Best Books of the Year So Far: Top 10 Picks for 2012 in Kindle SinglesKindle Singles offer a vast spectrum of reporting, essays, memoirs, narratives, and short stories presented to educate, entertain, excite, and inform. Here are our picks for the best Kindle Singles of 2012 so far:
|
1.
|
|
An Unexpected Twist (Kindle Single)
by Andy Borowitz
|
 (555 customer reviews)
|
Auto-delivered wirelessly
February 15, 2012
Kindle Edition
Click here for more information
|
|
|
Amazon.com Review
If brevity is the soul of wit, then be thankful that doctors made short work of Andy Borowitz's life-threatening intestinal ailment. Known for his award-winning humor writing, Borowitz here recounts the literally twisted story of his revolting colon and th...
Read more
|
|
|
2.
|
|
The Playground (Kindle Single)
by Terrence M. McCoy
|
 (24 customer reviews)
|
Auto-delivered wirelessly
April 23, 2012
Kindle Edition
Click here for more information
|
|
|
Amazon.com Review
Along the coastline of Cambodia, Chinese investors are buying vast tracts of land in secret deals with the Khmer government. To clear the way for development, entire towns are being burned down, plowed over, and redeveloped ...
Read more
|
|
|
3.
|
|
The Old Soul (Kindle Single)
by Joseph Wurtenbaugh
|
 (62 customer reviews)
|
Auto-delivered wirelessly
G Realist Ink
April 5, 2012
Kindle Edition
Click here for more information
|
|
|
Amazon.com Review
"Thirty seconds after the death of Charles Filippini, the being which comprised the core of his identity was in full flight." So begins The Old Soul, a wondrous piece of pseudonymous short fiction that--along with the stunning closer to Rajesh Parameswaran's I Am an Executioner--ranks as one of the ...
Read more
|
|
|
4.
|
|
Bearded Lady (Kindle Single)
by Mara Altman
|
(114 customer reviews)
|
Auto-delivered wirelessly
March 7, 2012
Kindle Edition
Click here for more information
|
|
|
Amazon.com Review
"Under the withering California sun, they wouldn't stop making a spectacle of themselves." There begins Mara Altman's comic odyssey to understand and eradicate the hair that won't stop growing on various, unexpected parts of her body--there, there, there, and yes, even there. There isn't a woman alive who won't ...
Read more
|
|
|
5.
|
|
Basic Training (A Short Story)
by Kurt Vonnegut
|
(31 customer reviews)
|
Currently unavailable
RosettaBooks
March 22, 2012
Kindle Edition
Click here for more information
|
|
|
Amazon.com Review
Kurt Vonnegut's posthumous books have proved as surprising and wonderful as almost anything he published while alive, and ...
Read more
|
|
|
6.
|
|
Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Kindle Single)
by Mishka Shubaly
|
(75 customer reviews)
|
Auto-delivered wirelessly
February 12, 2012
Kindle Edition
Click here for more information
|
|
|
Amazon.com Review
In Are You Lonesome Tonight?, Mishka Shubaly tells how he became deeply infatuated with Johna Chase. She was a fan of his band who was following him on Twitter. Her profile photo was appealing. He was single. He sent her a message. They began flirting online. The account begins ...
Read more
|
|
|
7.
|
|
The Trunk Key (Kindle Single)
by Carolyn Nash
|
(156 customer reviews)
|
Auto-delivered wirelessly
March 15, 2012
Kindle Edition
Click here for more information
|
|
|
Amazon.com Review
Sometimes our fate hinges on a single moment, a split-second decision that changes the course of our life irrevocably. In her debut novella ...
Read more
|
|
|
8.
|
|
The Kalinka Affair: A Father's Hunt for His Daughter's Killer (Kindle Single)
by Joshua Hammer
|
(33 customer reviews)
|
Auto-delivered wirelessly
The Atavist
March 14, 2012
Kindle Edition
Click here for more information
|
|
|
Amazon.com Review
It begins with a mysterious death: Fourteen-year-old Kalinka Bamberski, an athletic French teenager with no history of medical trouble, is found dead by her German stepfather, a local physician. Thirty years later, Kalinka's stepfather and father would sta...
Read more
|
|
|
9.
|
|
My Seinfeld Year (Kindle Single)
by Fred Stoller
|
(237 customer reviews)
|
Auto-delivered wirelessly
January 17, 2012
Kindle Edition
Click here for more information
|
|
|
Amazon.com Review
Fred Stoller has been a working actor for decades, a character actor who has landed choice roles in television and movies alike. He's been punched out in ...
Read more
|
|
|
10.
|
|
In Praise of Hangovers (Kindle Single)
by Evan Rail
|
(5 customer reviews)
|
Auto-delivered wirelessly
June 13, 2012
Kindle Edition
Click here for more information
|
|
|
Product Description
Everyone hates them... and yet just about everyone has them, at least sometimes. In the United States, 11.6 million employees have reported going to work with a hangover within the previous 12 months. Although the first use of the word “hangover” in terms of alcohol only dates to the year ...
Read more
|
|
|
|
