August 3, 2010
Seasonal Fruit Desserts, Deborah Madison
Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach
The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
Border Songs, Jim Lynch
Proust’s Overcoat: The True Story of One Man’s Passion for All Things Proust, Lorenza Foschini
July 20, 2010
Big Hair & Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride through Baseball & America in the Swinging 70s, Dan Epstein
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home, Rhoda Janzen
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront, Nathan Ward
“Do You Know . . . ?” The Jazz Repertoire in Action, Robert R. Faulkner & Howard S. Becker
Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson, Charles R. Smith
July 6, 2010
On the Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man, Rachel Bowditch
Doghead, Morten Ramsland
A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert
A Certain “Je Ne Sais Quoi”: The Origin of Foreign Words Used in English, Chloe Rhodes
Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth, James M. Tabor
The Story of Graphic Design, Patrick Cramsie
You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together, Mary Ann Hoberman
June 22, 2010
206 Bones, Kathy Reichs
An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon
Sizzling Sixteen, Janet Evanovich
The Devil Amongst the Lawyers, Sharyn McCrumb
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, John Carey
Last Words of the Executed, Robert K. Elder
The Book of Shells: A life-size guide to identifying and classifying six hundred seashells, M.G. Harasewych & Fabio Moretzsohn
May 19, 2010
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals: A View of Other Windows, Photographs by Neal Casal
Tinkers, Paul Harding
Innocent, Scott Turow
I’ll Mature When I’m Dead: Dave Barry’s Amazing Tales of Adulthood, Dave Barry
52 Loaves: One Man’s Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust, William Alexander
Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls, Leonard Sax
May 5, 2010
Best Easy Day Hikes Reno, Tracy Salcedo-Chourre
Spade & Archer, Joe Gores
The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas, Sally Denton
Tell-All, Chuck Palahniuk
Private Life, Jane Smiley
The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children’s Books, Kathleen T. Horning
April 28, 2010
Solar, Ian McEwan
The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan
Beatrice and Virgil, Yann Martel
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An inquiry into the value of work, Matthew B. Crawford
The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag: A Flavia de Luce Mystery, Alan Bradley
April 21, 2009
Rivals! The Ten Greatest American Sports Rivalries of the 20th Century, Richard O. Davies
The Art of the LP: Classic Album Covers 1955-1995, Johnny Morgan & Ben Wardle
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, Philip Pullman
The Andy Goldsworthy Project, National Gallery of Art, Washington
April 14, 2010
Lean on Pete, Willy Vlautin
A Few Good Women: America’s Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Evelyn M. Monahan & Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
Birdology: adventures with a pack of hens, a peck of pigeons, cantankerous crows, fierce falcons, hip hop parrots, baby hummingbirds, and one murderously big living dinosaur, Sy Montgomery
In The Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart, Alice Waters
Every Last One, Anna Quindlen
Pearl of China, Anchee Min
March 31, 2010
Keeping Chickens with Ashley English: All You Need to Know to Care for a Happy, Healthy Flock
Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again, Gary Calamar and Phil Gallo
Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth, Mary McKenna Siddals, Illustrated by Ashley Wolff
March 17, 2010
The Silent Sea, A Novel of the Oregon Files, Clive Cussler
Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs: The Life of Velma Johnston, David Cruise & Alison Griffiths
The Undervalued Self, Elaine N. Aron
Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger, Therese Poletti
March 10, 2010
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage, Anthony Brandt
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith
The Story of Stuff: How our obsession with stuff is trashing the planet, our communities, and our health – a vision for change, Annie Leonard
Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain, Roy Morris, Jr.
Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Changed the World, Claire Harman
Young Zeus, G. Brian Karas
No Easy Way: The Story of Ted Williams and the last .400 season, Fred Bowen
A Very Big Bunny, Marisabina Russo
March 3, 2010
Riding With Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles & Books, Ted Bishop
Silk Parachute, John McPhee
The Pacific, Hugh Ambrose
Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth, Randi Hutter Epstein
Running: A Global History, Thor Gotaas
Edward Gorey’s Dracula: A Toy Theatre
McSweeney’s No. 33 San Francisco Panorama
February 24, 2010
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, Elif Batuman
I Slept With Joey Ramone, Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil
Fix Your Body, Fix Your Swing: The Revolutionary Biomechanics Workout Program Used by Tour Pros, Joey Diovisalvi
Rules for My Unborn Son, Walker Lamond
A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, Elaine Showalter
Land of Marvels, Barry Unsworth
Village of the Ghost Bears, Stan Jones
February 10, 2010
Love Poems, Pablo Neruda
Kisses: A Pull, Touch, Lift, Squeak, and SMOOCH Book! Barney Saltzberg
Everyone Says I Love You: A Pop-Up Trip Around the World, Illustrated by Beegee Tolpa
Heart Stones, Josie Iselin
I Like You, Sandol Stoddard Warburg
He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back, Mark Bechtel
Cooking from the Garden: Best Recipes from the Kitchen Gardener
Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend, James S. Hirsch
This Book is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, Marilyn Johnson
February 3, 2009
Night and Day, Robert B. Parker
Flirt, Laurell K. Hamilton
Imagination in Place, Wendell Berry
The Fourth Assassin, Matt Beynon Rees
Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin
The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the West, Christopher Corbett
The Tattooed Lady, Amelia Klem Osterud
January 27, 2009
The Raven’s Gift: A Scientist, a Shaman, and Their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness, Jon Turk
Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History, Diana Wells
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State, Gary Wills
Sex, Dorian Sagan, & Death, Tyler Volk
January 20, 2009
Feed Matisse’s Fish, Julie Appel and Amy Guglielmo
Artful Reading, Bob Raczka
A Year in Art: The Activity Book, Prestel
About A Mountain, John D’Agata
Wormwood, Nevada, David Oppegaard
Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick
The Gift of Thanks: The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude, Margaret Visser
Memoir: A History, Ben Yagoda
January 13, 2010
Lark & Termite, Jayne Anne Phillips
Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility, David M. Walker
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, Ken Auletta
Middling Folk: Three Seas, Three Centuries, One Scot-Irish Family, Linda H. Matthews
Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America, Jay Parini
The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Daniyal Mueenuddin
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