- History of Cambodia by David Chandler
- Sideshow by William Shawcross
- Awesome by Jack Pendarvis
- Beijing Coma by Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew
- Day by A.L Kennedy
- The English Major by Jim Harrison
- The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- Happy Families by Carlos Fuentes
- Home by Marilyn Robinson
- Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
- The Little Book by Selden Edwards
- The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
- Night Train To Lisbon by Pascal Mercier; translated by Barbara Harshav
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- Our Story Begins: New & Selected Stories by Tobais Wolff
- The Road Home by Rose Tremain
- Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated by Katherine Silver
- Serena by Ron Rash
- The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black
- Songs for the Missing by Stewart O'Nan
- The Sorrows of An American by Siri Hustvedt
- Telex From Cuba by Rachel Kushner
- Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Wettest Country in the World by Matt Bondurant
- Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong; translated by Howard Goldblatt
- The Age of Reagan: A History 1974-2008 by Sean Wilentz
- Alfred Kazin by Richard M. Cook
- American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella
- The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through our Cemeteries & Burial Grounds by Marilyn Yalom; photos by Reid S. Yalom
- Bacardi & The Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause by Tom Gjelten
- Big Boy Rules by Steve Fainaru
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science & Sex by Mary Roach
- Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer
- Chasing The Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello & the Fight to Save the World by Samantha Power
- The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China From the Bottom Up by Liao Yiwu; translated by Wen Huang
- Descent into Chaos: The U.S & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
- Dreams & Shadows: The Future of the Middle East by Robin Wright
- An Exact Replica of a Figment of my Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
- Factory Girls by Leslie T. Change
- The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost & Found by Mary Beard
- First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century by David Lida
- The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
- The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Place in the World by Eric Weiner
- God's Crucible: Islam, & the Making of Europ 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
- How Beautiful it is & how Easily it can be Broken by Daniel Mendelsohn
- How Fiction Works by James Wood
- An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the 21st Century by James Orbinski, M.D
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
- King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop by Harvard Sitkoff
- My Life as a Traitor by Zarah Ghahramani, with Robert Hillman
- On The Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 & the Struggle for Justice that Remade a Nation by Robert Whitaker
- Promised Land: 13 Books that Changed America by Jay Parini
- Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollmann
- Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir by David Rieff
- The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare & How it Changed America by David Hajdu
- Thames: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
- This Land is Their Land: Reports From a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Republic of Suffering: Death & the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
- This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund, with Alan Kesselheim
- The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso
- A Voyage Long & Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
- Wartime Writings: 1943-1949 by Marguerite Duras; translated by Linda Coverdale
- All the Living by C.E Morgan
- The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
- Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
- Atlas of Unknowns by Tania James
- The Believers by Zoe Heller
- Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
- Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
- The Book of Genesis illustrated by R. Crumb
- Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
- The Children's Book by A.S Byatt
- Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
- The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Don't Cry: Stories by Mary Gaitskill
- Drift: Stories by Victoria Patterson
- Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
- Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories by Wells Tower
- A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias
- Homer & Langley by E.L Doctorow
- The Housekeeper & The Professor by Yoko Ogawa
- I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
- The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri
- In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
- Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
- The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis
- Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
- Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
- Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
- Love & Obstacles: Stories by Aleksander Hemon
- Lowboy by John Wray
- Nothing Right: Short Stories by Antonya Nelson
- Once the Shore: Stories by Paul Yoon
- The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K Lee
- Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
- A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
- Spoiled: Stories by Caitlin Macy
- That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
- The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
- Tinkers by Paul Harding
- Too Much Happiness: Stories by Alice Munro
- The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
- The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- Woodsburner by John Pipkin
- The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
- Ayn Rand & the World She Made by Anne C. Heller
- The Bolter by Frances Osborne
- Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor, by Tad Friend
- Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey
- Closing Time: A Memoir by Joe Queenan
- Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker by James McManus
- Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, by Morris Dickstein
- Dawn Light: Dancing With Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day, by Diane Ackerman
- Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, by Linda Gordon
- Down at the Docks by Rory Nugent
- Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, by Novella Carpenter
- A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon, by Neil Sheehan
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T.J. Stiles
- Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, by Greg Grandin
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
- Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963, by Kevin Starr
- Googled: The End of the World As We Know It, by Ken Auletta
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, by Richard Dawkins
- In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language, by Arika Okrent
- The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, by Peter T. Leeson
- The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China, by Hannah Pakula
- Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou
- Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann
- Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, by Michael Chabon
- Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City, by Eric W. Sanderson
- The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks, by Robin Romm
- Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town, by Nick Reding
- The Music Room: A Memoir, by William Fiennes
- Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
- Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
- A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, by Rebecca Solnit
- Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line, by Martha A. Sandweiss
- Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka
- Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, by Matthew B. Crawford
- The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After, by Melanie Gideon
- The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir, by Diana Athill
- Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness, by Tracy Kidder
- Tamalpais Walking: Poetry, History, and Prints, by Tom Killion and Gary Snyder
- Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, by Robin D.G. Kelley
- This Lovely Life: A Memoir of Premature Motherhood, by Vicki Forman
- The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement, by Miriam Pawel
- The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, by Douglas Brinkley
- Woman From Shanghai: Tales of Survival From a Chinese Labor Camp, by Xianhui Yang
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
dec 24 2009 ∞
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