These are the books I am considering for review. New books are added at the top as Brad Hooper and Bill Ott assign them to me. All titles will be in boldface until I’ve read them. Once I’ve filed the review (or rejected the book), I’ll remove the boldface.
If anyone has a better way of doing this, I’m open to suggestions.
Driving on the Rim, by Thomas McGuane
Sick City, by Tony O’Neill
Junkyard Dogs, by Craig Johnson (Viking)
The Black Minutes, by Martin Solares (Black Cat)
How to Booze, by Jordan Kaye and Marshall Altier (Harper)
The Thieves of Manhattan, by Adam Langer (Spiegel & Grau)
Let the Dead Lie, by Malla Nunn (Washington Square)
The Boys from Little Mexico, by Steve Wilson (Beacon)
Lanceheim, by Tim Davys (Harper)
The Nearest Exit, by Olen Steinhauer (Minotaur)
Tell-All, by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday)
Holy Water, by James P. Othmer (Doubleday)
Known to Evil, by Walter Mosley (Riverhead)
More Than Just a Game, by Chuck Korr and Marvin Close (St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne)
The Good Son, by Michael Gruber (Holt)
Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s)
The Wild Things, by Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s)
Nowhere to Run, by C. J. Box (Putnam)
The Pint Man, by Steve Rushin (Doubleday)
Noir, by Robert Coover (Overlook)
No More Heroes, by Ray Banks (Houghton)
The Brick Layer, by Noah Boyd (Morrow)
Wild Child and Other Stories, by T. C. Boyle (Viking)
Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde (Viking)
Inventory, by the A.V. Club (Scribner)
It’s Always Four o’ Clock/Iron Man, by W. R. Burnett (Stark House)
Point Omega, by Don DeLillo (Scribner)
Doors Open, by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur)
The Bad Book Affair, by Ian Sansom (Harper)
Wake Up Dead, by Roger Smith (Holt)
True Blue, by David Baldacci (Grand Central)
Ancestors and Others, by Fred Chappell (St. Martin’s)
Soccernomics, by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski (Nation)
The Cry of the Sloth, by Sam Savage (Coffee House)
Children of Dust, by Ali Eteraz (HarperOne)
Blind Eye, by Stuart MacBride (Minotaur)
Level 26: Dark Origins, by Anthony E. Zuiker and Duane Swierczynski (Dutton)
Chronic City, by Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday)
Generosity, by Richard Powers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, by J. G. Ballard (Norton)
Hunt through the Cradle of Fear, by Gabriel Hunt (Leisure)
Crossers, by Philip Caputo (Knopf)
Rizzo’s War, by Lou Manfredo (Minotaur)
The Broken Teaglass, by Emily Arsenault (Delacorte)
Blood’s a Rover, by James Ellroy (Knopf)
Snakeskin Road, by James Braziel (Bantam)
Say Everything, by Scott Rosenberg (Crown)
Bury Me Deep, by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
Far North, by Marcel Theroux (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
My Tango with Barbara Strozzi, by Russell Hoban (Bloomsbury)
Lyrics for the Blues, by Gar Anthony Haywood (A.S.A.P.)
Do Not Deny Me, by Jean Thompson (Simon & Schuster)
This Wicked World, by Richard Lange (Little, Brown)
Bad Things Happen, by Harry Dolan (Putnam)
Below Zero, by C. J. Box (Penguin)
99 Drams of Whiskey, by Kate Hopkins (St. Martin’s)
The Dark Horse, by Craig Johnson (Viking)
Palos Verdes Blue, by John Shannon (Pegasus)
Genesis, by Bernard Beckett (Houghton)
An Expensive Education, by Nick McDonell (Atlantic Monthly)
Pygmy, by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday)
The Angel’s Game, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Doubleday)
Finn McCool’s Football Club, by Stephen Rea (Pelican)
Nobody Move, by Denis Johnson (Farrar)
Castle, by J. Robert Lennon (Graywolf)
Ablutions, by Patrick deWitt (Houghton)
Amberville, by Tim Davys (Harper)
Trigger City, by Sean Chercover (Morrow)
The Long Fall, by Walter Mosley (Riverhead)
Outcasts United, by Warren St. John (Spiegel & Grau)
Mean Town Blues, by Sam Reaves (Pegasus)
The Manual of Detection, by Jedediah Berry (Penguin)
The Northern Clemency, by Philip Hensher (Knopf)
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction, edited by Alvaro Uribe (Dalkey Archive)
The Suicide Collectors, by David Oppegaard (St. Martin’s)
The Lost City of Z, by David Grann (Doubleday)
The Spy Game, by Georgina Harding (Bloomsbury)
Death by Leisure, by Chris Ayres (Grove)
The Isle of Dogs, by Daniel Davies (Serpent’s Tail)
Sucker Punch, by Ray Banks (Houghton)
One Nation Under Blog, by David Wallace (Brown Books)
Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes, by Daniel L. Everett (Pantheon)
One Night Stands and Lost Weekends, by Lawrence Block (Harper)
Noir, by Olivier Pauvert (Counterpoint)
The Taker and Other Stories, by Rubem Fonseca (Open Letter)
The Killer/Devil on Two Sticks, by Wade Miller (Stark House)
Gun Work, by David J. Schow (Hard Case Crime)
The Goliath Bone, by Mickey Spillane (Harcourt)
The Tourist, by Olen Steinhauer (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac (Grove)
The Essential Cocktail, by Dale DeGroff (Clarkson Potter)
The Gone-Away World, by Nick Harkaway (Knopf)
Soccer Dad, by W. D. Wetherell (Skyhorse)
Crime, by Irvine Welsh (Norton)
Flesh House, by Stuart MacBride (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
Bloody Confused! by Chuck Culpepper (Broadway)
Sicilian Tragedee, by Ottavio Cappellani (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
No House Limit, by Steve Fisher (Hard Case Crime)
Black and White and Dead All Over, by John Darnton (Knopf)
A Shot in the Dark/Shell Game, by Richard Powell (Stark House)
Kick the Balls, by Alan Black (Hudson Street)
Mine All Mine, by Adam Davies (Riverhead)
Omega, by Christopher Evans (PS)
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, by Paul Theroux (Houghton Mifflin)
Somebody Owes Me Money, by Donald Westlake (Hard Case Crime)
Soccer in a Football World, by David Wangerin (Temple Univ.)
The Book Stops Here, by Ian Sansom (Harper)
Dead Silver, by Neil McMahon (Harper)
The Tempest Tales, by Walter Mosley (Black Classic Press)
Savage Night, by Allan Guthrie (Harcourt)
Empire of Lies, by Andrew Klavan (Harcourt)
Close, by Martina Cole (Grand Central)
Everyday Drinking, by Kingsley Amis (Bloomsbury)
The Devils of Bakersfield, by John Shannon (Pegasus)
Snuff, by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday)
Young Irelanders, by Gerard Donovan (Overlook)
Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? by Thomas Kohnstamm (Three Rivers)
Armageddon in Retrospect, by Kurt Vonnegut (Putnam)
Blood Trail, by C. J. Box (Putnam)
Silesian Station, by David Downing (Soho)
Master of the Delta, by Thomas H. Cook (Harcourt)
The Forgery of Venus, by Michael Gruber (Morrow)
Mafiya, by Charlie Stella (Pegasus)
The Price of Blood, by Declan Hughes (Morrow)
Lush Life, by Richard Price
The Amateur Spy, by Dan Fesperman (Knopf)
Calumet City, by Charlie Newton (Touchstone)
Money Shot, by Christa Faust (Hard Case Crime)
Diablerie, by Walter Mosley (Bloomsbury)
Stark, by Edward Bunker (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
Ellington Boulevard, by Adam Langer (Spiegel & Grau)
Blue Heaven, by C. J. Box (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
Nobody Likes a Quitter, by Dan Dunn (Thunder’s Mouth)
Down into Darkness, by David Lawrence (St. Martin’s Minotaur/Thomas Dunne)
Watchman, by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown)
The Bad Girl, by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar)
Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer, by John Foot (Nation)
Severance Package, by Duane Swierczynski (St. Martin’s)
Love & Blood: At the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks, by Jamie Trecker (Harcourt)
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, edited by Otto Penzler (Vintage)
Running the Table, by L. Jon Wertheim (Houghton Mifflin)
Saturday’s Child, by Ray Banks (Harcourt)
The Air We Breathe, by Andrea Barrett (Norton)
Linger Awhile, by Russell Hoban (David R. Godine)
The Chicago Way, by Michael Harvey (Knopf)
Blonde Faith, by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown)
Redemption, by Lee Jackson (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
Lost Paradise, by Cees Noteboom (Grove)
The Last Jew Standing, by Michael Simon (Viking)
Victory Square, by Olen Steinhauer (St. Martin’s)
Songs of Innocence, by Richard Aleas (Hard Case Crime)
The Assistant, by Robert Walser (New Directions)
Salaam Stanley Matthews, by Subrata Dasgupta (Granta, dist. by Trafalgar Square/IPG)
Maradona: The Autobiography of Soccer’s Greatest and Most Controversial Star, by Diego Maradona (Skyhorse, dist. by Sterling)
Street of No Return, by David Goodis (Millipede)
Nightfall, by David Goodis (Millipede)
Mr. Dixon Disappears, by Ian Sansom (HarperCollins)
The Wounded and the Slain, by David Goodis (Hard Case Crime)
The Follower, by Jason Starr (St. Martin’s)
Exposure, by Kurt Wenzel (Little, Brown)
Chain of Evidence, by Garry Disher (Soho Crime)
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, by Chuck Palahniuk (Random)
Writing in an Age of Silence, by Sara Paretsky
The Museum of Dr. Moses, by Joyce Carol Oates (Harcourt)
Chasing Kangaroos, by Tim Flannery (Grove)
Shakespeare’s Kitchen, by Lore Segal (New Press)
The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, by Manuel Munoz (Algonquin)
Depths, by Henning Mankell (New Press)
Grotesque, by Natsuo Kirino (Knopf)
The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple (Farrar)
The Lying Tongue, by Andrew Wilson (Atria)
Priest, by Ken Bruen (St. Martin’s/Minotaur)
Free Fire, by C. J. Box (Putnam)
Hard Man, by Allan Guthrie (Harcourt)
Lone Creek, by Neil McMahon (Harper)
American Youth, by Phil LaMarche (Random)
Valentines, by Olaf Olafsson (Pantheon)
The Dark Streets, by John Shannon (Pegasus)
Be Near Me, by Andrew O’Hagan (Harcourt)
Sweet: An Eight-Ball Odyssey, by Heather Byer (Riverhead)
Killing Johnny Fry, by Walter Mosley (Bloomsbury)
My Lovely Executioner/Agreement to Kill, by Peter Rabe (Stark House)
Robbie’s Wife, by Russell Hill (Hard Case Crime)
House of Meetings, by Martin Amis (Knopf)
The Royal Nonesuch, by Glasgow Phillips (Grove/Black Cat)
The God of Animals, by Aryn Kyle (Scribner)
What Is the What, by Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s)
The Book of Air and Shadows, by Michael Gruber (Harper/Morrow)
The Case of the Missing Books, by Ian Sansom (Harper)
Vinnie’s Head, by Marc Lecard (St. Martin’s/Minotaur)
Lost Echoes, by Joe R. Lansdale (Random/Vintage)
Born in Flames, by Howard Hampton (Harvard)
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties, by Robert Stone (Ecco)
Red Baker, by Robert Ward (St. Martin’s)
Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq, by Riverbend (Feminist Press)
Mishima’s Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend, by Christopher Ross (Da Capo)
Night Falls on Damascus, by Frederick Highland (St. Martin’s Minotaur/Thomas Dunne)
