Nonfiction reviews archive

Date Title Reviewer
Mar 2005 The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing by Robert E. Belknap Tim Kindseth
Jan 2009 "Stamps are the Flags of My Small Country": Poets Writing Letters Richard Wirick
Jul 2009 Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness by Lisa Hamilton Colleen Mondor
May 2007 Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee by Pamela Druckerman Michelle Risley
Oct 2007 The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland by Barbara Sjoholm Melissa A. Barton
Dec 2009 King's Gambit: A Son, A Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman Lee Bob Black
Sep 2008 Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer by Stephen Dando-Collins Stephen Laniel
Nov 2005 North to Katahdin by Eric Pinder Tom Bernard
Sep 2011 Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield Kelsey Osgood
Nov 2005 In My Brother's Shadow : A Life and Death in the SS by Uwe Timm John Detrixhe
May 2008 Have You Found Her: A Memoir by Janice Erlbaum Aysha Somasundaram
May 2008 Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion by Michael Patrick MacDonald Vincent W Rospond
May 2008 A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII by Dan Kurzman Benjamin Jacob Hollars
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
May 2009 Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch Jessica Ferri
Jun 2003 The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox by Stephen Jay Gould Christian Walters
Aug 2009 The Photographer by Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefevre Shaun Manning
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
Aug 2012 Recipes for Sad Women by Héctor Abad, translated by Anne McLean Anika Gupta
Aug 2011 Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman by Elizabeth Abbott Jaya Chatterjee
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
Aug 2008 Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: Making Comics: Manga, Graphic Novels, and Beyond by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden Shaun Manning
Aug 2009 I'm Perfect You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing by Kyria Abrahams Kate Munning
Mar 2005 Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine by John Abramson Jack D. Crispin, Jr.
Nov 2011 London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets by Peter Ackroyd Jaya Chatterjee
Sep 2006 First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920 by Jeffrey S. Adler Sarah Statz
Oct 2010 The Secret Miracle: The Novelist's Handbook edited by Daniel Alarcón Kerri Arsenault
Jul 2010 Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics by Amir Alexander Leigh Arber
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
Sep 2009 A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome by Alberto Angela, translated by Gregory Conti Melissa A. Barton
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
Mar 2011 In Search of Civilization: Remaking a Tarnished Idea by John Armstrong Guy Cunningham
Oct 2009 On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears by Stephen T. Asma Elizabeth Bachner
Jun 2012 Promiscuous: "Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness by Bernard Avishai Josh Zajdman
Jul 2010 To Teach: The Journey, in Comics by William Ayers, illustrated by Ryan Alexander-Tanner Kerri Arsenault
May 2005 Epileptic by David B. Gordon McAlpin
Jun 2008 FDR: The First Hundred Days by Anthony J. Badger Vincent W Rospond
Sep 2009 Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small by John Cook, Mac McCaughan and Laura Balance Charles Fogelman
Aug 2011 Make Mine a Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink edited by Gina Barreca Jill Talbot
Apr 2011 Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game by Dan Barry Colleen Mondor
Mar 2011 The Memory Palace by Mira Bartók Kim Cox
Feb 2010 The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman Janet Potter
Jun 2012 Love Rock Revolution: K Records and the Rise of Independent Music by Mark Baumgarten Mindy Clegg
Apr 2009 Carnal Knowledge: Baxter's Concise Encyclopedia of Modern Sex by John Baxter Elizabeth Bachner
Mar 2007 Lapdancer by Juliana Beasley Blythe Boyer
May 2009 A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey Guy Cunningham
Jan 2006 Letters from Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak Out edited by Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin, and Kenyon Farrow Eryn Loeb
Mar 2013 A Palette of Particles by Jeremy Bernstein Mary Mann
Nov 2009 Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers edited by Jan Freeman Elizabeth Bachner
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
May 2010 Fiction Across Borders: Imagining the Lives of Others in Turn-of-the-Millennium Novels by Shameem Black Guy Cunningham
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
Aug 2011 The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life by Harold Bloom Josh Anderson
Apr 2010 The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum Karen Rigby
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
May 2012 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Matt McGregor
May 2008 The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction by Robert Boswell Benjamin Jacob Hollars
Oct 2006 The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton Rachel J. K. Grace
Oct 2006 The Mystery Guest by Grégoire Bouillier Shaun Manning
Dec 2008 Report on Myself by Grégoire Bouillier Elizabeth Bachner
Jan 2005 Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker by Angela Bourke Colleen Mondor
Jun 2012 James Joyce: A New Biography by Gordon Bowker Josh Zajdman
Dec 2007 Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design by Peter J. Bowler Jen Crispin
Sep 2012 Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets by Brian Boyd Lightsey Darst
May 2009 The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg Benjamin Jacob Hollars
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
Jul 2010 Lost in Wonder: Imagining Science and Other Mysteries by Colette Brooks Melissa A. Barton
Feb 2005 Dog Soldier Justice: The Ordeal of Susanna Alderdice on the Kansas Indian War Jack D. Crispin, Jr.
Feb 2011 How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown Richard Wirick
Mar 2011 Walled States, Waning Sovereignty by Wendy Brown Jacob Mikanowski
Jun 2012 Nijinsky: A Life of Genius and Madness by Richard Buckle Josh Zajdman
Sep 2009 The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise D’Aubigne, Madamde de Maintenon by Veronica Buckley Melissa A. Barton
May 2009 Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend by Joshua Blu Buhs Benjamin Jacob Hollars
May 2011 Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus by Oliver Bullough Ashley Cleek
Mar 2010 Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir by Wendy Burden Joan Quigley
Feb 2005 Heloise and Abelard: A New Biography by James Burge Sarah Statz
Jun 2012 After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America edited by John Burnham and Hidden Minds: The History of the Unconscious by Frank Tallis Evan McMurry
Mar 2012 Barbara Stanwyck: A Miracle Woman by Dan Callahan Kati Nolfi
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
Sep 2010 A Brief History of Nakedness by Philip Carr-Gomm Alan Good
Oct 2004 What We've Lost by Graydon Carter Jennifer Leblanc
Jul 2009 Oxford Revisited: A City Revisited by Justin Cartwright Chelsey Philpot
Nov 2011 The Journals of Spalding Gray edited by Nell Casey O Shell
Oct 2007 Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia by Lesley Chamberlain Elizabeth Bachner
Jul 2008 Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev Elizabeth Bachner
Aug 2008 Leaning with Intent to Fall: A Memoir by Ethan Clark Aysha Somasundaram
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 2010 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About by Joshua Clover Jacob Mikanowski
Nov 2012 Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington Josh Zajdman
Nov 2012 Bibliodeath: My Archives (With Life in Footnotes) by Andrei Codrescu Josh Cook
Apr 2006 Sweet and Low: A Family Story by Rich Cohen Carrie Jones
Aug 2010 Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture by Jim Collins Siobhan Neile Welch
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
Mar 2011 Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wildnerness Lookout by Philip Connors Nina MacLaughlin
Sep 2008 What You Should Know About Politics... But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues by Jessamyn Conrad Stephen Laniel
Jan 2013 The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan Eamon Loingsigh
Jun 2008 Notes on a Life by Eleanor Coppola Marisa Atkinson
Sep 2006 The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O'Hara edited by William Corbett Akshay Ahuja
May 2010 Ten Walks/Two Talks by Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch Michael Schaub
Apr 2011 Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman Gili Warsett
Apr 2010 Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic That Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries by Molly Caldwell Crosby Melissa A. Barton
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
Aug 2012 Cézanne: A Life by Alex Danchev Evan McMurry
Apr 2006 Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone by John Daniel Colleen Mondor
Dec 2011 The Best American Essays 2011 edited by Edwidge Danticat and Robert Atwan Jill Talbot
Jun 2007 Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Danny Danziger Melissa A. Barton
Mar 2013 Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire edited by C.B. Daring, J. Rogue, Deric Shannon, and Abbey Volcano Miha
May 2009 Grimoires: A History of Magic Books by Owen Davies Elizabeth Bachner
Jan 2011 Make Me a Woman by Vanessa Davis Dave O'Shell
Sep 2005 Spaniel Rage by Vanessa Davis Sarah Vance
Sep 2004 Lone Star Rising by William C. Davis Rich Thomas
Jun 2008 Freddie and Me: A Coming-of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody by Mike Dawson Beth Harrington
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
Aug 2012 Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction by Samuel R. Delany Walter Biggins
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
Sep 2009 Björk by Nicola Dibben Paul Franz
Jul 2006 Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life by Michael Dirda Joanne McNeil
Nov 2012 The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s by Peter Doggett David Rice
Apr 2008 365 Days by Julie Doucet Rosette Royale
May 2008 Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas Jonathan Shipley
May 2010 Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work is Done by Susan J. Douglas Kati Nolfi
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
Mar 2011 Faulkner and His Critics edited by John N. Duvall Guy Cunningham
Aug 2011 The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer Kerri Arsenault
Apr 2011 Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer Kerri Arsenault
Mar 2012 Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room by Geoff Dyer Matt Hennessey
Jun 2007 The Meaning of Life by Terry Eagleton Alexander C. Kafka
Nov 2011 Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton Greg Linster
Nov 2006 The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation by Amelia Earhart Mark Doten
Mar 2011 Confessions of a Young Novelist by Umberto Eco Caroline Hagood
Nov 2006 Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge by Gerald M. Edelman John Clark
Feb 2012 Missing: Persons and Politics by Jenny Edkins Matt McGregor
May 2004 Bobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow Jessa Crispin
Jul 2009 Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity by Leigh Edwards Paul Franz
Feb 2007 Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George Sand by Benita Eisler Emberly Nesbitt
Sep 2010 In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women by Laura Eldridge Bonnie B. Lee
Dec 2009 Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting by Dietmar Elger, translated by Elizabeth M. Solaro Guy Cunningham
Mar 2013 Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk from the Middle East to the Lower East Side by Rayya Elias Margaret Howie
Sep 2009 The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder by Stephen Elliott Guy Cunningham
Oct 2009 The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling Colleen Mondor
Feb 2008 A Guinea Pig's History of Biology by Jim Endersby Kevin Arthur
Jan 2012 Osa and Martin: For the Love of Adventure by Kelly Enright Colleen Mondor
May 2013 Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement by Sarah Erdreich Kati Nolfi
Nov 2006 The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God! by Joe Eszterhas Brian M. Dunn
Sep 2011 Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement and Resistance by Karlene Faith Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
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
Jun 2010 Confessions of a Rebel Debutante by Anna Fields Adrienne So
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
Nov 2012 Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michaelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney Mairead Case
Mar 2011 When I Am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know That She Is Not Playing with Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life by Saul Frampton Evan McMurry
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
Jan 2011 Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier Janet Potter
Oct 2005 My Friend Leonard by James Frey Ryan Klos
May 2004 Grand Centaur Station by Larry Frolick Kris Rothstein
Jan 2013 How to Cook a Tapir: A Memoir of Belize by Joan Fry Walter Biggins
Jan 2013 Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds by Ping Fu, with MeiMei Fox Terry Hong
Sep 2008 The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller Colleen Mondor
Jul 2008 The Stem Cell Dilemma: Beacons of Hope or Harbingers of Doom? by Leo Furcht and William Hoffman Kevin Arthur
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
Dec 2009 Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements by Dwight Garner Pauls Toutonghi
Feb 2008 Modernism: The Lure of Heresy by Peter Gay Richard Wirick
Jul 2005 The Murder of Abraham Lincoln by Rick Geary Elizabeth Kiem
Dec 2008 The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George Richard Wirick
Jan 2013 Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir by Nicole Georges Grace Bello
Aug 2012 A People's History of London by Lindsey German and John Rees Josh Zajdman
Jan 2012 Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson Benjamin Taylor
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
Jul 2010 The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer's Inside View by Doug Glanville Adrienne So
Nov 2012 A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change by John Glassie Mary Mann
Apr 2011 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick Richard Wirick
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
Dec 2008 Red: Teenage Girls in America Write On What Fires Up Their Life Today edited by Amy Goldwasser Elizabeth Bachner
Aug 2012 Diary by Witold Gombrowicz, translated by Lillian Vallee Daniel Shvartsman
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
Oct 2011 Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life by Vivian Gornick Matt McGregor
Jul 2010 Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco by Teresa Gowan Kati Nolfi
Mar 2012 Boltzmann's Tomb: Travels in Search of Science by Bill Green Colleen Mondor
Dec 2011 The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt Jaya Chatterjee
Mar 2008 The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw Marisa Atkinson
Aug 2010 The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold Guy Cunningham
Sep 2010 One More Theory about Happiness: A Memoir by Paul Guest Beth Harrington
Nov 2012 A Drive into the Gap by Kevin Guilfoile Walter Biggins
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
Oct 2008 Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry by Donald Hall Chelsey Philpot
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
Sep 2008 While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family by Kathryn Harrison Beth Harrington
Aug 2012 Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by David Harvey Miha
Jun 2006 The Kiss in History edited by Karen Harvey William Burns
Apr 2009 Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited by Molly Haskell Jessica Ferri
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
Sep 2010 The Overloaded Liberal: Shopping, Investing, Parenting and Other Daily Dilemmas in an Age of Political Activism by Fran Hawthorne Siobhan Neile Welch
Oct 2011 The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes Colleen Mondor
Jul 2011 The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps by Eric Hazan, translated by David Fernbach Angela Meyer
Jul 2010 The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South by Alex Heard Joan Quigley
Jun 2012 Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco Peter Tieryas Liu
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
May 2009 Summer World: A Season of Bounty by Bernd Heinrich D. Richard Scannell
May 2012 Polar Wives: The Remarkable Women behind the World's Most Daring Explorers by Kari Herbert Colleen Mondor
Jul 2010 Turn Left at the Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey by Brad Herzog Emma Kat Richardson
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
Nov 2012 Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice by bell hooks Walter Biggins
Jul 2007 The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier John Zuarino
Mar 2011 Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Angela Meyer
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
Aug 2009 Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters by Leslie Irvine Stephanie Hlywak
Jul 2004 Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose Bryan Miller
Oct 2009 The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment by A.J. Jacobs Kelly Zavala
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
Dec 2010 The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science by Julie des Jardins Colleen Mondor
Dec 2008 The Writer as Migrant by Ha Jin Aysha Somasundaram
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
Jan 2012 Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry by Geoffrey Jones Kati Nolfi
May 2007 Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States by Pete Jordan Drew Nellins
May 2009 Spiced: A Pastry Chef's True Stories of Trials by Fire, After-Hours Exploits, and What Really Goes on in the Kitchen by Dalia Jurgensen Elizabeth Bachner
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
Oct 2008 Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd by Karsten Hauer and Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska by Seth Kantner Colleen Mondor
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
Sep 2009 The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe Richard Wirick
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
Jan 2013 Animal Shelter, Issue Two, Spring 2012 edited by Hedi El Kholti Miha
Apr 2006 Chip Kidd: Book One, Work: 1986 – 2000 Michael Antman
Aug 2012 House by Tracy Kidder, Walking Home by Lynn Schooler, and Cabin by Lou Ureneck Colleen Mondor
Dec 2005 I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell Christine Newgard
Oct 2008 I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies by Daniel M. Kimmel Elizabeth Bachner
Dec 2010 How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior by Laura Kipnis Kati Nolfi
May 2009 Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever by Walter Kirn Jacob Silverman
May 2005 God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism by Jonathan Kirsch Gena Anderson
Nov 2012 Half in Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate by Judith Kitchen and Trespasses by Lacy Johnson Colleen Mondor
Feb 2010 I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated by Julie Klausner Jessica Ferri
Jul 2005 Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman Alexa
Mar 2013 Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing by Michael Muhammad Knight Alia Akkam
Jun 2012 Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist by Christof Koch Kathleen Reeves
Oct 2006 From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava by Jay Kopelman with Melinda Roth Colleen Mondor
Jul 2008 The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal by Lily Koppel Colleen Mondor
Dec 2011 Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal by Jeffrey J. Kripal Tovah Burstein
May 2012 Hatred and Forgiveness by Julia Kristeva, translated by Jeanine Herman Josh Zajdman
Jun 2006 The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot by Herbert Krosney Sarah Statz
Mar 2011 Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William Kuhn Jeanne-Marie Jackson
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
Jun 2012 Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama translated by Ralph McCarthy Mairead Case
Aug 2009 Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, The Living Dead and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States by Gary Laderman Guy Cunningham
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 2010 Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren Emma Kat Richardson
Jun 2005 Lessons in Taxidermy by Bee Lavender Susan Chenelle
Oct 2011 Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History by Bill Laws Lightsey Darst
Jan 2006 On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica by Gretchen Legler Kelly Zavala
May 2010 The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature by Jacob Lentz and Steve Nash Alan Good
Jun 2011 Rape New York by Jana Leo Alizah Salario
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
Jan 2011 They Live by Jonathan Lethem Martyn Pedler
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
Jan 2011 Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace by Dominic Lieven Richard Wirick
Jun 2010 Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky Lorian Long
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
May 2012 Networks Without a Cause: A Critique of Social Media by Geert Lovink Miha
Nov 2010 Scam: The First Four Issues! by Erick Lyle Ben King
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
May 2013 Flappers: Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell Margaret Howie
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
Jun 2007 Kafka by David Zane Mairowitz, illustrated by Robert Crumb Chris Barsanti
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
Oct 2009 The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews by David Mamet Kelsey Osgood
Mar 2012 The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso Josh Zajdman
Feb 2011 Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book edited by Sean Manning Colleen Mondor
Feb 2010 The Violence of Financial Capitalism by Christian Marazzi, translated by Kristina Lebedeva Jon Leon
Dec 2009 Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words by John Bemelmans Marciano Elizabeth Bachner
Dec 2010 Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus Robert Loss
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 2009 Triangular Road: A Memoir by Paule Marshall Carolyn Juris
Mar 2012 Detroit: A Biography by Scott Martelle Benjamin Taylor
Oct 2011 Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred by David L. Martin Evan McMurry
May 2006 Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams by Paul Martin Kevin Arthur
Jun 2012 The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays edited by Tara L. Masih Terry Hong
Nov 2012 A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsession and the Spell of Death by Patrick Mauriès, illustrations by Erik Desmazières Noah Charney
May 2010 For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story from Burma's Never-Ending War by Mac McClelland Colleen Mondor
Oct 2006 Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud Brian M. Dunn
Mar 2011 The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure Kati Nolfi
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
Nov 2008 Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent by Ken McGoogan Colleen Mondor
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
Sep 2008 Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry Chelsey Philpot
Nov 2011 Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model by Ashley Mears and Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women by Michael Gross Kati Nolfi
Feb 2010 Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music by Marisa Meltzer Michael Schaub
Aug 2006 Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed by Josie Méndez-Negrete Mariya Strauss
Sep 2009 The Essays of Leonard Michaels J.W. McCormack
Sep 2004 The Meat You Eat by Ken Midkiff Gordon McAlpin
May 2009 Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung by Arthur I. Miller Sophia Carroll
Feb 2011 Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche by James Miller Evan McMurry
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
Jul 2009 Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell Becky Ferreira
Jun 2012 The Sun King by Nancy Mitford Mary Mann
Jun 2006 Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger by Margaret Mittlebach and Michael Crewdson Kevin Arthur
Jul 2008 The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow James Campbell Martin
Sep 2010 A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster by Wendy Moffat Salvatore Ruggiero
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
Apr 2010 Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir by Ander Monson Dustin Luke Nelson
Jun 2005 Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore Laura Lee Mattingly
Jul 2010 Death to the Dictator!: A Young Man Casts a Vote in Iran's 2009 Election and Pays a Devastating Price by Afsaneh Moqadam Ian Epstein
Sep 2012 Love Song: The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya by Ethan Mordden Josh Zajdman
Dec 2010 Why the West Rules -- For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris Bonnie B. Lee
Oct 2008 A Year in High Heels: The Girl's Guide to Everything from Jane Austen to the A-List by Camilla Morton Elizabeth Bachner
Dec 2011 Radio: Essays in Bad Reception by John Mowitt Josh Zajdman
Sep 2012 A Cultural History of Heredity by Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Emma Kat Richardson
Sep 2008 Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature by John Mullan Elizabeth Bachner
Jul 2008 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami Shaun Manning
Oct 2004 Rounding the Horn by Dallas Murphy John Detrixhe
Aug 2009 The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles Elizabeth Bachner
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
Jun 2010 Anachronic Renaissance by Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood Jacob Mikanowski
Apr 2009 My Little Red Book edited by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff Elizabeth Bachner
Dec 2009 Bluets by Maggie Nelson Gina Myers
Mar 2008 Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War by Michael J. Neufeld Laurel Maury
Jan 2011 Islands of Privacy by Christena Nippert-Eng Lauren Smith
Nov 2011 American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox by Richard Noll Evan McMurry
Jun 2005 Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam by Asra Q. Nomani Sumana Harihareswara
May 2009 The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz Guy Cunningham
Aug 2012 Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Josh Zajdman
Sep 2009 Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters by Jonathan Nossiter Chelsey Philpot
Jan 2004 The Doctors' Plague by Sherwin B. Nuland Jack D. Crispin, Jr.
Aug 2009 Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life by Edna O'Brien Guy Cunningham
Sep 2004 Woe is I by Patricia T. O'Conner and Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss Sharon Adarlo
Jun 2010 Talk Softly: A Memoir by Cynthia O'Neal Micah McCrary
Jun 2007 The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe Elizabeth Holden
Aug 2009 Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture by Kaya Oakes Gina Myers
Oct 2010 In Rough Country: Essays and Reviews by Joyce Carol Oates Micah McCrary
Dec 2008 Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed by Ayse Onal Beth Harrington
Mar 2011 Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein Koa Beck
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
Oct 2009 The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History by John Ortved Benjamin Jacob Hollars
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 2012 People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson
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 2008 It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music by Amanda Petrusich David Varno
Nov 2012 The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design Rebecca Silber
Jan 2013 Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips Walter Biggins
Sep 2006 James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips Joanne McNeil
Jun 2008 e: The Incredibly Strange History of Ecstasy by Tim Pilcher Elizabeth Bachner
Oct 2010 Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy by Robert B. Pippin Jacob Mikanowski
May 2013 The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov by Andrea Pitzer Mike Innocenzi
Dec 2009 One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular by Abigail Pogrebin Mariya Strauss
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
May 2013 Inside Linda Lovelace's Deep Throat: Degradation, Porno Chic, and the Rise of Feminism by Darwin Porter Coco Papy
Feb 2005 Bad for Us: The Lure of Self-Harm by John Portmann Sarah Statz
Jul 2009 Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World by Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden Beth Harrington
Sep 2012 The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace by Lynn Povich Anne Gray Fischer
Jan 2012 Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir that Inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey by Margaret Powell Tina Cosgrove
Jan 2011 Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV by Jennifer L. Pozner Koa Beck
Feb 2013 The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe Patrick Dunagan
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
Mar 2013 Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright Christopher Merkel
Feb 2007 Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America by Peter Quinn Aysha Somasundaram
Feb 2010 Writers and Their Notebooks edited by Diana M. Raab Kelsey Osgood
Nov 2011 Driving Home: An American Journey by Jonathan Raban Jonathan Crowl
Sep 2011 Accessorizing the Body: Habits of Being I edited by Paula Rabinowitz and Cristina Giorcelli Kelsey Osgood
Mar 2010 Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles Melissa A. Barton
Nov 2012 Kafka in Love by Jacqueline Raoul-Duval, translated by Willard Wood Anika Gupta
Feb 2013 P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters edited by Sophie Ratcliffe Josh Zajdman
Jun 2007 Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home by Gil Reavill Sarah Statz
Feb 2013 Diary of a Man in Despair by Friedrich Reck, translated by Paul Rubens Evan McMurry
Jul 2009 Methland by Nick Reding Craig Fehrman
Oct 2008 Love Junkie: A Memoir by Rachel Resnick Elizabeth Bachner
May 2009 A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1996-2008 Gina Myers
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
Mar 2009 Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball by Jennifer Ring Craig Fehrman
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
Jun 2010 Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller Adrienne So
May 2011 The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson Jonathan Crowl
Jan 2009 American Rifle: A Biography by Alexander Rose D. Richard Scannell
Apr 2010 Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt Richard Wirick
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
Jun 2010 Carrier: Untangling the Danger in My DNA by Bonnie J. Rough, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Colleen Mondor
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 2013 Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff James Orbesen
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
May 2011 The Royal Remains: The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty by Eric L. Santner Evan McMurry
May 2012 Saint-Genet: Actor and Martyr by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Bernard Frechtman Josh Zajdman
Jul 2005 Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi Carrie Jones
Sep 2012 Beauty and the Inferno by Roberto Saviano and A Free Man by Aman Sethi David Hammerschlag
Mar 2006 Jesusland by Julia Scheeres bookslut
Sep 2007 Not a Happy Camper by Mindy Schneider Benjamin Jacob Hollars
Dec 2012 Death in Persia by Annemarie Schwarzenbach, translated by Lucy Renner Jones Daniel Shvartsman
Jul 2011 La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life by Elaine Sciolino Kate Deimling
Jul 2010 A Lesser Day by Andrea Scrima Lauren Smith
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.
Feb 2010 Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields David Griffith
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
Aug 2008 Have You No Shame? And Other Regrettable Tales by Rachel Shukert Beth Harrington
May 2011 Since '45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art by Katy Siegel Jacob Mikanowski
Jul 2009 Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir by Sue William Silverman Beth Harrington
May 2011 The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms by Georg Simmel, translated by John A.Y. Andrews and Donald N. Levine Matt McGregor
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
Mar 2011 Girlvert: A Porno Memoir by Oriana Small Morgan Macgregor
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
Nov 2011 Springtime: The New Student Rebellions edited by Clare Solomon and Tania Palmieri Matt McGregor
Sep 2006 Literary Lives by Edward Sorel Carrie Jones
May 2011 Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography by Muriel Spark Kim Randall Cox
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
May 2009 Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness by Williard Spiegelman Benjamin Jacob Hollars
Jul 2008 The Time of My Life: Writers on the Heartbreak, Hormones, and Debauchery of Prom edited by Rob Spillman Elizabeth Bachner
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
Oct 2009 Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk J.W. McCormack
Jun 2011 On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe by Andrzej Stasiuk, translated by Michael Kandel Jonathan Crowl
Dec 2012 You Were Never in Chicago by Neil Steinberg Mary Mann
Jun 2007 Easter Everywhere by Darcey Steinke Erin Walter
Sep 2008 The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love edited by David Sterritt and John Anderson Elizabeth Bachner
Feb 2007 Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers by Amy Stewart Sarah Statz
May 2009 Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart Elizabeth Bachner
Mar 2012 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Jill Talbot
Sep 2009 The Calculus of Friendship by Steven Strogatz Becky Ferreira
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
May 2013 The End of San Francisco by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Miha
Mar 2012 Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Miha
Feb 2008 The Boys of Everest by Clint Willis and Forever on the Mountain by James M. Tabor Colleen Mondor
Jul 2010 Prefaces to Shakespeare by Tony Tanner Janis Lull
May 2004 Nerve's Guide to Sex Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen by Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey Liz Miller
Mar 2012 Studs Terkel's Chicago by Studs Terkel Mary Mann
Sep 2009 Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives edited by Peter Terzian Katie Henderson
Aug 2008 The Delighted States: A Book of Novels, Romances, and Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, and Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles, Illustrations, and a Variety of Helpful Indexes by Adam Thirlwell Richard Wirick
Mar 2012 Postal Pleasures: Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters by Kate Thomas Tovah Burstein
Feb 2013 Francis of Assisi: A New Biography by Augustine Thompson Kelsey Osgood
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
Jul 2009 Ad Nauseam: A Survivor’s Guide to American Consumer Culture by Carrie McLaren and Jason Torchinsky Carolyn Juris
Oct 2010 Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women by Rebecca Traister Koa Beck
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
Mar 2011 Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War by Deb Olin Unferth Michael Schaub
Dec 2008 AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India Beth Harrington
Sep 2010 Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer!: Writings on Bruce Willis, Badass Cinema and Other Important Topics by Vern Caroline Hagood
Nov 2008 Crazy Loco Love by Victor Villaseñor Beth Harrington
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
Mar 2013 Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination by Otto Dov Kulka, translated by Ralph Mandel Evan McMurry
Jul 2005 Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Gena Anderson
Sep 2010 The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal Karen Rigby
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
Sep 2011 The Future of Feminism by Sylvia Walby Evan McMurry
Jun 2007 Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression edited by David Wallis Paul Morton
Sep 2009 The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? by Peter Ward Beth Harrington
Jul 2011 The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International by McKenzie Wark David Winters
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
Nov 2012 The Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty by Bernadette Wegenstein Miha
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
Dec 2009 Direct Red: A Surgeon's View of Her Life-or-Death Profession by Gabriel Weston Zoe Deleuil
Jun 2004 Dancing Barefoot by Wil Wheaton Gena Anderson
Mar 2013 A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century by Jerry White Josh Zajdman
Dec 2005 North Country by Shane White Carrie Jones
Feb 2005 A Country Practice: Scenes from the Veterinary Life by Douglas Whynott Gena Anderson
Jan 2009 The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Life by Frances Wilson Elizabeth Bachner
Feb 2011 Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester Kelsey Osgood
Mar 2013 Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder Kelsey Osgood
May 2010 Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History by Simon Winder Bonnie B. Lee
Sep 2004 Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights by Steven M. Wise Jen Crispin
Feb 2009 The Adventures of Cancer Bitch by S. L. Wisenberg Richard Wirick
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 Rothstein
Jun 2007 Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneuer's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood Chris Winters
Dec 2012 On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms by Virginia Woolf and Julia Stephen Mary Mann
Mar 2013 Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright Josh Zajdman
Sep 2011 Second Reading: Notable and Neglected Books Revisited by Jonathan Yardley Geraldine McGowan
Mar 2011 The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch Caleb Powell
Sep 2005 I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir by Rafi Zabor Laura Leichum
Feb 2011 Fury: A Memoir by Koren Zailckas Siobhan Neile Welch
Mar 2005 When I Was a Soldier by Valerie Zenatti Joey Rubin
Dec 2012 Spirit Photography: A Fireside Book of Gurus by Zephyrus Image Patrick Dunagan
Oct 2008 A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play by Dave Zirin Craig Fehrman