Inspired by another post, and because lists of books are fun....

I began requesting when the program started (though Canadians weren't eligible for the first batch), and I've received:
Luminous Cities
26 Gorgeous Hikes on the Western Côte D'Azur
Living Rich by Spending Smart

I also began requesting when the program started. I have received the following early reviewer books:

Dreamers of the Day
The Guardians
The Journal of Curious Letters
Playing With the Grown-ups
Time Bandit
The Translator: A Tribeman's Memoir of Darfur

I've received:

Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars
Living Rich by Spending Smart
Dance in a Buffalo Skull
... all of which I have reviewed ...

and just before I got on the plane for Italy,

Bikeman

Square brackets are hard to find on the Italian keyboard.

Golf Unplugged - poor
Arthurian Omen -OK
Time Bandit - pretty good

and I went and bought The Journal of Curious Letters - real good.

Started in March:

March- Victor Kugler: The Man Who Hid Anne Frank, my review here
May- The New Yorkers, my review here

Message edited by its author, Jun 15, 2008, 2:09am.

I agree; lists of books are fun.

I've received The 19th Wife and Tomato Girl.

I started requestin in October, I think. So far I've received and reviewed:
Firefly Lane
Firefly Rain
and am waiting on my May copy of The Master Bedroom

I began requesting when the program started too!

Luminous Cities
Firefly Lane
The Girl with No Shadow
The Venetian Mask

I can't remember when I started, but I know I tried for 3 or 4 months before getting my first book.

I've received--
My Lonely Miserable Lesbian Pregnancy
Home Girl
Requiem, Mass.

>7 I can't believe that two of your three books were called Firefly Lane and Firefly Rain!

I'm another that joined when the program started ... considering that I don't read fiction (and the EA non-fiction pickings are usually slim and sometimes none), I guess I've done pretty good in getting 3:

The Comedy of Agony
Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars
2012: Crossing the Bridge to the Future

 

I started in January and began receiving books in February. Since then I've received:
Holding Her Head High (not good)
The Venetian Mask (so-so)
Franklin and Lucy (pretty good)
Two Brothers: One North, One South (terrible!)
The 19th Wife (great)
and
My Father's Paradise in May (good so far, but I'm only like 20 pages in)

I don't think that the non-fiction pickings are that slim, 3 of the 6 I've gotten have been non-fiction and all of the other three have been historical fiction.

I started requesting in October 2007 and so far I've received:

Have You Found Her (Nov bonus)
Sitting Practice (Dec)
The Girl with No Shadow (Jan)
Weaving a Way Home (Mar)
The Wednesday Sisters (Apr)

ETA months received. I didn't request a book in February and I didn't get anything in May.

Message edited by its author, Jun 11, 2008, 5:43pm.

I signed up the second month. Love book lists!

I've gotten:
Gifted (July)
Gossip of Starlings (Jan)
Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club (March)
Love Marriage (April)
Loose Girl (May)- haven't gotten yet

My first time using touchstones, they appear to work, Love Marriage pulled up the wrong one though.

I started requesting with the first batch. Didn't get anything until Feb. Then I got:

Holding Her Head High
Double or Nothing : How two friends risked it all to buy one of Las Vegas' legendary casinos
The Mercedes Coffin

I signed up in November and (got?):
The Story of Forgetting
The Spirit of the Place (never arrived)
Love Marriage (never arrived)
America, America

I started requesting in October. I'd been looking at the list since it started but hadn't seen anything interesting prior to that.

I've been picked for:

Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth
Breathless in Bombay
The Somnambulist
The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories
Shades of Glory

The only round of those in which I requested more than one was April.

Rounds in which I requested books but received none were the March bonus batch The Enchantress of Florence and May Anathem both of which were in very high demand.

I requested since the program started, but was selected for my first book in October... which I got in December.

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Alexander Selkirk (decent annotations, just expected more of them)
Winter Haven (gothic romance instead of fantasy)
This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities (arrived 6/14, pretty good so far)
Tell Me Where it Hurts : a Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in my Life as an Animal Surgeon (excellent)

Message edited by its author, Jun 15, 2008, 12:53pm.

Interesting thread! I started in Feb and have had:

Gents
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Being Emily
The Story of a Marriage

I haven't got any from those additional sets that sometimes come up, and the last two, a friend of mine who has a similar library got both too, so this time we're requesting one each and swapping them if we get them - to give other people more chance of getting one!

I began requesting the month I joined ... lucky so far!

Love You To Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child With Special Needs by Suzanne Kamata
The Wishing Year: A House, a Man, My Soul A Memoir of Fulfilled Desire by Noelle Oxenhandler
The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin

I started in the November bonus batch (if I remember right), and have gotten:

Firefly Lane
The Moon in the Mango Tree
Victor Kugler: The Man Who Hid Anne Frank

I began at the beginning and have received Shades of Glory and will receive Swordmage: Blade of the Moonsea, Book I from the May batch.

I began requesting in Feb. or March.

Enlightenment for Idiots- decent- March
Dirty Girls on Top- still waiting for it to arrive- April
Loose Girl- waiting for it to arrive- May

I've received three so far.

The Last Oracle -very good
The Mercedes Coffin - mediocre
The Deceived - very good

I got my first one, Requiem, Mass. by John Dufresne, yesterday, and have already read half of it. His talent leaves me awestruck.

I started requesting in January, and have gotten:

January - Nothing
February - Bulls Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
March - The Last Oracle by James Rollins
April - The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
May - The Richest Season by Maryann Mcfadden (which hasn't yet arrived)

So, I'm 4 for 4 for the latest regular batches but haven't gotten any of the bonus batch books.

I also got my first one about a week and a half ago, it's My Father's Paradise.

I signed up here on LT in February, and signed up for Early Reviewers in March. So far, through LT's ER I've gotten Larryisms which is a true bathroom read, and Best Girlfriends Getaways Worldwide which I absolutely loved, and it has inspired one of the novels I'm writing.

I've gotten a lot more other ARCs through Shelf Awareness, and the "other places to find ARCs" thread.

I started in April.

April-Nada
Bonus Batch-Zip
May-Hallam's War by Elisabeth Payne Rosen (rather contrived)
June-???

I also managed to snag a copy of Two Brothers: One North, One South when I was contacted by the author. I'm just starting it. (I had to get over the pain from Hallam's War.)

I started in March, and I have recieved:

March Batch: Victor Kugler: The Man Who Hid Anne Frank
April Batch: Time Bandit

Touchstones and my work computer are not good bedfellows, apparently.

Message edited by its author, Jun 12, 2008, 8:33am.

I also signed up at the very beginning and I've received:
Firefly Lane - not so good
A Dog Among Diplomats - not my style at all
The 19th Wife - fabulous
and I am waiting for Happy Hour is for Amateurs.

I started last summer (think I missed the very first round) and have requested at least one book every time, here's my list:

Red Zone Blues
Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher
The Journal of Curious Letters
The Translator
Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club

And yes, as random as that list seems, they all do match my library well. Hooray for eclectic readers!

I didn't think to mention it, but as #32 says, yes, the books match my library quite well -- I'm much more selective than a lot of people in what I request.

I started in ?November?

The Translator
Jorgy

I enjoyed them both. The algorithm has done well by me. I've requested at every opportunity.

I've been on the receiving end of

Tipperary
Have you found her
The sex club
The translator
Three girls and their brother
Love marriage
Black wave

Not many themes to tie this list together, but I suppose my catalog is kind of all over the place. I work in a library and tend to pick up all kinds of things that catch my eye.

Don't remember when I started but have gotten three so far, requested at least four other months now.
Seven Days of Sex Appeal - fun and interesting
Gifts From the Child Within -psychospirituality
and from the publisher directly --
Sacred Grief which I see is on this months list and is really awesome!
With that said, I've not gotten more than I have gotten and I have not gotten any fiction, so far, which seems strange since my fiction in my library outnumbers my non-fiction by a lot.
Maybe it is because some of my big collections have not been entered yet?????

For me,

Gents
Pandora in the Congo

both of which I thoroughly enjoyed. I've passed Pandora on to someone else in LTER, but I'm hanging onto Gents because I want to re-read it.

I don't think I've requested any non-fiction, simply because there's not been much on the British list.

I've been requesting since the beginning as well.

I've gotten:

Gifted
Olive Kitteridge
Manic
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp
and The Wednesday Sisters

I didn't get anything from the May batch but I have my fingers crossed for June.

I've been requesting since the first round and received two:

Black Ships
and Owning the Olympics.

I've really enjoyed both.

I love this program - getting free books in the mail is such a joy! I didn't receive a book the first month I joined, but have since received the following:

Love Marriage: A Novel - Good and enjoyable to read though somewhat flawed
The Age of the Conglomerates - Horrible
My Father's Paradise - Wonderful

Even the awful book was fun to quote in disbelief to my husband and coworkers.

Message edited by its author, Aug 27, 2008, 2:01pm.

I've been requesting since November and so far I've gotten:

Theres No Place Like Here
The Yoga Zoo Adventure
Secrets of the Hollywood Girls club
The Wednesday Sisters
The New Yorkers

I've been requesting since February and have received:
Imagine Me and You
The Enchantress of Florence
The Size of the World: a novel
America America
Abbeville

All have been quite good matches to my library and none have been huge disappointments. I feel quite fortunate to be part of this program.

This program is great! I started in March and have gotten:

Weaving a Way Home - still haven't received
The Wednesday Sisters - very good
The Wishing Year - good
Stone Creek - excellent so far (I'm halfway through)

I guess this must mean I'm due for a dry month or two... Nonetheless, I'm very impressed with the quality of the selection and the books themselves. What a treat!

No Place Like Here
The Dark Tide
One in a Million
Devil's Cape
The Richest Season

Message edited by its author, Jun 15, 2008, 8:22pm.

I've gotten:
Your Orgasmic Pregnancy
Yoga Zoo Adventure (Which I'm still waiting to be released officially so I can post my review on Amazon)
Holding Her Head High
You Can Prevent Global Warming
101 Relaxation Games for Children
Love You to Pieces

I've been pretty lucky and signed up in April and have received something every time I requested, which has been great.

April - The Wednesday Sisters
April Bonus - The Wishing Year
May - Between Here and April

I've gotten one book so far- The Wishing Year- which I've just statred

I generally stick to myself regarding Early Reviewer books (except for the reviews!), but I came to see if anyone else had received Happy Hour is for Amateurs. It looks like no one has gotten it yet, so I'll stop worrying that mine is lost somewhere in the mail abyss. Anxious for this one - books by bloggers tend to be right up my alley.

So far I have received and reviewed:

Dancing to Almendra by Mayra Montero
Master of the Sea by Jose Sarney
Gypsy Tears by Cora Schwartz
The Aaronsohn Saga by Shmuel Katz
The Genizah at the house of Shepher by Tamar Yellin
and The Attack by Yasmin Khadra

I liked all these books.

Message edited by its author, Jun 20, 2008, 3:55am.

I began requesting in December, and have been picked for (I say pick for and not recieved, because I am still waiting for my March and May books):

The Jerusalem Diet
Finding Morels
This Gaming Life
The Blue Zone
Bullet with your name on it

I have enjoyed getting and reading these books. There were some fiction books in most of the batches that I was interested in, but I guess I am too good of a match for health/nutrition/diet books. I didn't request any nonfiction for June, hoping to get fiction, I hope I am not passed over. I would rather get another nonfiction than nothing. We shall see.

I've gotten two more Early Reviewer books - Between Here and April, which I'm currently reading and Schooled which will be the next book I get to

I am so excited, my very first ER book arrived this morning. I will be reading Queen of the Road by Doreen Orion as soon as I finish my current read.

I was lucky enough to be chosen and recieve the following three books:

Severance Package by Duane Swierczynski - April (review done)
The Age of the Conglomerates Thomas Nevins - April Bonus Batch (still trying to finish this review, I have a hard time writing a review on a book I didn't particularly enjoy)
Loose Girl by Kerry Cohen -May (review done)

I am still waiting to recieve Feather Man by Rhyll McMaster - June

I have been requesting from the beginning. Didn’t get anything for the first several months, then snagged books several months in a row, and now I have hit another drought (probably because I was running behind with my reviews).

Globalistan (fair; author has some points to make, but needs a better editor)
Images of Civil War Medicine (pretty good)
Mossad Exodus (pretty good)
The Translator: a Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur (very good; my best ER selection so far)
Two Brothers: One North, One South (fair; author should skip the dialog and write nonfiction)
Resistance Fighter (still working on this one)
Home Girl (good)

Did anyone get their copy of "Schooled" yet? I am really looking forward to reading it but I have not received it yet.

--->57- Nope, I'm still waiting on Schooled!

I've been requesting since January of this year, multiple books every month and this is my first book I've been picked to recieve.

I'm excited to read it too!

I have received four since I first signed up.

The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
One in A Million
Dervishes
The Richest Season

I have received them all.

Message edited by its author, Jul 16, 2008, 12:46am.

I started requesting in February, and so far I've received:

Playing with the Grownups
The Wednesday Sisters
Between Here and April
What We All Long For

I like The Wednesday Sisters and Between Here and April better than Playing with the Grownups. What We All Long For is the most recent one I've received (June), so I'm in the middle of that one.

I received Feather Man

Halfway through it. Incredibly good writing.

I started requesting in February and have received three books so far.

Novel Destinations
The 19th Wife
Queen of the Road

I've really enjoyed all of them and love this program!

I started requesting in November, and have since received two books:

The Winter Rose (November)
Imagine Me and You (April? I think)

I found in the end I didn't much care for either book, but it's so great to even have the opportunity to receive them!

I've gotten:
Firefly Lane December 2007
Bringing Home the Birkin February 2008
Imagine You and Me March 2008
Dirty Girls on Top April 2008

I am waiting on Schooled.

I love the Early Reviewers program. Every time I get picked it is like winning a little lottery.

Message edited by its author, Jul 21, 2008, 9:29pm.

I just joined, so I haven't received any yet...

I'm hoping I get at least one this time!

>65,

One is actually the most you can get at any one time. However, if you requested in both the regular and bonus batches, you could possibly get one from each batch.

Don't be discouraged if you don't get one this time, though, there are lots of people requesting a (comparatively) small number of books and sometimes it takes awhile.

I joined Early Reviewers at the very beginning and received Tipperary. I've requested a few every month since but haven't received anything else. I've thought of giving up but I can never quite resist the thought that a miracle might occur and I might receive something else. Of course, my library contains a lot of nonfiction and classics so those obviously don't match too well with the kind of reviewer books in the program. I have more hope now that there are some titles from New York Review Books. Those would definitely fit well with my library.

67: Well, if you don't request any, you definitely won't get any... ;)

68: How true! It's always a bit of a tension for me--request more every time so I have a better chance of getting one or just request the ones I really want to read so I don't end up with something I'm not-so-enthusiastic about. Still haven't worked that out. . .

I forgot exactly what month I found out about the Early Review program; it was sometime this past winter. I didn't win any the first couple of rounds, but have gotten selected 4 months in a row now:
The 19th Wife
Loose Girl: A Memoir
Sway: The Irresistable Pull of Illogical Behavior
Stalking Irish Madness
I feel so lucky & didn't expect to get anything this month!

I joined in October 2007 and think I started requesting January 2008.

I've gotten

Pirkei Avos With a Twist of Humor March
Shades of Glory April
The Fire July

Lucky me!

I just was notified about my 4th title The Baby Thief by L. J. Sellers

To update my early post (#3):

I've received:

Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars
Living Rich by Spending Smart
Dance in a Buffalo Skull
... all of which I have reviewed ...

and just before I got on the plane for Italy,

Bikeman

I didn't receive anything last month. Understandably, because my Bikeman review was written on "vacation" (i.e. helping my daughter move house) in Italy and wasn't that prompt, and besides I had just had four months of good luck in a row.

This month I'm delighted to be awaiting How to Write a Suicide Note. I don't know what the algorithm looked for, but I suspect having 13 books on Asian-American topics and 7 on Asian-Canadian topics didn't hurt. ;)

I've gotten
The Wishing Year
Between Here and April and Schooled

I found out last wek my 4th one is on the way but I can't remember the title

I can't remember when I started, but I didn't get any books until three cycles back, and now I've got three:

The Lace Reader (loved it)
Summer Blowout (it was okay)
Hurry Down Sunshine (it's on the way)