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Amnesia Stars
Page Modified: June 19, 2009
Updated as time allows...Books about amnesia and memory loss.
Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.- Oblivion
Author: Abrahams, Peter
Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060726571 Date: 2005
Kirkus
Blending evocative imagery with psychological complexity, Oblivion is a dark, disturbing story of identity and memory from the acclaimed author of The Tutor and The Fan.
Updated 12.16.04 - The Discrete Charm of Charlie
Monk
Author: Ambrose, David
Publisher: Warner $ 23.95 ISBN: 0446527963 Date: 2003
Kirkus
Booklist
Charlie Monk is the ultimate spy. He has no conscience, no fear--and no memory. Dr. Susan Flemyng, thinks she may have found a way to give him his memory back. As the two of them embark on a series of experiments to recover Charlie's long-lost memory, they find something terrifying in the deepest recesses of his mind.
Updated 3.13.03 - Black Fly Season
Author: Blunt, Giles
Publisher: Putnam $ 25.95 ISBN: 0399152555 Date: 2005
Booklist
A beautiful young woman stumbles into a rough Algonquin Bay tavern covered in black fly bites and bits of leaves stuck in her hair. A full examination reveals that her woozy behavior isn't due to drugs or diminished mental capacity. She has a bullet in her brain and no memory of how it got there or who she is.
Updated 5.9.05 - Amnesia
Author: Ephron, G.H.
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 031226867x Date: 2000
Kirkus
Sylvia Jackson was shot in the head and left for dead, her boyfriend murdered. Waking from a coma after six weeks, she remembers nothing, until three months later, when she begins to recall details of the crime and the killer. It's up to forensic psychologist Dr. Peter Zak to determine how reliable Syl's memory really is and use those memories to uncover the truth.
Suggested Reading: Crime Scene Investigations | Amnesia & Memory Stars
Updated 7/21/00 - Land of the Living
Author: French, Nicci
Publisher: Warner $ 23.95 ISBN: 0446531510 Date: 2003
Booklist
In the tradition of The Silence of the Lambs, French, bestselling author of Beneath the Skin and The Red Room, delivers what promises to be the psychological blockbuster of the season about a kidnap victim that no one will help.
Updated 3.31.03 - The Only Suspect
Author: Jacobs, Jonnie
Publisher: Kensington $ 23 ISBN: 0758208006 Date: 2005
Kirkus
Sam Russell wakes up in his car in a ditch with no memory of how he got there. There's a woman's shoe in his trunk and dried blood under his fingernails--and he returns home to find his wife missing. As Hannah Montgomery investigates, secrets expose an intricate web of deceit and betrayal.
Updated 7.7.05 - Man Walks
Into a Room
Author: Krauss, Nicole
Publisher: Doubleday $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385503997 Date: 2002
LJ
In this shimmering debut novel of memory, identity, and love, an English professor's brain tumor eradicates his memories past the age of 12 as he mourns a life well-lived and profoundly forgotten.
Suggested Reading: Debuts | Atomic Age Fiction
Updated 5/3/02
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