- Claire Avery–Hidden Wives
- Robert Goolrick–A Reliable Wife
- Kay Hooper–Rafferty’s Wife
- Paula McLain–The Paris Wife
- Sue Miller–The Senator’s Wife
- Audrey Niffenegger–The Time Traveler’s Wife
- Tea Obreht–The Tiger’s Wife
- Emily Perkins–Novel About My Wife
- Beth Powning–The Sea Captain’s Wife
- Titilola Alexandrah Shoneyin–The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
- Curtis Sittenfeld–American Wife
Archive for the ‘Under the Radar’ Category
Under the Radar: Wives Are All the Rage
Sunday, May 8th, 2011Under the Radar: New and Classic Fiction with a Sense of Humor
Sunday, May 1st, 2011- Douglas Adams–The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Kingsley Amis–Lucky Jim
- Nick Bantock – Griffin and Sabine
- Jasper Fforde–One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Thursday Next series)
- Rebecca Hunt–Mr. Chartwell
- John Irving–The World According to Garp
- Jerome K. Jerome–Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Mat Johnson–Pym: A Novel
- Garrison Keillor–Lake Wobegon Days
- Alexander McCall Smith–The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series)
- P.G. Sturges–Shortcut Man
- John Kennedy Toole–A Confederacy of Dunces
- Kurt Vonnegut–While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
- P.G. Wodehouse–Psmith
Under the Radar: Yummy Buzz—New Nonfiction Foodie Titles
Sunday, April 24th, 2011- Lisa Abend—The Sorcerer’s Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adria’s el Bulli
- Grant Achatz—Life, on the Line: A Chef’s Story of Chasing Greatness
- Annia Ciezadlo—Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
- Gabrielle Hamilton—Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
- Ben Ryder Howe—My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store
- Aki Kamozawa—Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work
- Graham Kerr—Growing at the Speed of Life
- John F. Mariani and Lidia Bastianich—How Italian Food Conquered the World
- Geneen Roth—Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations about Food and Money
Under the Radar: Earth Day 2011 — New Environmental Titles
Sunday, April 17th, 2011- Joel Achenbach–The Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher
- Elisabeth Tova Bailey–The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
- Mike Berners-Lee: How Bad Are Bananas?
- Ted Danson–Oceana
- Stephen Destefano–Coyote at the Kitchen Door
- Tony Fitzjohn–Born Wild
- Donovan Hohn–Moby-Duck
- Alexis Madrigal–Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology
- Chris Martenson–The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment
- Kieran Mulvaney–The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear
- Wayne Pacelle–The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them
- Heather Rogers–Green Gone Wrong
- Sara Wheeler–Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle
Under the Radar: Epistolary Fiction and Nonfiction
Sunday, April 10th, 2011- Nick Bantock–Griffin and Sabine
- Lee Cavanaugh–Save as Draft
- Holly Denham–Holly’s Inbox
- Emma Donoghue–Landing
- Mark Dunn–Ella Minnow Pea
- Ted Gup–A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness–and a Trove of Letters–Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression (NF)
- Helene Hanff–84, Charing Cross Road (NF)
- Thomas Mallon–Yours Ever: People and their Letters (NF)
- Mameve Medwed–Mail
- Jonathan Miles–Dear American Airlines
- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows–The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Brenda Wineapple–White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (NF)
Under the Radar: New Poetry Titles
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011- Kim Addonizio–Lucifer at the Starlite
- Julie Carr–Sarah: Of Fragments and Lines
- Billy Collins–Horoscopes for the Dead
- Nick Flynn–The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands
- Jennifer Grotz–The Needle
- L.S. Klatt–Cloud of Ink
- Nick Lantz–We Don’t Know We Don’t Know
- Dorianne Laux–The Book of Men
- Les Murray–Taller When Prone
- Amy Nezhukumatahil–Lucky Fish
- Travis Nichols–See Me Improving
- Christian Riman–Every Riven Thing
Under the Radar: Blog-Worthy New Nonfiction
Sunday, March 27th, 2011- Elisabeth Tova Bailey–The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
- Alain de Botton–A Week at the Airport
- Edmund de Waal–The Hare with Amber Eyes
- Gail Caldwell–Let’s Take the Long Way Home
- Paul Clemens–Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant
- Deborah Fallows–Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language
- Joshua Foer–Moonwalking with Einstein
- Anand Giridharadas–India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking
- David Grann–The Lost City of Z
- Stephanie Staal–Reading Women
- Stephan Talty–Escape from the Land of Snows
- Xinran–Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother
Under the Radar: NEW Historical Fiction for Women’s History Month
Sunday, March 20th, 2011- Paula Brackston–The Witch’s Daughter
- Carol K. Carr–India Black
- Jerome Charyn–The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
- Alice Hoffman–The Red Garden
- Katharine McMahon–The Crimson Rooms
- Michelle Moran–Madame Tussaud
- Tamar Myers–The Headhunter’s Daughter
- Kate Pullinger–The Mistress of Nothing
- Pamela Schoenewalt–When We Were Strangers
- Susan Vreeland–Clara and Mr. Tiffany
- Lauren Willig–The Orchid Affair
Under the Radar: It’s a Wide World: Novels in Translation
Sunday, March 13th, 2011- Isabel Allende–Island Beneath the Sea
- Muriel Barbery–The Elegance of the Hedgehog
- Roberto Bolaño–The Return
- Philippe Djian–Unforgivable
- David Grossman–To the End of the Land
- Keigo Higashino–The Devotion of Subject X
- Milan Kundera–Encounter
- Stieg Larsson–The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Orhan Pamuk–The Museum of Innocence
- Per Petterson–I Curse the River of Time
- Jose Saramago–The Elephant’s Journey
- Juli Zeh–In Free Fall
Under the Radar: Recent Nonfiction for Book Clubs
Sunday, March 6th, 2011- Mira Bartok–The Memory Palace
- Deborah Blum–The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
- Gail Caldwell–Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
- Amy Chua–Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
- Ariane Conrad and Annie Leonard–The Story of Stuff
- Elizabeth Gilbert–Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
- Marilyn Johnson–This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
- Sebastian Junger–War
- Michael Lewis–The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
- Mary Roach–Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
- Roger Rosenblatt–Making Toast
- Hampton Sides–Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
- Isabel Wilkerson–The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration









