updated Sunday, May 13, 2012

(alphabetical by author’s name, sorted by genre – books are cross-listed where appropriate)

Art History/Archaeology

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much – Allison Hoover Bartlett

The Gardner Heist – Ulrich Boser

Chasing Aphrodite - Jason Felch & Ralph Frammolino

The Lost City of Z – David Grann

The Lost Empire of Atlantis - Gavin Menzies

The Art Detective - Philip Mould

Beneath the Sands of Egypt – Donald P. Ryan

Provenance - Laney Salisbury & Aly Sujo

Old Masters, New World – Cynthia Saltzman

The Lost Chalice – Vernon Silver

Priceless – Robert K. Wittman & John Shiffman

Audiobooks

Open - Andre Agassi

I Know I Am, But What Are You - Samantha Bee

Medium Raw - Anthony Bourdain

My Life in France – Julia Child & Alex Prud’homme

Lift - Kelly Corrigan

The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

Forged - Bart D. Ehrman

Bossypants - Tina Fey

Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea – Chelsea Handler

Escape – Carolyn Jessop

Triumph - Carolyn Jessop

Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut: Essays and Observations - Jill Kargman

You Had Me At Woof - Julie Klam

Stiff - Mary Roach

Love is a Mix Tape - Rob Sheffield

America (the audiobook) – Jon Stewart & the writers of The Daily Show

Earth (the audiobook) - Jon Stewart & the writers of The Daily Show

Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell

The Partly Cloudy Patriot - Sarah Vowell

Unfamiliar Fishes - Sarah Vowell

In the Land of Believers – Gina Welch

Ali in Wonderland - Ali Wentworth

Just a Geek – Wil Wheaton

Bonobo Handshake - Vanessa Woods

Biography

Starman - Jamie Doran & Piers Bizony

Gandhi: A Manga Biography - Kazuki Ebine

Alexander the Great - Philip Freeman

Catherine the Great - Robert K. Massie

Katherine the Queen - Linda Porter

The Myth of Bloody Mary – Linda Porter

A Boy Named Shel – Lisa Rogak

Cleopatra: A Life - Stacy Schiff

Sonia Gandhi - Rani Singh

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot

Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings - Alison Weir

Mistress of the Monarchy - Alison Weir

The Man Who Loved China - Simon Winchester

Cookbooks

Perfect One Dish Dinners - Pam Anderson

Modern Spice – Monica Bhide

The New Southern Garden Cookbook - Sheri Castle

The Sriracha Cookbook - Randy Clemens

Cat Cora’s Classics with a Twist - Cat Cora

The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier - Ree Drummond

Lorena Garcia’s New Latin Classics - Lorena Garcia

The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook, 2nd Edition - Beth Hensperger & Julie Kaufmann

Clinton St. Baking Company Cookbook - DeDe Lahrman & Neil Kleinberg

Quick-Fix Southern - Rebecca Lang

The Meatless Meat Lover’s Cookbook - Kim O’Donnel

5 Ingredient Fix - Claire Robinson

I Love Meatballs! - Rick Rodgers

B. Smith Cooks Southern Style – Barbara Smith

Essays

I Know I Am, But What Are You - Samantha Bee

The Heroine’s Bookshelf - Erin Blakemore

The Best American Travel Writing 2010 - ed. Bill Buford

Manhood for Amateurs – Michael Chabon

I Was Told There’d Be Cake – Sloane Crosley

Laughing Without an Accent - Fizooreh Dumas

Bossypants - Tina Fey

Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress – Susan Jane Gilman

What the Dog Saw – Malcolm Gladwell

Straphanger - Taras Grescoe

Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea – Chelsea Handler

Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut: Essays and Observations - Jill Kargman

Under the Duvet – Marian Keyes

Love at First Bark - Julie Klam

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened - Jenny Lawson

Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris

Live For Your Listening Pleasure – David Sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris

When You Are Engulfed in Flames – David Sedaris

Reading Lips: A Memoir of Kisses - Claudia Sternbach

Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries - Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Partly Cloudy Patriot - Sarah Vowell

Ali in Wonderland - Ali Wentworth

Memories of the Future, Vol. 1 – Wil Wheaton

Boozehound - Jason Wilson

Foodie Books/Memoirs

The Language of Baklava - Diana Abu-Jaber

Brewed Awakening - Joshua M. Bernstein

Confections of a Closet Master Baker – Gesine Bullock-Prado

Keeping the Feast – Paula Butturini

How to Eat a Small Country - Amy Finley

The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry - Kathleen Flinn

Spiced – Dalia Jurgensen

The Wild Vine – Todd Kliman

French Milk – Lucy Knisley

I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti – Giulia Melucci 

The Blueberry Years - Jim Minick

The Spice Necklace - Ann Vanderhoof

The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine – Benjamin Wallace

Boozehound - Jason Wilson

Graphic Memoir/Non-Fiction

Gandhi: A Manga Biography - Kazuki Ebine

Green River Killer - Jeff Jensen & Jonathan Cape

French Milk – Lucy Knisley

The Complete Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi

Stitches – David Small

History (Excluding Space/NASA)

Turn Right at Machu Picchu - Mark Adams

The Oracle – William J. Broad

Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation - John Carlin

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 – William Dalrymple

Forged - Bart D. Ehrman

Misquoting Jesus – Bart D. Ehrman

Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths – Bruce Feiler

America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story – Bruce Feiler

Alexander the Great - Philip Freeman

The Lost City of Z – David Grann

Mistress of the Vatican – Eleanor Herman

The Statues That Walked - Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo

Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi - Steve Inskeep

The Disappearing Spoon - Sam Kean

Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds - Stephen Kinzer

Leonardo’s Legacy – Stefan Klein

The Wild Vine – Todd Kliman

Catherine the Great - Robert K. Massie

The Widow Clicquot – Tilar Mazzeo

The Lost Empire of Atlantis - Gavin Menzies

The Accidental Billionaires - Ben Mezrich

Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony – Lee Miller

The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Beekeeper’s Lament - Hannah Nordhaus

Katherine the Queen - Linda Porter

The Myth of Bloody Mary – Linda Porter

Old Masters, New World – Cynthia Saltzman

Cleopatra: A Life - Stacy Schiff

Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason – Russell Shorto

The Lost Chalice – Vernon Silver

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot

Bloody Crimes - James Swanson

The Lady in the Tower – Alison Weir

Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings - Alison Weir

Mistress of the Monarchy - Alison Weir

The Wars of the Roses - Alison Weir

Atlantic - Simon Winchester

The Man Who Loved China – Simon Winchester

Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell

Unfamiliar Fishes - Sarah Vowell

The Wordy Shipmates – Sarah Vowell

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. – Sam Wasson

A Wall of White – Jennifer Woodleif 

Memoirs

The Language of Baklava - Diana Abu-Jaber

Open - Andre Agassi

My Dream of Stars - Anousheh Ansari & Homer Hickam

The Lost Girls – Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett & Amanda Pressner

Cancer is a Bitch – Gail Konop Baker

Lunch in Paris – Elizabeth Bard

Leaving the Saints - Martha Beck

MWF Seeking BFF - Rachel Bertsche

Medium Raw - Anthony Bourdain

Marriage and Other Acts of Charity – Kate Braestrup

First Come Love, Then Comes Malaria – Eve Brown-Waite

Confections of a Closet Master Baker – Gesine Bullock-Prado

Keeping the Feast – Paula Butturini

Let’s Take the Long Way Home - Gail Caldwell

The Last Man on the Moon – Eugene Cernan & Don Davis

A Little Bit Wicked – Kristin Chenoweth and Joni Rodgers

My Life in France – Julia Child & Alex Prud’homme

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua

Carrying the Fire - Michael Collins

Lift - Kelly Corrigan

The Music Room – Namita Devidayal

The Mighty Queens of Freeville – Amy Dickinson

The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

The Pioneer Woman - Ree Drummond

Laughing Without an Accent – Fizooreh Dumas

Looking for Class: Days and Nights at Oxford and Cambridge – Bruce Feiler

Bossypants - Tina Fey

Confessions of a Rebel Debutante – Anna Fields

How to Eat a Small Country - Amy Finley

Wishful Drinking – Carrie Fisher

The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry - Kathleen Flinn

Winging It – Jenny Gardiner

Committed – Elizabeth Gilbert

Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress – Susan Jane Gilman

Undress Me In The Temple of Heaven – Susan Jane Gilman

Suits: A Woman on Wall Street - Nina Godiwalla

Little Princes - Conor Grennan

Leaving India – Minal Hajratwala

Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea – Chelsea Handler

Saved By Beauty - Roger Housden

Shaking the Family Tree - Buzzy Jackson

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress – Rhoda Janzen

Escape – Carolyn Jessop

Triumph - Carolyn Jessop

Curtains – Tom Jokinen

Lies My Mother Never Told Me – Kaylie Jones

Sky Walking - Tom Jones

Spiced – Dalia Jurgensen

India Becoming - Akash Kapur

Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut: Essays and Observations - Jill Kargman

Paradise Under Glass - Ruth Kassinger

Moon Lander – Thomas Kelly

Sideways on a Scooter - Miranda Kennedy

Love at First Bark - Julie Klam

You Had Me At Woof - Julie Klam

French Milk – Lucy Knisley

Failure is Not An Option: My Life in Mission Control - Gene Kranz

My Fair Lazy – Jen Lancaster

Pretty in Plaid – Jen Lancaster

Such a Pretty Fat – Jen Lancaster

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened - Jenny Lawson

Stories I Only Tell My Friends - Rob Lowe

I’ll Scream Later – Marlee Matlin

Home Girl – Judith Matloff

Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination - Elizabeth McCracken

I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti – Giulia Melucci 

Perfection – Julie Metz

The Blueberry Years - Jim Minick

Riding Rockets – Mike Mullane

This Is Not The Story You Think It Is…A Memory of Unlikely Happiness – Laura Munson

Breaking Night - Liz Murray

Radio Shangri-La - Lisa Napoli

Riding the Ice Wind - Alastaire Vere Nicoll

The Cloister Walk – Kathleen Norris

Wife in the North - Judith O'Reilly

The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch

The Foremost Good Fortune - Susan Conley

Faery Tale - Signe Pike

Love in Condition Yellow – Sophie Raday

Dreaming in Hindi – Katherine Russell Rich

The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin

Beneath the Sands of Egypt – Donald P. Ryan

The Complete Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi

You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know - Heather Sellers

The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca - Tahir Shah

Love is a Mix Tape - Rob Sheffield

The Girl from Foreign – Sadia Shepard

Stitches – David Small

We Have Capture - Thomas Stafford & Michael Cassutt

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky – Jennifer Steil

Reading Lips: A Memoir of Kisses - Claudia Sternbach

To a Mountain in Tibet - Colin Thubron

Don’t Sing at the Table - Adriana Trigiani

First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood – Thrity Umrigar

The Spice Necklace - Ann Vanderhoof

In the Land of Believers – Gina Welch

Ali in Wonderland - Ali Wentworth

Just a Geek – Wil Wheaton

Travels in a Thin Country - Sara Wheeler

Lonely – Emily White

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts – Neil White

Priceless – Robert K. Wittman & John Shiffman

Bonobo Handshake - Vanessa Woods

Social/Psychology Studies

Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell

What the Dog Saw – Malcolm Gladwell

Straphanger - Taras Grescoe

The Know-It-All – A.J. Jacobs

Heaven – Lisa Miller

The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin

Lonely – Emily White

South Asia

City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi - William Dalrymple

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 – William Dalrymple

The Beautiful and the Damned - Siddhartha Deb

The Music Room – Namita Devidayal

India Calling - Anand Giridharadas

Suits: A Woman on Wall Street - Nina Godiwalla 

Little Princes - Conor Grennan

Leaving India – Minal Hajratwala

Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi - Steve Inskeep

India Becoming - Akash Kapur

Sideways on a Scooter - Miranda Kennedy

Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity - Sam Miller

The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee

Radio Shangri-La - Lisa Napoli

Dreaming in Hindi – Katherine Russell

The Girl from Foreign – Sadia Shepard

Sonia Gandhi - Rani Singh

To a Mountain in Tibet - Colin Thubron

First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood – Thrity Umrigar

Space/Science/NASA

My Dream of Stars - Anousheh Ansari & Homer Hickam

The Sun’s Heartbeat - Bob Berman

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming - Mike Brown

The Wave - Susan Casey

The Last Man on the Moon – Eugene Cernan & Don Davis

A Man on the Moon - Andrew Chaikin

Carrying the Fire - Michael Collins

Starman - Jamie Doran & Piers Bizony

The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene

Sky Walking - Tom Jones

First Contact - Marc Kaufman

The Disappearing Spoon - Sam Kean

Moon Lander – Thomas Kelly

Failure is Not An Option: My Life in Mission Control - Gene Kranz

Apollo 13 – Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger

Constructing Reality - John Marburger

Sex on the Moon - Ben Mezrich

The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee

Riding Rockets – Mike Mullane

Rocket Men – Craig Nelson

The 4 Percent Universe - Richard Panek

Packing for Mars – Mary Roach

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot

We Have Capture - Thomas Stafford & Michael Cassutt

Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries – Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Pluto Files – Neil deGrasse Tyson

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution – Neil deGrasse Tyson & Donald Goldsmith

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes - Billy Watkins

Travel/Cultural

Turn Right at Machu Picchu - Mark Adams

The Language of Baklava - Diana Abu-Jaber

The Lost Girls – Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett & Amanda Pressner

Lunch in Paris – Elizabeth Bard

The City of Falling Angels – John Berendt

First Come Love, Then Comes Malaria – Eve Brown-Waite

The Best American Travel Writing 2010 - ed. Bill Buford

Keeping the Feast – Paula Butturini

My Life in France – Julia Child & Alex Prud’homme

The Foremost Good Fortune - Susan Conley

City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi - William Dalrymple

The Beautiful and the Damned - Siddhartha Deb

Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths – Bruce Feiler

Looking for Class: Days and Nights at Oxford and Cambridge – Bruce Feiler

How to Eat a Small Country - Amy Finley

Undress Me In The Temple of Heaven – Susan Jane Gilman

India Calling - Anand Giridharadas

The Lost City of Z – David Grann

Straphanger - Taras Grescoe

Saved By Beauty - Roger Housden

India Becoming - Akash Kapur

Sideways on a Scooter - Miranda Kennedy

French Milk – Lucy Knisley

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana - Gayle Lemmon

Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes

Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity - Sam Miller

Radio Shangri-La - Lisa Napoli

Riding the Ice Wind - Alastaire Vere Nicoll

Faery Tale - Signe Pike

Dreaming in Hindi – Katherine Russell Rich

The Caliph’s House: A Year In Casablanca – Tahir Shah

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky – Jennifer Steil

To a Mountain in Tibet - Colin Thubron

Travels in a Thin Country - Sara Wheeler

True Crime

The Gardner Heist – Ulrich Boser

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much – Allison Hoover Bartlett

Green River Killer - Jeff Jensen & Jonathan Cape

Sex on the Moon - Ben Mezrich

The Monster of Florence – Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi

Provenance - Laney Salisbury & Aly Sujo

Flawless – Scott Andrew Selby & Greg Campbell

Winged Obsession - Jessica Speart