Nonfiction reviews archive

Date Title Reviewer
Jun 2007 Kafka by David Zane Mairowitz, illustrated by Robert Crumb Chris Barsanti
May 2008 A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII by Dan Kurzman Benjamin Jacob Hollars
May 2007 Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee by Pamela Druckerman Michelle Risley
Nov 2005 North to Katahdin by Eric Pinder Tom Bernard
Mar 2005 The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing by Robert E. Belknap Tim Kindseth
Nov 2005 In My Brother's Shadow : A Life and Death in the SS by Uwe Timm John Detrixhe
May 2008 Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion by Michael Patrick MacDonald Vincent W Rospond
May 2008 Have You Found Her: A Memoir by Janice Erlbaum Aysha Somasundaram
Oct 2007 The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland by Barbara Sjoholm Melissa A. Barton
Aug 2002 One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church by Richard Abanes Michael Schaub
Aug 2003 Salinger: A Biography by Paul Alexander Neal Hammons
Dec 2002 Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the Worlds Most Notorious Slum by Tyler Anbinder Michael Farrelly
Dec 2003 Puzzles and Essays from "the Exchange": Tricky Reference Questions by Charles R. Anderson Michael Farrelly
Aug 2003 The CIA's Control of Candy Jones by Donald Bain Jen Crispin
Sep 2002 Manifesta by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards Jessa Crispin
Sep 2002 The Weblog Handbook by Rebecca Blood; We've Got Blog by various authors Kenan Hebert
Nov 2002 Scottish Traveler Tales By Donald Braid Joseph J. Finn
Dec 2002 The Childless Revolution by Madelyn Cain Jessa Crispin
Aug 2002 Great Books by David Denby Jen Crispin
Aug 2003 American Massacre by Sally Denton Jessa Crispin
Oct 2002 The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout Jen Crispin
Jul 2003 The Pleasures of Eliza Lynch by Anne Enright Melissa Roy
Jun 2003 Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored by Mary Gabriel Laura Sorensen
Nov 2003 Living With His Camera by Jane Gallop, Photos by Dick Blau Liz Miller
Jun 2003 The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox by Stephen Jay Gould Christian Walters
Jun 2003 Black Earth City by Charlotte Hobson Allyson Blomeley
Jul 2002 The Fever Trail by Mark Honigsbaum Jen Crispin
Jul 2003 Y: The Descent of Men by Steve Jones David Harris
Oct 2003 In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcom Mark Coffey
Jul 2003 Hallowed Ground by James M. McPherson Jack D. Crispin, Jr.
Oct 2002 Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Kary Mullis Jen Crispin
Dec 2002 The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming and Other Lessons I Learned From Breast Cancer by Jennie Nash Sonia Pereira
Aug 2003 Fried Butter by Abe Opincar Iris Benaroia
Jul 2003 In the Blink of an Eye by Andrew Parker Christian Walters
Jul 2002 A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring For, and Appreciating Books, edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan Sonia Pereira
Oct 2003 The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity by Jack Repcheck Michael Farrelly
Nov 2002 Step Across This Line By Salman Rushdie Jessa Crispin
Jul 2003 An Obsession with Butterflies by Sharman Apt Russell David Harris
Nov 2002 Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America By Dan Savage Michael Schaub
Nov 2003 Alpha & Omega by Charles Seife David Harris
Oct 2003 Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Laura Sorensen
Jun 2002 Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion and Welfare in the United States by Rickie Solinger Jessa Crispin
May 2002 The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon Jessa Crispin
Aug 2003 Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics by Frederic Spotts Michael Farrelly
Nov 2003 Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content by Biz Stone Christian Walters
Dec 2002 Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant by Richard Stone Jen Crispin
Nov 2003 Please Don't Kill the Freshman by Zoe Trope Liz Miller
Oct 2003 Murder Inc.: The Story of the Syndicate by Burton B. Turkus Michael Farrelly
Sep 2002 The Ghost with Trembling Wings by Scott Weidensaul Jen Crispin
Oct 2003 Signor Marconi's Magic Box by Gavin Weightman Christian Walters
Dec 2003 Simply Einstein by Richard Wolfson David Harris
Aug 2003 How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young Michael Schaub
Jun 2002 A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn Jen Crispin
Jun 2007 Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott Aysha Somasundaram
Jan 2006 Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Kael Alford, Thorne Anderson, and Rita Leisner Colleen Mondor
Mar 2005 Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine by John Abramson Jack D. Crispin, Jr.
Sep 2006 First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920 by Jeffrey S. Adler Sarah Statz
Sep 2006 Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich Meera Sethi
Apr 2007 Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver by Arthur Allen Melissa A. Barton
Jan 2008 Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison Benjamin Jacob Hollars
May 2004 Candyfreak by Steve Almond Erik Ferguson
Feb 2006 I Love You More Than You Know by Jonathan Ames Joanna Petrone
Apr 2006 Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries by Suad Amiry Sarah Statz
Jun 2005 Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd by Sam Apple Joey Rubin
Aug 2006 Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart by Sherry Argov Joanne McNeil
May 2005 Epileptic by David B. Gordon McAlpin
Mar 2007 Lapdancer by Juliana Beasley Blythe Boyer
Jan 2006 Letters from Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak Out edited by Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin, and Kenyon Farrow Eryn Loeb
Oct 2005 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin John Detrixhe
May 2007 The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam by Tom Bissell Sarah Statz
Nov 2006 La Porte, Indiana by Jason Bitner Carrie Jones
Sep 2007 Madame Proust by Evelyne Bloch-Dano, translated by Alice Kaplan Aysha Somasundaram
May 2008 Open: Love, Sex and Life in an Open Marriage by Jenny Block Elizabeth Bachner
Mar 2005 The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved by P.V. Glob David Kraut
Jul 2006 Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World by David Bodanis Chris Winters
Apr 2005 Good Catholic Girls: How Women are Leading the Fight to Change the Church by Angela Bonavoglia Sumana Harihareswara
Oct 2006 The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton Rachel J. K. Grace
Oct 2006 The Mystery Guest by Grégoire Bouillier Shaun Manning
Jan 2005 Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker by Angela Bourke Colleen Mondor
Dec 2007 Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design by Peter J. Bowler Jen Crispin
Oct 2006 Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War by Rodric Braithwaite Elizabeth Kiem
Oct 2004 The Stone Fields by Courtney Angela Brkic Colleen Mondor
Feb 2005 Dog Soldier Justice: The Ordeal of Susanna Alderdice on the Kansas Indian War Jack D. Crispin, Jr.
Feb 2005 Heloise and Abelard: A New Biography by James Burge Sarah Statz
Jun 2006 Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan by Hillary Carlip Melissa Fischer
Sep 2007 Ron Carlson Writes a Story by Ron Carlson Akshay Ahuja
May 2007 Three Trees Make a Forest by Ronnie del Carmen, Tadahiro Uesugi, Enrico Casarosa Josh Cook
Oct 2004 What We've Lost by Graydon Carter Jennifer Leblanc
Oct 2007 Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia by Lesley Chamberlain Elizabeth Bachner
Jul 2007 The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began by Stuart Clark Melissa A. Barton
Oct 2004 Too Brief a Treat edited by Gerald Clarke John Detrixhe
Apr 2006 Sweet and Low: A Family Story by Rich Cohen Carrie Jones
Jun 2004 Not Even Wrong by Paul Collins Colleen Mondor
Feb 2006 The Trouble with Tom by Paul Collins Colleen Mondor
Jun 2005 Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother by James A. Connor Lara Apps
Sep 2006 The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O'Hara edited by William Corbett Akshay Ahuja
Sep 2006 How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die by David Crystal Shaun Manning
Oct 2006 Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen Sarah Statz
Jul 2005 Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire Rebecca Graber
Mar 2008 Metro Stop Paris: An Underground History of the City of Light by Gregor Dallas Jonathan Shipley
Apr 2006 Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone by John Daniel Colleen Mondor
Jun 2007 Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Danny Danziger Melissa A. Barton
Sep 2005 Spaniel Rage by Vanessa Davis Sarah Vance
Sep 2004 Lone Star Rising by William C. Davis Rich Thomas
Dec 2003 Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne Mark Coffey
Aug 2003 Patrick: the Pilgrim Apostle of Ireland by Maire B. de Paor Michael Farrelly
Mar 2006 Year of the Comets: A Journey from Sadness to the Stars by Jan DeBlieu Colleen Mondor
Jan 2006 Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle Elizabeth Kiem
Jan 2007 Into the Hearts of the Amazons: In Search of a Modern Matriarchy by Tom DeMott Sarah Statz
Mar 2007 Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which are Not about Marriage by Pete Dexter Sarah Statz
Feb 2006 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond James Campbell Martin
Jul 2006 Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life by Michael Dirda Joanne McNeil
Apr 2008 365 Days by Julie Doucet Rosette Royale
May 2008 Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas Jonathan Shipley
Oct 2003 The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy David Harris
Sep 2007 Dream: Re-Imagining Politics in an Age of Fantasy by Stephen Duncombe Josh Cook
Apr 2004 Elizabeth and Mary by Jane Dunn Rebecca Graber
Jan 2006 Regards: The Selected Nonfiction of John Gregory Dunne by John Gregory Dunne Elizabeth Kiem
Jun 2007 The Meaning of Life by Terry Eagleton Alexander C. Kafka
Nov 2006 The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation by Amelia Earhart Mark Doten
Nov 2006 Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge by Gerald M. Edelman John Clark
May 2004 Bobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow Jessa Crispin
Feb 2007 Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George Sand by Benita Eisler Emberly Nesbitt
Feb 2008 A Guinea Pig's History of Biology by Jim Endersby Kevin Arthur
Nov 2006 The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God! by Joe Eszterhas Brian M. Dunn
Dec 2007 Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill Won One War & Began Another by Jonathan Fenby Jon Fullmer
Jun 2007 Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America by Andrew Ferguson Andrew Benedict-Nelson
Apr 2005 Perfect Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman edited by Michelle Feynman Brendan Boyle
Jan 2005 How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life by Len Fisher Tom Bernard
Jun 2005 The Cross and the Crescent: The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims by Richard Fletcher Sharon Adarlo
May 2007 My Father's Secret War: A Memoir by Lucinda Franks Aysha Somasundaram
Jul 2007 Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet -- Better, Faster, Easier by Mark Frauenfelder Drew Nellins
Oct 2005 My Friend Leonard by James Frey Ryan Klos
May 2004 Grand Centaur Station by Larry Frolick Kris Rothstein
May 2004 Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Neil Gaiman Laura Felch
Feb 2006 A Faithful Existence by Forrest Gander Olivia Cronk
Feb 2008 Modernism: The Lure of Heresy by Peter Gay Richard Wirick
Jul 2005 The Murder of Abraham Lincoln by Rick Geary Elizabeth Kiem
Jun 2005 The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by Owen Gingerich Sarah Statz
Feb 2005 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Amy Joffe
Aug 2004 Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner Bryan Miller
May 2005 Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel by Rebecca Goldstein Anders Floor
May 2008 Aaronsohn's Maps: The Untold Story of the Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Middle East by Patricia Goldstone Colleen Mondor
Jun 2007 The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life by Robert Goolrick Erin Walter
May 2005 Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet by Charlotte Gordon Olivia Cronk
Jun 2007 The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber: Weimar Berlin's Priestess of Depravity by Mel Gordon Len Bracken
Mar 2008 The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw Marisa Atkinson
Apr 2008 The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu Richard Wirick
Mar 2008 The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam Vincent W Rospond
Nov 2004 Doing Time by Kazuichi Hanawa Jessa Crispin
May 2004 The Companion Species Manifesto by Donna Haraway Julie Boulanger
Jan 2005 George Sand by Elizabeth Harlan Sharon Adarlo
Apr 2008 The Secret History of the English Language by M. J. Harper Jonathan Shipley
Jun 2006 The Kiss in History edited by Karen Harvey William Burns
Jul 2005 Never Seen the Moon: The Trials Of Edith Maxwell by Sharon Hatfield Sarah Vance
Jul 2005 Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak by Jean Hatzfeld Sarah Statz
Apr 2006 How to Cook Your Daughter by Jessica Hendra with Blake Morrison Carrie Jones
Feb 2004 Pandora's Baby by Robin Marantz Henig Jessa Crispin
Jan 2005 Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines by Bill Hicks Clayton Moore
Nov 2006 Cheating Destiny: Living with Diabetes, America's Largest Epidemic Colleen Mondor
Jan 2006 Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary by Henry Hitchings Carrie Jones
Jan 2008 Trading in Memories: Travels Through a Scavenger's Favorite Places by Barbara Hodgson Colleen Mondor
Jul 2007 The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier John Zuarino
Sep 2007 Parts Per Million: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School by Joy Horowitz Elizabeth Holden
Oct 2005 The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder by Rachel Howard Aja Gabel
Aug 2004 Amerika by Mikhail Iossel Colleen Mondor
Jul 2004 Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose Bryan Miller
May 2005 Teenage Hipster in the Modern World: From the Birth of Punk to the Land of Bush: Thirty Years of Apocalyptic Journalism by Marc Jacobson Brendan Boyle
Mar 2006 Perishable: A Memoir by Dirk Jamison Carrie Jones
Feb 2008 Fast Cars and Frybread: Reports from the Rez by Gordon Johnson Aysha Somasundaram
Mar 2007 The Great Negro Plot: A Tale of Conspiracy and Murder in 18th-Century New York by Mat Johnson Brian M. Dunn
Jun 2005 Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson Liz Miller
Feb 2007 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson Rachel J. K. Grace
May 2007 Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States by Pete Jordan Drew Nellins
Sep 2006 All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache by Paula Kamen Meera Sethi
Mar 2005 With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, and Democracy in George W. Bush's White House by Esther Kaplan Bryan Miller
Feb 2007 Cultures of Fetishism by Louise J. Kaplan Jason B. Jones
Mar 2008 Things I've Learned from the Women Who've Dumped Me edited by Ben Karlin Elizabeth Bachner
Dec 2007 Goodbye Madam Butterfly: Sex, Marriage, and the Modern Japanese Woman by Sumie Kawakami Colleen Mondor
Feb 2008 The Tokyo Look Book: Stylish To Spectacular, Goth To Gyaru, Sidewalk To Catwalk by Philomena Keet and Yuri Manabe Elizabeth Bachner
Mar 2005 Brain Trust: The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer's Disease Sarah Statz
Jul 2007 The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution by Pagan Kennedy Rosette Royale
Nov 2006 The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor by Andy Kessler Stephen Granade
Apr 2006 Chip Kidd: Book One, Work: 1986 – 2000 Michael Antman
Dec 2005 I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell Christine Newgard
May 2005 God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism by Jonathan Kirsch Gena Anderson
Jul 2005 Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman Alexa
Oct 2006 From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava by Jay Kopelman with Melinda Roth Colleen Mondor
Jun 2006 The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot by Herbert Krosney Sarah Statz
Apr 2007 The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts by Milan Kundera Josh Cook
Jul 2007 The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden by Stanley Kunitz Benjamin Jacob Hollars
Jun 2004 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky Rebecca Graber
Oct 2005 The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World by Frank Lambert Joey Rubin
Apr 2005 Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott Laura Lee Mattingly
Feb 2005 Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books John Detrixhe
Apr 2004 Mysteries of the Snake Goddess by Kenneth Lapatin Sara Pfannkuche
Oct 2007 The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative by Thomas Larson Sarah Statz
Jan 2008 Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge by Don Lattin Rosette Royale
Jun 2005 Lessons in Taxidermy by Bee Lavender Susan Chenelle
Jan 2006 On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica by Gretchen Legler Kelly Zavala
Feb 2008 Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language by Seth Lerer James Campbell Martin
Dec 2005 The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation by Greg LeRoy Susan Chenelle
Sep 2007 F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century by Mark Levine Elizabeth Holden
Aug 2004 War, Evil, and the End of History by Bernard-Henri Levy John Detrixhe
Sep 2005 Everybody into the Pool: True Tales by Beth Lisick Laura Lee Mattingly
Mar 2006 De Kooning's Bicycle: Artists and Writers in the Hamptons by Robert Long Colleen Mondor
Nov 2006 In Defense of Hypocrisy: Picking Sides in the War on Virtue by Jeremy Lott Jason B. Jones
Jul 2007 Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife that Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard by Jack Lynch Melissa A. Barton
May 2004 The Man Who Would Be King by Ben Macintyre Michael Farrelly
Apr 2005 Women's Lives Men's Laws by Catherine MacKinnon Gena Anderson
Jul 2007 Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis by Brenda Maddox Jason B. Jones
Dec 2007 Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney Aysha Somasundaram
Jan 2008 Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm Elizabeth Bachner
Feb 2008 Book Smart: Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genius in 365 Days by Jane Mallison Elizabeth Bachner
Mar 2006 Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut by James Marcus Ryan Klos
May 2008 Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature by Leonard S. Marcus Benjamin Jacob Hollars
Apr 2007 Sins of the Innocent by Mireille Marokvia Colleen Mondor
May 2006 Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams by Paul Martin Kevin Arthur
Oct 2006 Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud Brian M. Dunn
Mar 2007 The After-Death Room: Journey into Spiritual Activism by Michael McColly Jessica A. Tierney
Jun 2007 Ending in Ice: The Revolutionary Idea and Tragic Expedition of Alfred Wegener by Roger McCoy Colleen Mondor
Jan 2005 Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum John Detrixhe
Oct 2007 Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben John Marsh
May 2006 Physical: An American Checkup by James McManus Kelly Zavala
Aug 2006 Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed by Josie Méndez-Negrete Mariya Strauss
Sep 2004 The Meat You Eat by Ken Midkiff Gordon McAlpin
Apr 2006 Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Woman Journalists edited by Eleanor Mills with Kira Cochrane Rebecca Graber
Mar 2007 Looking for Mr. Gilbert: The Reimagined Life of an African American by John Hanson Mitchell Colleen Mondor
Jun 2006 Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger by Margaret Mittlebach and Michael Crewdson Kevin Arthur
Dec 2005 The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries by Shannon Moffett Sarah Statz
Aug 2006 The Doryman's Reflection: A Fisherman's Life by Paul Molyneaux bookslut
Jun 2005 Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore Laura Lee Mattingly
Oct 2004 Rounding the Horn by Dallas Murphy John Detrixhe
Feb 2008 Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays by Péter Nádas Chris Winters
Oct 2005 Trained to Kill: Soldiers at War by Theodore Nadelson Sarah Statz
Mar 2008 Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War by Michael J. Neufeld Laurel Maury
Jun 2005 Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam by Asra Q. Nomani Sumana Harihareswara
Jan 2004 The Doctors' Plague by Sherwin B. Nuland Jack D. Crispin, Jr.
Sep 2004 Woe is I by Patricia T. O'Conner and Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss Sharon Adarlo
Jun 2007 The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe Elizabeth Holden
Jul 2007 Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother by Peggy Orenstein Elizabeth Holden
Oct 2004 Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease by Wendy Orent Gena Anderson
Oct 2004 My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere by Susan Orlean Sharon Adarlo
Apr 2005 Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinky Sarah Statz
Aug 2006 Secrets of the Savanna by Mark & Delia Owens, One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals by Deborah Noyes Colleen Mondor
Mar 2006 The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer Sarah Statz
Jun 2005 Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages by Jaroslav Pelikan Sarah Statz
Jul 2007 I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature by Lucia Perillo Melissa A. Barton
Sep 2006 James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips Joanne McNeil
Feb 2007 The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert and the Making of the Modern Art Market by Lindsay Pollack Rachel J. K. Grace
Jul 2005 The Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man by John Porcellino Carrie Jones
Feb 2006 Perfect Example by John Porcellino Carrie Jones
Feb 2005 Bad for Us: The Lure of Self-Harm by John Portmann Sarah Statz
Mar 2007 Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place by Robert Michael Pyle, and Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd Colleen Mondor
Jan 2007 Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child by Alissa Quart Amy Güth
Feb 2007 Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America by Peter Quinn Aysha Somasundaram
Jun 2007 Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home by Gil Reavill Sarah Statz
Jul 2005 Clara's Grand Tour: Travels with a Rhinocerous in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Glynis Ridley Sumana Harihareswara
Apr 2005 The World of Christopher Marlowe by David Riggs; Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh Tim Kindseth
May 2007 The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine by Steven Rinella Melissa A. Barton
Oct 2004 Inventing Beauty by Teresa Riordan Jennifer Leblanc
Aug 2004 The End of Oil by Paul Roberts Lara Apps
Jun 2004 The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream by Andrea Rock Adrienne Martini
Feb 2004 What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World by M. L. Rossi David Harris
Jul 2005 Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement by Rodney Rothman Pauls Toutonghi
Aug 2005 Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte James Campbell Martin
Sep 2005 The Evolution-Creation Struggle by Michael Ruse Sarah Statz
Jun 2006 An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina Jean Peck
May 2005 War's End: Profiles from Bosnia 1995-96 by Joe Sacco Clayton Moore
May 2004 The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison E. Salisbury Jack D. Crispin, Jr.
Dec 2005 Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling by Nicholas Sammond Nathaniel G. Moore
May 2008 The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Imposter James Hogue by David Samuels Richard Wirick
Jul 2005 Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi Carrie Jones
Mar 2006 Jesusland by Julia Scheeres bookslut
Sep 2007 Not a Happy Camper by Mindy Schneider Benjamin Jacob Hollars
Jan 2006 Writers on the Air by Donna Seaman Colleen Mondor
Mar 2005 Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald Hans Weyandt
Feb 2007 The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah Colleen Mondor
Oct 2006 In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare Rachel J. K. Grace
Oct 2004 When the Smoke Cleared at Gettysburg by George Sheldon Jack D. Crispin, Jr.
Apr 2005 Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short Brendan Boyle
Mar 2004 The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto Gena Anderson
Sep 2007 Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination by Michael Sims Elizabeth Bachner
Nov 2006 Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer by Barbara Sjoholm Colleen Mondor
Feb 2007 The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin John Clark
Apr 2004 The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder Gena Anderson
Jul 2004 SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas Dana Stevens
Sep 2006 Literary Lives by Edward Sorel Carrie Jones
Sep 2005 DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture by Amy Spencer Eryn Loeb
Oct 2004 In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman Liz Miller
Nov 2006 Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth’s Surface by David Standish Sarah Statz
Jun 2007 Easter Everywhere by Darcey Steinke Erin Walter
Feb 2007 Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers by Amy Stewart Sarah Statz
Dec 2004 Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants Sarah Statz
Sep 2006 A Land Without Time: A Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan by John Sumser Chris Winters
Feb 2007 On Love and Death by Patrick Süskind Jason B. Jones
Feb 2008 The Boys of Everest by Clint Willis and Forever on the Mountain by James M. Tabor Colleen Mondor
May 2004 Nerve's Guide to Sex Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen by Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey Liz Miller
Feb 2008 Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer by Chuck Thompson Melissa A. Barton
Aug 2004 Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson Gordon McAlpin
Jan 2005 Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness by Hunter S. Thompson Adam Lipkin
Apr 2007 Dark at the Roots: A Memoir by Sarah Thyre Aysha Somasundaram
Jul 2007 The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities by Mike Tidwell Elizabeth Holden
Jun 2004 Portraits of Israelis and Palestinians by Seth Tobocman Iris Benaroia
Nov 2006 Sippewissett, or Life on a Salt Marsh by Tim Traver Colleen Mondor
Oct 2004 Planet Simpson by Chris Turner Jennifer Leblanc
Feb 2004 Ultimate Punishment by Scott Turow Michael Schaub
Jul 2006 The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences by Louis Uchitelle bookslut
Jan 2005 Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means by William T. Vollmann Sarah Statz
Feb 2006 Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by William T. Vollmann Justin Taylor
Jul 2005 Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Gena Anderson
Jul 2006 Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade Kevin Arthur
Jun 2007 Homes of the Heart: A Ramallah Chronicle by Farouq Wadi Colleen Mondor
Jun 2007 Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression edited by David Wallis Paul Morton
Feb 2006 The Dead of Winter: How Battlefield Investigators, WWII Veterans, and Forensic Scientists Solved the Mystery of the Bulge's Lost Soldiers by Bill Warnock Sarah Statz
Oct 2007 Winged Wonders: A Celebration of Birds in Human History by Peter Watkins and Jonathan Stockland Melissa A. Barton
Jul 2004 Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment by Ethan Watters Matt Richmond
Jun 2007 Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger Drew Nellins
Apr 2004 Rapunzel's Daughters by Rose Weitz Liz Miller
May 2005 The Bradbury Chronicles by Sam Weller Beth Dugan
Jun 2004 Dancing Barefoot by Wil Wheaton Gena Anderson
Dec 2005 North Country by Shane White Carrie Jones
Feb 2005 A Country Practice: Scenes from the Veterinary Life by Douglas Whynott Gena Anderson
Sep 2004 Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights by Steven M. Wise Jen Crispin
May 2005 Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants: The Looting of the News in a Time of Terror by James Wolcott Rowan Riley
Jan 2004 Black Sun by Geoffrey Wolff Kris Roths