Listmania: Goodreads Recommends Firstreads!

It's time for another look at what Goodreads suggests to me, based on what I've already read and reviewed.

This time, the shelf theme is "firstreads", books put up for giveaways to readers in the hopes of getting reviews. I've gotten a bunch of these by now, and reviewed every one. But since the process results in my getting semi-random books, the recommendations are likewise kind of off the wall. Also, you'll see a lot more of overly long titles in this one.

The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett
After the Fact: The Surprising Fates of American History's Heroes, Villains and Supporting Characters by Owen J. Hurd
Amelia by Henry Fielding

Bayou Myth by Mary Ann Loesch
Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End: The Story of a Crime by Leif G.W. Persson
Body Movers by Stephanie Bond
Botanicaust by Tam Linsey
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
Burned by Thomas Enger

Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping by Paco Underhill
A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell
China Trade by S.J. Rozan
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill

Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott
Death Angels by Ake Edwardson
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
Detective Inspector Huss by Helene Tursten
Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon

Echoes from the Dead by by Johan Theorin
Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything by Daniel Goleman
Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith

For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder that Shocked Chicago by Simon Baatz

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World by Hugh Brewster
The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America by Marc Levinson

The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-loving New York by Richard Zacks

Last Days by Adam Nevill
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff

The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama
Mind's Eye by Hakan Nesser
A Most Peculiar Malaysian Mystery by Shamini Flint

The Nun by Denis Diderot

The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do by Eduardo Porter

The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black by E.B. Hudspeth

Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love by David Talbot
Seven-X by Mike Wech
Shakespeare Undead by OLori Handeland
Silver Smoke by Monica Leonelle
Snow Angels by James Thompson
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Studio Sex by Liza Marklund

Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It by Craig Timberg

Who Is Audrey Wickersham? by Sara Shrieves
Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey