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Here are 15 books that caught my interest lately.
Fresh, off-beat, quirky or curious titles that might deserve more attention:
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01: RON CURRIE, jr.: „Flimsy little plastic Miracles“, 340 pages, February 2013.
02: HELEN GARNER, „Monkey Grip“, 245 pages, 1977. [Australia]
03: CHESTER HIMES, „If he hollers, let him go“, 224 pages, 1945. [Racism]
04: JULIE KIBLER, „Calling me Home“, 336 pages, 2012. [Romance / Mainstream]
05: DANA JOHNSON: „Elsewhere, California“, 304 pages, 2012.
06: KAREN BOYE, „Kallocain“, 224 pages, 1940. [Dystopia / SF]
07: JAKOV LIND, „Landscape in Concrete“, 190 pages, 1968.
08: LAWRENCE THORNTON, „Imagining Argentina“, 240 pages, 1987.
09: TYLER McMAHON, „How The Mistakes were made“, 352 pages, 2011. [Novel about a Courtney-Love-like punk / grunge singer.]
10: PETER NATHANIEL MALAE, „Our frail Blood“, 448 pages, February 2013.
11: MICHAEL KIMBALL, „Big Ray“, 192 pages, 2012.
12: STEVE ABEE, „Johnny Future“, 208 pages, 2009.
13: GOLDA FRIED, „Nellcott is my Darling“, 160 pages, 2001. [Young Adult; Toronto]
14: VIKKI WAKEFIELD, „Friday Brown“, 345 pages, 2012. [Young Adult]
15: FRANK DEFORD, „Alex. The Life of a Child“, 142 pages, 1983. [Biography / Death]
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Here are five books that made me curious enough to buy them:
01: SHUSAKO ENDO, „When I whistle“ / „Eine Klinik in Tokyo“, 273 pages, 1979. [Japanese psychological novel about the war generation]
02: NATACHA APPANAH, „The Last Brother“, 165 pages, 2007.
03: ERLEND LOE, „Naive. Super“, 208 pages, 1996. [Finnish Young Adult Bestseller]
04: DEZSő KOSTOLÁNYI, „Skylark“, 222 pages, 1924. [Hungary]
05: IRENE SABATINI, „The Boy Next Door“, 416 pages, 2009. [Zimbabwe]
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…and finally, here are three books that I read – and that were really good:
5 of 5 stars: „Batwoman: Hydrology“ (J.H. WILLIAMS III, W. HAYDEN BLACKMAN), 160 pages, 2012. The sequel, „To Drown the World“, is very good, too. If you want to start at the beginning – here’s a reading list I made for the character, from 2011.]
4 of 5 stars: TOBIAS WOLFF, „This Boy’s Life“, 304 pages, 1988. [Autobiography / Coming-of-Age]
4 of 5 stars: 05: SONALI DERANIYAGALA, „Wave“, 274 pages, March 2013. [Memoir about the 2004 tsunami]
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related Posts:
- my 20 Best Books of 2012 (Link)
- my 20 Best Books of 2011 (Link)
- Summer Reading – 60 books for the next couple of months! (Link)
- Still unread: books I plan to read (pretty soon?) (Link)
- 40 disappointing Literary Classics (Link)
- Essay: “Futter für die Bestie – Literaturkritik in digitalen Zeiten” (Link, German)
and:
- Underdog Literature: March 2013 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: February 2013 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: January 2013 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: December 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: November 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: October 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: September 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: August 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: July 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: June 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: May 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: April 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: March 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: February 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: January 2012 (Link)
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