A list of great nonfiction reads not on the Best Sellers list from Winter 2015
January - March 2015 Issue
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See also:
- Featured Review: The Verdict by Nick Stone
- Fiction Recommendations
- Previous Issues
Berlin, Ira. The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States.
Bikont, Anna. The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne.
Breyer, Stephen. The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities.
Brotherton, Rob. Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories.
Cisneros, Sandra. A House of My Own: Stories from My Life.
Costello, Elvis. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink.
Damrosch, Leo. Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake.
Davis, Clark. It Starts with Trouble: William Goyen and the Life of Writing.
Dean, Margaret Lazarus. Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Space Flight.
DeVita, Jr., Vincent T. The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer is Winnable -- And How We Can Get There.
Eby, Margaret. South toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature.
Ferguson, Niall. Kissinger: The Idealist, 1923-1968.
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010.
Forrester, James. The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives.
Gilbert, Elizabeth. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear.
Goldberg, Daniel. The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture.
Goldberger, Paul. Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry.
Goulding, Matt. Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan’s Food Culture.
Gura, Philip F. The Life of William Apess, Pequot.
Guralnick, Peter. Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Harkup, Kathryn. A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie.
Haygood, Wil. Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America.
Holzer, Harold. A Just and Generous Nation: Abraham Lincoln and the Fight for American Opportunity.
Jackson, Tom. Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again.
Jacobsen, Annie. The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency.
Jefferson, Margo. Negroland: A Memoir.
Kaplan, James. Sinatra: The Chairman.
Karr, Mary. The Art of Memoir.
Kasparov, Garry. Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped.
Kellow, Brian. Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s First Superagent.
Koppel, Ted. Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath.
Lehman, David. The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014.
Light, Alison. Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors.
Lowenstein, Roger. America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve.
MacGregor, Neil. Germany: Memories of a Nation.
McGilligan, Patrick. Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane.
Makari, George. Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind.
Mar, Alex. Witches of America.
Maraniss, David. Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story.
Nabokov, Peter. How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family.
Nabokov, Vladimir. Letters to Vera.
Newkirk, Pamela. Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga.
Nisbett, Robert E. Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking.
Norris, John. Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism.
Oates, Joyce Carol. The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age.
Odede, Kennedy. Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum.
Odell, Amy. Tales from the Back Row: An Outsider’s View from Inside the Fashion Industry.
Randall, Lisa. Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe.
Rieff, David. The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century.
Robinson, Marilynne. The Givenness of Things: Essays.
Russakoff, Dale. The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?
Sacks, Jonathan. Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence.
Schiff, Stacy. The Witches: Salem, 1692.
Seabrook, John. The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory.
Service, Robert. The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991.
Shane, Scott. Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone.
Simic, Charles. The Life of Images: Selected Prose.
Sinitiere, Phillip. Salvation with a Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity.
Sky, Emma. The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq.
Smith, Patti. M Train.
Steinem, Gloria. My Life on the Road.
Theroux, Paul. Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads.
Thomas, Evan. Being Nixon: A Man Divided.
Toibin, Colm. On Elizabeth Bishop.
Toll, Ian W. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944.
Tombs, Robert. The English and Their History.
Tudor, Daniel. North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.
Turkle, Sherry. Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age.
Urofsky, Melvin I. Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court’s History and the Nation’s Constitutional Dialogue.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society.
Vendler, Helen. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry.
Wachsmann, Nikolaus. KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps.
Wilson, Andrew. Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin.
Wilson, Cintra. Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style.
Winik, Jay. 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History.
Wulf, Andrea. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World.