What Do I Read Next? 2008
by Burt, Daniel S.; D'Ammassa, Don; Danford, Natalie; Dziemianowicz, Stefan; Huang, JimFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-06-06
Publisher(s): Gale / Cengage Learning
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Summary
This selection guide, published twice per year, helps readers to independently choose titles of interest from those published in the last year. Arranged by author within nine genre sections, detailed entries provide publisher and publication date, names and descriptions of characters, review citations, a brief plot summary, listings of other books by the author as well as similar books by other authors and much more.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. vii |
| About the Genre Experts | p. ix |
| Key to Genre Terms | p. xi |
| Award Winners | p. xvii |
| What Do I Read Next? | |
| The Mystery Genre in 2007 | p. 1 |
| Mystery Titles | p. 5 |
| Romance Fiction in Review | p. 71 |
| Romance Titles | p. 77 |
| The Western 2008 | p. 141 |
| Western Titles | p. 145 |
| The Year in Fantasy: 2007 | p. 159 |
| Fantasy Titles | p. 163 |
| The Year in Horror: 2007 | p. 191 |
| Horror Titles | p. 195 |
| The Year in Science Fiction: 2007 | p. 219 |
| Science Fiction Titles | p. 223 |
| The Year in Historical Fiction | p. 251 |
| Historical Titles | p. 257 |
| Inspirational Fiction in 2007 | p. 301 |
| Inspirational Titles | p. 305 |
| Telling Time within Popular Fiction | p. 337 |
| Popular Fiction Titles | p. 341 |
| Indexes | |
| Series Index | p. 381 |
| Time Period Index | p. 387 |
| Geographic Index | p. 395 |
| Genre Index | p. 407 |
| Subject Index | p. 419 |
| Character Name Index | p. 437 |
| Character Description Index | p. 465 |
| Author Index | p. 503 |
| Title Index | p. 547 |
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