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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: RICHARD FORD, “Canada”, 432 pages, 2012.
02: JOSHUA HENKIN, “The World without you”, 336 pages, 2012.
03: DIRK WITTENBORN, “Fierce People”, 335 pages, 2003.
04: STEPHEN L. PECK, “A Short Stay in Hell”, 108 pages, 2012.
05: CAROL RIFKA BRUNT, “Tell the Wolves I’m home”, 368 pages, 2012.
06: KAZUSHI HOSAKA, “Plainsong”, 169 pages, 2011. [Japan]
07: STEVE ERICKSON, “These Dreams of you”, 309 pages, 2012.
08: RAYMOND FEDERMAN, “Double or Nothing”, 267 pages, 1971. [postmodern / Typography]
09: ANDRI SNAER MAGNASON, “LoveStar”, 275 pages, 2002. [Science Fiction, Iceland]
10: GREG RUCKA, “Alpha”, 304 pages, 2012. [Thriller]
11: RACHEL MADDOW, “Drift. The Unmooring of America’s Military Power”, 276 pages, 2012. [Cultural Studies / Essay]
12: AUSTIN KLEON, “Steal like an Artist”, 160 pages, 2012. [Cultural Studies / Self-Help]
13: JOHN VAN DE RUIT, “Spud”, 352 pages, 2006. [Young Adult, South Africa]
14: ANNETT GRÖSCHNER, “Mit der Linie 4 um die Welt”, 250 pages, 2012. [Journalism/Travel, German]
15: MATTHIAS SENKEL, “Frühe Vögel”, 298 pages, 2012. [German; Link to Amazon]
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Here are five books that made me curious enough to buy them:
01: FRANCIS SPUFFORD, “Red Plenty”, 448 pages, 2007. [Science Fiction; German version published in April 2012: "Rote Zukunft", Rowohlt]
02: JUNICHIRO TANIZAKI, “The Makiota Sisters”, 544 pages, 1946. [Japan]
03: LYNNE TILMAN, “Haunted Houses”, 208 pages, 1995. [Young Adult]
04: MARK OLIVER EVERETT, “Things the Grandchildren should know”, 256 pages, 2007.
05: LIZ MOORE, “Heft”, 352 pages, 2012.
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…and finally, here are three books that I read – and that were really good:
1: 4 of 5 stars: BRAD KESSLER, “Birds in Fall”, 256 pages, 2006.
2: 4 of 5 stars: JHUMPA LAHIRI, “The Namesake”, 304 pages, 2003.
3: 4 of 5 stars: WOLFGANG HERRNDORF, “Tschick”, 253 pages, 2010. [Young Adult, German]
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- 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)
and:
- Underdog Literature: April 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: March 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: February 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: January 2012 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: December 2011 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: November 2011 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: October 2011 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: September 2011 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: August 2011 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: July 2011 (Link)
- Underdog Literature: June 2011 (Link)
