The monthly bookseller recommendations for August are out, and Amazon and Barnes & Noble agree on five of the month’s new releases (including Rob Sheffield’s memoir, which you can start reading right now in our free Buzz Books ebook):
The Telling Room, Michael Paterniti
The Sound of Things Falling, Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Lawrence in Arabia, Scott Anderson
Turn Around Bright Eyes, Rob Sheffield
Night Film, Marisha Pessl
And at Costco, the August Pennie’s Pick is Amanda Coplin’s The Orchardist (first previewed in our inaugural Buzz Books ebook a year ago). The other picks are, from Amazon:
Babayaga, Toby Barlow
Manson, Jeff Guinn
Sea Creatures, Susanna Daniel
The Husband’s Secret, Liane Moriarty
Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, Peter Orner
Son of a Gun, Justin St. Germain
And from Barnes & Noble:
Thinking In Numbers, Daniel Tammet
Looking for Palestine, Najla Said
The Color Master, Aimee Bender
Ninety Percent of Everything, Rose George
The Infatuations, Javier Marias, Margaret Jull Costa
Lookaway, Lookaway, Wilton Barnhardt
Archangel, Andrea Barrett
The Third Kingdom, Terry Goodkind
How the Light Gets In, Louise Penny
Claire of the Sea Light, Edwidge Danticat
Paterniti and Barlow also made the Indie Next list for August, covered here about a month ago when first released.