Table of Contents
Most Popular . . .
More . . .
Hotlists 2008
Crime Fiction - embedded
Ranganathan's Five Laws:
Books are for use.
Books are for all; or Every reader his book.
Every book its reader.
Save the time of the reader.
A library is a growing organism.
Spacing Out . . .
Overbooked is Myspacingout and Crimespacing out
Hang out with overbookers
on the overbooked ning
Overbooked is an affiliate of Book Sense. Support your local book store and help support Overbooked. Overbooked is nonprofit, but would prefer not to be in the red - only widely read. Just click on the Booksense link to order books.
Overbooked specializes in providing timely information about fiction (all genres) and readable nonfiction. Overbooked has been online since 1994.
Featured Titles 2004
Page Modified: April 2, 2008
New titles - selected on the basis of good reviews.
Nonfiction, fiction and mystery titles are included on these lists. Books
for kids and teens (fiction and nonfiction) are also listed.
July 2004
Nonfiction
- The Last Run: A True Story
of Rescue and Redemption on the Alaska Seas
Author: Lewan, Todd
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060196483 Date: 2004
Kirkus
In the tradition of Black Hawk Down and The Perfect Storm comes an epic tale of the daring helicopter rescue of an Alaskan fishing vessel wrecked in the worst Arctic storm in years.
Updated 5.10.04
Fiction
- Circus in Winter
Author: Day, Cathy
Publisher: Harcourt $ 23 ISBN: 015101048x Date: 2004KirkusLJPW
From 1884 to 1939, the Great Porter Circus made the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima. Day follows a colorful cast of circus people into their everyday lives and brings the greatest show on earth to the page.
Updated 5.17.04 - The Big Love
Author: Dunn, Sarah
Publisher: Little Brown $ 23.95 ISBN: 0316738158 Date: 2004PW
Hilarious and heartbreaking, combining the emotional incisiveness of Jane Austen with the up-to-the-minute frankness of Sex and the City, Dunn's latest work will be the passing must-read novel of the summer.
Updated 5.10.04 - Mortal Love
Author: Hand, Elizabeth
Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 0061051705 Date: 2004PWKirkus
The breakout book from acclaimed author Hand is a powerful, beautifully written and romantic story of art, obsession, and imagination that ranges from Victorian London to present-day New York.
Updated 5.10.04 - Blackbird House
Author: Hoffman, Alice
Publisher: Doubleday $ 19.95 ISBN: 0385507615 Date: 2004KirkusPW
With "incantatory prose" that "sweeps over the reader like a dream," ( Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of 200 years.
Updated 6.21.04 - An Unfinished Season
Author: Just, Ward S.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin $ 24 ISBN: 0618036695 Date: 2004KirkusPWBooklist
The distinguished chronicler of American social history and political culture hauntingly captures the 1950s, a time when even the small-town family could not escape the nationwide suspicion and dread of "the enemy within."
Updated 6.1.04 - The Preservationist
Author: Maine, David
Publisher: St Martins $ 21.95 ISBN: 0312328478 Date: 2004PW
Maine has penned a compelling and fresh novel based on the story of Noah and the flood, told with wisdom, wry humor and a modern sensibility.
Updated 6.14.04 - What Happened to Henry
Author: Pywell, Sharon L.
Publisher: Putnam $ 19.95 ISBN: 0399151680Kirkus
In this funny, moving, wise, and powerful tale, a family struggles to understand their own son--who is either crazy or blessed--not unlike the Cold War America in which they live.
Updated 4.8.04 - Perfect Circle
Author: Stewart, Sean
Publisher: Small Beer $ 15 ISBN: 1931520119 Date: 2004Booklist
A novel about Texas, ghosts and perfect pop songs.
Updated 6.10.04
Mystery & Suspense
- Garden of Beasts:
A Novel of Berlin 1936
Author: Deaver, Jeffrey
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24.95 ISBN: 0743222016 Date: 2004PWLibrary
Journal
Called the reigning "master of ticking-bomb suspense" ( People), Deaver has written a gripping international thriller--with a range of real political figures and Olympic athletes--that introduces his most psychologically complex hero to date.
Updated 5.20.04 - Ghost Writer
Author: Harwood, John
Publisher: Harcourt $ 25 ISBN: 0151010749 Date: 2004Kirkus
Harwood's tantalizing tale of suspense and family secrets weaves Victorian ghost stories into the present where they start to come true. This astonishing, assured debut shows just how dangerous family skeletons--and stories--can be.
Updated 4.26.04 - Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Author: Lindsey, Jeff
Publisher: Doubleday $ 22.95 ISBN: 038551123xPWBooklistLJ
Darkly Dreaming Dexter is a new kind of mystery novel starring a lovable serial killer, one Dexter Morgan, who only kills bad people and who cringes at the sight of blood.
Updated 6.17.04 - Heart of the Hunter
Author: Meyer, Deon
Publisher: Little Brown $ 23.95 ISBN: 0316935492 Date: 2004LJKirkusBooklist
In his stunning American debut, the South African thriller writer delivers the story of a kidnapping and of a man refusing to reclaim the ruthless methods he mastered in the darkest days of South Africa's battle for survival.
Updated 7.6.04
Books for Kids, Teens & Readers of All Ages
Age and grade designations are approximate, parental judgement should be used.- The Game of Sunken Places
Author: Anderson, M. T.
Publisher: Scholastic $ 16.95 ISBN: 0439416604 Date: 2004Booklist
From the bestselling author of Freed comes a fantastic middle-grade adventure. When Brian and Gregory arrive at a distant relative's strange manse, they stumble upon a board game and suddenly they became players and must deal with attitudinal trolls and warring kingdoms.
Grades: 4-7 Category: Fiction | Fantasy
Hotlists
Crime Fiction - embedded
Stars
Fiction: Jan-June | July-Dec Crime Fiction: Jan-June | July-Dec
Speculative Fiction Romance Historical Nonfiction | YA
Hotlists
Hotlists: Fiction | Crime Fiction
Genre Hotlists: Christian Fiction | African American Fiction
Stars
Fiction: Jan-June | July-Dec Crime Fiction: Jan-June | July-Dec
Overbooked is a volunteer project undertaken by Ann Chambers Theis: Collection Management Administrator, Chesterfield County (VA) Public Library. 9501 Lori Rd. or P.O. Box 297, Chesterfield, VA, 23832. Phone: 804.748.1760.
Overbooked is not an official Chesterfield County Public Library service. Overbooked.org is a nonprofit web site hosted by CVCO - Central Virginia's Community Online. Overbooked.com is a nonprofit web site in experimental mode. Overbooked does not endorse any commercial providers (or their products and services) linked to from this web site.
Join the Overbooked List - A quiet list for readers to share recent reads, keep up to date with details about new books, discuss favorite authors/titles, etc.
Comments, suggestions, corrections: Ann Chambers Theis (AKA Ann/ACT):
ann_overbooked@earthlink.net
or
ann@overbooked.com
I really appreciate all the e-mail I receive from avid readers and writers and regret that I am not able to respond to all correspondents. Special thanks to those folks who regularly help keep me on track - you know who you are....