February 20, 2009
Nonfiction
The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess by Andrei Codrescu
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh
The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America by Drew Pinsky
A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the 21st Century by Jacques Attali
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century by Adina Hoffman
Equal: Women Reshape American Law by Fred Strebeigh
Just Like Family: Inside the Lives of Nannies, the Parents They Work for, and the Children They Love by Tasha Blaine
Are We There Yet? Travels with My Frontline Family by Rosie Whitehouse
To the End of Hell: One Woman's Struggle to Survive Cambodia's Khmer Rouge by Denise Affonco
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor Brad Gooch
China Underground by Zachary Mexico
Daughters of Aquarius: Women of Sixties Counterculture by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellin Cartel as told by Roberto Escobar
I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles by Lily Burana
Fresh: A Perishable History by Susanne Freidberg
Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year that Made America's Public Enemy Number One by Elliott J Gorn
Stealing Lincoln's Body by Thomas J Craughwell
Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart
An Uncrowded Place: The Delights and Dilemmas of Life Up North and a Young Man's Search for Home by Bob Butz
The Challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathai
I Wouldn't Start From Here: The 21st Century and Where It All Went Wrong by Andrew Mueller
Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing Story of Survival by Yossi Ghinsberg
Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman
The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters by Richard Bernstein
The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? by Peter Ward
What Color is the Sacred? by Michael Taussig
More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City by William Julius Wilson
The Foie Gras Wars: How a 5,000 Year Old Delicacy Inspired the World's Fiercest Food Fight by Mark Caro
Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor by Billy Wayne Sinclair and Jodie Sinclair
The Whole Death Catalogue: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End by Harold Schechter
Posted by Jessa Crispin at February 20, 2009 11:35 AM