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Looking for Alaska by John Green2005
An Abundance of Katherines by John GreenYoung Adult Fiction, 2006
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M. T. AndersonYoung Adult Fiction, 2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor BranchHistory, 2006
The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris by Alicia DrakeCurrent Interest, 2006
Black Box by Erin BelieuPoetry, 2006
Black Swan Green by David MitchellFiction, 2006
Burning Wyclif by Thom SatterleePoetry, 2006
City of Tiny Lights by Patrick NeateMystery/Thriller,, 2006
The colony: the harrowing true story of the exiles of Molokai by John TaymanHistory, 2006
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by Edward O. WilsonScience and Technology, 2006
Darling Vulgarity (American Poets Continuum) by Michael WatersPoetry, 2006
Echo Park by Michael ConnellyMystery/Thriller,, 2006
The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors by Ann GibbonsScience and Technology, 2006
The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius by Joyce ChaplinScience and Technology, 2006
Golden Country by Jennifer GilmoreArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2006
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas BrinkleyCurrent Interest, 2006
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv ChandrasekaranCurrent Interest, 2006
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. KandelScience and Technology, 2006
Just in Case by Meg RosoffYoung Adult Fiction, 2006
The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo da Ponte Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's by Rodney BoltBiography, 2006
Logorrhea: Poems by Adrian LouisPoetry, 2006
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence WrightHistory, 2006
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel MendelsohnBiography, 2006
Mary by Janis Cooke NewmanArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel PhilbrickHistory, 2006
A Million Nightingales by Susan StraightFiction, 2006
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby ApplegateBiography, 2006
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian BurumaCurrent Interest, 2006
The Night Gardener by George PelecanosMystery/Thriller,, 2006
Ooga-Booga: Poems by Frederick SeidelPoetry, 2006
Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey GoldbergBiography, 2006
The Rules of Survival by Nancy WerlinYoung Adult Fiction, 2006
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo: A Novel by Peter OrnerFiction, 2006
Skinner's Drift: A Novel by Lisa FugardArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2006
Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri JentzCurrent Interest, 2006
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. LevitinScience and Technology, 2006
Tyrell by Coe BoothYoung Adult Fiction, 2006
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal GablerBiography, 2006
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall FergusonHistory, 2006
White Ghost Girls by Alice GreenwayArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2006
Whiteman by Tony D'SouzaArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2006
The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don WinslowMystery/Thriller,, 2006
Winter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellFiction, 2006
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. YehoshuaFiction, 2006
The Zero by Jess WalterMystery/Thriller,, 2006
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieYoung Adult Literature, 2007
Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence by James L. GouldScience & Technology, 2007
Boone: A Biography by Robert MorganBiography, 2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazFiction, 2007
Christine Falls by Benjamin BlackMystery/Thriller, 2007
Darkwing by Kenneth OppelYoung Adult Literature, 2007
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy IsenbergBiography, 2007
The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam by Tom BissellCurrent Interest, 2007
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics by Gino SegreScience & Technology, 2007
The First Total War by David A. BellHistory, 2007
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine KenneallyScience & Technology, 2007
Frozen Tracks by Åke EdwardsonMystery/Thriller, 2007
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew NagorskiHistory, 2007
Ice Moon by Jan Costin WagnerMystery/Thriller, 2007
In the Woods by Tana FrenchMystery/Thriller, 2007
The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems: 1972-2007 by Albert GoldbarthPoetry, 2007
The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories by Ellen LitmanArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2007
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'NanFiction, 2007
Little Boat (Wesleyan Poetry) by Jean ValentinePoetry, 2007
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael BeahCurrent Interest, 2007
Mars Being Red by Marvin BellPoetry, 2007
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillanHistory, 2007
On Deep History and the Brain by Daniel Lord SmailScience & Technology, 2007
Out Stealing Horses by Per PettersonFiction, 2007
Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems by Elaine EquiPoetry, 2007
The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America by Ronald BrownsteinCurrent Interest, 2007
The Shadow Catcher: A Novel by Marianne WigginsFiction, 2007
Skylark Farm by Antonia ArslanArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2007
Stanley by Tim JealBiography, 2007
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England by Lynne OlsonHistory, 2007
Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money (P.S.) by Rebecca CurtisArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2007
The Understory by Pamela ErensArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2007
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War by Michael J. NeufeldBiography, 2007
What They Found: Love on 145th Street by Walter Dean MyersYoung Adult Literature, 2007
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughreanYoung Adult Literature, 2007
The Age of Dreaming by Nina RevoyrMystery/Thriller, 2008
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon MeachamBiography, 2008
Bad Traffic: A Novel by Simon LewisMystery/Thriller, 2008
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve CollCurrent Interest, 2008
Chagall: A Biography by Jackie WullschlagerBiography, 2008
Child 44 by Tom Rob SmithMystery/Thriller, 2008
Dark Dude by Oscar HijuelosYoung Adult Literature, 2008
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane MayerCurrent Interest, 2008
Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent by Ernest FreebergBiography, 2008
The Finder: A Novel by Colin HarrisonMystery/Thriller, 2008
The Forever War by Dexter FilkinsCurrent Interest, 2008
The God of War: A Novel by Marisa SilverFiction, 2008
The Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanYoung Adult Literature, 2008
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems by Marie HowePoetry, 2008
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace FlemingYoung Adult Literature, 2008
Lush Life by Richard PriceFiction, 2008
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life by Carl ZimmerScience & Technology, 2008
Mosquito by Roma TearneArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2008
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte TaylorCurrent Interest, 2008
Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath by Rick WartzmanHistory, 2008
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael DobbsHistory, 2008
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul by Kenneth R. MillerScience & Technology, 2008
Ours (New California Poetry) by Cole SwensenPoetry, 2008
The Outcast by Sadie JonesArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2008
Rare high meadow of which i might dream by Connie VoisinePoetry, 2008
Say You're One of Them by Uwem AkpanArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2008
Sea Change: Poems by Jorie GrahamPoetry, 2008
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian BarryFiction, 2008
The Size of the World: A Novel by Joan SilberFiction, 2008
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David WroblewskiArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2008
Swallow Me Whole by Nate PowellYoung Adult Literature, 2008
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North by Thomas J. SugrueHistory, 2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin FaustHistory, 2008
Traitor to His Class by H. W. BrandsBiography, 2008
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life by Avery GilbertScience & Technology, 2008
Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform by Martin J. S. RudwickScience & Technology, 2008
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard HolmesHistory, 2009
Black Water Rising: A Novel by Attica LockeMystery/Thriller, 2009
Blame by Michelle HunevenFiction, 2009
Bury Me Deep: A Novel by Megan AbbottMystery/Thriller, 2009
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard WranghamScience and Technology, 2009
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah HeiligmanYoung Adult Literature, 2009
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill StreeverScience and Technology, 2009
Columbine by Dave CullenCurrent Interest, 2009
A Darker Domain: A Novel by Val McDermidMystery/Thriller, 2009
Dearest Creature by Amy GerstlerPoetry, 2009
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda GordonBiography, 2009
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina GappahArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2009
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. WoodHistory, 2009
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells TowerArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2009
Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel by Joe SaccoGraphic Novel, 2009
GoGo Monster by Taiyo MatsumotoGraphic Novel, 2009
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. KristofCurrent Interest, 2009
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T. R. ReidCurrent Interest, 2009
Heroic Measures: A Novel by Jill CimentFiction, 2009
The Hidden Man by David EllisMystery/Thriller, 2009
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal MueenuddinArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2009
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic by Michael ScammellBiography, 2009
The Lost Conspiracy by Frances HardingeYoung Adult Literature, 2009
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life by Melvin UrofskyBiography, 2009
Luba (A Love and Rockets Book) by Gilbert HernandezGraphic Novel, 2009
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (New Directions in Southern Studies) by Amy Louise WoodHistory, 2009
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane GardamFiction, 2009
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science by Carol K. YoonScience and Technology, 2009
Open Interval (Pitt Poetry Series) by Lyrae Van Clief-StefanonPoetry, 2009
Passing Strange by Martha A. SandweissHistory, 2009
The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy by James Cross GiblinYoung Adult Literature, 2009
Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe by Bryan Lee O'MalleyGraphic Novel, 2009
A Short History of Women by Kate WalbertFiction, 2009
Strength in What Remains by Tracy KidderCurrent Interest, 2009
Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun TanYoung Adult Literature, 2009
Tinkers by Paul HardingArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2009
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst by Kenneth WhyteBiography, 2009
What the Right Hand Knows (Stahlecker Series Selection) by Tom Healy2009
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin DowneyBiography, 2009
Zeitoun by Dave EggersCurrent Interest, 2009
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLeanCurrent Interest, 2010
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael LewisCurrent Interest, 2010
BodyWorld by Dash ShawGraphic Novel, 2010
City of Dragons: A San Francisco Mystery by Kelli StanleyMystery/Thriller, 2010
Collusion by Stuart NevilleMystery/Thriller, 2010
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisBiography, 2010
A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen TurnerYoung Adult Literature, 2010
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom FranklinMystery/Thriller, 2010
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W. DowerHistory, 2010
The Curse of the Wendigo by Rick YanceyYoung Adult Literature, 2010
Day for Night: A Novel by Frederick ReikenFiction, 2010
Duncan the Wonder Dog by Adam HinesGraphic Novel, 2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha MukherjeeScience & Technology, 2010
Faithful Place by Tana FrenchMystery/Thriller, 2010
Freedom by Jonathan FranzenFiction, 2010
From Unincorporated Territory by Craig Santos PerezPoetry, 2010
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I by Miranda CarterBiography, 2010
The Gin Closet by Leslie JamisonArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2010
Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher HitchensBiography, 2010
The House of Tomorrow by Peter BognanniArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2010
I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura LippmanMystery/Thriller, 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootScience & Technology, 2010
Just Kids by Patti SmithCurrent Interest, 2010
The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas PowersHistory, 2010
The Lodger by Karl StevensGraphic Novel, 2010
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana SoliArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2010
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Erik ConwayScience & Technology, 2010
The More I Owe You: A Novel by Michael SledgeArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2010
Nashville Chrome by Rick BassFiction, 2010
Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007 by Henri ColePoetry, 2010
Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry: Stories (AWP) by Christine SneedArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2010
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Solomon HarmanScience & Technology, 2010
The Promise: President Obama, Year One by Jonathan AlterCurrent Interest, 2010
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren RednissScience & Technology, 2010
The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan StroudYoung Adult Literature, 2010
Roosevelt's Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party by Susan DunnHistory, 2010
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina HastingsBiography, 2010
Something Is Out There: Stories by Richard BauschFiction, 2010
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science by Marc AronsonYoung Adult Literature, 2010
To See the Earth Before the End of the World (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Ed RobersonPoetry, 2010
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura HillenbrandBiography, 2010
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganFiction, 2010
WAR by Sebastian JungerCurrent Interest, 2010
Washington: A Life by Ron ChernowHistory, 2010
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven SolomonHistory, 2010
Weathercraft: A Frank Comic by Jim WoodringGraphic Novel, 2010
Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Maxine KuminPoetry, 2010
Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Stephanie HemphillYoung Adult Literature, 2010
You'll Never Know Book Two: "Collateral Damage" by C. TylerGraphic Novel, 2010

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