A list of great nonfiction reads not on the Best Sellers list from Winter 2013
January - March 2013 Issue
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Avrich, Paul. Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman.
Baker, Nicholson. The Way the World Works: Essays.
Bartlett, Donald L. The Betrayal of the American Dream.
Bateson, John. The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Beevor, Antony. The Second World War.
Belluck, Pam. Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor.
Brands, H.W. The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace.
Byrne, David. How Music Works.
Chafe, William H. Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal.
Chandrasekaran, Rajiv. Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan.
Clifton, Lucille. The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010.
Crespino, Joseph. Strom Thurmond’s America.
Echols, Damien. Life After Death.
Egan, Timothy. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis.
Eichenwald, Kurt. 500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars.
Enright, Anne. Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood.
Felt, Hali. Soundings: The Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor.
Fortey, Richard. Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: the Story of the Animals and Plants that Time Has Left Behind.
Gibbs, Nancy. The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity.
Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas, and the Weather of the Future. Climate Central.
Guy, John. Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel: A Nine-Hundred-Year-Old Story Retold.
Hansen, Valerie. The Silk Road: A New History.
Hitchens, Christopher. Mortality.
Johansson, Frans. The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunities in an Unpredictable World.
Johnson, Joyce. The Voice Is All: the Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac.
Jones, Lesley-Ann. Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury.
Kelly, John. The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People.
King, Ross. Leonardo and the Last Supper.
Krauss, Lawrence M. A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing.
Lehrer, Jonah. Imagine: How Creativity Works.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986.
McDermott, Terry. The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Macintyre, Ben. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies.
McNamee, Thomas. The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat: Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance.
McWilliam, Candia. What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir of Blindness.
Manchester, William. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965.
Max, D.T. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace.
Meacham, Jon. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power.
Merry, Robert V. Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians.
Mishra, Pankaj. From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia.
Montgomery, David R. The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood.
Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara. Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing.
Niven, Penelope. Thornton Wilder: A Life.
Olds, Sharon. Stag’s Leap. (Poetry)
Orwell, George. Diaries.
Pantsov, Alexander V. Mao: The Real Story.
Quammen, David. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic.
Rappaport, Helen. A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy.
Ray, Janisse. The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food.
Rigney, Matt. In Pursuit of Giants: One Man’s Global Search for the Last of the Great Fish.
Romano, Carlin. America the Philosophical.
Rosenfeld, Seth. Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals and Reagan’s Rise to Power.
Roth, Marco. The Scientists: A Family Romance.
Sacks, Oliver. Hallucinations.
Scharf, Caleb. Gravity’s Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos.
Schwalbe, Will. The End of Your Life Book Club.
Share, Don. The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine.
Silver, Charlotte. Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood.
Skinner, David. The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published.
Slotkin, Richard. The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution.
Soloman, Andrew. Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.
Souder, William. On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson.
Spitz, Bob. Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child.
Sykes, Bryan. DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America.
Tabor, James D. Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity.
Thomson, David. The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies.
Toobin, Jeffrey. The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court.
Turner, John G. Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet.
Wahab, Saima. In My Father’s Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate.
Wasik, Bill. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus.
Williams, Florence. Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History.
Wilson, Bee. Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat.
Wolf, Naomi. Vagina: A New Biography.
Wolmar, Christian. The Great Railroad Revolution: the History of Trains in America.
Zimmerman, Jean. Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance.