A list of great nonfiction reads not on the Best Sellers list from Fall 2012
October - December 2012 Issue
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Allman, Gregg. My Cross to Bear.
Anderson, Julie. The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination.
Appel, Marty. Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankess from before the Babe to after the Boss.
Auster, Paul. Winter Journal.
Banner, Lois. Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox.
Bennett, Amanda. The Cost of Hope: A Memoir.
Bissell, Tom. Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation.
Blackwell, Andrew. Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World’s Most Polluted Places.
Boehm, Christopher. Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame.
Bowker, Gordon. James Joyce: A New Biography.
Callow, Simon. Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World.
Clegg, Bill. Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery.
Cohen, Lisa. All We Know: Three Lives.
Coll, Steve. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power.
Collins, Gail. As Texas Goes...: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda.
Cusk, Rachel. Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation.
DeSalle, Rob. The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs.
Dalton, David. Who Is That Man?: In Search of the Real Bob Dylan.
Deford, Frank. Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter.
Diffley, Atina. Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works.
Duhigg, Charles. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business.
Dyson, George. Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe.
Epstein, Joseph. Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit.
Flanagan, Caitlin. Girl Land.
Fleder, Rob. Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World’s Most Loved (and Hated) Team.
Fortey, Richard. Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind.
Friedman, Matti. The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Book.
Gelvin, James L. The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs To Know.
Ghonim, Wael. Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir.
González, Juan. News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media.
Grind, Kirsten. The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual - The Biggest Bank Failure in American History.
Halloran, Andrew R. The Song of the Ape: Understanding the Languages of Chimpanzees.
Hirshman, Linda. Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution.
Hjortsberg, William. Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan.
Holt, Jim. Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story.
Iversen, Kristen. Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats.
Jaffe, Steven H. New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham.
Jones, Gregg. Honor In The Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America’s Imperial Dream.
Kasher, Moshe. Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16.
King, Carol. A Natural Woman: A Memoir.
Kozol, Jonathan. Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America.
Kurlansky, Mark. Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man.
Lepore, Jill. The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death.
Lewis, Bernard. Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian.
Magill, R. Jay, Jr. Sincerity: How a Moral Idea Born Five Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars, Modern Art, Hipster Chic, and the Curious Notion That We ALL Have Something to Say (No Matter How Dull).
Maitland, Leslie. Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed.
Maraniss, David. Barack Obama: The Story.
Murphy, Paul Thomas. Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy.
Noah, Timothy. The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It.
Norment, Christopher. In the Memory of the Map: A Cartographic Memoir.
Nussbaum, Martha C. The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age.
Parry, Richard Lloyd. 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.
Pearce, Fred. The Land Grabbers: The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth.
Piot, Peter. No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses.
Popkin, Samuel L. The Candidate: What It Takes to Win - And Hold - The White House.
Powell, Robert Andrew. This Love Is Not for Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juarez.
Sagebiel, Neil. The Longest Shot: Jack Fleck, Ben Hogan, and Pro Golf’s Greatest Upset at the 1955 U.S. Open.
Samuelsson, Marcus. Yes, Chef.
Sebba, Anne. That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor.
Sontag, Susan. As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. The Price of Inequality.
Stott, Rebecca. Darwin’s Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution.
Strayed, Cheryl. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life From Dear Sugar.
Stutz, Phil. The Tools: Transform your Problem into Courage, Confidence and Creativity.
Summerscale, Kate. Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady.
Swarns, Rachel L. American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama.
Talbot, David. Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love.
Talty, Stephan. Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day.
Tye, Larry. Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero.
Warner, Marina. Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights.
Wilson, Edward O. The Social Conquest of Earth.
Wolff, Justin. Thomas Hart Benton: A Life.
Worsley, Lucy. If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home.
Wright, N.T. Simply Jesus: Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters.
Yardley, Jim. Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, An American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing.