2023
Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis / Harold M. Mayer, Richard C. Wade
Demon Copperhead / Barbara Kingsolver
The Mango Opera / Tom Corcoran
The Last Train to Key West / Chanel Cleeton
Key West Tales / John Hersey
Act Like You’re Having a Good Time / Michele Weldon
The Lincoln Highway / Amor Towles
The Bookstore Sisters / Alice Hoffman
Cloud Cuckoo Land / Anthony Doerr
The Power of Networks / Christopher G. Brinton & Mung Chiang
Newsroom Confidential / Margaret Sullivan
2022
This was a year of moving, renovating, traveling, teaching, editing and FINALLY catching up on the unread pile of New Yorkers. Back to books in 2023!
2021
Wolf Whistle / Lewis Nordan
Zero Fail / Carol Leonnig
Caste / Isabel Wilkerson
The Plot / Jean Hanff Korelitz
Little Fires Everywhere / Celeste Ng
The Nickel Boys / Colson Whitehead
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine / Gail Honeyman
The Overstory / Richard Powers
2020
Battle Cry of Freedom / James McPherson
All About the Story / Leonard Downie Jr.
2018
Less / Andrew Sean Greer
Salvage the Bones / Jesmyn Ward
A Visit from the Goon Squad / Jennifer Eagan
Manhattan Beach / Jennifer Eagan
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness / Arundhati Roy
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane / Lisa See
Celine / Peter Heller
Barkskins / Annie Proulx
The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist / Michael Downs
Days Without End / Sebastian Barry
The Ninth Hour / Alice McDermott
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life / William Finnegan
My Name is Lucy Barton / Elizabeth Strout
Imperfect Birds / Anne Lamott
Nora Webster / Colm Toibin
Commonwealth / Ann Patchett
Lincoln in the Bardo / George Saunders
The Underground Railroad / Colson Whitehead
2017
I must have read something, but it’s now lost to time.
2016
The Race for Paris / Meg Waite Clayton
Ida: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching / Paula J. Giddings
2015
The Innovators / Walter Isaacson
A Fine Balance / Rohinton Mistry
The Burgess Boys / Elizabeth Strout
All The Light We Cannot See / Anthony Doerr
The Sweet Forever / George Pelecanos
The True Sea / F.W. Belland
Isabella, Warrior Queen / Kirstin Downey
Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe
Painted Horses / Malcolm Brooks
San Miguel / T. C. Boyle
Canada / Richard Ford
The Good Lord Bird / James McBride
2014
Wild / Cheryl Strayed
Unbroken / Laura Hillenbrand
The End of the Book / Porter Shreve
Little Demon in the City of Light / Steven Levingston
The Signature of All Things / Elizabeth Gilbert
The Burglary / Betty Medsger
Dear Life / Alice Munro
On Migration / Ruth Padel
House of Earth / Woody Guthrie
Paris: A Love Story / Kati Marton
2013
On the Map / Simon Garfield
Escape from Camp 14 / Blaine Hardin
The Orchardist / Amanda Coplin
Plainsong / Kent Haruf
One Good Story, That One / Thomas King
My Beloved World / Sonia Sotomayor
The Remains of the Day / Kazuo Ishiguro
Behind the Beautiful Forevers / Katherine Boo
Reporting World War II, Vol. 2: American Journalism / Library of America
Tenth of December / George Saunders
The Violinist’s Thumb / Sam Kean
River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado River / Wade Davis
The Map of Lost Memories / Fay Kim
An Atlas of Impossible Longing / Anurada Roy
2012
The Tin Roof Blowdown / James Lee Burke
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust / Diana B. Henriques
The Paris Wife / Paula McLain
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot
Best American Mystery Stories 2010 / Lee Child, ed.
The Tiger’s Wife / Tea Obreht
The Greatest Show / Michael Downs
Steve Jobs / Walter Isaacson
2011
Three Scientists and Their Gods / Robert Wright
Nothing Happens Until It Happens to You / T.M. Shine
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to The Present / Gail Collins
The Great White Bear / Kieran Mulvaney
Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon / Kathleen C. Winters
The Lincoln Lawyer / Michael Connelly
The New Age of Adventure / National Georgraphic’s Adventure Magazine
The Man who Invented the Computer / Jane Smiley
Radical Evolution / Joel Garreau
On Beauty / Zadie Smith
Nellie Bly / Brooke Kroeger
First Family / David Baldacci
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire / Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest / Stieg Larsson
Rules of the Game / Leonard Downie
Burn / Nevada Barr
The Way Home / George Pelecanos
Morning Miracle / Dave Kindred
Bad News / Tom Fenton
The Turnaround / George Pelecanos
The Night Gardener / George Pelecanos
Let the Great World Spin / Colum McCann
The Devil in the White City / Erik Larson
State of Wonder / Ann Patchett
The Cut / George Pelecanos
Prairie Nocturne / Ivan Doig
Watergate: A Novel / Thomas Mallon
2010
The Big Burn / Tim Egan
The Naturalist / E.O. Wilson
Googled / Ken Auletta
The Grift / Debra Ginsberg
Under the Big Sky: A biography of A. B. Guthrie Jr. / Jackson J. Benson
Deadline Man / Jon Talton
Innocent / Scott Turow
Deadline / Paul McHugh
Poisoning the Press / Mark Feldstein
2009
I’ll Never Be French / Mark Greenside
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience / Kirstin Downey
Say Everything / Scott Rosenberg
The Elegance of the Hedgehog / Muriel Barbery
Darwin Slept Here / Eric Simons
The Uncommon Reader / Alan Bennett
Making a Literary Life / Carolyn See
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives / Leonard Mlodinow
The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris / Chris Ewan
2008
True Enough / Farhad Manjoo
Suite Francaise / Irene Nemirovsky
Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 / Richard Preston, ed.
Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times / Helen Thomas
Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis / Cara Black
The Senator’s Wife / Sue Miller
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA / Tim Weiner
The Canon: A Whirlgig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science / Natalie Angier
Uncommon Carriers / John McPhee
Avoid Boring (Other) People / James D. Watson
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1938 (vol. 2) / Blanche Wiesen Cook
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1933 (vol. 1) / Blanche Wiesen Cook
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 / Simon Winchester
Bella Abzug: An oral history / Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom
The Best of Technology Writing 2007/ ed. Steven Levy
Joe Hill / Wallace Stegner
2007
The Great Fire / Shirley Hazzard
American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond / E. Howard Hunt
The Worst Hard Time / Timothy Egan
No Country for Old Men / Cormac McCarthy
The Search / John Battelle
House of Good Hope / Michael Downs
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed / Jared Diamond
Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial / Nicole Hollander
The Washington Century / Burt Solomon
City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina / Center for Investigative Reporting
State of Denial / Bob Woodward
Plan of Attack / Bob Woodward
The Escape Factory / Lloyd Shoemaker
2006
Reporting From Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps / Donald A. Ritchie
Reporting Vietnam: Part One American Journalism 1959-1969
My Life So Far / Betty Friedan
Reporting Vietnam: Part Two American Journalism 1969-1975
The Dead Beat / Marilyn Johnson
The Obituary Writer/ Porter Shreve
Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg / Tom Wells
Secrets / Daniel Ellsberg
The Whistling Season / Ivan Doig
Tell Them I Didn’t Cry / Jackie Spinner
A G-Man’s Life: The FBI, Being ‘Deep Throat,’ And the Struggle for Honor in Washington/ W. Mark Felt and John D. O’Connor
Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat / Bob Woodward
Exuberance: The Passion for Life / Kay Redfield Jamison
Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate / Alicia C. Shepard
2005
A People’s History of the United States / Howard Zinn
Where or When / Anita Shreve
The Noodle Maker / Ma Jian
I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy / Ellen Gilchrist
The Great Influenza / John M. Barry
The Land That Never Was / David Sinclair
The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseini
Fast Food Nation / Eric Schlosser
Across the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail / Laton McCartney
The Bookseller of Kabul / Asne Seierstad
Yonder: A Place in Montana / John Heminway
Rivers in Time / Peter D. Ward
Reading Lolita in Tehran / Azar Nafisi
The Pearl Diver / Sujata Massey
End of the Earth / Peter Matthiessen
An Unfinished Season / Ward Just
Deep Survival / Laurence Gonzales
Yellow Jack / John R. Pierce and Jim Writer
Secrets: The CIA’s War at Home/ Angus Mackenzie
Between a Rock and a Hard Place / Aron Ralston
Rising Tide : The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America / John M. Barry
Best Newspaper Writing 2000 / ed. Christopher Scanlan
Best Newspaper Writing 2002 / ed. Kevin Woods
Life of Pi / Yann Martel
Triangle / David Von Drehle
The Culture of Fear / Barry Glassner
Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn / Larry Colton
Media Man: Ted Turner’s Improbable Empire / Ken Auletta
Skinny Dip / Carl Hiaasen
2004
Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America / Bruce Shapiro, ed.
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning / Chris Hedges
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America / Barbara Ehrenreich
A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement / Philip Shabecoff
In Amazonia: A Natural History / Hugh Raffles
Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans / Jonathan D. Moreno
Love in the Driest Season / Neely Tucker
The Secret Life of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd
Girl with a Pearl Earring / Tracy Chevalier
In the Shadow of Power: The Washington Post / Chalmers Roberts
Cassidy’s Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas/ David Wise
Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man / Susan Faludi
Operatives, Spies and Saboteurs / Patrick K. O’Donnell
A Good Life / Ben Bradlee
The Middle East / Bernard Lewis
Truth At Any Cost / Susan Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf
Reporting Live / Lesley Stahl
Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner / Alec Klein
Hard News / Bob Knotts
Backstory: Inside the Business of News / Ken Auletta
Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West / Larry McMurtry, ed.
The Known World / Edward P. Jones
Reporting America At War: An Oral History / Michelle Ferrari
To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960 / Susan Mary Alsop
Journalists in Peril / Media Studies Journal
Fire Flight / John J. Nance
Who Let the Dogs In: Incredible Political Animals I have Known / Molly Ivins
52 McGs / Robert McG. Thomas Jr.
Best American Newspaper Writing: A Collection of ASNE Prizewinners / ed. Roy Peter Clark, Christopher Scanlan
The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries / ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
The Last Word / ed. Marvin Siegel
Changing Channels: the Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television / Kay Mills
My Country Versus Me / Wen Ho Lee and Helen Zia
50 Years of the Texas Observer / ed. Char Miller
America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines / Gail Collins
Lost in My Own Backyard / Tim Cahill
The Twentieth Century / Howard Zinn
2003
Starving to Death on $200 Million: The Short, Absurd Life of the Industry Standard / James Ledbetter
The Dinner Club: How the Masters of the Internet Universe Rode the Rise and Fall of the Greatest Boom in History/ Shannon Henry
Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl / Kate McCafferty
Black & White & Red All Over / Martha McNeil Hamilton and Warren Brown
A Reporter’s Life / Walter Cronkite
The Anthropology of Turquoise / Ellen Meloy
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001 / ed. Edward O. Wilson
The Business of Journalism: 10 Leading Reporters and Editors on the Perils and Pitfalls of the Press / ed. William Serrin
In the Forest / Edna O’Brien
The Book That Changed My Life / ed. Diane Osen
The Experience of Place / Tony Hiss
The River We Carry With Us: Two Centuries of Writing from the Clark Fork Basin/ eds. Tracy Stone-Manning, Emily Miller
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States / Priscilla Murolo & A.B. Chitty
Wired: A Romance / Gary Wolf
The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril / Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser
William Styron: A Life / James L.W. West III
My Life / Rosa Parks
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time / Dava Sobel
The Beak of the Finch / Jonathan Weiner
Rosa Parks: A Life / Douglas Brinkley
Easter Island / Jennifer Vanderbes
The Northern Lights / Lucy Jago
2002
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood / Rebecca Wells
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology / Simon Winchester
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime / Miles Harvey
Where the Sea Used to Be / Rick Bass
The Columnist / Jeffrey Frank
Irish America / Maureen Dezell
Bel Canto / Ann Patchett
Floating Off the Page / ed. Ken Wells
War Torn / Tad Bartimus, Denby Fawcett, Jurate Kazickas, Edith Lederer, Ann Bryan Mariano, Anne Morrissey Merick, Laura Palmer, Kate Webb, Tracy Wood
The Tipping Point / Malcolm Gladwell
The Heartsong of Charging Elk / James Welch
Writing About Business: The New Columbia Knight-Bagehot Guide to Economics & Business Journalism / ed. Terri Thompson
Best Business Crime Writing of the Year / ed. James Surowiecki
Leading by Example / ed. Pam Johnson
The Last Editor: How I Saved the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency / Jim Bellows
2001
Iced / Jenny Siler
Waiting / Ha Jin
Woman / Natalie Angier
My Russian / Deirdre McNamer
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies / Jared Diamond
The Elements of Journalism / Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel
Close Range: Wyoming Stories / Annie Proulx
The God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy
Best American Short Stories 2000 / E.L. Doctorow
One Round River / Richard Manning
The Gates of the Alamo / Stephen Harrigan
Cadillac Desert / Marc Reisner
Angela’s Ashes / Frank McCourt
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet / Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
Poor Richard’s E-Mail Publishing / Chris Pirillo
I Closed My Eyes / Michele Weldon
The Feminization of American Culture / Ann Douglas
The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years / John Brockman, ed.
Indian Country / Philip Caputo
Merchants of Misery: How Corporate America Profits from Poverty / Michael Hudson, ed.
Asian American Dreams / Helen Zia
My Job, My Self / Al Gini
Ernie’s War: The Best of Errnie Pyle’s World War II Dispatches / David Nichols, ed.
The Orchid Thief / Susan Orlean
Chocolat / Joanne Harris
Front Lines and Deadlines: Perspectives on War Reporting / Media Studies Journal
The Old Patagonian Express / Paul Theroux
Best American Short Stories 2001 / Barbara Kingsolver, ed.
The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing / Melissa Bank
2000
My Garden (Book) / Jamaica Kincaid
Carry Me Like Water / Benjamin Alire Saenz
Cities of the Plain / Cormac McCarthy
Riding the Iron Rooster / Paul Theroux
Poet / Michael Connelly
Ill Wind / Nevada Barr
Caribbean / James Michener
House of Sand and Fog / Andre DuBus III
1999
Natural State: A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing / ed. Steven Gilbar
Waiting for Prime Time: Women of Television News / Marlene Sanders and Marcia Rock
Rebuilding the Indian / Fred Haefele
Running to the Mountain / Jon Katz
Speeding the Net / Joshua Quittner and Michelle Slatalla
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement / Susan Ferris, Ricardo Sandoval
The Rape of Nanking / Iris Chang
Interface Culture / Steven Johnson
The Times of My Life; My Life at The Times/Max Frankel
Turn of the Century / Kurt Andersen
Deep Play / Diane Ackerman
Under the Tuscan Sun / Frances Mayes
Hamlet on the Holodeck / Janet H. Murray
Women of Words / ed. Janet Bukovinsky Teacher
Memoirs of a Geisha / Arthur Golden
Solo: On Her Own Adventure / ed. Susan Fox Rogers
Best American Short Stories / ed. Garrison Keillor
Fooling with Words / Bill Moyers
Birds of America / Lorrie Moore
The Way People Run / Christopher Tilghman
NetSlaves / Bill Lessard and Steve Baldwin
Lasso the Wind / Timothy Egan
The New New Thing / Michael Lewis
1998
The Englishman’s Boy / Guy Vanderhaeghe
Bad Land / Jonathan Raban
Headline Justice / Theo Wilson
Eyewitness to History / John Carey
Into Thin Air / Jon Krakauer
The Women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor
Two Girls, Fat and Thin / Mary Gaitskill
The Pulitzer Prizes 1990 / Kendall Wills
Only Words / Catharine MacKinnon
What Women Want / Patricia Ireland
Release 2.0 / Esther Dyson
Writing Down the River / Kathleen Jo Ryan, ed.
The Nearby Faraway / David Petersen
Data Smog / David Shenk
On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple / Gil Amelio
Yellowstone / Norbert Rosing
Something Better for My Children / Kay Mills
Running as a Woman / Linda Witt, Karen M. Paget, Glenna Matthews
What’s Fair? / Media Studies Journal
The Universe and the Teacup / K.C. Cole
The Lost Grizzlies / Rick Bass
Mark of the Grizzly / Scott McMillion
Articles of Faith / Cynthia Gorney
The Light of Falling Stars / J. Robert Lennon
Pride and Joy / Terri Casey
A Walk in the Woods / Bill Bryson
The Farrakhan Factor / Amy Alexander, ed.
The Mirage / Zay Smith and Pam Zekman
California’s Over / Louis B. Jones
California Fault / Thurston Clarke
Americans and the California Dream 1850-1915 / Kevin Starr
Ruthless.com / Tom Clancy
Aol.com / Kara Swisher
1997
Witness to a Century / George Seldes
A Good Place to Live / Terry Pindell
Into the Wild / Jon Krakauer
The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest / Po Bronson
Real Majority, Media Minority / Laura Flanders
Bucking the Sun / Ivan Doig
The Talking Cure / Susan C. Vaughan
Elements of Web Design / Darcy DiNucci, Maria Guidice, Lynne Stiles
One True Thing / Anna Quindlen
The Horse Whisperer / Nicholas Evans
Desert Notes, River Notes / Barry Lopez
The Desert Smells Like Rain / Gary Paul Nabhan
Pigs in Heaven / Barbara Kingsolver
Testimony: Writers of the West Speak on Behalf of Utah Wilderness / Stephen Trimble, Terry Tempest Williams
The Woman Who Lives in the Earth / Swain Wolfe
Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water / Kathleen Dean Moore
Undaunted Courage / Stephen E. Ambrose
The Paperboy / Pete Dexter
Personal History / Katharine Graham
Departure / Janet Stevenson
The Lost Coast / Steven Nightingale
Selected Poems 1960-1990 / Maxine Kumin
American Primitive / Mary Oliver
American Nature Writing 1997 / John A. Murray
Digital Literacy / Paul Gilster
The Courts of Love / Ellen Gilchrist
Best American Short Stories 1996 / John Edgar Wideman
Prize Stories 1997: The O. Henry Awards/Larry Dark
Track of the Cat / Nevada Barr
The Blessing Way / Tony Hillerman
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead / James Lee Burke
The Lost Get-Back Boogie / James Lee Burke
The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology / Bill Kittredge and Annick Smith
Speaking Truth to Power / Anita Hill
Cutting the Rug under the Moonlit Sky / Sharony Andrews Green
Inside Ms. / Mary Thom
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen / Alix Kates Shulman
Fear Falls Away & Other Essays from Hard and Rocky Places / Janice Emily Bowers
Having Everything Right / Kim Stafford
Cold Mountain / Charles Frazier
Cadillac Jukebox / James Lee Burke
1996
Best American Short Stories 1995
Miles From Nowhere / Dayton Duncan
Wintergreen / Robert Michael Pyle
Silicon Snake Oil / Clifford Stoll
Consider This, Señora / Harriet Doerr
Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run / David Brower
Microserfs / Douglas Coupland
Designing for the the Web / Jennifer Niederst
Windows 95 for Dummies / Andy Rathbone
Chicago Poems / Carl Sandburg
How to Buy a House in California / Ralph Waner, Ira Serkes, George Devine
The Age of Miracles / Ellen Gilchrist
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven / Sherman Alexie
Moo / Jane Smiley
The Snarling Citizen / Barbara Ehrenreich
Tales of the Grizzly / Tim W. Clark and Denise Casey
Tales of the Wolf / Denise Casey and Tim W. Clark
Graced by Pines: The Ponderosa Pine in the American West / Alexandra Murphy
The Edge of the Crazies / Jamie Harrison
River Teeth / David James Duncan
Red, White and Oh So Blue: A Memoir of a Political Depression / Mary Kay Blakely
The Republican War on Women / Tanya Melich
Nothing But Good Times Ahead / Molly Ivins
Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News / Caryl Rivers
Alaska / James A. Michener
Web Graphics Sourcebook / Ed Tittel, Susan Price, James Michael Stewart
1995
Einstein’s Dreams / Alan Lightman
Fire With Fire / Naomi Wolf
Reasonable Creatures / Katha Pollitt
Mother Daughter Revolution / Debold, Wilson and Malave
Women’s Friendships / Susan Koppelman
Heroines / Norma Lorre Goodrich
When MBAs Rule the Newsroom / Doug Underwood
Madeline: An Autobiography
Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography
Maggie and Montana / Harold Tascher
Moving Beyond Words / Gloria Steinem
A Big Storm Knocked It Over / Laurie Colwin
Calamity Jane / Roberta Beed Sollid
Continental Drift / Russell Banks
That All People May be One People, Send Rain to Wash the Face of the Earth / Chief Joseph
From Pocahantas to Power Suits / Kay Mills
Heart Earth / Ivan Doig
How Schools Shortchange Girls / The AAUW Report
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Shipping News / E. Annie Proulx
A Chorus of Stones / Susan Griffin
Woman and Nature / Susan Griffin
The Life of Lorena Hickock / Doris Faber
The Hot Zone/Richard Preston
Northern Lights / Deborah Clow and Donald Snow
Field Guide / Robert Hass
Waterline / Joe Soucheray
Live from the Battlefield / Peter Arnett
Human Wishes / Robert Hass
The Alienist / Caleb Carr
Kayaking the Vermillion Sea / Jonathan Waterman
Coyotes and Town Dogs / Susan Zakin
Crossing the Mangrove / Maryse Conde
Dixie City Jam / James Lee Burke
Grassland / Richard Manning
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons / John W. Powell
An Alien Place / Carol Van Valkenburg
Pulitzer Prizes 1988 / Kendall J. Wills
The Crossing / Cormac McCarthy
The Coming Plague / Laurie Garrett
Snow Falling on Cedars / David Guterson
Black Cherry Blues / James Lee Burke
1994
Genghis Khan / R.P. Lister
Cultural Literacy / E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Engendered Lives / Ellyn Kaschak
Smilla’s Sense of Snow / Peter Hoeg
Reinventing Womanhood / Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Muscle / Samuel Wilson Fussell
Volunteer Slavery / Jill Nelson
Making Shapely Fiction / Jerome Stern
Listening to Prozac / Peter D. Kramer
Red Ribbons / John H. Toole
Life and Death in Shanghai / Nien Cheng
Bearing Witness / Celia Morris
The News At Any Cost/Tom Goldstein
America: What Went Wrong? / Bartlett and Steele
Public Opinion / Walter Lippmann
Reconceiving Women / Mardy S. Ireland
One Sweet Quarrel / Deidre McNamer
Graywolf Annual Two: Short Stories by Women
Macs for Dummies / David Pogue
Adoption Crisis / McKelvey and Stevens
War News / Robert Sam Anson
The Writers’ Trade / Nicholas Delbanco
The Media Monopoly / Ben Bagdikian
Dreamers and Desperadoes / Craig Lesley
Red Harvest / Dashiell Hammett
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues / Tom Robbins
Writing on the Mind
A Writer’s Communities
The Unbearable Lightness of Being / Milan Kundera
Immortality / Milan Kundera
Pulitzer Prizes 1987 / Kendall J. Wills
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe / Fannie Flagg
Child Neglect in Rich Nations / Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Complete Sonnets / William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary / Gustav Flaubert
The Geography of Childhood / Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble
Moments of Engagement / Peter D. Kramer
Middle Passage / Charles Johnson
Best American Short Stories 1994 / Tobias Wolff
New and Collected Poems / Mary Oliver
1993
Selected Stories / Anton Chekhov
Dubliners / James Joyce
Men Without Women / Ernest Hemingway
Read All About It / James D. Squires
Writing Fiction / Janet Burroway
The Short Story: An Introduction / Stone, Packer, Hoopes
Best American Short Stories 1992 / Robert D. Stone
Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She? / Molly Ivins
A Good House / Richard Manning
Migrations to Solitude / Sue Halpern
Weight Training for Women / Thomas Fahey and Gayle Hutchinson
Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
Influence: Science and Practice / Robert Cialdini
Psychology of Attitude Change and Social Influence / Zimbardo,Leippe
Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf
Justice and Gender / Deborah Rhode
Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad
In Cold Blood / Truman Capote
The Zoo Story / Edward Albee
Waiting for the Barbarians / J.M. Coetzee
Best Stories from New Writers / Linda S. Sanders
A Year of One’s Own / John S. Knight Journalism Fellows
American Short Story Masterpieces / Raymond Carver & Tom Jenks
Metamorphoses / Ovid
Cowboys are My Weakness / Pam Houston
Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
Roadside Geology of Montana / Donald Hyndeman and David Alt
All the Pretty Horses / Cormac McCarthy
The Bridges of Madison County / Robert James Waller
Wilderness Tips / Margaret Atwood
Miami / Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Joan Didion
Buffalo Girls / Larry McMurtry
At the Hand of Man / Raymond Bonner
Technique in Fiction / Macauley and Lanning
Black Elk Speaks / John G. Neihardt
Sisters of the Earth / Lorraine Anderson
Writing Down the Bones /Natalie Goldberg
Waiting to Exhale / Terry McMillan
Dalva / Jim Harrison
Women Who Made a Difference / Malcolm Forbes
Community and the Politics of Place / Daniel Kemmis
Century of Struggle / Eleanor Flexner
Moving the Mountain / Flora Davis
Taking Their Place / Maurine Beasley and Sheila J. Gibbons
The Media and Women Without Apology / Media Studies Journal
Best American Short Stories 1993 / Louise Erdrich
This Little Light of Mine / Kay Mills
Kayaking the Full Moon / Steve Chapple
Words From the Land / Stephen Trimble
Best Newspaper Writing 1993 / Don Fry
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs / Wallace Stegner
The Metamorphosis, the Penal Colony and Other Stories / Franz Kafka
Dream Big / Perry Wilbur
1992
Women of the World / Julia Edwards
You Just Don’t Understand / Deborah Tannen
Backlash / Susan Faludi
Revolution from Within / Gloria Steinem
A Natural History of the Senses / Diane Ackerman
Writing in a Convertible with the Top Down / Killien & Bender
Gender Steriotypes: Traditions & Alternatives / Susan Basow
Byline:Ernest Hemingway / William White
Composing A Life / Mary Catherine Bateson
Dream Work / Mary Oliver
Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries / Alice Miller
Eiger Dreams / Jon Krakauer
How Do Journalists Think: Cognitive Bias in News / Stocking & Gross
The Splendid Outcast / Beryl Markham
The Beauty Myth / Naomi Wolf
In A Different Voice / Carol Gilligan
The Ninemile Wolves / Rick Bass
The Gulf Stream / William H. MacLeish
The War Against Women / Marilyn French
Young Men and Fire / Norman Maclean
The Girls in the Balcony / Nan Robertson
What Are People For? / Wendell Berry
Freud & Modern Psychoanalysis / Strupp
Analytical Psychology, Its Theory and Practice / C.G. Jung
Every Day Gets a Little Closer / Irvin Yalom
Two Essays on Analytical Psychology / C.G. Jung
Introductory Letters on Psycho-Analysis / Sigmund Freud
Anne Sexton / Diane Middlebrook
Man and His Symbols / C.G. Jung
Modern Man in Search of A Soul / C.G. Jung
Winter: Notes from Montana / Rick Bass
Incident at Big Sky / Johnny France
A Woman of Independent Means / Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
The Girl Within / Emily Hancock
The Woman Warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston
Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys
Life Types / Hirsh & Kummerow
1991
A Room of One’s Own / Virginia Woolf
Rima in the Weeds / Deirdre McNamer
Living Out Loud / Anna Quindlen
Garden Secrets / Patent & Bilderback
The Island Within / Richard Nelson
On Press / Tom Wicker
Last Stand / Richard Manning
Love’s Executioner / Irvin Yalom
The Confidence Woman / Eve Shelnutt
Arizona Kiss / Ray Ring
Winter Brothers / Ivan Doig
Gardening from the Heart / Carol Olwell
Darkness Visible / William Styron
Writing a Woman’s Life / Carolyn Heilbrun
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside / Doris Lessing
John Muir: In His Own Words / Browning
West With the Night / Beryl Markham
The Writer on Her Work / Janet Sternburg
Giving Good Weight / John McPhee
Second Nature / Michael Pollan
The Writer on Her Work, Vol. 2 / Janet Sternburg
Best Newspaper Writing 1988 / Don Fry
Best Newspaper Writing 1989 / Don Fry
In Confidence / Roberta Israeloff
Refuge / Terry Tempest Williams
A Life In Hand / Hannah Hinchman
Life In the Balance / David Rains Wallace
The Worst Years of Our Lives / Barbara Ehrenreich
Literary Journalists / Norman Sims
Creative People at Work / Wallace & Gruber
Tracks / Louise Erdrich
An American Childhood / Annie Dillard
The Writing Life / Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard
From Fact to Fiction / Shelley Fisher Fishkin
And that’s where I started keeping track.
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