We’ve pored over the latest from publishers
and picked out a selection of books – by Western authors and/or on
Western subjects – that we’d like to curl up with this fall. All
have recently been released, or will be in the next few months;
we’ve listed them here alphabetically by categories, according to
the author’s last name.
FICTION
The Absolutely True
Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie, Little,
Brown Young Readers, September * The Chase,
Clive Cussler, Putnam, November * Wind Tails,
Anne DeGrace, McArthur & Company, October *
Coyota, Martha Egan, Papalote Press, October *
One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit
and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor
Robberies, Dave Eggers, Sarah Manguso, Deb Olin Unferth,
McSweeney’s, September * The Water Cure,
Percival Everett, Graywolf Press, August * The
Flowers, Dagoberto Gilb, Grove Press, February 2008
* The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss, Houghton
Mifflin, November * New Stories from the
Southwest, edited by D. Seth Horton, Swallow Press,
February 2008 * Powers: Annals of the Western
Shore, Ursula K. LeGuin, Harcourt Children’s Books,
September * The Empanada Brotherhood, John
Nichols, Chronicle Books, October * Songs Without
Words, Ann Packer, Knopf, September * Strange as
This Weather Has Been, Ann Pancake, Shoemaker &
Hoard, September * Refresh, Refresh: Stories,
Benjamin Percy, Graywolf Press, October * A Roaring in the
Blood, edited by Annie Proulx, Sporting Classics, August
* Guacamole Dip, Daniel Reveles, Sunbelt
Publications, October * The Almost Moon, Alice
Sebold, Little, Brown, October * Turpentine,
Spring Warren, Black Cat/Grove, September * Desert
Gothic, Don Waters, University of Iowa Press, September
* Sundown, Yellow Moon, Larry Watson, Random
House, September
MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES AND OTHER
NONFICTION Listening to Cougar, Edited
by Marc Bekoff and Cara Blessley Lowe, University Press of
Colorado, November * The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon
Encounters in the Wild, Craig Childs, Little, Brown,
December * Starbucked, Taylor Clark, Little,
Brown, November * Jukeboxes & Jackalopes: A Wyoming
Bar Journey, Julianne Couch, Pronghorn Press, June
* Night Driving: Invention of the Wheel & Other
Blues, Dick Dorworth, First Ascent Press, October
* Swimming with Trout, Chad Hanson, University
of New Mexico Press, October * Apollo’s Fire: Igniting
America’s Clean Energy Economy, Jay Inslee and Bracken
Hendricks, Island Press, October * Fast Cars and
Frybread, Gordon Johnson, Heyday Books, September
* Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog,
Ted Kerasote, Harcourt, July * The Future of Nature:
Writing on a Human Ecology from Orion Magazine, Edited by
Barry Lopez, Milkweed Editions, October * Heirlooms:
Letters From a Peach Farmer, David Mas Masumoto, Great
Valley Books, October * How I Learned English: 55
Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life,
Edited by Tom Miller, National Geographic Books, August *
A Man Made of Elk, David Petersen, TBM Inc., August
* Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms
Race, Richard Rhodes, Knopf, October * Playing
the Odds: Las Vegas and the Modern West, Hal Rothman,
University of New Mexico Press, October * Robert Altman’s
McCabe & Mrs. Miller: Reframing the American West,
Robert T. Self, University Press of Kansas, October * The
Great Experiment: From Tribes to Global Nation, Strobe
Talbott, Simon & Schuster, January 2008 * Mountain
Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of
Nature, Christopher van Tilburg, St. Martin’s Press,
November * Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S.
Thompson, Jann S. Wenner, Corey Seymour, Little, Brown
& Company, October * No Way Home: The Decline of the
World’s Great Animal Migrations, David S. Wilcove, Island
Press, October.
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