I've had a few review copies show up in the mail in the last week or so, so I'll be slowly adding them into my current reads pile (and will hopefully also be finishing a few of those current reads very soon). Two are via Library Things Early Reviewer program (the top and bottom), one is for a blog tour I'm taking part in later (the second from the top), and the last was kindly passed along to me from HarperCollins.
The Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy. I mentioned this one earlier. Written in the 60s (and being reissued by NYRB Classics) this is about hipster American Honey Flood taking on London.
The Painter from Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein. This is a fictional account of a real woman. Pan Yuliang was a prostitute in turn-of-the-century Shanghai who later became a painter, known for her nudes and influence on Post-Impressionist art. I'm not sure how I missed this one, as I love books that combine fiction with art.
Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival by Clara Kramer. This nonfiction book is based on the diary of Calra Kramer who spent twenty months in hiding during WWII. She was a Polish Jewish teenager when the war broke out and hid with several families (a total of eighteen people). I may have to start with this as Holocaust Remembrance Day is next week, so this seems a timely sort of read.
The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. I'm really looking forward to this one as I read their earlier book Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein, which I really enjoyed and thought was well done. This time the husband and wife team are writing about the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911, but it sounds as though it's about life in turn-of-the-century Paris as much as it is about the robbery.
I expect a copy of Georgette Heyer's Cousin Kate to show up sometime soon as well. It should be interesting as it's one of only two Gothic novels that she wrote. It'll be interesting to compare it to the others I've read so far.
So I have lots of interesting books to look forward to reading soon!