Prompt Response: Week Three

1.)  I searched by author, then clicked on the Anita Baker: Vampire Hunter series link to find the next book in the series, The Lunatic Café.


2.)  I looked for Barbara Kingsolver and Prodigal Summer, then narrowed my search by “Writing style”, and decided to include some more fast-paced books from Barbara Kingsolver, including:

• Flight Behavior
• Pigs in Heaven

Also I would suggest from the Read -A-Like authors of this particular book:

• The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
• Riding Lessons by Sara Gruen
• Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
   

3.   In Novelist I searched “historical fiction” under Genre and “Japan” as subject as well as adult     audience. I chose books that were more current and/or based on a real-life setting:

• The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
• The Pure Land by Alan Spence
• Shogun by James Clavell

4.   I looked up the title and its Read-A-Likes on Novelist and considered suspense books with a calmer tone. I also searched the series recommendations:

• Still Life by Louise Penny
• The Man with a Load of Mischief by Martha Grimes
• Whose Body? by Dorothy Sayers
• Cover Her Face by P.D. James
• A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie

5.)  Both books include zombies and that subject should be included in the selections.

• The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
• Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
• Blackout by Mira Grant
• The Dead Man by Adam Mansbach
• The Zombie Autopsies by Steven C. Schlozman

I go to amazon.com for new books and recommendations and also Entertainment Weekly has great book reviews and top ten fiction and non-fiction lists from Publishers Weekly, New York Times, or Nielsen BookScan to find books to read (http://www.ew.com/ew/books/).