Best Books of the Month: March 2014

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1. Redeployment
Redeployment
by Phil Klay
4.4 out of 5 stars (638 customer reviews)
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Penguin Press
March 4, 2014
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The Art of War Is Phil Klay's debut short story collection the best book about the Iraq War? --Kevin Nguyen “Success was a matter of perspective. In Iraq it had to be.” This opening line, from one of the stories in Phil Klay's impressive debut collection, Redeployment, encapsulates ... Read more

2. Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
by Helen Oyeyemi
3.3 out of 5 stars (230 customer reviews)
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Riverhead Books
March 6, 2014
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, March 2014: After escaping the cruel wrath of her abusive father, Boy Novak finds comfort in a small Massachusetts suburb and a widower named Arturo, whom she later marries. Boy is quite taken with Arturo's daughter Snow, but it's the daughter she ... Read more

3. Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
by Walter Kirn
3.3 out of 5 stars (235 customer reviews)
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Liveright
March 10, 2014
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, March 2014: An epigraph from Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley says much about what’s to come in Walter Kirn’s remarkable confessional: “He was versatile, and the world was wide!” When Kirn first met Clark Rockefeller, he was smitten by the man’s ... Read more

4. Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
by Carl Hoffman
4.0 out of 5 stars (333 customer reviews)
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William Morrow
March 18, 2014
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, March 2014: “I think I can make it.” In 1961, while on an expedition to collect pieces for his father’s Museum of Primitive Art, Michael Rockefeller and his traveling companion were plunged into the warm waters off New Guinea. The billionaire scion ... Read more

5. Bark: Stories
Bark: Stories
by Lorrie Moore
3.6 out of 5 stars (141 customer reviews)
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Knopf
February 25, 2014
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, March 2014: Here’s a reason Lorrie Moore is so beloved by her baby boomer brethren: she’s smart, she’s funny, her eye is even sharper than her tongue. In Bark, her latest collection of stories, all those qualities are well on ... Read more

6. Sleep Donation: A Novella (Kindle Single)
Sleep Donation: A Novella (Kindle Single)
by Karen Russell
3.4 out of 5 stars (274 customer reviews)
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March 25, 2014
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If Karen Russell isn't careful, she might end up pegged as an SF writer. From the fabulist worlds of her debut, ... Read more

7. All Our Names
All Our Names
by Dinaw Mengestu
4.0 out of 5 stars (117 customer reviews)
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March 4, 2014
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, March 2014: Idealism, disillusionment, justice and love--these are the topics beautifully explored in this novel by the MacArthur “Genius” grantee and author of How to Read the Air. A young African man called Isaac has come to the Midwestern United ... Read more

8. The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
by Patrick Tucker
3.6 out of 5 stars (19 customer reviews)
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March 6, 2014
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, March 2014: In the film Minority Report (based on a Philip K. Dick novel), Tom Cruise works in a police unit that predicts murder, stopping killers before they're able to bring harm against their victims. But one of the overlooked features of ... Read more

9. The Cairo Affair
The Cairo Affair
by Olen Steinhauer
3.8 out of 5 stars (405 customer reviews)
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Minotaur Books
March 18, 2014
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, March 2014: At a time when brutal Norwegian murder mysteries are still in fashion, it’s nice to get lost in a brainy, page-turner of a spy story, one that feels both classic and fresh. This is Steinhauer’s ninth novel, the first since ... Read more

10. The Enchanted: A Novel
The Enchanted: A Novel
by Rene Denfeld
4.4 out of 5 stars (174 customer reviews)
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Harper
March 4, 2014
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, March 2014: Journalist Rene Denfeld channels her experience as a death penalty case investigator into a gut-wrenching, spellbinding debut novel. The Enchanted goes deep inside a decaying prison where we meet York, a death row inmate who is on the verge of ... Read more

11. Shotgun Lovesongs: A Novel
Shotgun Lovesongs: A Novel
by Nickolas Butler
4.2 out of 5 stars (420 customer reviews)
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Thomas Dunne Books
March 11, 2014
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month, March 2014: When the four men at the core of Shotgun Lovesongs came of age together in Little Wing, Wisconsin, the highest point of the tiny farm town was the abandoned mill. Now in their thirties, Ronny’s trying to start a life ... Read more