For curmudgeon Dr J (see comments to 1001 Books), a non-fiction round-up:

Dave Eggers has a new book coming out that will be sold as Fiction, but it is largely based on the true story of one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan. It’s called What is What and has some nice blurbs from the authors of Beasts of No Nation and Kite Runner.

The Complete Works of Charles Darwin will soon be available online. Be sure to tell your favorite nut job.

Barack Obama has a new book, The Audacity of Hope, which was positively reviewed in the NYT.

Boing Boing has a rave review of Ghost Map by Steven Johnson. The book is a non make believe “science thriller” about one of the classic cases of early epidemiology. It’ll be on my shelf shortly.

The Five People that You Meet in Hell: Surviving Katrina includes the judge from Night Court (according to the Amazon info) but not the dismember-your-girlfriend/leap-to-your-death suicide guy (pdf). Go figure.