Time Magazine's Best Books 2009

Reference Librarian, Ellen would like to pass on this alternative list of titles to our readers.


The staff at Time Magazine has come up with its annual list of "best" books, some of which are unusual titles. So, if you've read all the bestsellers, you may want to investigate some of their picks!

Fiction
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
The Financial Lives of the Poets - Jess Walter
Swimming - Nicola Keegan
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi - Geoff Dyer
In Other rooms, Other Wonders - Daniyal Mueenuddin
Beat the Reaper - Josh Bazell
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
The Kindly Ones - Jonathan Littell

Non-Fiction
The Age of Wonder - Richard Holmes
D-day - Antony Beevor
Lit - Mary Karr
Changing My Mind - Zadie Smith
Lords of Finance - Liaquat Ahamed
Logicomix - Apostolos Doxiandis et al
Manhood for Amateurs - Michael Chabon
Strength in What Remains - Tracy Kidder
Cooking Dirty - Jason Sheehan
Cheever: a Life - Blake Bailey

J.D. Salinger Dies at 91

Author J.D. Salinger died of natural causes on January 27, 2010 at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire.
He was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Louis Auchincloss

Louis Auchincloss died January 26 at the age of 92. A novelist, short story writer, critic and historian, Auchincloss chronicled the old-money elite of Manhattan and the eastern United States. He was thus a successor to Henry James, Edith Wharton and John P. Marquand in his subject matter. Auchincloss stories were regularly printed for decades in such magazines as The Atlantic and The New Yorker. Merrick Library has the following fiction by Louis Auchincloss:

The Aniversary and Other Stories
The Atonement and Other Stories
The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss
Diary of a Yuppie
East Side Story
The Education of Oscar Fairfax
False Gods
The Friend of Women and Other Stories
The Headmaster's Dilemma
Her Infinite Variety
Manhattan Monologues
Skinny Island: More Tales of Manhattan
Tales of Yesteryear
The Young Apollo and Other Stories
Last of the Old Guard (final work)

And the following nonfiction:

Motiveless Malignity (criticism)
The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age (history)
Theodore Roosevelt (biography)
Woodrow Wilson (biography)
Writers and Personality (literary biography)

New Audiobook Arrivals!

Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price.





Upon waking up in a hospital bed in Baltimore with a major headache, recently retired teacher Liam Pennywell can't seem to remember how he got there. However, as he investigates the lapse in time, the outwardly miserable Liam is forced to come to terms with his life.




When P.I. Stone Barrington crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress--and sometime lip model--Stone gets a little more deeply involved with business than he'd expected. When his new lady love turns out to be a lady with a shady past, Stone and downtown cop Dino Bacchetti realize that her beauty may have an unusually high price.






Regardless of the current economic situation, author Robin Ryan believes that landing a dream job depends on the ability to stand out to potential employers. Here, Ryan, a motivational counselor, offers a variety of techniques that will allow listeners to get an insider's edge on the job market.

Books to Movies

This coming February, Nicholas Sparks, Author of "The Notebook", will once again have one of his novels hitting the big screen.

Dear John, is the story of a soldier home on leave who falls head over heels for a conservative college girl. Instead of returning home to her, he reenlists after the attacks on September 11th, 2001. Time and distance begin to take a toll on the young
lovers.

Release Date: February 5th

James Patterson

The New York Times Magazine has an article featuring Mr. Patterson.
January 24, 2010


James Patterson Inc.
By JONATHAN MAHLER
"How a genre writer has transformed book publishing."

Oprah's Pics

Librarian Larissa, would like to share O Magazine's 10 recommend new books hitting the bookstores this February!


10 Books to Watch For in February 2010:

Some of the titles are:
"The Postmistress" by Sarah Blake,
"Valentine" by Adriana Trigiani and
"Wench" by Dolen Perkins-Valdez.

Check our New Fiction section or place your requests at the Reference Desk.