San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearNonfiction

Given by San Francisco Chronicle

529 Works 446,645 Books 15,694 Reviews ½ 4.0
Kategorier:
Alle, Biografi (6), Essay/Criticism (15), Fiction (571), Fiction/Poetry (107), Historie (15), Journalism/nonfiction (9), Memoir (13), Non-fiction (2), Nonficion (5), Nonfiction (529), Short stories (12), No Category (151)
Years:
Alle, 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (39), 2015 (28), 2014 (40), 2013 (50), 2012 (42), 2011 (50), 2010 (49), 2009 (50), 2008 (50), 2006 (57), 2005 (64)
VærkÅr
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment af Shane Bauer
2018
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom af David W. Blight
2018
Small Fry af Lisa Brennan-Jobs
2018
Heavy: An American Memoir af Kiese Laymon
2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America af Beth Macy
2018
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir af Thi Bui
2017
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory af Keggie Carew
2017
Richard Nixon: The Life af John A. Farrell
2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI af David Grann
2017
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America af Richard Rothstein
2017
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others af Sarah Bakewell
2016
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice af Patricia Bell-Scott
2016
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon af Rosa Brooks
2016
Known and Strange Things: Essays af Teju Cole
2016
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: 1939-1962 af Blanche Wiesen Cook
2016
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West af Peter Cozzens
2016
Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War af Mark Danner
2016
Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon af Bronwen Dickey
2016
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World af Geoff Dyer
2016
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine af Ben Ehrenreich
2016
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life af Ruth Franklin
2016
Time Travel: A History af James Gleick
2016
"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination af Annette Gordon-Reed
2016
Against Everything: Essays af Mark Greif
2016
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture af Pamela Haag
2016
Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction af Mary Ellen Hannibal
2016
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 af Adam Hochschild
2016
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right af Arlie Russell Hochschild
2016
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America af Nancy Isenberg
2016
Joe Gould's Teeth af Jill Lepore
2016
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul af James McBride
2016
The Gene: An Intimate History af Siddhartha Mukherjee
2016
The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial af Maggie Nelson
2016
Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life af Joyce Carol Oates
2016
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape af Peggy Orenstein
2016
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live af Peter Orner
2016
We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are Transforming Human Perception, One Sense at a Time af Kara Platoni
2016
The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict af Austin Reed
2016
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America af Andrés Reséndez
2016
When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future af Abby Smith Rumsey
2016
Shame and Wonder: Essays af David Searcy
2016
Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran af Laura Secor
2016
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas af Rebecca Solnit
2016
Born to Run: The Autobiography af Bruce Springsteen
2016
Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams af Louisa Thomas
2016
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis af J. D. Vance
2016
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race af Jesmyn Ward
2016
Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File af John Edgar Wideman
2016
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads af Tim Wu
2016
When the sick rule the world af Dodie Bellamy
2015
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence af Bryan Burrough
2015
Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins af Andrew Cockburn
2015
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink af Elvis Costello
2015
The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion af Tracy Daugherty
2015
The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy af Masha Gessen
2015
Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman af Greg Grandin
2015
If This is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck, Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women af Sarah Helm
2015
The Art of Memoir af Mary Karr
2015
Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker af Thomas Kunkel
2015
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs af Sally Mann
2015
The Wright Brothers af David McCullough
2015
Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey af Marie Mutsuki Mockett
2015
The Argonauts af Maggie Nelson
2015
Dear Mr. You af Mary-Louise Parker
2015
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future af Lauren Redniss
2015
Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II af Richard Reeves
2015
On the Move: A Life af Oliver Sacks
2015
The Other Paris af Lucy Sante
2015
The Witches: Salem, 1692 af Stacy Schiff
2015
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity af Steve Silberman
2015
M Train af Patti Smith
2015
Ordinary Light: A Memoir af Tracy K. Smith
2015
Stalins datter : Svetlana Allilujevas utrolige og turbulente liv af Rosemary Sullivan
2015
Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 3 af Mark Twain
2015
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot af Mark Vanhoenacker
2015
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS af Joby Warrick
2015
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial af Kenji Yoshino
2015
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity af Robert Beachy
2014
Updike af Adam Begley
2014
The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses af Kevin Birmingham
2014
Epilogue: A Memoir af Will Boast
2014
Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild af Novella Carpenter
2014
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty af Vikram Chandra
2014
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir af Roz Chast
2014
E. E. Cummings: A Life af Susan Cheever
2014
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life af William Deresiewicz
2014
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush af Geoff Dyer
2014
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution af Jonathan Eig
2014
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy af Francis Fukuyama
2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End af Atul Gawande
2014
Bad Feminist: Essays af Roxane Gay
2014
The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle (Mexico City Chronicles) af Francisco Goldman
2014
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World af Russell Gold
2014
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession af Dana Goldstein
2014
Overvåget : en insiderberetning om Edward Snowden, NSA og den amerikanske overvågningsstat af Glenn Greenwald
2014
Gandhi Before India af Ramachandra Guha
2014
Unremarried Widow: A Memoir af Artis Henderson
2014
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life af Allyson Hobbs
2014
The Empathy Exams: Essays af Leslie Jamison
2014
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe af David I. Kertzer
2014
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade af Walter Kirn
2014
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate af Naomi Klein
2014
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking af Olivia Laing
2014
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt af Michael Lewis
2014
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town af Beth Macy
2014
The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs af Greil Marcus
2014
My Life in Middlemarch af Rebecca Mead
2014
The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI af Betty Medsger
2014
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China af Evan Osnos
2014
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography af Miriam Pawel
2014
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan af Rick Perlstein
2014
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention af Matt Richtel
2014
Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction af Gabrielle Selz
2014
Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space af Lynn Sherr
2014
Little Failure: A Memoir af Gary Shteyngart
2014
The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature af Ben Tarnoff
2014
Bulletproof Vest: The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter af Maria Venegas
2014
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father af Alysia Abbott
2013
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth af Reza Aslan
2013
Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson af Blake Bailey
2013
The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures af Edward Ball
2013
Gun Guys: A Road Trip af Dan Baum
2013
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations af Mary Beard
2013
Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death af Katy Butler
2013
Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness af Alfredo Corchado
2013
Finding the Dragon Lady: The Mystery of Vietnam's Madame Nhu af Monique Brinson Demery
2013
Wave af Sonali Deraniyagala
2013
Astonished: A Story of Evil, Blessings, Grace, and Solace af Beverly Donofrio
2013
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World af Shereen El Feki
2013
Pink Sari Revolution af Amana Fontanella-Khan
2013
Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything af Rose George
2013
The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II af Charles Glass
2013
National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism (Open Media) af Melvin A. Goodman
2013
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico af Amy S. Greenberg
2013
Mother Daughter Me: A Memoir af Katie Hafner
2013
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story af Michael Hainey
2013
The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad af Lesley Hazleton
2013
The Book of My Lives {original edition} af Aleksandar Hemon
2013
The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA af Scott C. Johnson
2013
Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco af Gary Kamiya
2013
The Skies Belong to Us af Brendan I. Koerner
2013
Jack London: An American Life af Earle Labor
2013
Who Owns the Future? af Jaron Lanier
2013
Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers af Janet Malcolm
2013
Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere af Lucas Mann
2013
Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns af David Margolick
2013
Robert Oppenheimer: Inside the Centre af Ray Monk
2013
Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America af Jon Mooallem
2013
Napalm: An American Biography af Robert M. Neer
2013
Country Girl af Edna O'Brien
2013
Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora af Emily Raboteau
2013
The Still Point of the Turning World af Emily Rapp
2013
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal af Mary Roach
2013
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography af Richard Rodriguez
2013
The Great War : July 1, 1916 : the first of the Battle of the Somme - an illustrated panorama af Joe Sacco
2013
My Foreign Cities: A Memoir af Elizabeth Scarboro
2013
The Faraway Nearby af Rebecca Solnit
2013
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas af Rebecca Solnit
2013
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell af Deborah Solomon
2013
She Matters: A Life in Friendships af Susanna Sonnenberg
2013
Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders af Denise A. Spellberg
2013
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington af Terry Teachout
2013
A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley af Neal Thompson
2013
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam af Nick Turse
2013
Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 2 af Mark Twain
2013
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti af Amy Wilentz
2013
For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison af Liao Yiwu
2013
Oblivion: A Memoir af Héctor Abad Faciolince
2012
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama af Alison Bechdel
2012
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis af Mark Binelli
2012
David Park: A Painter's Life af Nancy Boas
2012
Fraternity: In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of the Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history. af Diane Brady
2012
The Richard Burton Diaries af Richard Burton
2012
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas af Dale Carpenter
2012
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King af Rich Cohen
2012
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power af Steve Coll
2012
Cezanne: A Life af Alex Danchev
2012
Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room af Geoff Dyer
2012
Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood af Anne Enright
2012
Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars af Sonia Faleiro
2012
Crazy Brave: A Memoir af Joy Harjo
2012
Dødelighed af Christopher Hitchens
2012
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future af Karen Elliott House
2012
Robert Duncan: the ambassador from Venus af Lisa Jarnot
2012
The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac af Joyce Johnson
2012
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis af Alice Kaplan
2012
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places af Bernie Krause
2012
Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature af Daniel Levin Becker
2012
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God af T. M. Luhrmann
2012
Double Cross : The True Story of the D-Day Spies af Ben Macintyre
2012
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace af D.T. Max
2012
Call of the Mild: Learning to Hunt My Own Dinner af Lily Raff McCaulou
2012
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture (New York Review Collections) af Daniel Mendelsohn
2012
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy af David Nasaw
2012
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up af Richard Lloyd Parry
2012
Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist af Thomas Peele
2012
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy af Andrew Preston
2012
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic af David Quammen
2012
Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power af Seth Rosenfeld
2012
Joseph Anton. Erindringer af Salman Rushdie
2012
A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi af Aman Sethi
2012
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring af William Souder
2012
Wild : en fortælling om at fare vild og finde sig selv igen af Cheryl Strayed
2012
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine af Victoria Sweet
2012
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies af David Thomson
2012
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus af Bill Wasik
2012
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War af Bernard Wasserstein
2012
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History af Florence Williams
2012
The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness af Kevin Young
2012
Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone af Ralph Richard Banks
2011
Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers af Frank Bardacke
2011
Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir af Susie Bright
2011
No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf af Carolyn Burke
2011
Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire at the Gates of Tassajara af Colleen Morton Busch
2011
Rene Blum and The Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life af Judith Chazin-Bennahum
2011
Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms af Carmela Ciuraru
2011
[sic]: A Memoir af Joshua Cody
2011
Almost a Family: A Memoir af John Darnton
2011
Blue Nights af Joan Didion
2011
Townie af Andre III Dubus
2011
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews af Geoff Dyer
2011
The Use and Abuse of Literature af Marjorie Garber
2011
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe af Peter Godwin
2011
Eva Braun: Life with Hitler af Heike B. Görtemaker
2011
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern af Stephen Greenblatt
2011
American Anthrax: Fear, Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation's Deadliest Bioterror Attack af Jeanne Guillemin
2011
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America af Melissa V. Harris-Perry
2011
Helvede brød løs : Anden Verdenskrig 1939-1945 af Max Hastings
2011
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 af Paul Hendrickson
2011
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever af Will Hermes
2011
Aldrig mere krig : loyalitet og modstand 1914-1918 af Adam Hochschild
2011
Steve Jobs : en biografi om manden bag Apple af Walter Isaacson
2011
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark af Brian Kellow
2011
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India af Joseph Lelyveld
2011
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World af Michael Lewis
2011
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial af Janet Malcolm
2011
Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice (Voice of Witness) af Alia Malek
2011
What It Is Like to Go to War af Karl Marlantes
2011
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris af David McCullough
2011
The Shah af Abbas Milani
2011
Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography af Errol Morris
2011
Van Gogh: The Life af Steven Naifeh
2011
A Widow's Story: A Memoir af Joyce Carol Oates
2011
RIN TIN TIN - En hunds liv og legende af Susan Orlean
2011
The Long Goodbye: A memoir af Meghan O'Rourke
2011
Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches af Anna Politkovskaya
2011
Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein af Julie Salamon
2011
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown af Julia Scheeres
2011
lost in language & sound: or how i found my way to the arts:essays af Ntozake Shange
2011
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life af Charles J. Shields
2011
Reading My Father: A Memoir af Alexandra Styron
2011
Pulphead: Essays af John Jeremiah Sullivan
2011
Conscience : two soldiers, two pacifists, one family : a test of will and faith in World War I af Louisa Thomas
2011
Charles Dickens: A Life af Claire Tomalin
2011
The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers af Peter Tomsen
2011
Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism af John Updike
2011
Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War af Hal Vaughan
2011
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America af Richard White
2011
Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden af Brook Wilensky-Lanford
2011
The Promise: President Obama, Year One af Jonathan Alter
2010
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them af Elif Batuman
2010
Saul Bellow: Letters af Saul Bellow
2010
American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia af Joan Biskupic
2010
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron af Howard Bryant
2010
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship af Gail Caldwell
2010
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains af Nicholas Carr
2010
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean af Susan Casey
2010
The Professor and Other Writings af Terry Castle
2010
Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography af Susan Cheever
2010
A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California af Laura Cunningham
2010
There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America af Philip Dray
2010
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture af Alice Echols
2010
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery af Eric Foner
2010
Travels in Siberia af Ian Frazier
2010
The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr af Ken Gormley
2010
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food af Paul Greenberg
2010
The Man On Devil’s Island af Ruth Harris
2010
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography af Selina Hastings
2010
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip af Peter Hessler
2010
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend af James S. Hirsch
2010
Hitch-22 af Christopher Hitchens
2010
Apollo's Angels : A History of Ballet af Jennifer Homans
2010
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History af Yunte Huang
2010
Kvinden der rystede eller Historien om mine nerver : essay af Siri Hustvedt
2010
War af Sebastian Junger
2010
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters af Jack Kerouac
2010
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine af Michael Lewis
2010
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir af Mark Vonnegut M.D.
2010
Colonel Roosevelt af Edmund Morris
2010
The Grace of Silence: A Memoir af Michele Norris
2010
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama af David Remnick
2010
The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons af Richard Rhodes
2010
Livet af Keith Richards
2010
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance af Wilbert Rideau
2010
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic af Michael Scammell
2010
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith af Joan Schenkar
2010
Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends af Tom Segev
2010
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for His Assassin af Hampton Sides
2010
Henrietta Lacks' udødelige liv af Rebecca Skloot
2010
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth af Hilary Spurling
2010
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian af Avi Steinberg
2010
Half a Life af Darin Strauss
2010
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 af Mark Twain
2010
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival af John Vaillant
2010
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy af Bruce Watson
2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration af Isabel Wilkerson
2010
Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture af Thomas Chatterton Williams
2010
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories af Simon Winchester
2010
Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day af Diane Ackerman
2009
Open af André Agassi
2009
Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir af Diana Athill
2009
Googled: The End of the World As We Know It af Ken Auletta
2009
Cheever: A Life af Blake Bailey
2009
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America af Douglas Brinkley
2009
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer af Novella Carpenter
2009
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son af Michael Chabon
2009
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work af Matthew B. Crawford
2009
Darwins teori: Om evolution, videnskab og sandhed af Richard Dawkins
2009
I ly af mørket : nordkoreanske skæbner af Barbara Demick
2009
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression af Morris Dickstein
2009
Logicomix : en tegnet fortælling om jagten på sandhed af Apostolos Doxiadis
2009
Zeitoun af Dave Eggers
2009
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America af Barbara Ehrenreich
2009
The Music Room af William Fiennes
2009
Om at spise dyr af Jonathan Safran Foer
2009
This Lovely Life af Vicki Forman
2009
Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor af Tad Friend
2009
The Slippery Year af Melanie Gideon
2009
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits af Linda Gordon
2009
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City af Greg Grandin
2009
Jagten på den forsvundne by : en beretning fra Amazonas om Percy Fawcett og en skæbnesvanger besættelse af David Grann
2009
Ayn Rand and the World She Made af Anne Conover Heller
2009
Lit: A Memoir af Mary Karr
2009
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream af Patrick Radden Keefe
2009
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original af Robin D. G. Kelley
2009
Ret kurs (True Compass) af Edward M. Kennedy
2009
Strength in What Remains af Tracy Kidder
2009
Tamalpais Walking: Poetry, History, and Prints af Tom Killion
2009
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates af Peter T. Leeson
2009
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life af Gerald Martin
2009
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker af James McManus
2009
Down at the Docks af Rory Nugent
2009
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language af Arika Okrent
2009
The Bolter af Frances Osborne
2009
The Last Empress, Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China af Hannah Pakula
2009
The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement af Miriam Pawel
2009
Closing Time: A Memoir af Joe Queenan
2009
Methland af Nick Reding
2009
The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks af Robin Romm
2009
Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City af Eric W. Sanderson
2009
Passing Strange af Martha A. Sandweiss
2009
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon af Neil Sheehan
2009
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life af Carol Sklenicka
2009
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster af Rebecca Solnit
2009
Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (Americans and the California Dream) af Kevin Starr
2009
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2009
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2009
Thames: Sacred River af Peter Ackroyd
2008
Nothing to Be Frightened Of af Julian Barnes
2008
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found af Mary Beard
2008
The Night of the Gun af David Carr
2008
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China af Leslie T. Chang
2008
Alfred Kazin: A Biography af Richard M. Cook
2008
Wartime Writings: 1943-1949 af Marguerite Duras
2008
This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation af Barbara Ehrenreich
2008
Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq af Steve Fainaru
2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) af Drew Gilpin Faust
2008
A Coney Island of the Mind af Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2008
The Forever War af Dexter Filkins
2008
Champlain's Dream af David Hackett Fischer
2008
My Life as a Traitor: An Iranian Memoir af Zarah Ghahramani
2008
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause af Tom Gjelten
2008
Outliers: The Story of Success af Malcolm Gladwell
2008
McMafia: Crime without Frontiers af Misha Glenny
2008
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family af Annette Gordon-Reed
2008
A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano af Katie Hafner
2008
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America af David Hajdu
2008
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World af Tony Horwitz
2008
Alfred and Emily af Doris Lessing
2008
God's Crucible af David Levering Lewis
2008
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2008
The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir af Sarah Manguso
2008
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination af Elizabeth McCracken
2008
American Lion af Jon Meacham
2008
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2008
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century af James Orbinski
2008
Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America af Jay Parini
2008
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America af Rick Perlstein
2008
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto af Michael Pollan
2008
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World af Samantha Power
2008
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2008
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2008
American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon af Steven Rinella
2008
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex af Mary Roach
2008
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction af David Sheff
2008
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason af Russell Shorto
2008
King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop af Harvard Sitkoff
2008
Have You Seen . . . ?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films af David Thomson
2008
Riding Toward Everywhere af William T. Vollmann
2008
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World af Eric Weiner
2008
On the Laps of Gods af Robert Whitaker
2008
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor af Susan Wicklund
2008
The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 af Sean Wilentz
2008
How Fiction Works af James Wood
2008
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East af Robin B. Wright
2008
The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds af Marilyn Yalom
2008
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up af Liao Yiwu
2008
The Afterlife af Donald Antrim
2006
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher af Debby Applegate
2006
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor af Paul Beatty
2006
Bedemandens datter : en tragikomisk familiehistorie af Alison Bechdel
2006
All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated af Nell Bernstein
2006
Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita--the Artist Caught Between East and West af Phyllis Birnbaum
2006
The Architecture of Happiness af Alain de Botton
2006
Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam af Mark Bowden
2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 af Taylor Branch
2006
Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir af Kate Braverman
2006
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany af Bill Buford
2006
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop af Lewis Buzbee
2006
Camus at "Combat": Writing 1944-1947 af Albert Camus
2006
The sight of death: an experiment in art writing af T. J. Clark
2006
Follies of the Wise af Frederick Crews
2006
Creationists: Selected Essays: 1993-2006 af E. L. Doctorow
2006
Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead af Tamara Draut
2006
The White Man's Burden af William Easterly
2006
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl af Timothy Egan
2006
Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports af Mark Fainaru-Wada
2006
Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova af Elaine Feinstein
2006
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth af Tim Flannery
2006
The Journals: Volume II: 1966-1990 af John Fowles
2006
Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement af Marcia M. Gallo
2006
A Temple of Texts af William H. Gass
2006
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment af Linda Gordon
2006
Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan af A. C. Grayling
2006
Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir af Robert Hughes
2006
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India af Madhur Jaffrey
2006
The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries af Marilyn Johnson
2006
American Movie Critics: From the Silents Until Now af Phillip Lopate
2006
Simon Bolivar: A Life af John Lynch
2006
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero af David Maraniss
2006
The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice af Greil Marcus
2006
Stuart: A Life Backwards af Alexander Masters
2006
Uncommon Carriers af John McPhee
2006
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million af Daniel Mendelsohn
2006
Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq af T. Christian Miller
2006
Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond af Pankaj Mishra
2006
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford af Jessica Mitford
2006
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother af Sonia Nazario
2006
Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made af Jim Newton
2006
The Din in the Head af Cynthia Ozick
2006
In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos af Richard Lloyd Parry
2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War af Nathaniel Philbrick
2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals af Michael Pollan
2006
Reporting: Writings from the New Yorker af David Remnick
2006
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism af Robert D. Richardson
2006
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler af Jason Roberts
2006
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War af Michael Sallah
2006
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West af Hampton Sides
2006
You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir af Wole Soyinka
2006
Nicole Kidman af David Thomson
2006
31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today af Barry Werth
2006
What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It af Trish Wood
2006
Al-Qaida - vejen til 11. september af Lawrence Wright
2006
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights af Kenji Yoshino
2006
Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story af Said Hyder Akbar
2005
Det store onde af David B.
2005
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer af Kai Bird
2005
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson af Jonathan Coe
2005
Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic af Marla Cone
2005
Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies af Greg Critser
2005
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature af Lewis M. Dabney
2005
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda af Roméo Dallaire
2005
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius af Leo Damrosch
2005
Melville: His World and Work af Andrew Delbanco
2005
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed af Jared M. Diamond
2005
Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq af Larry Diamond
2005
Et år med magisk tænkning af Joan Didion
2005
Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite Life af David Ewing Duncan
2005
The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe af Paula Fox
2005
The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 af Philip L. Fradkin
2005
In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History) af John Hope Franklin
2005
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin af John Hope Franklin
2005
Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page af Lynn Freed
2005
Them: A Memoir of Parents af Francine du Plessix Gray
2005
Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America af Rose Castillo Guilbault
2005
Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke af Peter Guralnick
2005
Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood af Bill Hayes
2005
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves af Adam Hochschild
2005
Den glemte nat af Rachel Howard
2005
Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth af John Hubner
2005
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 af Tony Judt
2005
Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond af Robert D. Kaplan
2005
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America af Ira Katznelson
2005
And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life af Sharon R. Kaufman
2005
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time af John Kelly
2005
My Detachment: A Memoir af Tracy Kidder
2005
Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained af August Kleinzahler
2005
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