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Mike Albo The Underminer

Sherman Alexie Ten Little Indians

Jonathan Ames What's Not to Love

Nicholson Baker A Box of Matches

Melissa Bank The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Melissa Bank The Wonder Spot

Dave Barry Big Trouble

Dave Barry Tricky Business

Thomas Beller (editor) Personals: Dreams and Nightmares from the Lives of 20 Young Writers 

Amy Bloom Normal: Crossdressing Cops, et.al

Stephen Bloom Postville

David Bodanis Passionate Minds

Robert Boswell Mystery Ride

Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt The Climb

Helen Boyd My Husband Betty

T. C. Boyle Drop City

T. C. Boyle The Inner Circle

Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson I’m a Stranger Here Myself

Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Augusten Burroughs Magical Thinking

Michael Byers Long For This World

Sasha Cagen Quirkyalone

Robert T. Carroll The Skeptic’s Dictionary

Cindy Chupack The Between Boyfriends Book

Leah Hager Cohen Heart, You Bully, You Punk

Michael Crummey River Thieves

Michael Cunningham The Hours

Gavin de Becker The Gift of Fear

Meghan Daum My Misspent Youth

Meghan Daum The Quality of Life Report

Carmit Delman Burnt Bread and Chutney

Dave Draper Brother Iron, Sister Steel

Rod Dreher Crunchy Cons

Stephen Dubner Turbulent Souls

Andre Dubus III The House of Sand and Fog

Firoozeh Dumas Funny in Farsi

Sarah Dunn The Big Love

Mary Eberstadt (editor) Why I Turned Right

Barbara Ehrenreich Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America

Barbara Ehrenreich Bait and Switch

Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Paul Feig Kick Me

Michael Finkel True Story

William Finnegan Cold New World

Miranda France Bad Times in Buenos Aires

Thomas Frank What’s the Matter With Kansas?

Jonathan Franzen The Corrections

Samuel Freedman Jew vs. Jew

Daniel Friedman Jews Without Judaism

Samuel Fussell Muscle

Anthony Giardina The Country of Marriage

Anthony Giardina White Guys

Daniel Gilbert Stumbling on Happiness

Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert The Last American Man

Elizabeth Gilbert Stern Men

Susan Jane Gilman Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress

Malcolm Gladwell Blink

Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point

Myla Goldberg Bee Season

Myla Goldberg Wickett’s Remedy

Ari Goldman The Search for God at Harvard

Elizabeth Graver Awake

Emily Griffin Baby Proof

Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night Time

Mark Haddon A Spot of Bother

Cathi Hanauer (editor) The Bitch in the House

Judith Rich Harris The Nurture Assumption

Lis Harris Holy Days

Zoe Heller What Was She Thinking?

Kristin Henderson While They’re at War

Tony Horwitz Confederates in the Attic

Pam Houston Waltzing the Cat

David Huddle The Story of a Million Years

Allison Janse The Germ Freak’s Guide

Diane Johnson Le Divorce

Sebastian Junger A Death in Belmont

Donna Jarrell and Ira Sukrungruang (editors) Scoot Over, Skinny

Donna Jarrell and Ira Sukrungruang (editors) What Are You Looking At?

Matt Kailey Just Add Hormones

Stephanie Kallos Broken For You

Josephine Kamm John Stuart Mill in Love 

Dan Kennedy Little People

Dan Kennedy Loser Goes First

Randy Kennedy Subwayland

Nanci Kincaid Pretending the Bed is a Raft

Lily King The Pleasing Hour

Ruchama King Seven Blessings

Gina Kolata Ultimate Fitness

Jon Krakauer Under the Banner of Heaven

Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake

Jake Lamar Close to the Bone

Anne Lamott Blue Shoe

Lori Lansens The Girls

Erik Larson The Devil in the White City

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Random Family

David Leavitt The Body of Jonah Boyd

Dennis Lehane Mystic River

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook

Jonathan Lethem Men and Cartoons

Robert Levine The Geography of Time

Ariel Levy Female Chauvinist Pigs

Elinor Lipman The Inn at Lake Devine

David Lipsky Absolutely American

Paul Lukas Inconspicuous Consumption

Rosemary Mahoney The Early Arrival of Dreams

Steve Martin Shopgirl

Ellen Jaffe McClain Embracing the Stranger

Ian McEwan On Chesil Beach

Bill McKibben Maybe One

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

Cheryl Mendelson Home Comforts

Mil Millington Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About

Tova Mirvis The Outside World

Brian Morton Breakable You

Brian Morton Starting Out in the Evening

Brian Morton A Window Across the River

Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler’s Wife

Laurie Notaro The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club

Sigrid Nunez The Last of Her Kind

Susan Orlean The Orchid Thief

Ann Packer The Dive From Clausen’s Pier

Ann Patchett Bel Canto

Ann Patchett Truth and Beauty

Tom Perrotta Little Children

Robert Pinsky (editor)  Americans’ Favorite Poems

Michael Pollan The Botany of Desire

William Powers Blue Clay People

William Powers Whispering in the Giant’s Ear

Richard Preston The Wild Trees

Francine Prose Blue Angel

Francine Prose A Changed Man

Eric Puchner Music Through the Floor

David Rakoff Don’t Get Too Comfortable

David Remnick (editor) Profiles: Life Stories from the New Yorker

John H. Richardson In the Little World

Keith B. Richburg Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa

Mary Roach Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach Spook

Jon Ronson Them: Adventures with Extremists

Donna Rosenthal The Israelis

Marjane Satrapi Persepolis

Dan Savage Skipping Towards Gomorrah

David Schickler Kissing in Manhattan

Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones

David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day

Wendy Shalit A Return to Modesty

Jane Shapiro The Dangerous Husband

Nina Shengold Clearcut

Curtis Sittenfeld Man of My Dreams

Curtis Sittenfeld Prep

Joseph Skibell The English Disease

Carolyn Slaughter Before the Knife

Alison Smith Name All the Animals

Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Sparrow America: A Prophecy

Scott Spencer A Ship Made of Paper

Jeffrey Steingarten The Man Who Ate Everything

Laura Sessions Stepp Unhooked

Jane Stern Ambulance Girl

Clifford Stoll High-Tech Heretic

Wendy Swallow The Triumph of Love over Experience

Marly Swick Evening News

Craig Thompson Blankets

Miriam Toews A Complicated Kindness

Adrian Tomine Summer Blonde

John Updike (editor) The Best American Short Stories of the Century

Zac Unger Working Fire

Abraham Verghese My Own Country 

Abraham Verghese The Tennis Partner

Norah Vincent Self-made Man

Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle

Jennifer Weiner Good in Bed

Kayla Williams Love My Rifle More Than You

Lauren Winner Girl Meets God

Lolly Winston Good Grief

Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff

Evan Wright Generation Kill

Stephen Zanichkowsky Fourteen

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