Books I Discovered This Week: 11/27/11-12/03/11

Adult Fiction

• 420 Characters by Lou Beach
• After the Apocalypse: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh
• All Yours by Claudia Pineiro, translated by Miranda France
• The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai
• The Bone Doll's Twin (The Tamir Triad, #1) by Lynn Flewelling
• Book by Robert Grudin
• Diving Bells: And Other Stories by Lucy Wood
• Doc by Mary Doria Russell
• Galore by Michael Crummey
• The Legacy of Eden by Nelle Davy
• Murder in Mount Holly by Paul Theroux
• The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories 2011 by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan
• The Uninnocent: Stories by Bradford Morrow
• Victor Halfwit: A Winter's Tale by Thomas Bernhard
• Yours, Faithfully by Sheila O'Flanagan

Adult Non-Fiction

• 3MPH: The Adventures of One Woman's Walk Around the World by Polly Letofsky, edited by Rosemary Rawson & Vicki Tosher
• Cecelia and Fanny: The Remarkable Friendship Between an Escaped Slave and her Former Mistress by Brad Asher
• Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life by Christian McEwan
• The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett
• The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World by Guillaume de Laubier, Jacques Bosser, & James H. Billington
• Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice A. Radway
• Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life by Stephanie Staal
• Two Guys Read Jane Austen by Steve Chandler & Terrence N. Hill

Children's Non-Fiction

• Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) by Sue Macy

Middle Grade

• The Apothecary by Maile Meloy, illustrated by Ian Schoenherr
• An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo
• Guys Read: Thriller by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Brett Helquist
• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum

Picture Books

• The Girl Who Hated Books by Manjusha Pawagi, illustrated by Leanne Franson
• Library Lil by Suzanne Williams, illustrated by Steven Kellog
• Please Bury Me in the Library by J. Patrick Lewis, illustrated by Kyle M. Stone
• Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora, illustrated by Raul Colon
• Wolves by Emily Gravett

Teen/Young Adult

• Born Wicked (The Cahill Witch Chronicles, Book 1) by Jessica Spotswood
• Entwined by Heather Dixon
• Eyes Like Stars (Theatre Illuminata, Act 1) by Lisa Mantchev
• Girl Meets Boy: Because There Are Two Sides to Every Story by Kelly Milner Halls
• Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen
• Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
• The Wager by Donna Jo Napoli
• Witch & Wizard: The Fire by James Patterson & Jill Dembowski

Books I Discovered This Week: 11/20/11-11/26/11

Adult Fiction

• The Conference of the Birds by Peter Sis
• A Factory of Cunning by Philippa Stockley
• Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan 
• House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
• Jigs & Reels: Stories by Joanne Harris
• Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto by Gianni Rodari, translated by Anthony Shugaar 
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 
• The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright

Adult Non-Fiction

• Then Again by Diane Keaton

Teen/YA

• Every You, Every Me by David Levithan

Books I Discovered This Week: 11/13/11-11/19/11

Adult Fiction

• American Stories by Calvin Trillin
• Beauvallet by Georgette Heyer
• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
• The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
• The Horse of Selene by Jaunita Casey
• The Informationist by Taylor Stevens
• The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
• Little, Big, Fantasy Masterworks #5 by John Crowley
• My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
• No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July
• The Printmaker's Daughter by Katherine Govier
• Topics About Which I Know Nothing by Patrick Ness
• Warrior Princesses by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Adult Non-Fiction

• An Exaltation of Larks by James Lipton
• The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Place in the World by Eric Weiner
• Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York by Richard Zacks 
• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

Graphic Novel

• I Love Him to Pieces by Evonne Tsang, illustrated by Janina Gorrissen

Middle Grade

• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente, illustrated by Ana Juan
• Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King by William Joyce and Laura Geringer
• The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye

Teen/YA

• Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman
• Eona: The sequel to Eon by Alison Goodman
• Every Other Day by Jennifer Lynne Barnes
• Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
• The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
• The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
• Undeadly, The Reaper Diaries #1 by Michele Vail

Paranormal Romantic Fiction

• Eye of the Tempest, Jane True #4 by Nicole Peeler
• Tempest's Fury, Jane True #5 by Nicole Peeler
• Timeless, The Parasol Protectorate #5 by Gail Carriger

Unclassified

• Dulac's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color by Edmund Dulac
• Moby Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page by Matt Kish
• Nielsen's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color by Kay Nielsen
• Rackham's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color by Arthur Rackham

Books I Discovered This Week: 11/06/11-11/12/11

Adult Fiction

• Arcadia by Lauren Groff
• The Daughter She Used to Be by Rosalind Noonan
• The Thief's Only Child by Rexanne Becnel
• The Time In Between by Maria Duenas
• Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

Adult Non-Fiction

• I Dreamt I Was in Heaven: The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang by Leonce Gaiter
• The Love Lives of the Artists: Five Stories of Creative Intimacy by Daniel Bullen
• Mourad: New Moroccan by Mourad Lahlou

Teen/YA

• Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer
• Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul by Leanna Renee Hieber 
• The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber

Middle Grade

• Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George