May 19, 2009
Nonfiction
Girl Undressed: On Stripping in New York City by Ruth Fowler
Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot by Michael McLeod
Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of WWII by Brendan I Koerner
Pre-Gay L.A.: A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights by C Todd White
Will Work for Drugs by Lydia Lunch
Writing Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and Teacher by William Zinsser
Lost Boy by Brent W. Jeffs
7 Deadly Sins: A Very Partial List by Aviad Kleinberg
The Venus Fixers: The Untold Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During WWII by Ilaria Dagnini Brey
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the US Military Base on Diego Garcia by David Vine
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere
Israel is Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History by Rich Cohen
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B Crawford
And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture by Bill Wasik
Weird Science and Bizarre Beliefs: Mysterious Creatures, Lost Worlds and Amazing Inventions by Dr Gregory L Reece
Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa by Mark Seal
The Year of No Money in Tokyo by Wayne Lionel Aponte
Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant by Carol Berkin
Making an Elephant: Writing from Within by Graham Swift
The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis by Matthew Cobb
Bangkok Days: A Sojourn in the Capital of Pleasure by Lawrence Osborne
The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome by Christopher Kelly
Longitude by Wire: Finding North America by Richard Stachurski
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill
The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey into How the World's Poorest People are Educating Themselves by James Tooley
A Brain Wider than the Sky: A Migraine Diary by Andrew Levy
The Life of Mary Queen of Scots: An Accidental Tragedy by Roderick Graham
The Journals of Grace Hartigan 1951-1955
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life by Lori D Ginzberg
Why Does E=MC2? And Why Should We Care by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House
The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism by Claudia Verhoeven
Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia by Vladislav Zubok
Posted by Jessa Crispin at May 19, 2009 02:07 PM