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The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor by William Langewiesche

Axis by Robert Charles Wilson

Queen of Candesce: Book two of Virga by Karl Schroeder

Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell

Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

Spin State by Chris Moriarty

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One) by Patrick Rothfuss

Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe Tha by Stephan Talty

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson

Invisible Prey by John Sandford

Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle

Relic by Douglas Preston

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

Lady of Mazes by Karl Schroeder

Dragon's Egg (Del Rey Impact) by Robert L. Forward

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott

Black Earth: A Journey through Russia After the Fall by Andrew Meier

The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef by Marco Pierre White

Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer by T. Kidder

The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr

Emperor: Time's Tapestry #1 (Time's Tapestry) by Stephen Baxter

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Code of Conduct by Kristine Smith

Ask the Parrot by Richard Stark

Acacia: Book One: The War With the Mein (Acacia) by David Anthony Durham

Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog: A Mystery by the internationally bestselling author of The Winter Queen (Mortalis) by Boris Akunin

Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Brasyl by Ian McDonald

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon

The Blade Itself: A Novel by Marcus Sakey

Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer by Maureen Ogle

Devices and Desires (Engineer Trilogy) by K. J. Parker

Jumper: A Novel (Jumper) by Steven Gould

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

The Black Company (Chronicles of The Black Company #1) by Glen Cook

Travels with Barley: A Journey Through Beer Culture in America by Ken Wells

Newton's Wake : A Space Opera by Ken MacLeod

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis

Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey by Goran Kropp

Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel by Austin Grossman

Shadows Linger: A Novel of the Black Company (Chronicles of The Black Company) by Glen Cook

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