Yes, believe it or not, Maxim magazine used to publish a recommended book of
the month. I am not sure when they stopped but here is the list that I have.
| Issue |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Purchase |
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| Mar 99 |
Dragonfly |
Bryan Burrough |
Fourth Estate |
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| Feb 99 |
Reservation Road |
John B Schwartz |
Phoenix House |
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| Jan 99 |
Rich Bastard's Guide to LA |
Simon Kelton |
RBG Publishing |
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| Dec 98 |
Notes From A Big Country |
Bill Bryson |
Doubleday |
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| Nov 98 |
Another World |
Pat Barker |
Viking |
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| Oct 98 |
The Tesseract |
Alex Garland |
Viking |
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| Sep 98 |
Freefall |
Tom Read |
Little Brown |
 |
| Aug 98 |
Not The End of The World |
Christopher Brookmyre |
Little Brown |
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| Jul 98 |
The Ex Files |
Nicholas Royle |
Quartet |
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| Jun 98 |
Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade |
Robert Sabbag |
Rebel Inc/Canongate |
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| May 98 |
About A Boy |
Nick Hornby |
Victor Gollancz |
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| Apr 98 |
Into The Wild |
Jon Krakauer |
Macmillan |
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| Mar 98 |
Lucky You |
Carl Hiaasen |
Macmillan |
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| Feb 98 |
The Cut |
Daniel Blythe |
Penguin |
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| Jan 98 |
A Walk in the Woods |
Bill Bryson |
Doubleday |
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| Dec 97 |
Not Fade Away |
Jim Marshall |
Autumn Press |
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| Nov 97 |
He Died With a Felafel in His Hand |
John Birmingham |
Flamingo |
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| Oct 97 |
The Proud Highway |
Hunter S. Thompson |
Bloomsbury |
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| Sep 97 |
Four Iron in the Soul |
Lawrence Donegan |
Viking |
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| Aug 97 |
CrazySexCool |
Editors of US |
Little Brown |
| Jul 97 |
The Meaning of Cantona |
Terence Blacker & |
Mainstream |
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William Donaldson |
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| Jun 97 |
Blue Period - Notes From a Life in the Titillation Trade |
Nicholas Whittaker |
Victor Gollancz |
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| May 97 |
Bird Dog |
Philip Reed |
Hodder & Stoughton |
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| Apr 97 |
Fatherhood |
Peter Howarth |
Victor Gollancz |
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| Mar 97 |
The Last Six Million Seconds |
John Burdett |
Hodder & Stoughton |
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| Feb 97 |
Twitchy Eyes |
Joe Donnelly |
Michael Joseph |
| Jan 97 |
No Award |
n/a |
n/a |
| Dec 96 |
The Laws of Our Fathers |
Scott Turow |
Penguin |
| Nov 96 |
The Beach |
Alex Garland |
Viking |
| Oct 96 |
Bad Land: An American Romance |
Jonathan Raban |
Picador |
| Sep 96 |
Cheevey |
Gerald DiPego |
Sceptre |
| Aug 96 |
My Other Life: A Novel |
Paul Theroux |
Hamish Hamilton |
| Jul 96 |
The Last of the Savages |
Jay McInerney |
Bloomsbury |
| Jun 96 |
Common Ground |
Andrew Cowan |
Michael Joseph |
| May 96 |
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors |
Roddy Doyle |
Jonathan Cape |
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| Apr 96 |
Stormy Weather |
Carl Hiaasen |
Macmillan |
| Mar 96 |
Beach Music |
Pat Conroy |
Doubleday |
| Feb 96 |
A Maidenīs Grave |
Jeffrey Deaver |
Hodder & Stoughton |
| Jan 96 |
The Guiness Encylopedia of Popular Music |
Colin Larkin |
Guiness |
| Dec 95 |
Microserfs |
Douglas Coupland |
Flamingo |
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| Nov 95 |
The Horse Whisperer |
Nicholas Evans |
Bantam Press |
| Oct 95 |
Lost in Music |
Giles Smith |
Picador |
| Sep 95 |
Mother of God |
David Ambrose |
Macmillan |
| Aug 95 |
Seduction Theory |
Thomas Beller |
Abacus |
| Jul 95 |
Red Earth & Pouring Rain |
Vikram Chandra |
Faber & Faber |
| Jun 95 |
The Destiny of Natalie X and Other Short Stories |
William Boyd |
Sinclair Stevenson |
| May 95 |
Trinities |
Nick Tosches |
Doubleday |