Whistle at Night | Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. | 9780593468463 | NetGalley

THEATER LITFIC lates JM Coetzee pianist obsessed w woman



9-26-2023 

THEATER YA PIGPEN An Impossible Thing To Say Arya Shahi 

THEATER HISTORY YALE Shakespeare in Bloomsbury

SCI-FI ANTHOLOGY The Big Book Of Cyper Punk 

PARADE TV YA KIDS CARL HIAASEN Wrecker: Hiaasen, Carl: 9780593376287: Amazon.com: Books

HISTORY CURR EVENTS American Gun True Story  of AR 15

HISTORY POC Before The Movement



OCTOBER 2023


10-3-2023 

THEATER -- Bilingual kids audiobooks with PRH and Teatro SEA check email for titles

*******PARADE MARK HELPRIN LITFIC The Oceans and the Stars

TECH CRIME -- The Hank Show guy behind data mining nonfic

LITFIC POC JESMYN WARD Let Us Descend | Jesmyn Ward | 9781982104498 | NetGalley

MYS DEBUT SERIES WW II A Traitor in Whitehall



10-10-2023

PARADE COMICS NEW BILL WATTERSON -- COLLAB 

SHOWBIZ MOVIE HISTORY Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties | Foster Hirsch | 9780307958921 | NetGalley

HISTORY POC Klan War | Fergus M. Bordewich | 9780593317815 | NetGalley

LITFIC LGBT Blackouts Justin Torres

LITFIC ROMAN STORIES by Jhumpa Lahiri 



10-17-2023 

LITFIC LGBT POC LGBT MALAY BOOKER The House Of Doors historical fic by Tan Twan Eng

LITFIC UK Jonathan Coe latest

HISTORY WW II Judgment at Tokyo | Gary J. Bass | 9781101947104 | NetGalley



10-24-2023 

THEATER XMAS MYS The Christmas Appeal 

THEATER audience Right This Way: A History of the Audience: Viagas, Robert: 9781493064557: Amazon.com: Books

COMICS ROZ CHAST NEW COLLECTION

LITFIC POC JESMYN WARD Let Us Descend

HISTORY Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard



10-31-2023 

LITFIC NOBEL JON FOSSE A Shining

SHOWBIZ PARADE MOVIES Charlie Chaplin Vs America

THEATER LITFIC HORROR Edith Holler woman trapped in playhouse i 1901 UK

HORROR LITFIC POC HISTORY The Reformatory by Tanarive Due


NOVEMBER 2023 


11-2-2023 

THEATER -- Beyond Ridiculous -- nonfiction on Charles Busch



11-7-2023

THEATER -- Bilingual kids audiobooks with PRH and Teatro SEA check email for titles 

TV PETER BISKIND ON TV Pandora's Box 

THEATER Comedy Book by Vlture comedy critic history etc

BIO BARBRA STREISAND My Name Is Barbra 

LITFIC ALICE MCDERMOTT wives during Vietnam Absolution

LITFIC CLASSIC Ovid Metamorphoses




11-14-2023 

THEATER LITFIC The Woman Back From Moscow

NONFIC FLA Gator Country by Nat Geo writer debut book

NONFIC COMICS UKRAINE Red Harvest about terror famine by Michael Cherkas


11-21-2023

HISTORY DAVID NAVAL Sailing the Graveyard Sea | Richard Snow | 9781982185442 | NetGalley


11-28-2023




DECEMBER 2023 


12-5-2023

THEATER PARADE SHOWBIZ MEMOIR DAVID MAMET Everywhere an Oink Oink

THEATER -- HERE IN THE DARK - Alexis Soloski critic theater thriller


12-12-2023


12-19-2023


12-26-2023





JANUARY 2024 




1-2-2024 


EVENTS POLITCS Gods Guns and Sedition far right terrorism

CLASSIC KIDS -- The House At Pooh Corner 



1-9-2024 

SCIENCE CURR EVENTS The Wisdom of Plagues | Donald G. McNeil | 9781668001394 | NetGalley



1-16-2024 

LITFIC HISTORY WW I Library for the War Wounded second in trilogy



1-23-2024 

LITFIC WESTERN FANTASY The Bullet Swallower POC 

LITFIC DEBUT FSG PUSH Dead in Long Beach California

UK LGBT LITFIC The Gallopers | Jon Ransom | 9781739193027 | NetGalley


1-30-2024






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

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray 
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