December 'We Also Recommend' Preview

Here is a preview of the titles to be featured on the Book Sense December "We Also Recommend." Downloadable PDFs of the flier and shelf-talkers, which include bibliographic information and booksellers' quotations for the 20 titles, will be available next week at www.bookweb.org/read/6977. The PDF flier also includes jacket images.

The nomination deadline for the February Book Sense Picks list is December 3. All nominations should be sent to Book Sense Picks Editor-in-Chief Dan Cullen at [email protected], or through the online nomination form at www.bookweb.org/read/6305.

Many thanks!

FICTION

BANEWREAKER: Volume One of the Sundering, by Jacqueline Carey (Tor, $27.95, 0765305216)
HANNAH COULTER: A Novel, by Wendell Berry (Shoemaker & Hoard, $25, 1593760361)
MCSWEENEY'S ENCHANTED CHAMBER OF ASTONISHING STORIES, by Michael Chabon (Ed.) (Vintage, $13.95 paper, 1400078741)
MORE THAN YOU KNOW, by Beth Gutcheon (Agate Publishing, $24.95, 0972456287)
THE RED HAT CLUB, by Haywood Smith (St. Martin's, $6.99 paper, 0312984308)
A WATERY GRAVE, by Joan Druett (Minotaur, $23.95, 0312334419)

NONFICTION

THE BEST AMERICAN RECIPES: The Year's Top Picks From Books, Magazines, Newspapers, and the Internet (2004-2005), by Fran McCullough and Molly Stevens (Eds.) (Houghton, $26, 061845506X)
THE CHILDREN'S BLIZZARD, by David Laskin (HarperCollins, $24.95, 0060520752)
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON: The Making of an American, by Richard Rhodes (Knopf, $30, 0375414126)
OVER THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, by Laurence Bergreen (Perennial, $15.95 paper, 006093638X)
THE PAT CONROY COOKBOOK: Recipes of My Life, by Pat Conroy (Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $26, 0385514131
SO MANY BOOKS, SO LITTLE TIME: A Year of Passionate Reading, by Sara Nelson (Berkley, $13 paper, 0425198197)
THE SWEET SCIENCE, by A. J. Liebling (North Point, $15 paper, 0374272271)
TO RULE THE WAVES: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, by Arthur Herman (HarperCollins, $26.95, 0060534249)
WILL IN THE WORLD: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, by Stephen Greenblatt (Norton, $26.95, 0393050572)

MYSTERY/SUSPENSE

FALSE PROFITS, by Patricia Smiley (Mysterious Press, $23.95, 0892967900)
FOUL MATTER, by Martha Grimes (Viking, $25.95, 067003259X)
LAKE OF SORROWS: A Novel, by Erin Hart (Scribner, $24, 0743247965)
SPEAK NOW, by Margaret Dumas (Poisoned Pen, $24.95, 1590581210)

SOMETHING SURPRISING…

MOLVANIA: A Land Untouched By Modern Dentistry, by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Rob Sitch (Overlook Press, $13.95 paper, 1585676195)