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Originally Posted by intecel
This may be a bit off topic. I'm curious... How do you find a good *newer* book if you just walk into the bookstore without a clue?
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Well, as I mentioned earlier, I've bumped into quite a few Nobel Prize winners just hanging out on the display shelves at the library... and many of those turned out to be pretty good and challenging, a step above the usual paperback trash. It won't always be "bestseller" material, so may be a little harder to bring it up around the water cooler... but the Nobel is still some indicator of value.
You might also check the NY Times bestseller list to see "what people are reading," for more water-cooler type stuff.