Table of Contents
Most Popular . . .
More . . .
Hotlists 2009
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.
Out and About. . .
I'm playing around at Shelfari, LibraryThing, and Good Reads. I've set up links to my pages on these sites. And, yes, I have a hard time keeping up-to-date on these sites...
I've set up "shelves" from these sites on Overbooked - here
Overbooked is spacing out: Myspace: Overbooked and Crime Space - and, facing out: Facebook profile.
Overbooked specializes in providing timely information about fiction (all genres) and readable nonfiction. Overbooked has been online since 1994. Overbooked is a volunteer project in progress . . .
Notable Fiction 2001
Page Modified: December 31, 2008
Hardcover and notable fiction releases.
Some of the major hardcover titles (and a few paperbacks) scheduled for release in the U.S. All information is subject to change and dyslexic typos. Alphabetically arranged by author. A star indicates the book received at least one starred review (indicating that review source felt the title was exceptional) from the following sources: Booklist, Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ). First novel information is derived from a variety of sources and may not be comprehensive.
Notable listings include selected award nominees
and winners, New York Times Book Review Notable books, Washington Post
Book World Raves, PW Notable books, Library Journal Best books, Booklist
Best
Books
and ALA Notable books.
| AUTHOR | TITLE | Stars ~ Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Abreu, Caio Ferndando | Whatever Happened to Dulce Viega (trade paper) | 
|
| Adair, Cherry | Hide and Seek (paper) | Romance Writers of America Top Ten |
| Adrian, Chris | Gob's Grief |
1st |
| Alison, Jane | The Love-Artist |
|
| Allende, Isabel | Portrait in Sepia |
|
| Anastas, Benjamin | The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance | NYTBR Notable |
| Anderson, Susan | All Shook Up (paper) |
|
| Arenas, Reinaldo | Mona and Other Tales (trade paper) | |
| Askew, Rilla | Fire in Beulah |
|
| Azzopardi, Trezza | The Hiding Place |
Booker Prize shortlist 2000 PW Notable |
| Babel, Isaac | The Complete Works of Isaac Babel | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book Booklist Editors' Choice Koret Jewish Book Award |
| Badami, Anita Rau | The Hero's Walk |
Book World Rave |
| Baida, Peter | A Nurse's Story, and Others | NYTBR Notable |
| Bainbridge, Beryl | According to Queeney |
Booker nominee 2001 NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Baker, Kage | The Graveyard Game: Mendoza | |
| Balasubramanyam, Rajeev | In Beautiful Disguises (trade paper) |
1st |
| Balint, Christine | The Salt Letters (trade paper) | 1st |
| Banks, Iain M. | Look to Windward |
PW Notable NYTBR Notable |
| Banville, John | Eclipse | NYTBR Notable |
| Barker, Clive | Cold Heart Canyon | PW Notable |
| Barker, Pat | Border Crossing | NYTBR Notable |
| Barnes, Julian | Love, Etc | NYTBR Notable |
| Barnett, Lisa A. & Melissa Scott | Point of Dreams | Lamda Winner - Science Fiction/Fantasy |
| Barth, John | Coming Soon!!! A Narrative | |
| Baxter, Stephen | Manifold: Space | Library Journal Best Genre |
| Beattie, Ann | Perfect Recall |
PW Notable NYTBR Notable |
| Belle, Jennifer | High Maintenance | |
| Bellow, Saul | Collected Fiction | PW Notable |
| Benedict, Elizabeth | Almost | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Benitez, Sandra | Weight of All Things |
Book World Rave |
| Berg, Elizabeth | Never Change | Book World Rave
|
| Berne, Suzanne | A Perfect Arrangement | NYTBR Notable |
| Biguenet, John | The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories | |
| Binchy, Maeve | Scarlet Feather |
|
| Bird, Sarah | The Yokota Officers Club |
|
| Blake, Michael | The Holy Road | |
| Bock, Dennis | The Ash Garden | 1st Book World Rave LJ Top Debut |
| Boehm, Deborah Boliver | Ghost of a Smile |
|
| Boetius, Henning | The Phoenix | |
| Boogaard, Oscar Van Den | Love's Death |
|
| Borchardt, Alice | The Dragon Queen | |
| Bowles, Paul | The Stories of Paul Bowles | NYTBR Notable |
| Boxer, Sarah | In the Floyd Archives: APsycho-Bestiary | NYTBR Notable |
| Boylan, Clare | Beloved Stranger | |
| Boyle, T.C. | After the Plague and Other Stories |
Book World Rave |
| Bradbury, Malcolm | To the Hermitage | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Bradbury, Ray | From the Dust Returned | |
| Bradley, Marian Zimmer & Diana Paxson | Priestess of Avalon |
|
| Braselton, Jeanne | A False Sense of Well Being | 1st Booklist Top 10 First Novels |
| Brenna, Duff | The Altar of the Body |
|
| Brenner, Leslie | Greetings from the Golden State |
1st |
| Breslin, Jimmy | I Don't Want to Go to Jail | |
| Brett, Lily | Too Many Men | |
| Brockman, Suzanne | Taylor's Temptation (paper) | Romance Writers of America Top Ten |
| Brockman, Suzanne | Over the Edge (paper) | Romance Writers of America Top Ten |
| Brockman, Suzanne | The Defiant Hero (paper) | Romance Writers of America Top Ten |
| Brockway, Connie | Bridal Season (paper) | Romance Writers of America Top Ten |
| Brookner, Anita | The Bay of Angels | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Brooks, Bill | The Stone Garden: The Epic Life of Billy the Kid | |
| Brooks, Geraldine | Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague | 1st NYTBR Notable |
| Brooks, Terry | The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax | PW Notable |
| Brownrigg, Sylvia | Pages for You |
Lamda Winner - Romance |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | The Curse of Chalion |
|
| Bukiet, Melvin Jules | Strange Fire | Book World Rave Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Bull, Bartle | The Devil's Oasis |
Book World Rave |
| Byatt, A. S. | The Biographer's Tale | NYTBR Notable |
| Cabot, Patricia | Lady of Skye (paper) | |
| Cambor, Kathleen | In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden |
PW Notable NYTBR Notable |
| Canin, Ethan | Carry Me Across the Water |
NYTBR Notable |
| Canty, Kevin | Honeymoon and Other Stories | NYTBR Notable |
| Card, Orson Scott | Shadow of the Hegemon |
|
| Carey, Edward | Observatory Mansions |
|
| Carey, Jacqueline | Kushiel's Dart |
PW Notable |
| Carey, Peter | True History of the Kelly Gang |
Booker Prize Winner 2001 PW Notable NYTBR Editor's Choice Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book ALA Notable Book |
| Carroll, Jonathan | The Wooden Sea |
NYTBR Notable |
| Carroll, Susan | The Midnight Bride | Library Journal Best Genre |
| Carson, Anne | The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos | NYTBR Notable |
| Chamberlin, Ann | The Merlin of the Oak Wood | |
| Chaon, Dan | Among the Missing |
National Book Award Nominee PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave ALA Notable Book |
| Chavez, Denise | Loving Pedro Infante |
Book World Rave |
| Chee, Alexander | Edinburgh | PW Notable 1st Lamda Winner - Editors' Choice |
| Cherryh, C.J. | Hammerfall |
Booklist Top 10 SF/F |
| Chessman, Harriet Scott | Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper | |
| Chevalier, Tracy | Falling Angels | Book World Rave |
| Chiu, Christina | Troublemaker and Other Saints |
|
| Chong, Kevin | Baroque-a-Nova | LJ Top Debut |
| Christensen, Kate | Jeremy Thrane | |
| Clair, Maxine | October Suite | Book World Rave
|
| Clarke, Arthur C. | The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke | |
| Cleage, Pearl | I Wish I Had a Red Dress | BCALA Award Winner |
| Cohen, Robert | Inspired Sleep | NYTBR Notable |
| Cokal, Susann | Mirabilis |
1st |
| Coldsmith, Don | The Raven Mocker |
|
| Colgate, Isabel | Winter Journey |
NYTBR Notable |
| Coll, Susan | Karlmarx.Com: A Love Story | 1st Book World Rave |
| Colombi, Lamarchesa | A Small Town Marriage (trade paper) |
|
| Connolly, J.J. | Layer Cake |
|
| Cooke, Carolyn | The Bostons (trade paper) | NYTBR Notable |
| Cornwell, Bernard | Sharpe's Trafalgar |
PW Notable |
| Cornwell, Bernard | The Archer's Tale | |
| Crace, Jim | The Devil's Larder: Stories | NYTBR Notable |
| Criswell, Millie | What To Do About Annie (paper) | Library Journal Best Genre |
| Cronin, Justin | Mary and O'Neil | 1st Book World Rave |
| Cruise, Jennifer | Fast Women |
Romance Writers of America Top Ten |
| Crumey, Andrew | Mr. Mee |
NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Cullen, Bob | A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe |
|
| Cullin, Mitch | From a Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest (trade paper) | Booklist Top Gay and Lesbian Books |
| Cummins, Joseph | The Snow Train | LJ Top Debut |
| Czuchlewski, David | The Muse Asylum |
1st |
| Daniel, Tony | Metaplanetary |
|
| Dann, Jack (ed) | Dreaming Down Under |
|
| Dark, Larry (ed) | Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards (trade paper) | |
| Dart-Thornton, Cecilia | The Ill-Made Mute: Bitterbynde Bk 1 | |
| Date, S.V. | Deep Water | |
| Datlow, Ellen & Teri Windling (ed) | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror |
|
| David, Peter | Sir Apropos of Nothing | PW Notable |
| Davis, Lydia | Samel Johnson is Indignant | PW Notable ALA Notable Book |
| Dawson, Jill | Fred & Edie | |
| De Lint, Charles | The Onion Girl | |
| Deaner, Janice | Notes on Extinction | |
| Delillo, Don | The Body Artist |
Book World Rave |
| Dew, Robb Forman | The Evidence Against Her |
Book World Rave |
| Di Filippo, Paul | Strange Trades | |
| Divakaruni, Chitra | The Unknown Errors of Our Lives |
Book World Rave |
| Donoghue, Emma | Slammerkin | PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Dorfman, Ariel | Blake's Therapy | Book World Rave |
| Dorrestein, Renate | A Heart of Stone |
Book World Rave |
| Douglas, L. Warren | The Sacred Pool |
|
| Dozios, Gardner (ed) | The Years' Best Science Fiction | |
| Drabble, Margaret | Peppered Moth |
NYTBR Notable |
| Due, Tanarive | The Living Blood | PW Notable |
| Dugain, Marc | The Officers' Ward | |
| Duncan, Pamela | Moon Women | 1st LJ Top Debut |
| Dunmore, Helen | A Spell of Winter | Book World Rave |
| Dunn, Mark | Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Episotlary Fable | Booksense Finalist LJ Top Debut |
| Durham, David Anthony | Gabriel's Story |
1st NYTBR Notable Booklist Editors' Choice BCALA First Novelist Award |
| Durkee, Lee | Rides of the Midway |
1st |
| Eagle, Kathleen | You Can Never Tell | Romance Writers of America Top Ten |
| Egan, Jennifer | Look at Me | National Book Award Nominee Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Eisner, Michael Alexander | The Crusader | 1st Booklist Top 10 First Novels |
| Enger, Leif | Peace Like a River |
1st Booklist Top 10 First Novels Booksense Winner |
| Enquist, Per Olov | The Royal Physician's Visit | NYTBR Notable Booklist Editors' Choice Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels |
| Erdrich, Louise | The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse |
National Book Award Nominee PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book Booklist Editors' Choice Booksense Finalist |
| Erian, Alicia | The Brutal Language of Love |
|
| Estleman, Loren D. | The Master Executioner | PW Notable |
| Everett, Percival | Erasure | ALA Notable Book |
| Ferlosio, Rafael S. | The Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui |
|
| Fforde, Katie | Second Thyme Around | |
| Fielding, Helen | Cause Celeb |
|
| Fischer, Maribeth | The Language of Goodbye |
|
| Flanagan, Richard | Death of a River Guide | |
| Flynn, Robert | Tie-Fast Country | |
| Forbes, Edith | Navigating the Darwin Straits (trade paper) |
|
| Ford, John M. | The Last Hot Time | PW Notable NYTBR Notable |
| Ford, Marjorie Leet | Do Try to Speak As We Do |
|
| Ford, Michael Curtis | The Ten Thousand |
1st |
| Forrest, Leon | Meteor in the Madhouse |
|
| Fowler, Karen May | Sister Noon | PEN/Faulkner Finalist |
| Frame, Ronald | The Lantern Bearers | |
| Frank, Dorothea Benton | Plantation: A Low Country Tale |
|
| Franzen, Jonathan | The Corrections |
National Book Award Winner PW Notable NYTBR Editors' Choice Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book Booklist Editors' Choice Top of the List ALA Notable Book NBCC Award Nominee Booksense Finalist LA Times Fiction Prize Nominee PEN/Faulkner Finalist |
| Freund, Diane | Four Corners | |
| Gaiman, Neal | American Gods | Book World Rave Nebula Winner |
| Galbraith, Douglas | The Rising Sun |
1st NYTBR Notable |
| Gardam, Jane | The Flight of the Maidens |
NYTBR Notable |
| Gavell, Mary Ladd | I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly: And Other Stories | NYTBR Notable |
| Gershten, Donna M. | Kissing the Virgin's Mouth | Library Journal Best Book |
| Ghosh, Amitav | The Glass Palace | PW Notable NYTBR Notable |
| Gibb, Camilla | Mouthing the Words |
|
| Gibson, Rachel | True Confessions | Romance Writers of America Top Ten |
| Gilb, Dagoberto | Woodcuts of Women |
|
| Glickfeld, Carole L. | Swimming Toward the Ocean | |
| Gold, Glen David | Carter Beats the Devil |
1st Guardian First Book Award Nominee PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Booklist Top 10 First Novels |
| Goodman, Allegra | Paradise Park |
PW Notable NYTBR Notable |
| Gordimer, Nadine | The Pickup | Booker Prize nominee 2001 Book World Rave ALA Notable Book Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Gough, Julian | Juno & Juliet |
|
| Greig, Andrew | Clouds Above | |
| Griesemer, John | No One Thinks of Greenland | |
| Griffin, Nicholas | The House of Sight and Shadow | |
| Grisham, John | A Painted House | Book World Rave |
| Grondahl, Jens Christian | Silence in October | Library Journal Best Book |
| Grooms, Anthony | Bombingham | Book World Rave |
| Gross, Gwendoline | Field Guide |
1st |
| Guedj, Denis | The Parrot's Theorem | |
| Gurganus, Allan | The Practical Heart: Four Novellas | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Lamda Winner |
| Gurnah, Abdulrazak | By the Sea | LA Times Fiction Prize Nominee |
| Hague, Nora | Letters From an Age of Reason | 1st LJ Top Debut |
| Hamilton, Masha | Staircase of a Thousand Steps |
|
| Hannah, Barry | Yonder Stands Your Orphan |
Book World Rave |
| Harris, Joanne | Five Quarters of the Orange | |
| Harun, Adrianne | King of Limbo and Other Stories | |
| Hay, Elizabeth | A Student of Weather |
Book World Rave |
| Hearon, Shelby | Ella in Bloom |
|
| Hegi, Ursula | Hotel of the Saints: Stories | |
| Heinz, W.C. | The Professional (trade paper) | |
| Heng, Liu | Green River Daydreams | |
| Herbert,Brian/ Anderson, Kevin |
Dune: House Corrino | Library Journal Best Genre |
| Hill, Justin | The Drink and Dream Teahouse | Book World Rave |
| Hoban, Russell | Angelica's Grotto | |
| Hockenberry, John | A River Out of Eden | 1st |
| Hodgson, Barbara | Hippolyte's Island | |
| Hoffman, Alice | Blue Diary |
NYTBR Notable |
| Hogg, Peter | Crimes of War | 1st |
| Hornby, Nick | How to Be Good | Booker Prize nominee 2001 PW Notable NYTBR Notable |
| Hornby, Nick (ed) | Speaking with the Angel: Stories (trade paper) |
|
| Horsley, Kate | Confessions of a Pagan Nun | |
| Houston, James D. | Snow Mountain Passage |
Book World Rave |
| Howard, Maureen | Big as Life: Three Tales for Spring |
|
| Humphreys, Helen | Afterimage |
NYTBR Notable |
| Hussein, Abdullah | Emigre Journeys | |
| Huston, Nancy | Dolce Agonia | |
| Hynes, James | The Lecturer's Tale | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Irving, John | The Fourth Hand | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Isler, Alan | Clerical Errors |
PW Notable |
| Ivory, Judith | The Indescretion (paper) |
|
| Jennings, Gary | Aztec Blood | |
| Jones, Allen Morris | Last Year's River | |
| Jones, Patricia | Red on a Rose (trade paper) | |
| Jones, Stephen (ed) | The Mammoth Book of Vampire Short Stories by Women (trade paper) | |
| Joshi, S. T. | The Modern Weird Tale | |
| Kaplan, Hester | Kinship Theory | |
| Keillor, Garrison | Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 | Book World Rave
|
| Kelby, N. M. | In the Company of Angels |
|
| Kelman, James | Translated Accounts | Booker Prize nominee
2001 |
| Kelton, Elmer | Badger Boy |
|
| Kelton, Elmer | Way of the Coyote | |
| Kennedy, A.L. | Everything You Need |
|
| Kessler, Brad | Lick Creek | 1st |
| Kidd, Chip | The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters | NYTBR Notable |
| Kinder, Chuck | Honeymooners | NYTBR Notable |
| King, Stephen | Dreamcatcher | Book World Rave |
| King, Stephen & Peter Straub | Black House | PW Notable Book World Rave |
| King, Susan | The Sword Maiden (paper) | |
| Kirn, Walter | Up in the Air |
NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Klein, Richard | Jewelry Talks: A Novel Thesis |
|
| Klima, Ivan | No Saints or Angels | Book World Rave
|
| Knight, Arthur Winfield | Blue Skies Falling | |
| Knox, Elizabeth | Black Oxen | |
| Koeppen, Wolfgang | The Hothouse |
NYTBR Notable |
| Koeppen,Wolfgang | Death in Rome | |
| Kohler, Sheila | Children of Pitiviers |
|
| Kramer, Peter | Spectacular Happiness | 1st |
| Kress, Nancy | Probability Sun | |
| Krouse, Erika | Come Up and See Me Sometime: Stories |
1st NYTBR Notable |
| Kureishi, Hanif | Gabriel's Gift | PW Notable Book World Rave |
| Kurtz, Katherine | St. Patrick's Gargoyle | |
| Kurzweil, Allen | The Grand Complication |
NYTBR Notable Booklist Editors' Choice |
| LaFarge, Paul | Haussmann, or the Distinction | NYTBR Notable |
| Landis, Geoffrey | Impact Parameter | PW Notable |
| Landis, Jill Marie | Summer Moon | Library Journal Best Genre |
| Landsale, Joe R. | Zepplins West |
|
| Laymon, Richard | Night in the Lonesome October | |
| Le Guin, Ursula K. | Other Wind |
NYTBR Notable |
| Le Guin, Ursula K. | Tales from Earthsea | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Leavitt, David | The Marble Quilt: Stories |
|
| Lee, Don | Yellow: Stories |
PW Notable |
| Leithauser, Brad | A Few Corrections | Book World Rave |
| Lennon, J. Robert | On the Night Plain |
|
| Leroy, J.T. | Heart is Deceitful Above All Things |
PW Notable |
| Liebrecht, Savyon | A Man and a Woman and a Man | 1st |
| Lincoln, Christine | Sap Rising |
1st |
| Litton, Josie | Dream of Me/Believe in Me | LJ Top Debut |
| Livesey, Margot | Eva Moves the Furniture |
PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Lodge, David | Thinks | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Long, Goldberry M. | Juniper Tree Burning |
1st |
| Lowy, Jonathan | Elvis and Nixon |
|
| MacLeod, Alistair | Island: The Complete Stories |
NYTBR Notable ALA Notable Book |
| Maddox, Bruno | My Little Blue Dress | NYTBR Notable |
| Makine, Andrei | Requiem for a Lost Empire | |
| Maklya, Kanan | The Rock: A Seventh Century Tale of Jerusalem | Booklist Editors' Choice Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels |
| Mapson, Jo-Ann | Bad Girl Creek: A Novel in 4 Voices | |
| Marai, Sandor | Embers | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Marcom, Micheline Aharonian | Three Apples Fell From Heaven | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Marius, Richard | An Affair of Honor | |
| Markson, David | This Is Not a Novel |
PW Notable |
| Martin, Lee | Quakertown | 1st Book World Rave |
| Mason, Bobbie Ann | Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail: Stories | NYTBR Notable |
| Mawer, Simon | The Gospel of Judas: A Novel |
|
| McCaffrey, Anne | The Skies of Pern | |
| McConnochie, Mardi | Coldwater | 1st Book World Rave |
| McCorkle, Jill | Creatures of Habit: Stories | Book World Rave
|
| McCracken, Elizabeth | Niagara Falls All Over Again |
PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| McCrumb, Sharyn | The Songcatcher |
|
| McDevitt, Jack | Deepsix | Library Journal Best Genre |
| McFarland, Dennis | The Singing Boy | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| McGarry, Terry | Illumination | 1st Library Journal Best Genre |
| McGowan, Heather | Schooling |
1st Booklist Top 10 First Novels |
| McHugh, Maureen F. | Nekropolis |
NYTBR Notable |
| McMahon, Donna | Dance of Knives (paper) | NYTBR Notable |
| McMillan, Terry | A Day Late and a Dollar Short | Book World Rave |
| McMullen, Sean | Eyes of the Calculor | Booklist Top 10 SF/F |
| McPhee, Jenny | The Center of Things | NYTBR Notable |
| Meallet, Sandro | Edgwater Angels | 1st |
| Meehan, Michael | The Salt of Broken Tears |
|
| Meidav, Edie | The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon |
1st |
| Menendez, Ana | In Cuba I Was a German Shepard |
1st NYTBR Notable |
| Messud, Claire | Hunters: Two Novellas | NYTBR Notable PEN/Faulkner Finalist |
| Michaels, Kasey | Love to Love You Baby (paper) | |
| Michaels, Lisa | Grand Ambitions | 1st Booklist Top 10 First Novels |
| Michelsen, G.F. | Hard Bottom | |
| Middleton, Haydn | Grimm's Last Fairytale | |
| Mieville, China | Perdido Street Station | |
| Miller, Rebecca | Personal Velocity |
Book World Rave |
| Miller, Sue | The World Below | NYTBR Notable |
| Mills, Magnus | Three to See the King | |
| Mitchard, Jacquelyn | A Theory of Relativity |
|
| Moody, Martha | Best Friends | 1st |
| Moody, Rick | Demonolgy: Stories |
NYTBR Notable |
| Moorcock, Michael | King of the City | |
| Morris, Willie | Taps |
Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Morrissey, Donna | Kit's Law (trade paper) |
|
| Moshiri, Farnoosh | The Bathhouse | |
| Mount, Ferdinand | Fairness | Booker Prize nominee
2001 Book World Rave |
| Mujica, Barbara | Frida | |
| Mulisch, Harry | The Procedure |
|
| Muller, Herta | The Appointment |
|
| Munro, Alice | Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories | PW Notable NYTBR Editor's Choice Library Journal Best Book NBCC Award Nominee LA Times Fiction Prize Nominee |
| Murakami, Haruki | Sputnik Sweetheart | NYTBR Notable |
| Muske-Dukes, Carol | Life After Death | |
| Naipaul, V.S. | Half a Life | Booker Prize nominee 2001 Nobel Prize Winner Book World Rave |
| Nevin, David | Treason | Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels |
| Nissen, Thisbe | The Good People of New York |
Booklist Top 10 First Novels |
| Nissenson, Hugh | The Song of the Earth |
Booklist Top 10 SF/F |
| Nooteboom, Cees | All Soul's Day | Book World Rave |
| Norfolk, Lawrence | In the Shape of a Boar | |
| Nunez, Sigrid | For Ruenna | |
| Nye, Robert | Falstaff | PW Notable |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | Middle Age: A Romance | Book World Rave |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | Faithless: Tales of Transgression |
|
| Obejas, Achy | Days of Awe | Lamda Winner Booklist Top Gay and Lesbian Books |
| Odom, Mel | The Rover |
Booklist Top 10 SF/F |
| O'Faolain, Nuala | My Dream of You |
1st NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nominee |
| O'Farrell, Maggie | After You'd Gone |
1st |
| Olds, Bruce | Bucking the Tiger |
ALA Notable Book Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels |
| Ong, Han | Fixer Chao | |
| Orner, Peter | Esther Stories | NYTBR Notable |
| Oz, Amos | The Same Sea |
NYTBR Notable |
| Palahniuk, Chuck | Choke | |
| Pamuk, Ophan | My Name is Red |
PW Notable NYTBR Notable Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels IMPAC Dublin Literary Award |
| Pap, Karoly | Azarel (trade paper) |
Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Parker, Michael | Towns Without Rivers |
|
| Parker, Robert B. | Gunman's Rhapsody |
PW Notable |
| Parsons, Alexander | Leaving Disneyland | 1st |
| Parsons, Tony | Man and Boy | British Book Award Book
of the Year |
| Patchett, Ann | Bel Canto | NBCC Award Nominee PEN/Faulkner Winner Orange Prize Winner |
| Pate, Alexs D. | West of Rehoboth | BCALA Honor Book |
| Payne, Peggy | Sister India | NYTBR Notable |
| Phillips, Max | The Artist's Wife | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Phillips, Susan Elizabeth | This Heart of Mine | Romance Writers of America Top Ten |
| Poirier, Mark Jude | Goats | NYTBR Notable |
| Poniatowska, Elena | Here's to You, Jesusa! | |
| Powell, Dawn | Novels 1944 - 1962 | |
| Powell, Dawn | Novels 1930 - 1942 | |
| Power, Nani | Crawling at Night | 1st NYTBR Notable Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nominee |
| Quinn, Julia | An Offer from a Gentleman (paper) | Library Journal Best Genre |
| Rackham, Jeff | The Rag & Bone Shop | |
| Randall, Alice | The Wind Done Gone |
1st |
| Rayner, Richard | The Cloud Sketcher | Book World Rave |
| Ricks, Thomas E. | A Soldier's Duty | 1st Book World Rave |
| Rios, Julian | Monstruary |
|
| Rivas, Manuel | The Carpenter's Pencil |
|
| Roberts, Keith | Pavane (trade paper reprint) | NYTBR Notable |
| Roberts, Nora | Dance Upon the Air (paper) | Library Journal Best Genre Romance Writers of America Top Ten |
| Robison, Mary | Whey Did I Ever | NYTBR Notable LA Times Fiction Prize Nominee |
| Roby, Kimberla Lawson | It's a Thin Line | PW Notable |
| Roiphe, Katie | Still She Haunts Me | LJ Top Debut |
| Roley, Brian Ascalon | American Son (trade paper) | NYTBR Notable |
| Rosner, Elizabeth | The Speed of Light | 1st |
| Roth, Philip | The Dying Animal | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Rougeau, Remy | All We Know of Heaven |
1st Booklist Top 10 First Novels |
| Rushdie, Salman | Fury | NYTBR Notable Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Russell, Sean | The One Kingdom: Book One of the Swan's War |
|
| Russo, Richard | Empire Falls | PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book Booklist Editors' Choice Booksense Finalist Pulitzer Prize Winner |
| Russo, Richard Paul | Ship of Fools (trade paper) | NYTBR Notable |
| Sagastizabal, Patricia | A Secret for Julia | |
| Said, Kurban | The Girl from the Golden Horn | |
| Sasson, Jean | Ester's Child | |
| Schickler, David | Kissing in Manhattan | 1st NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Schlink, Bernard | Flights of Love: Stories | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Schmidt, Heidi Jon | Darling | |
| Schneider, Bart | Secret Love |
Book World Rave Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Schnitzler, Arthur | Night Games: And Other Stories | |
| Sebald, W. G. | Austerlitz | PW Notable NYTBR Editors' Choice Book World Rave ALA Notable Book NBCC Award Winner |
| Segal, Susan | Aria | 1st LJ Top Debut |
| Seiffert, Rachel | The Dark Room |
Booker Prize shortlist 2001 1st Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nominee |
| Settle, Mary Lee | I, Roger Williams: A Fragment of Autobiography |
Book World Rave |
| Shaara, Jeff | Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution | |
| Shakar, Alex | The Savage Girl | 1st NYTBR Notable Booklist Top 10 First Novels LJ Top Debut |
| Sharp, Adrienne | White Swan, Black Swan: Stories | 1st |
| Shikibu, Murasaki | Tale of Genji | Library Journal Best Book |
| Shiner, Lewis | Love in Vain | |
| Shreve, Anita | The Last Time They Met | PW Notable Book World Rave |
| Sijie, Dai | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book LJ Top Debut |
| Silver, Marisa | Babe in Paradise | NYTBR Notable |
| Simpson, Helen | Getting A Life: Stories | NYTBR Notable |
| Sinclair, Iain | Landor's Tower | Book World Rave |
| Snyder, Don J. | Night Crossing |
|
| Soares, Jo | Twelve Fingers: Biography of an Anarchist | |
| Spanbauer, Tom | In the City of Shy Hunters | Booklist Top Gay and Lesbian Books |
| Spark, Muriel | Aiding and Abetting | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Spence, Gerry | Half Moon and Empty Stars |
1st |
| Spencer, Elizabeth | The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction |
|
| Spiotta, Dana | Lightning Field | 1st NYTBR Notable |
| Straight, Susan | Highwire Moon |
National Book Award Nominee Book World Rave Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Strieber, Whitney | The Last Vampire |
|
| Styron, Alexandra | All the Finest Girls | Book World Rave |
| Suri, Manil | Death of Vishnu | Booker Prize nominee 2001 PW Notable 1st NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book ALA Notable Book Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nominee PEN/Faulkner Finalist |
| Swerling, Beverly | City of Dreams: A Novel of Early Manhattan | |
| Tan, Amy | The Bonesetter's Daughter | NYTBR Notable |
| Tarr, Judith | Pride of Kings (trade paper) |
|
| Tate, James | Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee | |
| Tenn, William | Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn |
|
| Terrell, Whitney | The Huntsman |
NYTBR Notable |
| Thackara, James | America's Children |
|
| Theroux, Paul | Hotel Honolulu |
NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Booklist Editors' Choice |
| Thon, Melanie Rae | Sweet Hearts |
Book World Rave |
| Toscana, David | Our Lady of the Circus | PW Notable |
| Treadway, Jessica | And Give You Peace (trade paper) | Booklist Top 10 First Novels |
| Turtledove, Harry | American Empire: Blood & Iron |
|
| Turtledove, Harry | Colonization: Aftershocks |
|
| Tyler, Anne | Back When We Were Grownups | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Udall, Brady | The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint | PW Notable |
| Ulitskaya, Ludmila | The Funeral Party | |
| Upadhyay, Samrat | Arresting God in Kathmandu (trade Paper | 2001 Whiting Writer's Award |
| Van Den Brink, H.M. | On the Water |
|
| Vargas Llosa, Mario | The Feast of the Goat | PW Notable NYTBR Notable Book World Rave Library Journal Best Book Booklist Editors' Choice Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels |
| Vickers, Sally | Miss Garnet's Angel |
|
| Vinge, Vernor | The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge | Booklist Top 10 SF/F |
| Vollmann, William T. | Argall | PW Notable Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels |
| Walbert, Kate | Gardens of Kyoto | NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Walton, Jo | The King's Name | |
| Weatherford, Joyce | Heart of the Beast | |
| Webb, James | Lost Soldiers | |
| Weber, David/John Ringo | March Upcountry |
|
| Weiner, Jennifer | Good in Bed |
|
| Weldon, Fay | The Bulgari Connection | PW Notable |
| Welsh, Irvine | Glue (trade paper) | NYTBR Notable |
| West, Owen | Sharkman Six | 1st |
| Wheeler, Richard S. | Downriver: Barnaby Skye | |
| White, Michael C. | A Dream of Wolves | Book World Rave |
| Whitehead, Colson | John Henry Days |
NYTBR Editors' Choice Book World Rave Booklist Editors' Choice NBCC Award Nominee BCALA Honor Book LA Times Fiction Prize Nominee Young Lions Fiction Award |
| Wiggs, Susan | Halfway to Heaven (paper) | |
| Wilentz, Amy | Martyrs' Crossing | NYTBR Notable |
| Williams, Liz | The Ghost Sister (paper) | NYTBR Notable Philip K. Dick Award nominee 1st |
| Williams, Tad | Otherland: Sea of Silver Light |
|
| Williamson, Jack | Terraforming Earth |
|
| Willis, Connie | Passage | Library Journal Best Genre |
| Wilson, Robert Charles | The Chronoliths | NYTBR Notable |
| Wilson, Wayne | Eddie and Bella | |
| Winegardner, Mark | Crooked River Burning | ALA Notable Book |
| Wolcott, James | The Catsitters |
1st |
| Wolfe, Gene | Return to Whorl | NYTBR Notable |
| Woodrell, Daniel | The Death of Sweet Mister |
NYTBR Notable Book World Rave |
| Wray, John | The Right Hand of Sleep |
1st NYTBR Notable 2001 Whiting Writer's Award Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nominee |
| Yamanaka, Lois-Ann | Father of the Four Passages |
|
| Yarbrough, Steve | Visible Spirits |
Book World Rave |
| Yates, Richard | The Collected Stories of Richard Yates | NYTBR Notable Library Journal Best Book |
| Youmans, Marly | The Wolf Pit | 2001 Shaara Award |
Overbooked
2009...
Hotlists
African American Fiction | Christian Fiction | Notable Nonfiction
Excel Files: (download - print, sort, etc.)
Stars
Fiction: Jan-June | July-Dec Crime Fiction: Jan-June | July-Dec
Speculative Fiction Romance Nonfiction YA
2008...
Hotlists
African American Fiction | Christian Fiction
2008 Excel Files: (download - print, sort, etc.)
Crime Fiction | Fiction | African American Fiction | Christian Fiction | Nonfiction Notables
Stars
Fiction: Jan-June | July-Dec Crime Fiction: Jan-June | July-Dec
Speculative Fiction Romance Historical Nonfiction | YA
Notes from Ann the Overbooked...
2008 has been a hard year for me professionally and personally.
Work has been challenging as my library department contends with a wide range of projects, staff shortages, budget issues - well, you get the picture. I'm grateful to work with a brilliant bunch of folks who are creative and hard working. One of the bright spots for the CCPL Collection Management team is that we've added libary cat Nyx our mix.
Personally, my father Jay L. Chambers, was contending with dementia for the past several years. While he lost much of his memory, he never lost his kindness, consideration for others, his intelligence or his sense of humor. He was still able to enjoy music, though he had lost much of his ability to play flute or keyboards. Our family was able to spend time together this year, including a three week Transatlantic cruise from November 21 to Dec 13th. My father suffered a massive heart attack on Dec 16 and died on Dec 17th. His wife, my sister Carol and I were present when he died.
I look forward to 2009 and all the challenges and pleasures to come...
"Give us love, strength, courage and understanding to serve to the best of our ability". (one of my father's favorite blessings)
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):
overbooked1@verizon.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....
In memory of Jay L. Chambers: 1923-2008. Much loved, much missed.
