Starting on Monday, Colleen at Chasing Ray will be sponsoring a multi-blog round-up of posts about “books we all individually feel have been overlooked. Some of them might have been award winners in the distant past, and some are even out of print, but all of them are books that each of us have enjoyed and want to tell more people about. We’re calling the event ‘Recommendations From Under the Radar’ (or Radar Books for short) and we really hope you guys will check us out and, more importantly, track down some of these great books as well.”

Go here for list of planned posts and books and authors to be featured.

I’ll be writing about overlooked and underappreciated books and authors here at Semicolon next week, too. On Monday, I have some picture book titles you might have missed. Most of them, unfortunately, are out of print but well worth the effort required to track down and purchase or borrow from the library.

On Tuesday, I’ll feature some children’s fiction gems that were favorites when I was a child and have aged well.

Then on Wednesday I plan to feature three authors for adults who have been largely forgotten, even though all three were hugely popular in days gone by. The three are: Samuel Shellabarger, Giovanni Guareschi, and Guillermo Enrique Hudson. You get extra points if you are already familiar with any one of the three and can tell me in the comments the title(s) of any of their books.

On Thursday I’ll be featuring two authors who’ve enjoyed success in the world of Christian publishing but whose books deserve a much wider audience: Athol Dickson and Jamie Langston Turner.

I hope Collen’s idea will catch on throughout the litblogs, and if you post next week about a great book that flies “under the radar”, please link to your review on Saturday, September 1st, at the Saturday Review of Books.