Debut Fiction: Heartbroke Bay

 Is your book club struggling to find that one great book guaranteed to generate a lively discussion?  USA Today just might have the solution: Lynn D'Urso's debut novel Heartbroke Bay.

Happily Ever After

From USA Today, Romances that will leave readers happily ever after.

Another Top Ten List

Entertainment Weekly makes its selections for the best fiction of 2010.

Detective Work

From NPR, Three Books in Praise of the Clueless Detective.

Alternate Realities

From NPR, Otherworldly: The Years Most Transporting Books.

January Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

Fiction:
Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
The Judas Gate by Jack Higgins
The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card
Family Affair by Debbie Macomber
A Lonley Death by Charles Todd
The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
The Empty Family by Colm Toibin
Love, Honor, and Betray by Kimberla Lawson Roby
The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer
The Sentry by Robert Crais
Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
Strategic Moves by Stuart Woods
Call Me Irresistable by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman
Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning
The Book of Tomorrow by Cecilia Ahern
Electric Barracuda by Tim Dorsey
The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut

Nonfiction:
Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfischer
The New Reagan Revolution: How Ronald Reagan's Principles Can Restore America's Greatness by Michael Reagan
Surviving a Shark Attack (On Land): Overcoming Betrayal and Dealing with Revenge by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
The Memory Palace: A Memoir by Mira Bartok
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee by Karen Abbott
Bird Cloud: A Memoir by Annie Proulx

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Project Gutenberg

We proudly announce the Pasco County Library System Project Gutenberg page!  All books listed on the page have been adapted from Project Gutenberg--the single largest collection of free eBooks.  Our easy to navigate site allows you to browse under the following categories:  Fiction, Nonfiction, Classics, and Just Arrived.

These eBooks are completely free.  All you have to do is download the Adobe Digital Editions E-Pub Reader to your computer, make your book selection, and transfer it to your Nook, Sony Reader, or any other Digital Editions supported device.  There are no check-outs, returns, or fines for the books downloaded from the Pasco County Library Project Gutenberg page.  Once you've downloaded a book it's yours to keep!

You can get to the Project Gutenberg page by visiting pascolibraries.org and looking under the "Research Links" and "What To Read" sections at the bottom of the page.

For more information about Project Gutenberg click here.

Indie Picks for Best of 2010

From NPR, Indie Booksellers Pick 2010 Favorites.

Discover a Great Author @ Your Library

The 4th Annual Winter Adult Reading Club is upon us!  All you have to do is sign up, read 5 books, log a short review for each and you earn a chance to win a prize.  There will be two random prize drawings at the end of each month.  The program runs from December 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011.  This year's theme is "Discover a Great Author @ Your Library."  Inquire at the reference desk for more information.

Indie Next List

Check out the recommendations from independent booksellers in the December Indie Next List.

Oprah's Book Club

Oprah has chosen two Charles Dickens titles for her next book club:  A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.  Visit Oprah's website for more information on Dickens and these latest selections.  For a list of Oprah's Book Club titles click here.

NPR's Best of 2010

NPR offers its selections for the Best Books of 2010.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

New York Times Notable Books

The New York Times selects 100 Notable Books of 2010.

Teen Reads

From NPR, The Year's Best Teen Reads.

Best Children's Illustrated Books

From the New York Times, Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2010.

National Book Awards

The National Book Foundation announced the winners of the 2010 National Book Awards last night. 

Another Best Of List

The Atlantic magazine selects its Books of the Year 2010.  The 15 runners up are listed here.

December Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy
The Outlaws by W.E.B. Griffin
Dead Zero by Stephen Hunter
In Too Deep by Jayne Ann Krentz
Half-Past Dawn by Richard Doetsch
Barefoot Contessa: How Easy Is That?: Fabulous Recipes & Easy Tips by Ina Garten
The Radleys by Matt Haig
Naked Cruelty by Colleen McCullough
What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.  Debuting at the top of the fiction list is Towers of Midnight--Book 13 in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.

Indie Next

Check out the recommendations from independent booksellers in the November Indie Next list.

Book TV

Here are some of highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Decision Points by George W. Bush
Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America by Dana Milbank
Don't Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards by P.J. O'Rourke
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier

More Best Books of 2010

Publishers Weekly and Library Journal have made their selections for the best of 2010:

Publishers Weekly Top 100 Books 
Library Journal Top 10 Best Books

As is usually the case with these end-of-year lists, several titles overlap.  The following three books are in the Publishers Weekly and Library Journal top 10, as well as the Amazon Best of 2010 top 10:

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Amazon's Best of 2010

It's time for the year-end Best Of lists!  Amazon just released it's Top 100 Editor's Picks and Top 100 Customer Favorites.  They've also broken the list down by category:

Top 10 Books: Literature & Fiction
Top 10 Books: Science
Top 10 Books: Cookbooks
Top 10 Books: Children's Picture Books

When TV Characters Become Authors

From the Onion A.V. Club, 30-Plus Actual Books Written by Fictional TV Characters.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.  John Grisham takes the top fiction spot with his new book The Confession.  The nonfiction top spot is shared by two new books:  Keith Richards's Life and Glenn Beck's Broke.

Books for the Comic

From NPR, Three Books for the Contemplative Comic.

November Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Pitchforks and Torches: The Worst of the Worst, from Beck, Bill, and Bush to Palin and Other Posturing Republicans by Keith Olbermann
Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb
My Reading Life by Pat Conroy
Edge by Jeffrey Deaver
Hell's Corner by David Baldacci
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor by Lisa Kleypas
Distant Hours by Kate Morton
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
Decision Points by George W. Bush
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
Cross Fire by James Patterson
Crescent Dawn by Clive Cussler
Unbroken: A World War II Airman's Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
The Athena Project by Brad Thor
The Emperor's Tomb by Steve Berry

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.  Two new titles are at the top of the Fiction list this week:  Worth Dying for by Lee Child and In the Company of Others by Jan Karon.

Ghost Stories

From the Guardian, Top 10 Ghost Stories.

Best of October

Amazon's editors offer their selections for the best books of October.  This month's spotlight selection is At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson is one of the season's most anticipated releases.  Click here to read an excerpt of At Home.  

Book Art

For the true book lover, Book Posters for Reading Enthusiasts.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Local Reading Festivals

St. Petersburg is definitely the place for readers this weekend!  Two of the area's largest literary festivals are taking place downtown.

Necronomicon 2010, the 29th annual convention for science fiction, fantasy, and  horror fans, will be held October 22-24 at the Hilton Bayfront.  Necronomicon is Florida's premier science fiction convention.  The organization behind the convention, the Stone Hill Science Fiction Association, has a long history of supporting local charities.  Proceeds from this year's convention will benefit Kids & Canines.   

Date: October 22-24, 2010
Location: Hilton Bayfront, St. Petersburg


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On Saturday, October 23, the eighteenth annual St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading will be held at Bayboro Harbor in downtown St. Pete.  Featured authors at this year's festival include Michael Connelly, Susan Hubbard, R.L. Stine, and Sena Jeter Naslund. For a complete list of scheduled authors click here.  Admission for the festival is FREE.    

Date: Saturday, October 23, 2010
Time:  10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location:  140 Seventh Avenue South (Bayboro Harbor, St. Petersburg)


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Belva Plain

Belva Plain (author website), best known for her multi-generational family sagas, has died at the age of 95. 

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

National Book Award Finalists

The finalists for the 2010 National Book Award have been announced.

Fiction Finalists:

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
Great House by Nicole Krauss
So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita

Nonfiction Finalists:
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq by John W. Dower
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward by Justin Spring
Every Man in this Village is a Liar: An Education in War by Megan K. Stack

Indie Next

Check out the recommendations from independent booksellers in the October Indie Next List.  The list features new titles from Michael Cunningham (The Hours), Myla Goldberg (Bee Season), and Bill Bryson (A Walk in the Woods).

Booker Prize

Howard Jacobson has won the Booker Prize for The Finkler Question.  For a list of previous Booker winners click here.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.  This week sees two new entries in the #1 spot:  Fall of Giants by Ken Follett and Don't Blink by James Patterson.

Nobel Prize in Literature

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.  For a list of previous Nobel winners click here.

Apocalyptic Reading

From NPR, Three Books to Help You Enjoy the Apocalypse.

Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists

Literary magazine Granta continues its trend of discovering and promoting new talent with its list of the Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists.  This list marks the magazine's first foray into non-English literary territory.  Previous lists (Best of Young British Novelists; Best of Young American Novelists) identified emerging talents Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Sherman Alexie, all of whom have seen both critical and popular success.

Steamy Reads

Entertainment Weekly provides another fun list with 24 Classic "Steamy" Books.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Good Beginnings

From Entertainment Weekly, 20 Classic Opening Lines in Books.

2010 National Book Festival

The tenth annual National Book Festival is taking place tomorrow in Washington D.C.  The festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, features some of the biggest names in literature.  This year's guest lineup includes Isabelle Allende, Martha Grimes, Ken Follett, Diana Gabaldon, Scott Spencer, and Scott Turow.  For a complete list of participating authors click here.  Podcasts of participating authors can be found here.

Twenty Books for Fall

New York Magazine highlights some of the most anticipated fiction and nonfiction of fall.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Oprah's Book Club

Oprah has selected Jonathan Franzen's Freedom as the 64th pick for her wildly popular book club.  The pick comes as a somewhat of a surprise given Franzen's response to her selection of The Corrections in 2001.  For a complete list of Oprah's Book Club selections click here. 

Best of September

Amazon's editors select the best books of September.

Indie Next

Check out the latest recommendations from independent booksellers in the September Indie Next list.

USA Today Fall Books

USA Today recently revealed its interactive 2010 Fall Books calendar.  The calendar is searchable by title, author, and month of release.  Highlights include new releases from David Sedaris, Sarah Palin, Dennis Lehane, Keith Richards, Bill Bryson, Sophie Kinsella, and many others!  

Farewell to Summer

Now that the summer is all but over, the New York Times considers what's in store for fall books.

Booker Shortlist

The Booker shortlist has been announced.  The following finalists will compete for one of literature's most prestigious prizes:

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey

Room by Emma Donoghue

In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

The Long Song by Andrea Levy

C by Tom McCarthy

The winner will be announced October 12.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love by Dave Zirin

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage by Kirstin Downey

Bringing America Home: How America Lost Her Way and How We Can Find Our Way Back by Tom Pauken

Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America by Eric Jay Dolin

Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Guardian First Book Award

The longlist for the Guardian First Book Award has been announced.  The shortlist will be announced in late October and the winner in early December. 

Read Comics in Public Day

This Saturday, August 28, is International Read Comics in Public Day.  Show your love for the wonderful, dynamic art form that is comics by reading them out in the open!  Be proud of your reading habits--reading is reading no matter the form!  Click here to get the backstory on this cool project.

How Do You Read?

From Tor.com, Gulp or sip: How do you read?

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Thurber Prize

The finalists for the 2010 Thurber Prize for American Humor have been announced.  The Thurber prize, begun in 1997, honors the art of humor writing.  This year's finalists are:

Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo?: And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask by Jancee Dunn

How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely

 Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen

Past winners include David Sedaris, Jon Stewart, Larry Doyle, and Joe Keenan.  The winner will be announced on October 4.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

War at the Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle to Control an American Business Enterprise by Sarah Ellison

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah

The Struggle to Limit Government: A Modern Political History by John Samples

How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (And Found Inner Peace) by Harry Stein

The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris by Peter Beinart

Best Books of the Month

Amazon's editors have selected their choices for the best books of August.  This month's selections include new titles from Mary Roach (Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex), Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections), and Laura Lippman (What the Dead Know, Life Sentences).

College Fiction

In honor of the upcoming Fall semester, try one of these books about collegiate life:

I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
Blue Angel by Francine Prose
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Joe College by Tom Perrotta
Straight Man by Richard Russo
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey by Rick Whittle

The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America by Pamela Geller

Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance by Alexander Zaitchik

Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker

Indie Next List

Check out recommendations from independent booksellers in the August Indie Next list.

Booker Prize Longlist

The Man Booker Prize 2010  longlist was announced last week.  The Booker Prize celebrates the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.  For a list of past winners click here.

The 2010 shortlist will be announced on September 7 and the winner on October 12.

Science & Love

NPR's book critics are still keeping busy with the summer book lists:

From Beakers to Beaches: Summer's Best Science Books
One Nightstand, Six Affairs: Novels of Illicit Love

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

September Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie
Burn by Nevada Barr
Dexter is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay
The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass
Portobello by Ruth Rendell
Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
And Thereby Hangs a Tale by Jeffrey Archer
Bad Blood by John Sanford
Santa Fe Edge by Stuart Woods
Heaven's Fury by Stephen Frey
Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah
Don't Blink by James Patterson
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Call Me Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber
Me, Myself, and Why? by Maryjanice Davidson
Legacy by Danielle Steel

Book TV

Click here for the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Declaration: The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent, May 1-July 4, 1776 by William Hogeland

The Obama Diaries by Laura Ingraham

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future by Stephen Kinzer

Such Men as These: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies Over Korea by David Sears

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Bringing America Home: How America Lost Her Way and How We Can Find Our Way Back by Tom Pauken

Power Grab: How Obama's Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America by Christopher Horner

Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand

Fun in the Sun

From NPR, Laugh-Out-Loud Summer Books.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Shirley Jackson Awards

The winners of the 2009 Shirley Jackson Awards were announced earlier this week.  The Shirley Jackson Awards were created to honor achievement in psychological suspense, horror, and dark fantastic literature.  This year's winner for best novel is:

 Big Machine by Victor LaValle

For a list of previous winners and finalists click here and here.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley

Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Mary McDonagh Murphy

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick

Best of the Year (So Far)

Amazon offers its picks for the Best Books of the Year...So Far:

Editor's Top 10 selections
Fiction selections
Nonfiction selections

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Best of July

Amazon's editors select their picks for the Best of July.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History by Andrew Napolitano

The White House Doctor: My Patients Were Presidents - A Memoir by Dr. Connie Mariano

How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate by Jeff Goodell

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season that Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy by Bruce Watson

The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise by Garret Keizer

Indie Next List

Check out recommendations from independent booksellers in the July Indie Next List.

Summer's Graphic Novels

From Graphic Novel Reporter, The Hottest Graphic Novels of Summer 2010.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

50 Books/50 Covers

AIGI, the professional association for design, announced the 2009 winners of the 50 Books/50 Covers competition.  The competition recognizes outstanding book and book cover design.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Tocqueville's Discovery of America by Leo Damrosch

Innocent by Scott Turow

The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen

Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World--A New History by Nick Bunker

Walk in My Shoes: Conversations Between a Civil Rights Legend and His Godson on the Journey Ahead by Andrew Young and Kabir Sehgal

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick

August Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
No Mercy by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography by Andrew Morton
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
The Vigilantes by W.E.B. Griffin
Hangman by Faye Kellerman
Death on the D-List by Nancy Grace
Burn by Nevada Barr
In Harm's Way by Ridley Pearson
Fragile by Lisa Unger
Tough Customer by Sandra Brown
Cure by Robin Cook
Veil of Night by Linda Howard
Composed: A Memoir by Roseanne Cash
Hollywood: A Third Memoir by Larry McMurtry
The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth
Buried Secrets by Joseph Finder
Crossfire by Dick Francis
The Bear by R.A. Salvatore
Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
Queen of the Night by J.A. Jance
Lost Empire by Clive Cussler
Dirty Sexy Politics by Meghan McCain
Tempted by Trouble by Eric Jerome Dickey
Bearers of the Black Staff by Terry Brooks

CNN's Summer Reads

Check out CNN's choices for the Top 10 Summer Reads.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

War at the Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle to Control an American Business Empire by Sarah Ellison

Henry Clay: The Essential American by David Heidler

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely

The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern by Victor Davis Hanson

Best of June

Check out Amazon's selections for the Best Books of the Month.  The spotlight selection for June is The Passage by Justin Cronin.  The Passage appears to be this summer's runaway hit, garnering a lot of press attention and turning up on several summer reading lists:

NPR's Vampire Stories: Two New Twists on an Old Nemesis
Oprah's 2010 Summer Reading List
June 2010 Indie Next List

More Summer Reading!

The summer reading lists keep on coming!  Elle magazine offers Top 10 Summer Books for 2010.  And, in a nice change of pace, Kevin Hatch gives us Scifi for Summer Reading.

Jose Saramago

Nobel Prize-wining author Jose Saramago, known for his surreal fantasies, died last week at the age of 87. 

Selected Jose Saramago Bibliography:
 Death with Interruptions
Seeing
All the Names
The Cave
Blindness

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and the Israelis, 1956-1978 by Kai Bird

A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West by Ian Johnson

The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South by Alex Heard

Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael Oren

Oprah's Summer Reading

Oprah adds to the growing collection of summer reading lists.

NPR's Summer Books

NPR has done another fine job with its 2010 Summer Books series.  Click here for a complete list of the books featured in the series.  

The Future of Books

The Chicago Tribune considers book culture in the age of e-books.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Orange Prize

Barbara Kingsolver (author website) won the 15th annual Orange Prize for Fiction for her sixth novel, The Lacuna.  Her other works include:  The Poisonwood Bible,  Prodigal Summer, The Bean Trees, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.  For a list of previous winners and finalists click here.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars by Jay Wexler

The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise by Garret Keizer

The Struggle to Limit Government: A Modern Political History by John Samples

Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World by Abby Sallenger

Fictional Stars, Real Problems

The Wall Street Journal considers the novel trend of therapists using fictional characters for psychiatric training.

Indie Next List

Check out the recommendations from independent booksellers in the June Indie Next List.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Top 50 Business Books

From Bloomberg, the Top 50 Business Books published since January 2009.

15 Soaring Summer Reads

From NPR, independent booksellers pick 15 Soaring Summer Reads.

July Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

The Search by Nora Roberts
Shadow Zone by Iris Johansen
Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher
Undead and Unfinished by MaryJanice Davidson
Thin, Rich, Pretty by Beth Harbison
Betrayed by Robert K. Tannenbaum
The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn
Stork Raving Mad by Donna Andrews
What Women Want: The Global Marketplace Turns Female Friendly by Paco Underhill
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
The Glass Rainbow by James Lee Burke
Rules of Betrayal by Christopher Reich
Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner
Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
Damaged by Alex Kava
The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Summer Reading

The summer reading season is upon us!  The Wall Street Journal profiles sixteen of the summer's hottest reads and USA Today's interactive 2010 Summer Books Calendar is up.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances by Fred Thompson

Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration by Jeffrey Kaye

To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine by Newt Gingrich

The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by Evan Thomas

Why We Hate the Oil Companies: Straight Talk from an Energy Insider by John Hofmeister

What We're Reading

NPR highlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

Audies Awards

The 2010 Audies Award winners have been announced.  The audiobook of Kathryn Stockett's The Help took the prize for Fiction and Ken Burn's The National Parks won for Non-Fiction.

Guess Who's Fifty?

The New York Times highlights some of the summer celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Memoirs Roundup

USA Today profiles four new memoirs about loss.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom: Team Obama's Assault on Tea-Party, Talk Radio Americans by Michael Graham

A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago's Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond by Craig Robinson

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubini

Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity by S.E. Cupp

Get Capone: The Secret Plot that Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster by Jonathan Eig

Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to do About It by Richard A. Clarke

Diamond Dagger Award

The Crime Writer's Association awarded the 2010 Diamond Dagger Award to Val McDermid (author website).  The Diamond Dagger is a prestigious award honoring lifetime achievement in the field of crime writing.  Previous winners include Sue Grafton, Elmore Leonard, Ruth Rendall, and Dick Francis.  For a complete list of winners click here.   

Spring Memoirs

Publisher and reader interest in the personal memoir continues to grow strong.  Here are a few of the more interesting memoirs that cropped up this Spring:

Spent: Memoirs of a Shopping Addict by Avis Cardella

Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman

Whip Smart: A Memoir by Melissa Febos

Lonely: A Memoir by Emily White

Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Tale of Life and Death by Zoe Fitzgerald Carter

Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir by Wendy Burden

Backing into Forward: A Memoir by Jules Feiffer

Eating Pomegranates: A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters, and the BRCA Gene by Sarah Gabriel

One More Theory About Happiness: A Memoir by Paul Guest

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

The 10 Laws of Enduring Success by Maria Bartiromo

Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush

Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla Miller

Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment by David Kirby

Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman

Best of May

Check out Amazon's selections for the Best Books of May.

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

Spotlight on Nathaniel Philbrick

Prize-winning historian Nathaniel Philbrick tackles Lieutenant Colonel Custer in his latest book, The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.  Philbrick is perhaps best known for his naval histories, including In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction) and Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War.

For more information about Nathaniel Philbrick and his newest book visit his author website.

Indie Next

Check out the recommendations from independent booksellers in the May Indie Next list.

Edgar Awards

The Mystery Writers of America presented the 2010 Edgar Awards last week. 

Best Novel:
The Last Child by John Hart

Best First Novel:
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff

For a complete list of nominees and winners click here and here.

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

June Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

The Spy by Clive Cussler
The Bourne Objective by Eric Van Lustbader
The Burning Wife by Jeffery Deaver
Bullet by Laurell K. Hamilton
The Rule of Nine by Steve Martini
My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea by Linda Greenlaw
The Lion by Nelson Demille
Death Echo by Elizabeth Lowell
The Overton Window by Glenn Beck
Whiplash by Catherine Coulter
Frankenstein: Lost Souls by Dean Koontz
Lowcountry Summer by Dorothea Benton Frank
Promises to Keep by Jane Green
Tour De Lance: The Extraordinary Story of Lance Armstrong's Fight to Reclaim the Tour de France by Bill Strickland
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
Family Ties by Danielle Steel
Take Four by Karen Kingsbury
Broken by Karin Slaughter
In the Name of Honor by Richard North Patterson
Inside Out by Barry Eisler

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV lineup:

Einstein's God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit by Krista Tippett

Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court by Jeff Sheshol

Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West by Stephen Fried

What We're Reading

In this week's What We're Reading column, NPR treats us to a new novel from Isabel Allende, a debut author's mystery spanning four generations of a Filipino family, and a thrilling account of the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin.

Indie Next List

Check out the recommendations from independent booksellers in the April Indie Next list.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Here are the winners of the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize:

Fiction:
A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias

First Fiction:
American Rust by Philipp Meyer

Mystery/Thriller:
The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville

Biography:
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon

Science & Technology:
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation by Jason Mattera

13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson

The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History by Gregory Zuckerman

Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

Orange Prize Shortlist

The Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist has been announced:

The Very Thought of You by Alma Books
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey 

The winner will be announced June 9.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Summer Preview

Entertainment Weekly is already looking ahead to the summer reading season with 18 Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer. 

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights this week's Book TV schedule:

No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller by Harry Markopolos

Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation  Rawn James

Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation by Ellen Fitzpatrick

Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire that Civilized the Wild West by Stephen Fried

What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

Pulitzer Prize

The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes were announced this week. 

Fiction:
Tinkers by Paul Harding

History:
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

Biography or Autobiography:
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles

General Nonfiction:
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman

For a list of previous Pulitzer winners click here.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East by Deborah Amis

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout

Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age by Steve Knopper

The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by Robert Darnton

Spin This!: All the Ways We Don't Tell the Truth by Bill Press

Hugo Awards

The 2010 Hugo Award nominees have been announced.  The Hugo Awards are science fiction's most prestigious award and have been given annually since 1955. 

Best Novel Nominees:

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
The City & The City by China Mieville
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Winston
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
Wake by Robert J. Sawyer
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

The winners will be announced September 5, 2010.

National Poetry Month

National Poetry Month is a month-long, national celebration of poetry established by the Academy of American Poets. The concept is to widen the attention of individuals and the media—to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our complex poetic heritage, and to poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic range and concern. (From Poets.org)

Here are some resources to help you celebrate National Poetry Month:
Poem-A-Day  (Sign up to receive a new poem in your email each day of National Poetry Month.)
11 Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month With the New York Times
Library of Congress Poetry website

New York Times Best Sellers

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May Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
Innocent by Scott Turow
Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick
Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
Blue-Eyed Devil by Robert B. Parker
I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood by Dave Barry
Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
Fever Dream by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston
Executive Intent by Dale Brown
War by Sebastian Junger
The Good Son by Michael Gruber
Die Twice by Andrew Grant
Storm Prey by John Sanford
61 Hours by Lee Child
Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home by Laura Ling and Lisa Ling
Supreme Justice by Phillip Margolin
A Secret Affair by Mary Balogh
Fade to Midnight by Sharron McKenna

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication by Judith Warner

Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It by Zachary Karabell

The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science by Julie Des Jardins

Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco

The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation by Thomas Reed

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P.W. Singer

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

PEN/Faulkner Award

Sherman Alexie's novel War Dances was selected as the winner of the 2010 Pen/Faulker Award for Fiction. For more information about War Dances and Alexie's other works visit the author website.

Orange Prize Longlist

The Orange Prize longlist has been announced.  The Orange Prize for Fiction was established in 1996 and is awarded to the best full-length novel written in English by a female author. 

The longlist features several well-known, critically received titles, including:

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
The Help by Kathryn Stockett


The shortlist will be announced on April 20 and the winner on June 9.

New York Times Best Sellers

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Indie Next List

Check out recommendations from independent booksellers in the March Indie Next List.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch

My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer by Anousheh Ansari

The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation by Andrew Lewis

Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) American's Won't Do by Gabriel Thompson

Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda by Gretchen Peters

March Science Releases

From Seed magazine, new releases in science books.

Highlights from the list include:

The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health--and a Vision for Change by Annie Leonard

The Shaking Woman: A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt

The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle Award winners were unveiled last week.

Fiction:

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Nonfiction:

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

Autobiography:

Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill

Biography:

Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

A New Kind of Book Club

From Yahoo! news, Book clubs for doctors show human side of medicine.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation by Rawn James

The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations by Lee Smith

From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll

Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight by Karl Rove

Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries by Molly Caldwell Crosby

April Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming titles:

The Executor Jesse Kellerman
The Walk by Richard Paul Evans
Changes by Jim Butcher
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Lake Shore Limited by Sue Miller
The Aloha Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
The Black Cat by Martha Grimes
Nowhere to Run by C.J. Box
Cat of the Century by Rita Mae Brown
Bloody Crimes by James Swanson
Lucid Intervals by Stuart Woods
Reckless by Andrew Gross
Edge of Apocalypse by Tim Lahaye and Craig Parshall
The 9th Judgment by James Patterson
Solar by Ian McEwan
Return to Sender by Fern Michaels
The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg

New York Times Best Sellers

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Discover Awards

The Barnes and Noble 2009 Discover Awards were announced this week.  The Discover Awards honor the best new literary talent of the year.

First Place, Fiction:
Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato

First Place, Nonfiction:
Columbine by Dave Cullen

The awards are part of Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers series.  Click here for the Spring 2010 Discover New Writers selections.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlight's from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives by Shankar Vedantam

China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society by Doris & John Naisbitt

The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution by Barry Friedman

The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature by Timothy Ferris

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

The finalists for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize have been announced.  Winners will be selected in the following categories:  Biography, Current Interest, Fiction, First Fiction, Graphic Novel, History, Mystery/Thriller, Poetry, Science & Technology, and Young Adult Literature. 

Fiction Finalists:

Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
Blame by Michelle Huneven
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias

First Fiction Finalists:

An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
Tinkers by Paul Harding
American Rust by Philipp Meyer
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

Current Interest Finalists:

Columbine by Dave Cullen
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The Healing of America: The Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Healthcare by T.R. Reid


The prizes will be awarded on April 23, 2010.

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

PEN/Faulkner Award

The nominees for the 2010 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction have been announced.  The annual award honors the best works of fiction by American citizens. 

War Dances by Sherman Alexie

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories by Lorraine M. Lopez

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead

For previous nominees/winners click here and here.  This year's winner will be announced March 23, 2010.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Book Roundup - Mysteries/Thrillers

USA Today showcases four new mysteries/thrillers in the Book Roundup.

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.  One of the books on the list (The Death of American Virtue: Clinton v. Starr) will be featured on Book TV this weekend.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by Robert Darnton

The Death of American Virtue: Clinton v. Starr by Ken Gormley

It Happens Every Day: Inside the World of a Sex Crimes DA by Robin Sax

To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West by Mark Lee Gardner

Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age by Steve Knopper

The Audies

The Audio Publishers Association has announced the nominations for the 2010 Audies awards.  The Audies honor outstanding achievement in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.  Judges will select winners in 28 categories, including Audio Drama, Fiction, Nonfiction, Mystery, Multi-Voiced Performance, Romance, and Humor.  For a complete list of the categories and nominees click here.  Winners will be announced May 25, 2010.

Dick Francis

Dick Francis, ex-jockey and author of the wildly popular mysteries set in the horse-racing world, has died at the age of 89.  Francis wrote 42 novels, in recent years collaborating with his youngest son, Felix.  The latest Dick and Felix Francis novel, Crossfire, will be published later this year.

New York Times Best Sellers

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