My August Book List 2016 is compiled from four sources: Amazon, Publisher’s Weekly, the Independent Booksellers, and the New York Times Book Review
Amazon
Wolf Road: A Novel by Beth Lewis
Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake Crouch
The Heavenly Table: A Novel by Donald Ray Pollock
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez (NF)
Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
A Hundred Thousand Worlds by Bob Proehl
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
As Good as Gone: A Novel by Larry Watson
Pierced by the Sun by Laura Esquivel
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
Invincible Summer by Alice Adams
Night of the Animals by Bill Broun
Mysteries and Thrillers
The Black Widow by Daniel Silva
Wolf Lake: A Novel by Ruth Ware
The Heavenly Table: A Novel by Donald Ray Pollock
The Castle of Kings by Oliver Potzsch
I Am No One: A Novel by Patrick Flanery
All is Not Forgotten: A Novel by Wendy Walter
How to Set a Fire and Why: A Novel by Jesse Ball
The Last One: A Novel by Alexandra Oliva
Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake Crouch
Nonfiction
The Voyeur’s Motel by Gay Talese
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Just One Damned Thing After Another: The Chronicles of St. Mary’s, Book One by Jodi Taylor
Time Siege by Wesley Chu
The Dark Side by Anthony O’Neill
Publisher’s Weekly
Wintering: A Novel by Peter Geye (Sequel to The Lighthouse Road)
The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
Problems by Jade Sharma
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Magnate: The Knickerbocker Club by Joanna Shupe
The Girls: A Novel by Emma Cline
One Hundred Twenty-One Days by Michele Audin (trans. by Christiana Hills)
July 25th
You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
In Loving Memory by Winona Kent (sequel to Persistence of Memory)
The Unseen World by Liz Moore
Fall Books
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Mystery, Thriller, Crime
The Lost Boy by Camilla Lackberg
IQ by Joe Ide
The One Man by Andrew Gross
Independent Booksellers
The Rocks by Peter Nichols
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
First Come Love by Emily Griffin
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
The Cartel by Don Winslow
Last Words by Michael Koryta
A Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George
Pond by Clair-Louise Bennett
A Hero of France by Alan Furst
The Singles Game by Lauren Weisberger
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
Siracusa by Delia Ephron
LaRose by Louise Eldrich
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Lily and the Octopus by Steve Rowley
The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029 – 2047 by Lionel Shriver
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
Zero K by Dan DeLillo
The Trap by Melanie Raabe
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
They May Not Mean to, But They Do by Cathleen Schine
NYT Book Review
July 10
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
Invincible Summer by Alice Adams
She Poured Her Heart Out by Jean Thompson
Crime Fiction
The Innocents by Ace Atkins (Bk. 6)
Another One Goes Tonight by Peter Lovesey
Fatal Pursuit by Martin Walker
Brighton by Michael Harvey
Editor’s Choice
The Sun in Your Eyes by Deborah Shapiro
The Drowned Detective by Neil Jordan
Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan Neil Jordan
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
July 17
The Mandibles A Family 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
Editor’s Choice
Lucky Strikes by Louis Bayard
July 24
Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers
Chronicle of Last Summer by Yasmine El Rashidi
Miss Jane by Brad Watson
The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
Pond by Clair-Louise Bennett
The Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel
Crime Fiction
Let the Devil Out by Sarah Crichton
Guilty Minds by Joseph Finder
Fall From Grace by Tim Weaver
The Lost Girls by Heather Young
The Black Widow by Daniel Silva
July 31, 2016
The Devils of Cardona by Matthew Carr
Good as Gone by Amy Gentry
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
The Death of Rex Nhongo by C B George
You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
Breaking Cover by Stella Remington
The Wolf of Sarajevo by Matthew Palmer
I Am No One by Patrick Flanery
City of Secrets by Stewart O’Nan
Missing, Presumed by Susan Steiner
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Paradime by Alan Glynn
Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry
Dancing with the Tiger by Lili Wright
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
The Kingdom by Fuminori Nakumura
The Crow Girl by Eric Axl Sund
Among the Dead and Dreaming by Samuel Ligon
Fever by Tim Baker
Judenstaat by Simon Zelitch
Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
