December 31, 2008

Books on the Nightstand Podcast, Episode #21: A Peek Into 2009








Books on the Nightstand, Episode 21 (18:48)

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headphonesToday we start with a conversation about the many year-end best-of lists that have come out recently. How much attention do you pay to them and do they make you want to run out and buy more books?

Next, we offer a glimpse into the first four months of 2009, which are filled with books we're excited about. Many of these are titles you'll hear much more about on future episodes, so we're keeping it short here... just whetting your appetite! [A note about the title links below: usually we link to LibraryThing, where you can get general info to take to your local bookstore. Since some of these books don't come out for four months, we've decided to link to the publishers' websites instead. We'll return to our normal format next time.]

    Lastly, we present our usual "Two Books We Can't Wait For You to Read." Michael helps you keep your "eat healthy" resolution by talking about Whole Grains for Busy People by Lorna Sass. Ann tells us about Elsewhere USA by Dalton Conley, which looks at how the cultures of work and home life have changed over the last several decades.

    Photo credit: Jay Heaviside
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    We encourage you to write down or print out the title information and shop at your local bookstore. Titles link to the publisher's websites. Here are the books from this post:
    Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips, Knopf hardcover
    The Associate by John Grisham, Doubleday hardcover
    Brothers by Yu Hua, Pantheon hardcover
    Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, Knopf hardcover
    Gardens of Water by Alan Drew, Random House trade paperback
    Shannon by Frank Delaney, Random House hardcover
    Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy, Knopf hardcover
    Pictures at an Exhibition by Sara Houghteling, Knopf hardcover
    A Mad Desire to Dance by Elie Wiesel, Knopf hardcover
    The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels, Knopf hardcover
    Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg, Random House hardcover
    The First Person by Ali Smith, Pantheon hardcover
    The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys, Delacorte Press hardcover
    Spade & Archer by Joe Gores, Knopf hardcover
    The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl, Random House hardcover
    The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, Delacorte Press hardcover
    In Lincoln's Hand edited by Harold Holzer and Joshua Wolf Shenk, Bantam hardcover
    Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire by Flora Fraser, Knopf hardcover
    The Lost City of Z by David Grann, Doubleday hardcover
    The Brother Gardeners by Andrea Wulf, Knopf hardcover
    Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts by Martha Stewart, Potter Craft hardcover
    Red Orchestra by Anne Nelson, Random House hardcover
    Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul by Deepak Chopra, Harmony hardcover
    Hands of my Father by Myron Uhlberg, Bantam hardcover
    Cheever by Blake Bailey, Knopf hardcover
    W.C. Handy by David Robertson, Knopf hardcover
    08 by Michael Crowley and Dan Goldman, Three Rivers Press trade paperback
    Batman R.I.P. by Grant Morrison, DC Comics hardcover
    Whole Grains for Busy People by Lorna Sass, Clarkson Potter trade paperback
    Elsewhere, U.S.A. by Dalton Conley, Pantheon hardcover
    (all information is for the U.S. editions).

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