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BOOKFILTER 2016 TITLES TO READ


MARCH 2016




The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota huge acclaim shortlisted Booker 3-1-2016 Sheffield

At The Existential Cafe by Sarah Bakewell his philo 3-1-2016


Ancient Minstrel by Jim Harrison novellas 3-1-2016

Voices From The Front by Peter Hart WWI oral History London 3-1-2016

Out of Eden Polygamy by David Barash Univ of Wash 3-1-2016

The Ways Of The World by David Harvey CUNY prof essays from career thinking on capitalism etc NYC 3-2-2016

Paper Menagerie sci-fib3-8-2016

The Invisible Guardian mys from Spain, bestseller acclaim 3-8-2016

The Best Place On Earth short stories Mizeagi Jews 3-8-2016

Until We Are Free memoir human rights fighter in Iran 3-8-2016

Noonday by Pat Barker WWII 3-8-2016

The Rarest Bird in the World Nonfiction account 3-8-2016

Half-Earth by Edward O Wilson times running out science 3-8-2016

In The Cafe of Lost Youth by Nobel winner Payrick Modiano Paris 3-8-2016

High Dive by Jonathan Lee novel about assassination attempt on Thatcher in 1984. Author in Brooklyn 3-08-2016

Smarter Faster Better being productive 3-8-2016

Julia Ward Howe bio 3-8-2016

Burn Baby Burn -- 1970s coming of age YA NYC 3-8-2016

Peacekeeping -- novel FSG, cop UN Haiti 3-8-2016

Alligator Candy by David Kushner memoir about abduction of brother (great reviews for video game bio)  NYC 3-15-2016

A Man Lies Dreaming - sci-fi Holocaust noir 3-15-2016

American Character liberty v common good cur events 3-15-2016

Hap And Leonard shorts by Joe R Lansdale 3-15-2016

Cambodia Noir thriller 3-15-2016

Listen Liberal -- current events author of What's Wrong With Kansas 3-15-2016

Two If By Sea by Jacquelyn Mitchard post-tsunami cop adopts psychic boy? Cape Cod 3-15-2016

Rightful Heritage FDR and nature by Brinkley history 3-15-2016

***Voyage Around My Room essay/travel reissue 3-21-2016

The Paper Trail by Alexander Monro nonfiction popular history 3-22. UK or Asia

***Switched On -- ninfic about Aspergers and new surgery 3-22-2016

The Brazen Age -- NYC post-war history 3-22-2016

The Way Of The Gun nonfiction 3-22-2016

Terrible Virtue novel about feminist Margaret Sanger 3-22-2016

***Jane Steele Eyre serial killer 3-22-2016

Treachery At Lancaster Gate by Anne Perry historical mystery 3-22-2016

***Reader, I Killed him Jane Eyre anthology 3-22-2016

This Is Where The World Ends ya novel 3-22-2016

***Frederick The Great bio history tons of acclaim 3-29-2016

London's Glory Bryant & May 3-29-2016 mys

***The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle theater guy gay YA 3-29-2016

***The Infidel Stain mys second Blake and Avery period mystery 3-29-2016

American Amnesia 3-29-2016

Spain In Our Hearts nonfiction 3-29-2016

Melancholy Accidents -- gun safety history -- 3-29-2016

Platform Revolution nonfic about business, platforms 3-29-2016

***Journey To Munich Maisie Dobbs mys 3-29-2016


APRIL 2016


Fed Power nonfiction critique by Lawrence Jacobs at Univ Minnessota and Desmond King of Oxford 4-1-2016

Conspiracy Boy -- gay YA fantasy 4-4-2016

The Butcher Bird -- UK period mystery, second in series  4-4-2016

***A Bandit's Tale -- young adult novel italian immigrant teenage pickpocket 4-5-2016

****Translation of Love - fiction mys trade raves across the board, post-war Japan historical fic 4-5-2016

****Orson Welles -- ONe Man Band Simon Callow bio 4-5-2016

America's War For The Greater Middle east - history, current events 4-5-2016

The Murder Of Mary Russell -- Laurie King latest mys 4-5-2016

James Brown bio/cultural history Kill "em And Leave "em by James McBride 4-5-2016

The Long Shadow Of Small Ghosts -- nonfic about parents killing child, poverty, poorest town in America 4-5-2016

Weekends With Max And His Dad by Linda Urban kids 4-5-2016

Sleeping Giant -- cur events working class revolution 4-5-2016

We The People -- conservative looks at key figures and living constitution 4-5-016

***Consequence -- memoir of Iraqi interrogator 4-5-2016

Sent To The Devil -- opera world mys 4-5-2016

Neither Snow Nor Rain -- history of post office 4-5-2016

Three Martini Lunch -- fic NYC 1950s business 4-5-2016

Worlds Elsewhere -- study of Shakespeare via his fascination w the world 4-5-2016

The beauty Queen Of Jerusalem fic big bestseller in Israel 4-5-2016

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren -- memoir by major scientist of childhood in dads lab. Hawaii 4-5-2016

***The Path by Harvard prof Michael Puett course on Chibese philosophy self-help 4-5-2016

The Third Wave Steve Case 4-5-2016

***Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom novel white indentured servants underground sequel to The Kitchen House 4-4-2016 Virginia

The Rivals Of Versailles historical fiction 4-5-2016

***Pearl poetry trans Simon Armitage best-seller how formatted? 4-11-2016

The Vanishing Velazquez by Laura Cumming pop history of bookseller obsessed w painting 4-12-2016

****The Killing Of Osama Bin Laden by Seymour Hersch -- 4-12-2016

Democracy Now Amy Goodman 4-12-2016

My Mrs Brown ode to mom novel by fashion guy 4-12-2016

***Lazaretto -- Philly black community novel in 1800s 4-12-2016

Daredevils -- fic, award winner, cult, "sister bride" runaway 4-12-2016

The Last Goodnight -- history, wwii espionage female 4-12-2016

Door To Door -- nonfiction on transportation 4-12-2016

***Paris Vagabond -- NYRB 4-12-2016

Your Song Changed My Life by Bob Boilen anthology 4-12-2016

The Genius Of Birds nonfiction/science 4-12-2016

An Honorable Man -- debut cold war espionage novel a la carre Furst 4-12-2016

Most Blessed of the Patriarchs -- Thomas Jefferson reappraisal 4-13-2016

A Barbarian in Asia classic travel reissue 4-18-2016

The Yellow Sofa -- New Dir reissue of comic satire, 128 pages 4-18-2016

The Dark Lady's Mask novel about Shakespeare lover 4-19-2016

Loneliness Of Long-Distance Runner /Saturday Night Sunday Morning reissue 4-19-2016

Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift 4-19-2016

Before The Wind by Jim Lynch -- sailing novel, author poised to do bigger Washington state

Green Metropolis by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers -- popular history of BYC and its parks Etc 4-19-2016

The Lie Tree -- historical fiction/fantasy 4-19-2016

The Letter Writer by Dan Fesperman mys NYC after Pearl Harbor 4-19-2016

***TheBad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu nonfiction about librarians outwitting Al-Quaeda by Joshua Hammer Berlin 4-19-2016

Before We Visit The Goddess by Banerjee Divakaruni bestselling author India and Us novel Texas 4-19-2016

****Chasing The Last Laugh -- mark Twain tour, revival of fame and fortune nonfic 4-19-2016

Maestra thriller 4-19-2016

Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? Pop science by Frans de Waal 4-25-2016

City of Secrets byStewart O'Nan thriller of Jewish underground in Jerusalem after WWII Pittsburgh 4-26-2016

***Players Rise of sports pro athletes power 4-26-2016


MAY 2016


***Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave author of Little Bee WW II novel 5-3-2016 UK

Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo 5-3-2016

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper -- fiction about "adorable" widower, charming 5-3-2016

Admiral by Sean Danker sci-fi 5-3-2016

The Versions Of Us fic big UK hit  5-3-2016

New York Exposed historical nonfiction 5-3-2016

***Children Of Earth and Sky by Guy Kavriel Kay fantasy 5-10-2016

Making Monte Carlo by Mark Braude nonfiction San Fran 5-10-2016

The Mirror Thief novel a la Cloud Atlas debut, PW rave 5-10-2016

A Self Made Man Lincoln 5-10-2016

Valiant Ambition -- Nathan Philbrick history Washington Benedict Arnold etc 5-10-2016

The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore non 5-10-2016

LaRose by Louise Erdrich 5-10-2016

The Pier Falls short stories by Mark Haddon 5-10-2016

Herbert Hoover in White House 5-10-2016

American Maelstrom 1968 election 5-10-2016

***The Big Picture science book explaining quantum cosmos and human level recent theories and principles for gen aid 5-10-2016

Every Exquisite Thing Matthew Quick (Silver Linings Playbook) 5-10-2016

***The Noise Of Time by Julian Barnes fic 5-12-2016

The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski history 5-17-2016 NY

Finding Fontainbleau by Thad Carhart memoir growing up in France by author of Piano Shop on Zleft Bank Paris 5-17-2016

***Joe Gould's Teeth by Jill Lepore bio 5-17-2016

The Summer Guest by Alison Anderson 5-24-2016 novel w Chekhov Swiss

***Before The Fall -- thriller by creator of TV Fargo 5-31-2016


JUNE 2016


***Grand Hotel NYRB reissue 6-7-2016

Homecoming by Yaa Gyasi debut 150k first printing Berkeley 6-7-2016

Amy Snow fiction priority Victorian treasure hunt 6-7-2016

Everything Explained: Encyclopedia Britannica by Denis Boyles 6-9-2016

***The Tumbling Turner Sisters by Juliette Fey pr Wunderkind 6-14-2016

Code Warriors -- nonfic NSA vs Soviets 6-14

The Innocent Have Nothing To fear -- political satire set during election; 272 pages; 6-28


JULY 2016


How To Set A Fire And Why -- Jesse Ball fic, 304 pages; best-seller 7-5

This Must Be The place -- romance, fict by Maggie O'Farrell -- 7-19-2016

Fallout -- Harry Turtledove cold war alternate history sci-fi 7-19-2016



AUGUST 2016

***Makoons by Louise Erdrich -- second trilogy of indigenous American stories for ya 8-9-2016




SEPTEMBER 2016



OCTOBER 2016



NOVEMBER 2016



DECEMBER 2016




JANUARY 2016


The Land Shall Be Deluged In Blood Nat Turner by Patrick H Breen  at Providence College in Rhode Island 1-4-2016 history

George Washington's Journey 1-5 forging national identity Vermont

Walking The Nile by Levison Wood 1-5-16 London

A Thousand Naked Strangers paramedic 1-5-2016 CA

Only Love Can Break Your Heart novel late 1970s by Ed Tarkington 1-5. Nashville went to Fl State

The Geography Of Genius by Eric Weiner travel DC 1-5-2016

Defenders of the Unborn by Daniel K Williams west Georgia 1-7-2016

The Lady Of Misrule by Suzannah Dunn Lady Jane Grey novel England 1-11-2016

The Cabaret of Plants by Richard Mabey nonfiction 1-11-2016

The Extra Yard YA by Mike Lupica 1-12-2016 Conn

The Hundred Year Walk memoir history Armenian genocide by Dawn Anahid MacKeen Cali 1-12-2016

The Drifter new thriller series by Nicholas Petrie of Milwaukee 1-12-2016

Eleanor by Jason Gurley sci-fi twos literaryPortland 1-12-2016

Paradise Now Utopia by Chris Jennings 1-12-2016

The Longest Night by Andria Williams fic 1-12-2016

The Lost Tudor Princess by Alison Weir 1-12-2016

Excellent Daughters by Katherine Zoepf non 1-12-2016

The Lady Of Misrule by Suzannah Dunn fic about Lady Jane Grey 1-15-2016 London

Thomas Murphy novel by Roger Rosenblatt aging poet 208pagrs 1-19-2016 upstate NY

Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze classic noir 1-19-2016

A Passion For Leadership by Robert M Gates 1-19-2016

Stargazer's Sister by Carrie Brown 1800s tale of sister of astronomer Massachusetts 1-19-2016

Catching Tge Sky by Colten Moore X games snowmobile brothers Dallas 1-19-2016

In A Different Key by John Donvan autism 1-19-2016

Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz thriller 1-19-2016

The Goblin's Puzzle by Andrew Chilton ya 1-19-2016

Blood And Earth by Kevin Bales reporting on climate change and slavery 1-19-2016

The Cat Who Came In Off The Roof by Annie MG Schmidt kids Holland classic 1-19-2016

The Road To Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson travel 1-19-2016

The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda 1-26 Cali

Where My Heart Used To Beat by Sevastisn Faulks 1-26-2016 fic

The Poison Artist mys 1-26-2016

My Marriage by Jakob Wasserman 1-26-2016 fiction NYRB

The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie "Aviator's Wife" Benjamin about Capote and 50s NYC Lives in Chicago 1-26-2016

Noah's Wife by Lindsay Starck allegorical modern novel lives in Chapel Hill NC 1-26-2016

Shaker by Scott Frank Mys about assassin who becomes famous and thus a target 1-26 screenwriter

A Prisoner Of Malta by Phillip DePoy spies Christopher Marlowe 1-26-2016 Decatur Georgia

Audacity Jones To The Rescue by Kirby Larson 1-26-2016 YA

Some Kind OfCourage by Dan Gemeinhart 1-26-2016 YA

The Secret Of The Blue Glass by Tomiko Inui 1-26-2016 YA


FEBRUARY 2016


The Catholic Enlightenment by Ulrich Lehrer Milwaukee 2-1-2016

A Friend Of Mr Lincoln by Stephen Harrigan fic about Lincoln in his 20s 2-2 Austin

Robert B Parker Blackjack 2-2-2016 mys

Kingfisher by Patricia McKillip sci-Fo 2-2-2016

Simon Thorn 2-2-2016

While The City Slept -- true crime 2-2-2016 

Opening Belle by Maureen Sherry novel abt life on Wall Street for women by insider NYC? 2-2-2016

On My Own by Diane Rehm NPR host memoir of dying husband, moving on 2-2 Bethesda Maryland

The Age Of Stagnation by Satyajit Das economic talking head in Inside Job Sydney 2-9-2016

West of Eden history of Hollywood by Jean Stein 2-9-2016

The Fugiyives by Christopher Sorrentino 2-9-2026

My Father a The Pornographer by Chris Offutt. 2-9-2016

Murder of Magpies 2-9-2016

The First Congress by Fergus M Bordewich history 2-9-2016 San Fran

Arcadia by Iain Pears fic 2-9 Oxford

Pacific Burn by Barry Lancet thriller antiques dealer PI in Japan 2-9-2016

Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase fic forbidden love etc Oxford 2-9-2016

In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahori learning Italian 2-9 Princeton

The Silk Roads history by Oxfordian Peter Frankopan 2-16

Strange Gods conversion by Susan Jacoby 2-16  NYC

The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky fantasy 2-16-2016

Flight of Dreams 2-23-2016

The Last Weymfeldt by Martin Suter art world fic 2-16-2016

Playing Against The House by James D Walsh union nonfiction 2-16-2016 NYC

The Bible Doesn't Really Say That by Joel M Hogfman 2-16-2016 NYC

Love raft Country by Matt Ruff 2-16-2016

The Beautiful Possible by Amy Gottlieb fic pb orig 2-16-2016

The Profiteers by Sally Denton history of Hoover Dam and Bechtel family 2-16-2016

Biblical literalism by Spong 2-16-2016

A Doubter's Almanac by Ethan Canin 2-16-2016

Elephant Complex travel book in Sri Lanka by John Gimlette London 2-18-2016

The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle con artist lit fic 2-2-2016 England

IN The Land Of Armadillos by Helen Maryles Shankman polish folk tales/Nazis Isaac Basheevis-like acclaim NJ 2-2-2016

Seeing Redby Lina Meruane Chilean novelist 2-23-2016 NYU

The Fight To Vote by Michael Waldman 2-23-2016  NYC

Movie Freak Owen glieberman 2-23-2016

No Cats Allowed cozy library mystery 2-23-2016

Thanks for the trouble by Tommy Wallach YA 2-23-2016 Brooklyn

Version Control by Dexter Palmer sci-if NJ 2-23-2016

Constance Fenimore Woolson bio 2-29-2016

Miss Grief short stories by Woolson 2-29-2016






BACKLIST

Career of Evil (Robert Galbraith mys)
City On Fire
Elena Ferrante
Empire of Cotton
Farthest Field
The Fine Art of Murder
The Gilded Razor
The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood
H is for Hawk
Home By Nightfall Mys London period
The Japanese Lover by Isabelle Allende
A Little Life
The Man Who Spoke Snakish
Mapp & Lucia reissues Worshipful and Queen and Lucia
Mrs. Engels 
Nine Lives new Mys series Wendy Corsi Staub
The 6:41 To Paris
The Soul Of An Octopus
The Stone Reader NYT philosophy column
The Sympathizer
Thirteen Ways Of Looking
Twelve Kings (fantasy)
Vision Quest (ya)
The White Ghost by James R Benn WW II Mys







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