Puzzle Book Calendar
November 2010

By Patrick Jordan

Greetings, fellow solvers! November brings a time for stuffing -- stuffing lots of new puzzle volumes into your book bag, that is! There's a staggering number of releases slated for the final few days of 2010.

So, on with the calendar! As usual, NYT stands for New York Times (published by St. Martin's Griffin), RH for Random House, RP for Running Press, S&S for Simon & Schuster, SP for Sterling Publishing, and PW for Puzzlewright (a Sterling imprint). If no author is listed, the book features works by various or uncredited constructors.

JUST PUBLISHED/COMING THIS MONTH:

  • PW Crossword Word Search Puzzles (Patrick Blindauer)
  • PW Jet Set Crosswords (Cox/Rathvon)
  • PW Sunday Brunch Crosswords (Leslie Billig, ed.)
  • PW Weekend Getaway Crosswords (Leslie Billig, ed.)
  • PW Hooked on Cryptograms (Henry Hook)
  • PW Los Angeles Times Crosswords 21 (Rich Norris, ed.)
  • PW Picturesque Paint-doku (Conceptis)
  • NYT Sunday Crossword Puzzles, Volume 36 (Will Shortz, ed.)
  • NYT Large-Print Crossword Puzzle Omnibus, Volume 11 (Will Shortz, ed.)
  • Adams Everything Travel Word Search Book (Charles Timmerman)
  • Adams Everything Large-Print Cryptograms Book (Nikki Katz)
  • Andrews McMeel - USA Today Word Finding Frenzy
  • St. Martin's Griffin - Will Shortz Presents The Monster Book of KenKen
  • Sterling Ultimate Puzzle Challenge: Head Twisters (Hovanec/LaCoste)
  • For Dummies: Easy Crosswords for Seniors (Timothy Parker, ed.)
  • S&S Mega Crossword Puzzle Book #9 (John Samson, ed.)
  • Andrews-McMeel - Pocket Posh Jumble Crosswords
  • Andrews-McMeel - Pocket Posh Christmas Crosswords
  • Andrews-McMeel - Pocket Posh Girl Crosswords
  • Andrews-McMeel - Pocket Posh Christmas Brain Games
  • Andrews-McMeel - Pocket Posh Girl Word Search
  • Andrews-McMeel - Pocket Posh Christmas Logic
  • Andrews-McMeel - Pocket Posh Christmas Word Roundup
  • Andrews-McMeel - Pocket Posh Girl Hangman
  • Andrews-McMeel - Pocket Posh Sudoku, Volumes 6 & 7
  • Andrews-McMeel - Pocket Posh Girl Sudoku
  • Andrews-McMeel - Pocket Posh Christmas Sudoku
  • Andrews-McMeel - Pocket Posh Christmas Easy Sudoku
  • St. Martin's Griffin - Will Shortz Presents the Big, Bad Book of KenKen
  • NYT Weekends with Will (Will Shortz, ed.)
  • NYT Relaxing Sunday Crosswords (Will Shortz, ed.)
  • NYT Cozy Crosswords (Will Shortz, ed.)
  • NYT Clever Crosswords (Will Shortz, ed.)
  • PW Ever-So-Clever Crosswords (David Levinson Wilk)
  • PW Crossword Word Search Puzzles (Patrick Blindauer)
  • PW AARP Word Search Puzzles (Dave Tuller)
  • PW Sit & Solve Boggle Logic Puzzles (Mark Zegarelli)
  • PW Sit & Solve Boggle Puzzles (Gary Disch)
  • PW Sit & Solve Easy Sudoku (Michael Rios)
  • PW Sit & Solve Hard Sudoku (Michael Rios)
  • PW Sit & Solve Brainteasers (Derrick Niederman)
  • PW Christmas Sudoku
  • PW Sleigh Bell Sudoku (Frank Longo)
  • PW Scratch & Play Mystery Word Puzzles (Shawn Kennedy)
  • PW Scratch & Solve Trivia Hangman (Francis Heaney)
  • PW Sunset Crosswords (Peter Gordon, ed.)
  • PW Large Print Word Search Puzzles (Mark Danna)
  • PW Large Print Sudoku (Patrick Blindauer)
  • PW Tough & Tougher Crosswords (Tracey/Walden/Gordon)
  • PW Scratch & Solve Hangwoman (Diane Ward)
  • PW Scratch & Solve Encyclopaedia Britannica Arts & Science Trivia (Ray Hamel)
  • PW Scratch & Solve Encyclopaedia Britannica General Knowledge Trivia (Ray Hamel)
  • Portable Press - Uncle John's Bathroom Puzzler: 365 New Logic Puzzles
  • Adams Media - Everything Kids More Puzzles Book (Scot Ritchie)
  • People Magazine - Celebrity Puzzler Holiday-palooza!
  • Workman - 10 Minute Bananagrams
  • Adams Media - Everything Giant Book of Easy Crosswords (Charles Timmerman)
  • Adams Media - Everything More Memory Booster Puzzles (Charles Timmerman)
  • Adams Media - Everything Giant Book of Word Searches, Volume 4 (Charles Timmerman)
  • St. Martin's Griffin - NYT Little Black & White Book of Holiday Crosswords (Will Shortz, ed.)
  • St. Martin's Griffin - Will Shortz Presents Every Day with Crosswords (Will Shortz, ed.)
  • St. Martin's Griffin - Will Shortz Presents the Little Holiday Book of Sudoku
  • PW Colossal Book of Wordplay (Martin Gardner/Ken Jennings)
  • PW Scratch & Solve Word Ladders (Patrick Blindauer)
  • Chartwell Books - Maze Puzzles (Dave Phillips)
  • Andrews McMeel - Pocket Posh Codewords
  • Andrews McMeel - Pocket Posh Hangman 2
  • Andrews McMeel - Pocket Posh Sukendo 2
  • Bristol Park Books - Giant Pencil Pastimes Book of Sudoku (Richard Manchester)
  • SP Spooky, Silly Halloween Puzzles (Patrick Merrell)

OTHER RECENT RELEASES:

  • RH Casual Crosswords, Vol. 8 (Rosen, Fleming & Gentry, eds.)
  • PW Sweet Smell of Crosswords (Gaffney, Longo & Kahn)
  • PW Petite Elegant Crosswords (Rich Norris, ed.)
  • PW Petite Elegant Sudoku (Frank Longo)
  • PW Petite Debonair Sudoku (Frank Longo)
  • PW Petite Debonair Word Searches (Mark Danna)
  • St. Martin's Griffin - New York Times Acrostic Puzzles, Vol. 11
  • St. Martin's Griffin - New York Times Little Pink Book of Crosswords (Will Shortz, ed.)
  • St. Martin's Griffin - New York Times Everyday Easy Crosswords (Will Shortz, ed.)
  • St. Martin's Griffin - Will Shortz Presents the Little Pink Book of KenKen
  • St. Martin's Griffin - Will Shortz Presents the Little Pink Book of Sudoku
  • St. Martin's Griffin - Will Shortz Presents Outrageously Evil Sudoku
  • SP Super Shape Word Search (Patrick Blindauer)
  • SP Patricks' Puzzle Pandemonium (Berry/Blindauer/Jordan/Merrell)
  • Adams Media - Everything Kids More Word Searches and Activity Book (Blair/Ericsson)
  • Collins - Million Word Crossword Dictionary 2nd Edition (Newman/Stark)
  • Imagine - Go Games Word Search (Stickels/Samson)
  • Imagine - Go Games Crosswords (Stickels/Bellotto Jr.)
  • Imagine - Go Games Sudoku (Stickels/Immanuvel)
  • Imagine - Go Games Trickledowns & StickLinks (Terry Stickels)
  • RH Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzles, Vol. 29 (Tunick/Bursztyn)

COMING ATTRACTIONS [release dates subject to change]:

    DECEMBER

  • Adams Everything Large-Print Word Search Book (Charles Timmerman)
  • Adams Everything Easy Large-Print Crosswords Book, Vol. 3 (Charles Timmerman)

    JANUARY

  • PW Encyclopaedia Britannica Crosswords (Ray Hamel)
  • PW Backyard Sunday Crosswords (Stanley Newman, ed.)
  • PW Carefree Sunday Crosswords (Stanley Newman, ed.)
  • PW Good Times Sunday Crosswords (Stanley Newman, ed.)
  • PW Fantastic Eclectic Acrostics (Michael Ashley)
  • PW Take It Easy Crosswords (Mel Rosen)
  • PW Easy Chair Crosswords (Harvey Estes)
  • PW Crosswords Over Easy (Randall J. Hartman)
  • PW Round Trip Puzzles (Glenn Iba)
  • S&S Mega Crossword Puzzle Book #10 (John Samson, ed.)
  • NYT Crossword Lovers Only: Easy Puzzles (Will Shortz, ed.)
  • NYT Crossword Lovers Only: Easy to Hard Puzzles (Will Shortz, ed.)
  • NYT Cup O' Joe Crosswords (Will Shortz, ed.)
  • St. Martin's Griffin - Will Shortz Presents Sudoku Lovers Only: Easy to Hard Puzzles
  • St. Martin's Griffin - Will Shortz Presents Sudoku Lovers Only: Hard Puzzles
  • St. Martin's Griffin - Will Shortz Presents KenKen Lovers Only: Easy to Hard Puzzles
  • St. Martin's Griffin - Will Shortz Presents KenKen Lovers Only: Easy Puzzles
  • Minotaur Books - The KenKen Killings: A Puzzle Lady Mystery (Parnell Hall)
Please write to me at pjordan@poncacity.net if you know of any current or upcoming puzzle books that do not appear on this calendar. And if you'd like to post this feature on your website, please feel free to do so. Thanks for looking, and happy solving!

Please write to me at pjordan@poncacity.net if you know of any current or upcoming puzzle books that do not appear on this calendar. Thanks for looking, and happy solving!


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