Friday Finds: 6 March 2009

Friday Finds is a weekly event hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Participants are asked to share with other bloggers about the new-to-you books found during the week – books you either want to add to your TBR (to be read) list, or that you just heard about that sounded interesting.

This week I put quite a few new titles on my New Finds list. Well, new to me – actually, several of them have been around for a while. Some of these will undoubtedly make it to my TBR list after I've found out a little more about them.

• The Brontës Went to Woolworths. Rachel Ferguson (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009). Source: Fleur Fisher Reads 3/05/2009
• Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor. Brad Gooch (Little, Brown; 448 pp. $30). Source: New York Times Book Review 3/01/2009, cover review
• The Invisible Circus. Jennifer Egan (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1995). Source: Discovered this one after happening upon the 2001 movie version on TV
• The Italian Lover. Robert Hellenga (Little, Brown, 2007; 352 pp.). Source: BermudaOnion's blog 3/02/2009
• The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection. Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (Little, Brown, April 2009; 384 pp.). Source: BermudaOnion's blog 3/02/2009, which also led me to discover the following after a little searching around on the internet:
• The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein. Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (Little, Brown, 2006; 384 pp.)
• The Cabinet of Curiosities. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Warner Books, 2002). Source: I'm reading Preston's Blasphemy right now, for the Suspense-Thriller Challenge
• The Doomsday Key (Sigma Force series, no. 6). James Rollins (due in July 2009). Source: Discovered after Rollins started "following" me on Twitter. I seem to be going through a thriller-reading phase at the moment.
• The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal. Lily Koppel (Harper Perennial, $14.99). Source: New York Times Book Review 3/01/2009, new paperbacks
• Stone's Fall. Iain Pears (Spiegel & Grau, May 5th 2009; 608 pp.). Source: Found through Shelf Awareness ad
• The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. David Hajdu (Picador, $16). Source: New York Time Book Review 3/01/2009, new paperbacks