- Cupcake Brown–A Piece of Cake
- Augusten Burroughs–Dry
- David Carr–The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life–His Own
- Dan Clark–Gladiator: A True Story of ‘Roids, Rage, and Redemption
- Carrie Fisher–Wishful Drinking
- Kate Holden–In My Skin: A Memoir
- Mary Karr–Lit: A Memoir
- Caroline Knapp–Drinking: A Love Story
- Christopher Kennedy Lawford–Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption
- William Cope Moyers–Broken
- Brandon Novak–Dreamseller: An Addiction Memoir
- David Sheff–Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey through His Son’s Meth Addiction
- Nic Sheff–Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
- Koren Zailckas–Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
Archive for the ‘Under the Radar’ Category
Under the Radar: Addiction Memoirs
Sunday, August 29th, 2010Under the Radar: New History Titles You May Have Missed
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010- Alice Sparberg Alexiou–The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the Incomparable City that Rose With It
- Nick Bunker–Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World, a New History
- Molly Caldwell Crosby–Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries
- Bruce Cumings–The Korean War
- Eric Jay Dolin–Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
- Peter Marshal–Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
- Danielle McGuire–At the Dark End of the Street
- G. J. Meyer–The Tudors: The Complete Story of England’s Most Notorious Dynasty
- Juliet Nicolson–The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age
- Graham Robb–Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
- Judith Stein–Pivotal Decade
- Brian Thornton–Book of Bastards: 101 Worst Scoundrels and Scandals from the World of Politics and Power
- Bruce Watson–Freedom Summer: The Savage Season that Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
Under the Radar: Music Makes the Difference
Sunday, August 15th, 2010- Sherman Alexie–Reservation Blues
- Steve Almond–Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book By and For the Fanatics Among Us (NF)
- Marisha Chamberlain–The Rose Variations
- Roddy Doyle–Oh, Play That Thing
- Jancee Dunn–But Enough About Me… (NF)
- Jennifer Egan–A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Steven Galloway–The Cellist of Sarajevo
- Oscar Hijuelos–The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Nick Hornby–High Fidelity
- Chuck Klosterman–Fargo Rock City (NF)
- Adam Langer–Ellington Boulevard: A Novel in A-Flat
- Zachary Lazar–Sway
- Daniel J. Levitin–The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature (NF)
- Martin Millar–Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me
- Marcia Preston–The Piano Man
- Oliver Sacks–Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (NF)
- Rob Sheffield–Love Is a Mix Tape (NF)
- Rob Sheffield–Talking to Girls About Duran Duran (NF)
Under the Radar: New Science Fiction You May Have Missed
Sunday, August 8th, 2010- David Louis Edelman–Geosynchron
- Jaine Fenn–Principles of Angels
- Mira Grant–Feed (Newsflash Series, #1)
- Tom Holt–Blonde Bombshell
- Gini Koch–Touched By an Alien
- Jay Lake–Pinion
- Ian McDonald–The Dervish House
- Steven Polansky–The Bradbury Report
- Rob Thurman–Chimera
Under the Radar: New Environmental NF You May Have Missed
Sunday, August 1st, 2010- Rick Bass–Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana
- Robert Bryce–Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future
- Jim Cole–Blindsided: Surviving a Grizzly Attack and Still Loving the Great Bear
- David Cruise–Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs
- John D’Agata–About a Mountain
- Stephen Destefano–Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia
- Jonathan Safran Foer–Eating Animals
- James Hansen–Storms of My Grandchildren
- Kurt Hoelting–The Circumference of Home: One Man’s Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life
- Anna Lappe–Diet for a Hot Planet
- Annie Leonard–The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health
- John Lister-Kaye–At the Water’s Edge: A Personal Quest for Wildness
- Bill McKibben–Eaarth
- David Orr–Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse
- Heather Rogers–Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
- Rick Smith–Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things
Under the Radar: National Golf Month (F and NF)
Sunday, July 25th, 2010- Eric Adelson–The Sure Thing: The Making and Unmaking of Golf Phenom Michelle Wie
- Ray Blackston–Par for the Course
- Harlan Coben–Backspin
- John Corrigan–Cut Shot
- John Coyne–The Caddie Who Played with Hickory
- Bob Cupp–The Edict
- John Daly–My Life In and Out of the Rough (NF)
- Peter DeJonge and James Patterson–Miracle on the 17th Green
- Steve Eubanks–To Win and Die in Dixie: The Birth of the Modern Golf Swing and the Mysterious Death of Its Creator (NF)
- John Feinstein–Moment of Glory: The Year Underdogs Ruled Golf (NF)
- Jim Gullo–Just Let Me Play: The Story of Charlie Sifford, the First Black PGA Golfer (NF)
- Steve Helling–Tiger: The Real Story (NF)
- Albert Killeen–The Ten-Million-Dollar Golf Ball
- Michael Konik–In Search of Burningbush (NF)
- Adam Lazarus–Chasing Greatness: Johnny Miller, Arnold Palmer, and the Miracle at Oakmont (NF)
- Steven Pressfield–The Legend of Bagger Vance
Under the Radar: New Fantasy Books You May Have Missed
Sunday, July 18th, 2010- Harper Alexander–Mind Games
- Karen Chance–Inked
- Blake Charlton–Spellwright
- Neil Gaiman–Stories
- Tracy Hickman–Song of the Dragon
- Robin Hobb–Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles
- Paul Hoffman–The Left Hand of God
- Guy Gavriel Kay–Under Heaven
- Mercedes Lackey–Legacies
- George Mann–Ghosts of Manhattan
- China Miéville–Kraken
- Carrie Vaughn–Discord’s Apple
Under the Radar: Cool Reads for Hot Days
Sunday, July 11th, 2010- Clive Cussler–Arctic Drift (#20, Dirk Pitt series)
- Gretel Ehrlich–This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland (NF)
- Richard Ellis–On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear (NF)
- Lin Enger–Undiscovered Country
- Louise Erdrich–Tales of Burning Love
- David Guterson–Snow Falling on Cedars
- Mark Helprin–Winter’s Tale
- Peter Hoeg–Smilla’s Sense of Snow
- Ursula K. LeGuin–The Left Hand of Darkness
- George R. R. Martin–A Game of Thrones
- Tim Moore–Frost On My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer (NF)
- Mikael Niemi–Popular Music from Vittula
- Dan Simmons–The Terror
- Bill Streever–Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places (NF)
- Scott Young–Murder in a Cold Climate
Under the Radar: Short Story Collections You May Have Missed
Sunday, July 4th, 2010- Amy Bloom – Where the God of Love Hangs Out
- T.C. Boyle – Wild Child
- A.L. Kennedy - What Becomes
- Aryn Kyle - Boys and Girls Like You and Me
- Thomas Lynch – Apparition and Late Fictions
- Antonya Nelson – Nothing Right
- Dawn Raffel – Further Adventures in the Restless Universe
- Ron Rash - Burning Bright
- Sam Shepard – Day out of Days
- Robert Stone – Fun with Problems
- Jean Thompson – Do Not Deny Me
- Tiphanie Yanique – How to Escape from a Leper Colony
Under the Radar: New and Classic YA Books for Adult Readers
Sunday, June 27th, 2010- M. T. Anderson–The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
- John Barnes–Tales of the Madman Underground
- Alan Bradley–The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- Rachel Cohn and David Levithan–Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
- Suzanne Collins–The Hunger Games
- Robert Cormier–The Chocolate War
- Neil Gaiman–The Graveyard Book
- John Green–Looking for Alaska
- S.E. Hinton–The Outsiders
- John Knowles–A Separate Peace
- Stephenie Meyer–The Host
- Stephenie Meyer–Twilight
- Philip Pullman–The Golden Compass
- Carrie Ryan–The Forest of Hands and Teeth
- J.D. Salinger–The Catcher in the Rye
- Betty Smith–A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Jerry Spinelli–Stargirl
- Rebecca Stead–When You Reach Me
- Scott Westerfeld–Leviathan
- Markus Zusak–The Book Thief









