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Books on the Nightstand, Episode 25 (23:08)

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It’s housekeeping time! We open the show with a few items unrelated to the main content of today’s podcast. First, thank you to all who have left reviews of Books on the Nightstand on iTunes. It truly does help us to get more listeners, and we love the feedback.

We are asking, no, begging, you to call our voicemail line at (206) 350-2068. We want to hear your voices! You may leave a comment or question, tell us about a book you love, or recommend an audio book for our upcoming episode about audio books.

We also remind listeners that we post additional text content on the Books on the Nightstand blog in between podcast episodes, so do visit us often.

In our first “real” segment, we talk about where to find books that are out of print or otherwise hard to find. If the book is in print, your local bookseller can probably order it for you. If it’s out of print, libraries and used bookstores are good places to start. We are also seeing more “general” new bookstores begin to carry used books, so your local store might have just the book you are looking for.

In segment 2, we highlight some books that we love that may be hard to find. All of these are worth hunting down, so keep a look out.

Our “2 Books We Can’t Wait for you to Read” segment features: The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl, recommended by Michael. You can listen to author interviews, audiobook excerpts, and see if Pearl is touring to a bookstore near you at www.matthewpearl.com. I love the gallery, where you can see some very cool old photos of Dickens and others of the time.

And I rave about The Lost City of Z by David Grann, a tale of the ill-fated Fawcett expedition down the Amazon in 1925. I’m particularly fascinated by the maps and photo gallery at David Grann’s website.

photo credit:Jay Heaviside

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We encourage you to write down or print out the title information and shop at your local bookstore. Titles link to LibraryThing, a social networking site that allows you to catalog your home library. LibraryThing also links to various online purchasing options. Here are the books from this post:

The Mystery Roast by Peter Gadol, Picador trade paperback
The Circus of the Earth and the Air by Brooke Stevens, Harvest trade paperback
Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh, Bantam trade paperback
The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl, Random House hardcover
The Lost City of Z by David Grann, Doubleday hardcover

(all information is for the U.S. editions).