I just rolled out another feature courtesy of Amazon Web Services: upcoming books for the same categories as my bestseller lists. They are now permanent fixtures on the left sidebar.

Upcoming poker books
Upcoming blackjack books
Upcoming vegas books
Upcoming gambling books

There are some really interesting books slated for release.

• Poker Face (due August 12) is an autobiography by the sister of Howard Lederer and Annie Duke and sounds fascinating. As far as I know it's the first autobiography about a poker-playing family.
• Sure Bet (due September) is an anthology of gambling crime stories which may prove to be interesting.
• Fellow Austinite blogger Neal Pollack writes one of 52 poker vignettes in A Friendly Game of Poker (due October).
• Mike Cappelletti is coming out with his take on Omaha High-Low this fall.

I also fixed a bug in the integration code where Amazon was sending me duplicate entries for a bunch of books. As a result, many of the rankings for bestselling books below 5th or so will shift up due to duplicates being taken out of the rankings.

In other book news, my copy of Dave Schwartz's Suburban Xanadu finally arrived. I'm looking forward to reading it and will post a review here for your reading pleasure.

Can there really be much of a market for a book by the Lederer/Duke sister, of all people? It reminds me of when a brother of Noel/Liam Gallagher put out a tell-all book about their childhoods.

Posted by: Ken Goldstein on August 1, 2003 04:07 PM

The book isn't being pitched so much as the biography of the sister of Annie Duke and Howard Lederer as it is a memoir of life in an unusual family, with poker as the backdrop. It probably won't end up on the NYT bestseller list but there's probably enough interest in a story like this, helped along by general interest in poker, to get some respectable sales.

Posted by: jeremy on August 5, 2003 12:02 AM