What books are you awaiting in paperback?

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Vollman's Europe Central.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 26 November 2005 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

Coetzee's Slow Man; George R.R. Martin's A Feast For Crows; Erik Ekeberg's recent Norwegian translation of "Dead Souls"; Sverre Dahl's translations of Robert Walser's novels. I don't know if the latter two will appear in paperback though.

― Øystein (Øystein), Saturday, 26 November 2005 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Almost everything on the NYT 100 notable books of 2005 list.

Why won't they just release hardcover and paperback at the same time? Ugh.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Saturday, 26 November 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

How would they get you to buy the hardcover otherwise?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 26 November 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose some people like hardcover. Don't they?

― Mickey (modestmickey), Saturday, 26 November 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, they're called "libraries".

― Laurel, Saturday, 26 November 2005 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Libraries love hardcovers over paperbacks. And there are some books I'd rather have in hardcover - namely reference books, non-fiction I'm likely to read or go back to more than once like cookbooks. For fiction, authors I collect (but I generally buy those used) and those books I dearly love and will read over and over. I've been making better use of the library lately, and cutting back on buying (side effect of LibraryThing, I'm afraid).

Ha! xpost

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 26 November 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Cookbooks really do need to be in hardcover. Or maybe spiral-bound.

I generally prefer reading paperbacks (since they are easier to carry around) but a really well done hardback is a complete joy. Dust jackets are generally ass, though.

I recently picked up a cheap copy of Fowler 2nd Ed. to give away. It's a hardcover, though, and I had a paperback, and now I don't know which one I would rather hold on to.

I don't know if there's anything that I'm awaiting a ppb for -- the only recent publication that I'm drooling over is the collected Ted Berrigan, but I'll probably get that in hardcover (assuming I don't get it from anyone for Xmas -- must hold off buying books for a few weeks!) (not that I have any money really).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 26 November 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Re: spiral bound cookbooks
They are the best. My paperback Beard on Bread is falling completely apart now. Is there a way to rebind it spirally? Will Kinko's laugh me out of the shop?

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 26 November 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm waiting for paperback on Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys and Mary Doria Russell's Thread of Grace, among others.

― SJ Lefty, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

54 by Ming Wu

― andyjack (andyjack), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

"The March" by EL Doctorow.

― Moti Bahat, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

"Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning" by Jonathan Mahler

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ditto on the Neil Gaiman, also Zadie Smith's On Beauty and possibly Spook by Mary Roach.

And The Da Vinci Code. Just kidding.

― zan, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

The Richard Yates Biog. Out early in the new year (in the UK).

― frankiemachine, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

who's writing that, frankie?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

Blake Bailey wrote the Yates bio, right? So enjoyably depressing!

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Bailey's hurricane diaries on Slate are good, by the way.

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

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