January 2005 Book Sense 'We Also Recommend' Titles

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

The nomination deadline for the March Book Sense Picks list is December 30. 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

BAD DIRT: Wyoming Stories 2, by Annie Proulx (Scribner, $25, 0743257995)

CALL FOR THE DEAD, by John le Carre (Walker, $18, 0802714439)

THE EMPIRE OF THE WOLVES: A Novel, by Jean-Christophe Grange (Ecco, $24.95, 0060573651)

THE FINAL SOLUTION: A Story of Detection, by Michael Chabon (Fourth Estate/Harper, $16.95, 006076340X)

WELCOME TO THE FALLEN PARADISE: A Novel, by Dayne Sherman (MacAdam/Cage Publishing, $24, 1931561737)

Nonfiction

ALTARS OF POWER AND GRACE: Create the Life You Desire -- Achieve Harmony, Health, Fulfillment, and Prosperity With Personal Altars Based on Vastu Shastra, by Robin Mastro, Michael Mastro (Balanced Book Publishing, $19.95, 0974910902)

COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond (Viking, $29.95, 0670033375)

CRAZY IN THE KITCHEN: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family, by Louise DeSalvo (Bloomsbury, $14.95 paper, 1582344701)

ENSLAVED BY DUCKS: How One Man Went From Head of the Household to Bottom of the Pecking Order, by Bob Tarte (Algonquin, $12.95 paper, 1565124502)

FEAST: Food to Celebrate Life, by Nigella Lawson (Hyperion, $35, 1401301363)

THE HEART OF THE WORLD: A Journey to the Last Secret Place, by Ian Baker (Penguin Press, $27.95, 1594200270)

THE LAST TIME AROUND CAPE HORN: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir, by William F. Stark (Carroll & Graf, $13 paper, 0786714611)

THE LITTLE BOOK OF SNOWFLAKES, by Kenneth Libbrecht (Voyageur Press, $7.95, 0896586529)

THE SUCCESS PRINCIPLES: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, by Jack Canfield (HarperResource, $24.95, 0060594888)

Fiction in Paperback

CARRY ME HOME, by Sandra Kring (Delta, $13 paper, 0385338139)

THE FLOATING BOOK: A Novel of Venice, by Michelle Lovric (Regan Books, $14.95 paper, 0060578572)

THE LADY AND THE UNICORN, by Tracy Chevalier (Plume, $14, 0452285453)

ORACLE NIGHT: A Novel, by Paul Auster (Picador, $14, 0312423667)
Mystery and Suspense

THE DEADLY DANCE: An Agatha Raisin Mystery, by M.C. Beaton (St. Martin's Minotaur, $22.95, 0312304366)

A QUESTION OF BLOOD: An Inspector Rebus Novel, by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown, $6.99, 0316159182)