American Prometheus by Kai Bird

The Assassins' Gate by George Packer

Berlin Diaries by Marie Vassiltchikov

Black Genius by Walter Mosley

The Bone Woman by Clea Koff

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

Broadway by Fran Leadon (Wall Street Journal)

Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes

The Death of the West by Patrick J. Buchanan

Democracy's Edge by Frances Moore Lappe

Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff

The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi

Exit, Voice and Loyalty by Albert O. Hirschman

Fat Land by Greg Critser

Four Trials by John Edwards

A Few Good Voices in My Head by Ted Solotaroff

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Jarhead by Anthony Swofford

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau edited by Damion Searls (The Quarterly Conversation)

Letters to His Neighbor by Marcel Proust (Wall Street Journal)

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (Christian Science Monitor)

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda

Never Shake Hands with a War Criminal by Barry Crimmins

Papillon by Henri Charriere

The Pattern in the Carpet by Margaret Drabble (Christian Science Monitor)

The Queen's Throat by Wayne Koestenbaum

The Ransom of Russian Art by John McPhee

Saul Bellow: Letters (Christian Science Monitor)

The Secret Way to War by Mark Danner

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

Thank God for the Atom Bomb by Paul Fussell

Thinking Points by George Lakoff

Thy Hand, Great Anarch! by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

The Truth (with Jokes) by Al Franken

War Reporting for Cowards by Chris Ayres

What Should I Do with My Life? by Po Bronson

What Went Wrong in Ohio edited by Anita Miller

Who Got Einstein's Office? by Ed Regis