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I just bought an ADDITIONAL crapload of titles from Fictionwise, which also qualified me for an extra 10% discount.
Rather than naming each individual title, let me do it this way:
1) Ten more Shell Scott detective novels - Richard S. Prather. This is some of the most enjoyable and politically INCORRECT mysteries you'll find. And what a joy they are to read. I now have almost every one of these in ebook format. Great reads from the 1950s on into the 80s. Highly recommended if you like your detectives with a large libido, as I do.
2) Missing Mom - Joyce Carol Oates. I have over 80 of her books in First Edition Hardback. I think she's deserving of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and I hope she wins before she does an "Updike" on us.
3) Wild Nights!: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway - Joyce Carol Oates. This sale was a time to pick up almost all the Joyce Carol Oates I was missing from Fictionwise.
4) Dear Husband - Joyce Carol Oates newest collection of short stories. I highly recommend Oates, especially if you like your literary fiction "dark." She explores the neuroses and psychoses in her characters lives and the result is not "touchy-feely" fiction.
5) Shiva and Other Stories - Barry Malzberg. This is a great science fiction writer who tried to break away from the label of the gutter(ized), pulp-filled world of SciFi. This is also the great author who brought words like "masturbation" and also sexual insight into astronauts' lives.
6) The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga. This is the winner of the Man Booker Award Prize for Best Novel. I've heard some great things about this book.
7) Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout. This novel (in a series of related short stories), just won the Pulitzer Prize for Best Novel of 2009. I'm looking forward to reading this one - and soon!
Well, that's my list.
Where's yours, Bwana?
Don
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