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WorkYear
Finding Florida by T. D. Allman
2013
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 by Rick Atkinson
2013
Report from the Interior by Paul Auster
2013
On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes
2013
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass
2013
Gun Guys: A Road Trip by Dan Baum
2013
Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776 by Richard Beeman
2013
Shouting Won't Help: Why I and 50 Million Other Americans Can't Hear You by Katherine Bouton
2013
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
2013
Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell by Peter Caddick-Adams
2013
The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine
2013
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
2013
JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President by Thurston Clarke
2013
On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin by Marie Colvin
2013
Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America's Radical Right by Claire Conner
2013
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch
2013
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 by William Dalrymple
2013
Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal by Michael D'Antonio
2013
Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football by Nicholas Dawidoff
2013
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
2013
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami by Gretel Ehrlich
2013
The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman by Benita Eisler
2013
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence by Joseph J. Ellis
2013
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin
2013
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World by Shereen El Feki
2013
Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel
2013
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
2013
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Frankel
2013
The Tender Soldier: A True Story of War and Sacrifice by Vanessa M Gezari
2013
To America with Love by A. A. Gill
2013
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
2013
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber
2013
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion by Allen C. Guelzo
2013
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story by Michael Hainey
2013
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings
2013
The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind and Changed the History of Free Speech in America by Thomas Healy
2013
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography by Richard Hell
2013
The Book of My Lives {original edition} by Aleksandar Hemon
2013
Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn
2013
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter
2013
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
2013
Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta
2013
Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang
2013
The Joker: A Memoir by Andrew Hudgins
2013
The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA by Scott C. Johnson
2013
A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America by Jacqueline Jones
2013
Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux by Boris Kachka
2013
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz
2013
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time by Ira Katznelson
2013
Pukka's Promise: The Quest for Longer-Lived Dogs by Ted Kerasote
2013
Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction by Tracy Kidder
2013
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer
2013
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker
2013
The World is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake by Dany Laferrière
2013
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell by Phil Lapsley
2013
The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century by David Laskin
2013
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
2013
A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout
2013
Hammarskjold: A Life by Roger Lipsey
2013
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
2013
A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America by Evan J. Mandery
2013
Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns by David Margolick
2013
Lasting City: The Anatomy of Nostalgia by James McCourt
2013
July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin
2013
My Mistake by Daniel Menaker
2013
Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time by Adrian Miller
2013
Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio
2013
Robert Oppenheimer: Inside the Centre by Ray Monk
2013
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate by Wendy Moore
2013
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures by Virginia Morell
2013
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
2013
I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place by Howard Norman
2013
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olson
2013
A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story by Qais Akbar Omar
2013
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer
2013
The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters by Anthony Pagden
2013
The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese by Michael Paterniti
2013
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
2013
Useful Enemies: John Demjanjuk and America's Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals by Richard Rashke
2013
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin
2013
The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme: An Illustrated Panorama by Joe Sacco
2013
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
2013
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People by Neil Shubin
2013
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
2013
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil
2013
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village by John Strausbaugh
2013
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor
2013
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout
2013
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari by Paul Theroux
2013
Mo' meta blues : the world according to Questlove by Questlove
2013
Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 2 by Mark Twain
2013
The Ordinary Acrobat: A Journey into the Wondrous World of the Circus, Past and Present by Duncan Wall
2013
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
2013
Fosse by Sam Wasson
2013
Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal by Jon Wiederhorn
2013
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
2013
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti by Amy Wilentz
2013
Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 by Brenda Wineapple
2013
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
2013

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