November 07, 2007
Nonfiction
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great American Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu
In the Blood: A Memory of my Childhood by Andrew Motion
The Haunted Observatory: Curiosities from teh Astronomer's Cabinet by Richard Baum
Nobody Likes a Quitter(and other reasons to avoid rehab): The Loaded Life of an Outlaw Booze Writer by Dan Dunn
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink by Robert D. Morris
Douglas and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick
Book Smart: Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genuis in 365 Days by Jane Mallison
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg
The Tokyo Look Book: Stylish to Spectacular, Goth to Gyaru, Sidwalk to Catwalk by Philomena Keet, photography by Yuri Manabe
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the XIVth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer
Putting "America" on the Map by Seymour I. Schwartz
Then, Again: The Art of Time in Memoir by Sven Birkerts
The Half-Life of an American Essayist by Arthur Krystal
Straddling Worlds: The Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold by Steven J. Harper
Murder in Mayberry: Green, Death and Mayhem in a Small Town by Mary Kinney Branson and Jack Branson
Are You There, God? It's Me, Kevin: A Memoir by Kevin Keck
St. Peter's by Keith Miller
Journeys With Justine by Janine Canan
Goddesses, Goddesses: Essays by Janine Canan
The Happiest Man in the World: An Account of the Life of Poppa Neutrino by Alec Wilkinson
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine
The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art and Music Drive New York City by Elizabeth Currid
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of The New Global Economy by John Bowe
Off the King's Road: Lost and Found in London, a memoir by Phyllis Raphael
Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse by Sylvain Cypel
A Guest in my Own Country: A Hungarian Life by George Konrad
The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie
Sex and Isolation and other Essays by Bruce Benderson
The White Book: The Beatles, the Bands, and the Biz: An Insider's Look at an Era by Ken Mansfield
Bones, Rocks, and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened by Chris Turney
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak by Jean Hatzfeld
Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships by David Levy
Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age by Joel N. Shurkin
The Sixth Wife by Suzannah Dunn
On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy by Eric Hobsbawm
Somebody Scream! Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power by Marcus Reeves
Merton and Friends: A Joint Biography of Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, and Edward Rice by James Hartford
My Family and Other Saints by Kirin Narayan
Posted by Jessa Crispin at November 7, 2007 06:10 PM