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- Reader recommendation: All God's DangersMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Alec Baldwin will release a memoir in 2016Baldwin recently appeared in the films 'Still Alice' and 'Blue Jasmine,' among other work.
- 'Z for Zachariah' movie debuts at the Sundance Film Festival'Z for Zachariah' is based on the book of the same name by 'Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH' author Robert C. O'Brien.
- 'Sympathy for the Devil' presents an often unlovely portrait of Gore VidalA confidant recalls his complex rapport with one of the 20th century鈥檚 great contrarians.
- Reader recommendation: In Harm's WayMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- 'The Magician's Lie': A blend of 'The Night Circus' and 'Water for Elephants'?The novel 'The Magician's Lie' by Greer Macallister tells the story of a female illusionist who falls under suspicion for murder when her husband turns up dead.
- 'The Girl on the Train' rockets up sales charts, receives more critical praise'The Girl on the Train' is by Paula Hawkins.
- 'Why Homer Matters' calls the ancient poet 'a guide to life'To read Homer, says Adam Nicolson, is to feel 'a form of reassurance that in the end there is some kind of understanding in the world.'
- Reader recommendation: America in RetreatMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Scott Blackwood's 'See How Small' attracts critical praiseBlackwood's novel centers on a crime that takes place in a Texas town, examining the aftermath of the crime 鈥 and the afterlives of its victims.
- 'The Terrible Two' writers Mac Barnett and Jory John embark on a whirlwind book tourThe writers reportedly visited 22 schools over the course of one week for their children's book. 'Two' centers on prankster rivals living in the town of Yawnee Valley.
- 'The Secret Wisdom of the Earth' lives up to its hype and then someIn this astonishingly confident debut novel, a teenager and his mother move to rural Kentucky seeking healing from a tragedy 鈥 only to discover a new form of trouble.
- 'Guant谩namo Diary,' written by an inmate, reveals inside look at infamous prisonMohamedou Ould Slahi鈥檚 personal diary, which was published Tuesday by Little, Brown, is being billed as the first book written by a Guant谩namo detainee.
- Mark Zuckerberg announces next 'Year of Reading' Facebook pickZuckerberg is asking Facebook users to join him in reading certain titles this year. The next book to be part of the program is Steven Pinker's 'The Better Angels of Our Nature.'
- James Patterson: Some of his new books will self-destructOne reader will have the opportunity to see a copy of Patterson's book 'Private Vegas' destroyed by a bomb squad, while other readers will see their e-versions of the book vanish after 24 hours.
- 10 university leaders share their personal reading lists Check out these books university luminaries are perusing right now.
- 'Vanessa and her Sister' gives a voice to Virginia Woolf's caring siblingPriya Parmar's splendid novel imagines the thankless task of catering to the self-absorbed geniuses of the Bloomsbury group.
- Reader recommendation: The Town that Forgot How to BreatheMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Bestselling books the week of 1/22/15, according to IndieBound What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
- 'Mortdecai': The books by Kyril Bonfiglioli come to the big screen'Mortdecai' stars Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Paul Bettany.