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Works (548)

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Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
The Archivist: A Novel by Martha Cooley
The Beauty of the Beastly by Natalie Angier
Beyond the Curve by Kōbō Abe
Blue Angel: A Novel by Francine Prose
The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha
Bringing Out the Dead: A Novel by Joe Connelly
The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss
The Chemistry of Conscious States: How the Brain Changes Its Mind by J. Allan Hobson
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Fever Season by Barbara Hambly
In Case We're Separated: Connected Stories by Alice Mattison
Leaving Earth: A Novel by Helen Humphreys
Legacy of the Dead by Charles Todd
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Riven Rock by T. C. Boyle
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter by J. Nozipo Maraire
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier1974
The Woman That Never Evolved by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy1981
Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky1986
Natural Obsessions : Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell by Natalie Angier1988
Blood by Janice Galloway1991
The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett1992
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore CampbellFiction, 1992
Once upon a Time: A True Story of Memory, Murder and the Law by Harry N. MacLean1993
CivilWarLand in bad decline: Stories and a Novella by George SaundersFiction & Poetry, 1996
John Marshall: Definer of a Nation by Jean Edward Smith1996
Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andreï Makine1997
Rachel Carson by Linda Lear1997
Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman1998
No Lease on Life: A Novel by Lynne Tillman1998
The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese1999
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersFiction & Poetry, 1999
Afterimage: A Novel by Helen Humphreys2000
Equal Love by Peter Ho Davies2000
In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent2000
Marcel Proust: A Life by William C. Carter2000
Paris to the Moon by Adam GopnikNon-Fiction, 2000
In a Strange City by Laura Lippman2001
Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter2001
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand2001
The Wooden Sea: A Novel by Jonathan Carroll2001
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn2002
Golden Deeds by Catherine ChidgeyFiction & Poetry, 2002
The Lost Garden: A Novel by Helen Humphreys2003
Vernon God Little by DBC PierreFiction & Poetry, 2003
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle2004
Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel by Jonathan Ames2004
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan2005
Absurdistan by Gary ShteyngartFiction & Poetry, 2006
After This by Alice McDermottFiction & Poetry, 2006
The Afterlife by Donald AntrimNon-Fiction, 2006
Against the Day by Thomas PynchonFiction & Poetry, 2006
Alentejo Blue: Fiction by Monica AliFiction & Poetry, 2006
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. JonesFiction & Poetry, 2006
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy by Francis FukuyamaNon-Fiction, 2006
Andrew Carnegie by David NasawNon-Fiction, 2006
Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel by Colson WhiteheadFiction & Poetry, 2006
Arthur and George by Julian BarnesFiction & Poetry, 2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor BranchNon-Fiction, 2006
Ava Gardner: "Love Is Nothing" by Lee ServerNon-Fiction, 2006
Averno: Poems by Louise GlückFiction & Poetry, 2006
Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (P.S.) by Uzodinma IwealaFiction & Poetry, 2006
Black Swan Green by David MitchellFiction & Poetry, 2006
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael LewisNon-Fiction, 2006
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton SidesNon-Fiction, 2006
Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime by Patricia HamplNon-Fiction, 2006
Brookland: A Novel by Emily BartonFiction & Poetry, 2006
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David MaranissNon-Fiction, 2006
Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Allen GinsbergFiction & Poetry, 2006
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy HempelFiction & Poetry, 2006
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster WallaceNon-Fiction, 2006
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew StewartNon-Fiction, 2006
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories by Charles D'AmbrosioFiction & Poetry, 2006
Digging to America by Anne TylerFiction & Poetry, 2006
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan FranzenNon-Fiction, 2006
The Dissident: A Novel by Nell FreudenbergerFiction & Poetry, 2006
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga GrushinFiction & Poetry, 2006
Eat the Document: A Novel by Dana SpiottaFiction & Poetry, 2006
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertNon-Fiction, 2006
The Echo Maker by Richard PowersFiction & Poetry, 2006
The Emperor's Children by Claire MessudFiction & Poetry, 2006
Everyman by Philip RothFiction & Poetry, 2006
Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir by Danielle TrussoniNon-Fiction, 2006
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. RicksNon-Fiction, 2006
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth KolbertNon-Fiction, 2006
Flaubert: A Biography by Frederick BrownNon-Fiction, 2006
Forgetfulness by Ward JustFiction & Poetry, 2006
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison BechdelNon-Fiction, 2006
Gallatin Canyon: Stories by Thomas McGuaneFiction & Poetry, 2006
Gate of the Sun by Elias KhouryFiction & Poetry, 2006
The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonNon-Fiction, 2006
Golden Country by Jennifer GilmoreFiction & Poetry, 2006
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas BrinkleyNon-Fiction, 2006
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina by Frank RichNon-Fiction, 2006
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieFiction & Poetry, 2006
Happiness: A History by Darrin M. McMahonNon-Fiction, 2006
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tus by Bill BufordNon-Fiction, 2006
High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol OatesFiction & Poetry, 2006
The Inhabited World by David LongFiction & Poetry, 2006
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiFiction & Poetry, 2006
Intuition by Allegra GoodmanFiction & Poetry, 2006
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope by Shirin EbadiNon-Fiction, 2006
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie PhillipsNon-Fiction, 2006
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man by Dale PetersonNon-Fiction, 2006
Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J. MannNon-Fiction, 2006
The Keep by Jennifer EganFiction & Poetry, 2006
Last Evenings On Earth by Roberto BolañoFiction & Poetry, 2006
The Lay of the Land by Richard FordFiction & Poetry, 2006
Lee Miller: A Life by Carolyn BurkeNon-Fiction, 2006
Lisey's Story by Stephen KingFiction & Poetry, 2006
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence WrightNon-Fiction, 2006
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel MendelsohnNon-Fiction, 2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel PhilbrickNon-Fiction, 2006
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby ApplegateNon-Fiction, 2006
New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006 by Ishmael ReedFiction & Poetry, 2006
Old Filth by Jane GardamFiction & Poetry, 2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael PollanNon-Fiction, 2006
One Good Turn by Kate AtkinsonFiction & Poetry, 2006
Only Revolutions by Mark Z. DanielewskiFiction & Poetry, 2006
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.) by Peter HesslerNon-Fiction, 2006
The Places In Between by Rory StewartNon-Fiction, 2006
The Possibility of an Island by Michel HouellebecqFiction & Poetry, 2006
Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey GoldbergNon-Fiction, 2006
Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos by Seth LloydNon-Fiction, 2006
Queen of Fashion by Caroline WeberNon-Fiction, 2006
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine ProseNon-Fiction, 2006
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas LehmannNon-Fiction, 2006
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back by Norah VincentNon-Fiction, 2006
Skinner's Drift: A Novel by Lisa FugardFiction & Poetry, 2006
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha PesslFiction & Poetry, 2006
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III by Bob WoodwardNon-Fiction, 2006
The Stories of Mary Gordon by Mary GordonFiction & Poetry, 2006
Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri JentzNon-Fiction, 2006
Strong Is Your Hold by Galway KinnellFiction & Poetry, 2006
Sweet and Low: A Family Story by Rich CohenNon-Fiction, 2006
Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond by Pankaj MishraNon-Fiction, 2006
Terrorist by John UpdikeFiction & Poetry, 2006
Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir by Robert HughesNon-Fiction, 2006
The Translator by Leila AboulelaFiction & Poetry, 2006
Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah EisenbergFiction & Poetry, 2006
Uncommon Carriers by John McPheeNon-Fiction, 2006
The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation by David KampNon-Fiction, 2006
The Uses of Enchantment: A Novel by Heidi JulavitsFiction & Poetry, 2006
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall FergusonNon-Fiction, 2006
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. YehoshuaFiction & Poetry, 2006
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganNon-Fiction, 2006
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom PerrottaFiction & Poetry, 2007
After Dark by Haruki MurakamiFiction & Poetry, 2007
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben MacintyreNon-Fiction, 2007
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh BroganNon-Fiction, 2007
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. CorderyNon-Fiction, 2007
American Creation by Joseph J. EllisNon-Fiction, 2007
The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics by Matt BaiNon-Fiction, 2007
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard RhodesNon-Fiction, 2007
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco GoldmanNon-Fiction, 2007
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas LlosaFiction & Poetry, 2007
Bearing the Body: A Novel by Ehud HavazeletFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw MengestuFiction & Poetry, 2007
Bridge of Sighs by Richard RussoFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazFiction & Poetry, 2007
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge DanticatNon-Fiction, 2007
Call Me by Your Name: A Novel by André AcimanFiction & Poetry, 2007
Cheating at Canasta: Stories by William TrevorFiction & Poetry, 2007
Circling My Mother: A Memoir by Mary GordonNon-Fiction, 2007
Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire by Judith ThurmanNon-Fiction, 2007
The Collected Poems: 1956-1998 by Zbigniew HerbertFiction & Poetry, 2007
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive JamesNon-Fiction, 2007
Dancing to "Almendra" by Mayra MonteroFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Day of Battle by Rick AtkinsonNon-Fiction, 2007
The Diana Chronicles by Tina BrownNon-Fiction, 2007
The Discovery of France by Graham RobbNon-Fiction, 2007
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff by Rosemary MahoneyNon-Fiction, 2007
Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans by Jean PfaelzerNon-Fiction, 2007
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism by John UpdikeNon-Fiction, 2007
Easter Everywhere: A Memoir by Darcey SteinkeNon-Fiction, 2007
Edith Wharton by Hermione LeeNon-Fiction, 2007
Exit Ghost by Philip RothFiction & Poetry, 2007
Falling Man by Don DeLilloFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam by Tom BissellNon-Fiction, 2007
Fellow Travelers: A Novel by Thomas MallonFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Florist's Daughter by Patricia HamplNon-Fiction, 2007
Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir by Shalom AuslanderNon-Fiction, 2007
A Free Life by Ha JinFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Gathering by Anne EnrightFiction & Poetry, 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. RowlingFiction & Poetry, 2007
House Lights: A Novel by Leah Hager CohenFiction & Poetry, 2007
House of Meetings by Martin AmisFiction & Poetry, 2007
The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty by Wilfrid SheedNon-Fiction, 2007
How Doctors Think by Jerome GroopmanNon-Fiction, 2007
How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now by James KugelNon-Fiction, 2007
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre BayardNon-Fiction, 2007
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv ChandrasekaranNon-Fiction, 2007
In the Country of Men by Hisham MatarFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Indian Clerk by David LeavittFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS by Helen EpsteinNon-Fiction, 2007
Knots by Nuruddin FarahFiction & Poetry, 2007
Later, at the Bar: A Novel in Stories by Rebecca BarryFiction & Poetry, 2007
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim WeinerNon-Fiction, 2007
Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl by Steven BachNon-Fiction, 2007
Leonard Woolf: A Biography by Victoria GlendinningNon-Fiction, 2007
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela VidaFiction & Poetry, 2007
A Life of Picasso, Volume 3: 1917-1932 by John RichardsonNon-Fiction, 2007
Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories by Jim ShepardFiction & Poetry, 2007
Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong KalishNon-Fiction, 2007
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael BeahNon-Fiction, 2007
Man Gone Down: A Novel by Michael ThomasFiction & Poetry, 2007
Matrimony by Joshua HenkinFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Maytrees: A Novel by Annie DillardFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan EnglanderFiction & Poetry, 2007
Mothers and Sons: Stories by Colm TóibínFiction & Poetry, 2007
Next Life by Rae ArmantroutFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Nine by Jeffrey ToobinNon-Fiction, 2007
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwanFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda ColleyNon-Fiction, 2007
Out Stealing Horses by Per PettersonFiction & Poetry, 2007
Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece by Joan Breton ConnellyNon-Fiction, 2007
Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold RampersadNon-Fiction, 2007
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidFiction & Poetry, 2007
Remainder by Tom McCarthyFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century by Alex RossNon-Fiction, 2007
The Savage Detectives by Roberto BolañoFiction & Poetry, 2007
Schulz and Peanuts by David MichaelisNon-Fiction, 2007
Selected Poems by Derek WalcottFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia SoferFiction & Poetry, 2007
Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Phoebe DamroschNon-Fiction, 2007
Shortcomings by Adrian TomineFiction & Poetry, 2007
Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point by Elizabeth D. SametNon-Fiction, 2007
Stanley by Tim JealNon-Fiction, 2007
The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West by Mark LillaNon-Fiction, 2007
Sunstroke and Other Stories by Tessa HadleyFiction & Poetry, 2007
Then We Came to the End by Joshua FerrisFiction & Poetry, 2007
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire TomalinNon-Fiction, 2007
Throw Like A Girl: Stories by Jean ThompsonFiction & Poetry, 2007
Time and Materials by Robert HassFiction & Poetry, 2007
Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton by Sara WheelerNon-Fiction, 2007
Tree of Smoke by Denis JohnsonFiction & Poetry, 2007
Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money (P.S.) by Rebecca CurtisFiction & Poetry, 2007
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet MalcolmNon-Fiction, 2007
Varieties of Disturbance: Stories by Lydia DavisFiction & Poetry, 2007
The View from Castle Rock: Stories by Alice MunroFiction & Poetry, 2007
What Is the What by Dave EggersFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando FigesNon-Fiction, 2007
Winterton Blue: A Novel by Trezza AzzopardiFiction & Poetry, 2007
The Years of Extermination, 1939-1945 by Saul FriedländerNon-Fiction, 2007
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael ChabonFiction & Poetry, 2007
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha PowerNonfiction, 2008
2666 by Roberto BolañoFiction & Poetry, 2008
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon MeachamNonfiction, 2008
American Wife by Curtis SittenfeldFiction & Poetry, 2008
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton GellmanNonfiction, 2008
Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel by Rivka GalchenFiction & Poetry, 2008
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause by Tom GjeltenNonfiction, 2008
Bass Cathedral by Nathaniel MackeyFiction & Poetry, 2008
Beautiful Children: A Novel by Charles BockFiction & Poetry, 2008
Beijing Coma: A Novel by Ma JianFiction & Poetry, 2008
A Better Angel: Stories by Chris AdrianFiction & Poetry, 2008
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart by Bill BishopNonfiction, 2008
Black Flies: A Novel by Shannon BurkeFiction & Poetry, 2008
Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene by Masha GessenNonfiction, 2008
The Blue Star: A Novel by Tony EarleyFiction & Poetry, 2008
The Boat by Nam LeFiction & Poetry, 2008
Breath by Tim WintonFiction & Poetry, 2008
Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First BlackCongressmen by Philip DrayNonfiction, 2008
The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power by Jonathan MahlerNonfiction, 2008
Champlain's dream by David Hackett FischerNonfiction, 2008
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life: A Biography by Elisabeth BumillerNonfiction, 2008
Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven MillhauserFiction & Poetry, 2008
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane MayerNonfiction, 2008
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan MilesFiction & Poetry, 2008
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted GioiaNonfiction, 2008
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason by Russell ShortoNonfiction, 2008
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. CoetzeeFiction & Poetry, 2008
Dictation: A Quartet by Cynthia OzickFiction & Poetry, 2008
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East by Robin WrightNonfiction, 2008
The drunkard's walk : how randomness rules our lives by Leonard MlodinowNonfiction, 2008
Elegy: Poems by Mary Jo BangFiction & Poetry, 2008
The English Major: A Novel by Jim HarrisonFiction & Poetry, 2008
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir by Elizabeth McCrackenNonfiction, 2008
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. ChangNonfiction, 2008
Fanon by John Edgar WidemanFiction & Poetry, 2008
The Finder: A Novel by Colin HarrisonFiction & Poetry, 2008
Fine Just the Way It Is by E. Annie ProulxFiction & Poetry, 2008
The Forever War by Dexter FilkinsNonfiction, 2008
Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention by Gary J. BassNonfiction, 2008
The Good Thief by Hannah TintiFiction & Poetry, 2008
A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books by Alex BeamNonfiction, 2008
Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems by Juan Felipe HerreraFiction & Poetry, 2008
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John AdamsNonfiction, 2008
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-ReedNonfiction, 2008
His Illegal Self by Peter CareyFiction & Poetry, 2008
Home by Marilynne RobinsonFiction & Poetry, 2008
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. FriedmanNonfiction, 2008
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene CooperNonfiction, 2008
How Fiction Works by James WoodNonfiction, 2008
Indignation by Philip RothFiction & Poetry, 2008
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar HemonFiction & Poetry, 2008
Legend of a Suicide by David VannFiction & Poetry, 2008
Life Class by Pat BarkerFiction & Poetry, 2008
Lush Life by Richard PriceFiction & Poetry, 2008
A Mercy: A Novel by Toni MorrisonFiction & Poetry, 2008
Modern Life: Poems by Matthea HarveyFiction & Poetry, 2008
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists by Susan NeimanNonfiction, 2008
A Most Wanted Man by John le CarréFiction & Poetry, 2008
My Revolutions by Hari KunzruFiction & Poetry, 2008
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max HastingsNonfiction, 2008
Netherland by Joseph O'NeillFiction & Poetry, 2008
The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life--His Own by David CarrNonfiction, 2008
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick PerlsteinNonfiction, 2008
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian BarnesNonfiction, 2008
Nureyev: The Life by Julie KavanaghNonfiction, 2008
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008 by Clive JamesFiction & Poetry, 2008
The Other by David GutersonFiction & Poetry, 2008
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories by Tobias WolffFiction & Poetry, 2008
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark HarrisNonfiction, 2008
The Post-American World by Fareed ZakariaNonfiction, 2008
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan ArielyNonfiction, 2008
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse by Richard Thompson FordNonfiction, 2008
The Road Home by Rose TremainFiction & Poetry, 2008
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel by Viktor PelevinFiction & Poetry, 2008
The School on Heart's Content Road by Carolyn ChuteFiction & Poetry, 2008
A Secular Age by Charles TaylorNonfiction, 2008
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine GreerNonfiction, 2008
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by AnonymousSimon Armitage translation) (Fiction & Poetry, 2008
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected by August KleinzahlerFiction & Poetry, 2008
The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies by Bert HölldoblerNonfiction, 2008
Telex from Cuba by Rachel KushnerFiction & Poetry, 2008
Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq by Linda RobinsonNonfiction, 2008
The Ten-Cent Plague by David HajduNonfiction, 2008
They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons by Jacob HeilbrunnNonfiction, 2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin FaustNonfiction, 2008
The Three of Us: A Family Story by Julia BlackburnNonfiction, 2008
Thrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father's House by Miranda SeymourNonfiction, 2008
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom VanderbiltNonfiction, 2008
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. MorrisNonfiction, 2008
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriFiction & Poetry, 2008
The Unfortunates by B. S. JohnsonFiction & Poetry, 2008
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony HorwitzNonfiction, 2008
Waking Giant by David S. ReynoldsNonfiction, 2008
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate AtkinsonFiction & Poetry, 2008
While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family by Kathryn HarrisonNonfiction, 2008
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda WineappleNonfiction, 2008
The Widows of Eastwick by John UpdikeFiction & Poetry, 2008
The Wild Places by Robert MacfarlaneNonfiction, 2008
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick FrenchNonfiction, 2008
Yesterday's Weather: Stories by Anne EnrightFiction & Poetry, 2008
The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn by Louisa GilderNonfiction, 2009
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard HolmesNonfiction, 2009
Amateur Barbarians: A Novel by Robert CohenFiction & Poetry, 2009
American Rust by Philipp MeyerFiction & Poetry, 2009
The Anthologist by Nicholson BakerFiction & Poetry, 2009
The Art Student's War by Brad LeithauserFiction & Poetry, 2009
Asterios Polyp by David MazzucchelliFiction & Poetry, 2009
Await Your Reply by Dan ChaonFiction & Poetry, 2009
Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. HellerNonfiction, 2009
Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater by Frank BruniNonfiction, 2009
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile MeloyFiction & Poetry, 2009
The Case for God by Karen ArmstrongNonfiction, 2009
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter AckroydFiction & Poetry, 2009
Cheever: A Life by Blake BaileyNonfiction, 2009
Chronic City by Jonathan LethemFiction & Poetry, 2009
City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s by Edmund WhiteNonfiction, 2009
Closing Time: A Memoir by Joe QueenanNonfiction, 2009
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill StreeverNonfiction, 2009
Columbine by Dave CullenNonfiction, 2009
The Confessions of Edward Day: A Novel by Valerie MartinFiction & Poetry, 2009
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent by Robert W. MerryNonfiction, 2009
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker by James McManusNonfiction, 2009
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris DicksteinNonfiction, 2009
Dearest Creature by Amy GerstlerFiction & Poetry, 2009
Do Not Deny Me: Stories by Jean ThompsonFiction & Poetry, 2009
Don't Cry: Stories by Mary GaitskillFiction & Poetry, 2009
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda GordonNonfiction, 2009
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. WoodNonfiction, 2009
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans FalladaFiction & Poetry, 2009
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells TowerFiction & Poetry, 2009
The Evolution of God by Robert WrightNonfiction, 2009
Family Album by Penelope LivelyFiction & Poetry, 2009
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil SheehanNonfiction, 2009
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary BeardNonfiction, 2009
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. StilesNonfiction, 2009
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad GoochNonfiction, 2009
Follow Me: A Novel by Joanna ScottFiction & Poetry, 2009
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg GrandinNonfiction, 2009
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie MooreFiction & Poetry, 2009
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard PowersFiction & Poetry, 2009
The Good Soldiers by David FinkelNonfiction, 2009
The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11 by John FarmerNonfiction, 2009
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette WallsFiction & Poetry, 2009
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme by Tracy DaughertyNonfiction, 2009
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug StantonNonfiction, 2009
How It Ended: New and Collected Stories by Jay McInerneyFiction & Poetry, 2009
In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic by David WesselNonfiction, 2009
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal MueenuddinFiction & Poetry, 2009
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America by Steven JohnsonNonfiction, 2009
Invisible by Paul AusterFiction & Poetry, 2009
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff DyerFiction & Poetry, 2009
The Lacuna by Barbara KingsolverFiction & Poetry, 2009
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne PhillipsFiction & Poetry, 2009
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah PakulaNonfiction, 2009
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCannFiction & Poetry, 2009
Lit: A Memoir by Mary KarrNonfiction, 2009
The Little Stranger by Sarah WatersFiction & Poetry, 2009
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat AhamedNonfiction, 2009
Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir by Christopher BuckleyNonfiction, 2009
The Lost Child: A Mother's Story by Julie MyersonNonfiction, 2009
The Lost City of Z by David GrannNonfiction, 2009
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever by Walter KirnNonfiction, 2009
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life by Melvin UrofskyNonfiction, 2009
Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar HemonFiction & Poetry, 2009
Love and Summer by William TrevorFiction & Poetry, 2009
The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks by Robin RommNonfiction, 2009
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick RedingNonfiction, 2009
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan PamukFiction & Poetry, 2009
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John UpdikeFiction & Poetry, 2009
My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times by Harold EvansNonfiction, 2009
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street by Justin FoxNonfiction, 2009
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo IshiguroFiction & Poetry, 2009
Nothing Right: Short Stories by Antonya NelsonFiction & Poetry, 2009
Once the Shore: Stories by Paul YoonFiction & Poetry, 2009
One D.O.A., One on the Way: A Novel by Mary RobisonFiction & Poetry, 2009
Open by Andre AgassiNonfiction, 2009
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca SolnitNonfiction, 2009
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol SklenickaNonfiction, 2009
Sag Harbor by Colson WhiteheadFiction & Poetry, 2009
Satchel: the life and times of an American legend by Larry TyeNonfiction, 2009
Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force--The NYPD by Christopher DickeyNonfiction, 2009
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. CrawfordNonfiction, 2009
A Short History of Women by Kate WalbertFiction & Poetry, 2009
The Sky Below by Stacey D'ErasmoFiction & Poetry, 2009
The Song is You by Arthur PhillipsFiction & Poetry, 2009
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham FarmeloNonfiction, 2009
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin KelleyNonfiction, 2009
The Third Reich at War by Richard J. EvansNonfiction, 2009
Too Much Happiness by Alice MunroFiction & Poetry, 2009
Typhoon: A Novel by Charles CummingFiction & Poetry, 2009
A village life by Louise GlückFiction & Poetry, 2009
The Weight of a Mustard Seed: The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny by Wendell SteavensonNonfiction, 2009
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail CollinsNonfiction, 2009
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin MoserNonfiction ∙ 2009
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas BrinkleyNonfiction, 2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFiction & Poetry, 2009
Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity by Daniel Jonah GoldhagenNonfiction, 2009
The Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodFiction & Poetry, 2009
Yours Ever: People and Their Letters by Thomas MallonNonfiction, 2009
Zeitoun by Dave EggersNonfiction, 2009
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLeanNonfiction, 2010
American Subversive: A Novel by David GoodwillieFiction & Poetry, 2010
Angelology by Danielle TrussoniFiction & Poetry, 2010
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer HomansNonfiction, 2010
The Ask by Sam LipsyteFiction & Poetry, 2010
Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women by Rebecca TraisterNonfiction, 2010
The Book in the Renaissance by Prof. Andrew PettegreeNonfiction, 2010
Bound by Antonya NelsonFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David RemnickNonfiction, 2010
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie SmithNonfiction, 2010
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte HuangNonfiction, 2010
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCullochNonfiction, 2010
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy SchiffNonfiction, 2010
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisNonfiction, 2010
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans KeilsonFiction & Poetry, 2010
Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership by Lewis HydeNonfiction, 2010
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James S. ShapiroNonfiction, 2010
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter HesslerNonfiction, 2010
Double Happiness by Mary-Beth HughesFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha MukherjeeNonfiction, 2010
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. GwynneNonfiction, 2010
Encounter by Milan KunderaNonfiction, 2010
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric FonerNonfiction, 2010
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981), With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes by Stephen SondheimNonfiction, 2010
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia OzickFiction & Poetry, 2010
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul GreenbergNonfiction, 2010
Freedom by Jonathan FranzenFiction & Poetry, 2010
Fun with Problems by Robert StoneFiction & Poetry, 2010
Girl by the Road at Night: A Novel of Vietnam by David RabeFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg LarssonFiction & Poetry, 2010
Great House by Nicole KraussFiction & Poetry, 2010
Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher HitchensNonfiction, 2010
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony AppiahNonfiction, 2010
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles YuFiction & Poetry, 2010
How to Read the Air by Dinaw MengestuFiction & Poetry, 2010
I Curse the River of Time by Per PettersonFiction & Poetry, 2010
Ilustrado: A Novel by Miguel SyjucoFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootNonfiction, 2010
The Imperfectionists by Tom RachmanFiction & Poetry, 2010
Insectopedia by Hugh RafflesNonfiction, 2010
The Invisible Bridge by Julie OrringerFiction & Poetry, 2010
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic by Michael ScammellNonfiction, 2010
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane LeavyNonfiction, 2010
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel OkrentNonfiction, 2010
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron by Howard BryantNonfiction, 2010
The Last Stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel PhilbrickNonfiction, 2010
Life by Keith RichardsNonfiction, 2010
Lisa Roberton's Magenta Soul Whip by Lisa RobertsonFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems by Edward HirschFiction & Poetry, 2010
Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality by Jonathan WeinerNonfiction, 2010
The Long Song by Andrea LevyFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Lost Books of The Odyssey: A Novel by Zachary MasonFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana SoliFiction & Poetry, 2010
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl MarlantesFiction & Poetry, 2010
Memory Wall: Stories by Anthony DoerrFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Mind's Eye by Oliver SacksNonfiction, 2010
Mr. Peanut by Adam RossFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Nearest Exit by Olen SteinhauerFiction & Poetry, 2010
The New Yorker Stories by Ann BeattieFiction & Poetry, 2010
One Day by David NichollsFiction & Poetry, 2010
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben MacintyreNonfiction, 2010
Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives by Annie Murphy PaulNonfiction, 2010
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham RobbNonfiction, 2010
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth by Hilary SpurlingNonfiction, 2010
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry TeachoutNonfiction, 2010
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif BatumanNonfiction, 2010
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Solomon HarmanNonfiction, 2010
The Privileges by Jonathan DeeFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Promise: President Obama, Year One by Jonathan AlterNonfiction, 2010
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan BrinkleyNonfiction, 2010
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline MaierNonfiction, 2010
Room by Emma DonoghueFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time by Judith ShulevitzNonfiction, 2010
The Same River Twice by Ted MooneyFiction & Poetry, 2010
Scorpions by Noah FeldmanNonfiction, 2010
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin SpringNonfiction, 2010
Selected Stories by William TrevorFiction & Poetry, 2010
Shadow Tag by Louise ErdrichFiction & Poetry, 2010
Solar by Ian McEwanFiction & Poetry, 2010
Something Red: A Novel by Jennifer GilmoreFiction & Poetry, 2010
Sourland: Stories by Joyce Carol OatesFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Spot by David MeansFiction & Poetry, 2010
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary ShteyngartFiction & Poetry, 2010
Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court by Jeff ShesolNonfiction, 2010
The Surrendered by Chang-Rae LeeFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan SchenkarNonfiction, 2010
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam by Eliza GriswoldNonfiction, 2010
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen SchineFiction & Poetry, 2010
To the End of the Land by David GrossmanFiction & Poetry, 2010
Travels in Siberia by Ian FrazierNonfiction, 2010
Vida by Patricia EngelFiction & Poetry, 2010
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganFiction & Poetry, 2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel WilkersonNonfiction, 2010
Washington: A Life by Ron ChernowNonfiction, 2010
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan CaseyNonfiction, 2010
What Becomes by A. L. KennedyFiction & Poetry, 2010
White Egrets by Derek WalcottFiction & Poetry, 2010
Wild Child and Other Stories by T. C. BoyleFiction & Poetry, 2010
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend by James S. HirschNonfiction, 2010

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