New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of the Year

The New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of the Year are listed below. The star rating and number of reviews are from Amazon.com. In parentheses after the star rating and number of reviews are the number of pages in the book and any other awards that the book was a finalist for. Award names in red indicate the the book was the winner of that award. Click the buy from Amazon.com link to be taken to the Amazon.com website where you can purchase the book from the premier online bookseller.

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New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 2009

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed 90 reviews (2009) (576p) (PP His) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Good Soldiers by David Finkel 86 reviews (2009) (304p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes 45 reviews (2009) (576p) (NBCCA Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr 120 reviews (2009) (400p) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life by Carol Sklenicka 20 reviews (2009) (592p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 2008

Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes 28 reviews (2008) (256p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=3 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust 95 reviews (2008) (368p) (PP His) (NBCCA Non) (NBA Non) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins 143 reviews (2008) (384p) (NBCCA Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French 16 reviews (2008) (576p) (NBCCA Bio) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer 151 reviews (2008) (400p) (NBCCA Non) (NBA Non) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 2007

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran 176 reviews (2006) (336p) (NBA Non) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley 9 reviews (2007) (400p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish 127 reviews (2007) (304p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross 87 reviews (2007) (640p) (PP Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin 244 reviews (2007) (384p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 2006

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick 332 reviews (2006) (480p) (PP His) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan 633 reviews (2006) (464p) (NBCCA Non) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Places In Between by Rory Stewart 201 reviews (2006) (320p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir by Danielle Trussoni 46 reviews (2006) (256p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright 339 reviews (2006) (480p) (PP Non) (NBA Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 2005

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 549 reviews (2005) (240p) (NBCCA Mem) (PP Bio) (NBA Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (Amazon 05 C50) (Amazon 05 E50) (Amazon 05 CBio) Author: TotNom=4 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr 93 reviews (2005) (288p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt 75 reviews (2005) (896p) (PP Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (Amazon 05 EHis) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer 127 reviews (2005) (480p) (PP Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (ALA Non) (Amazon 05 ECE) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

De Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens 32 reviews (2004) (752p) (PP Bio) (NBCCA Bio) (NYTimes Non) (Amazon Dec EBio) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 2004

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow 290 reviews (2004) (832p) (NBCCA Bio) (NYTimes Non) (Amazon Dec EBio) (ALA Non) (Amazon Dec CBio) (Amazon 04 C50) (Amazon 04 E50) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan 295 reviews (2004) (320p) (NBCCA Bio) (NYTimes Non) (Amazon 04 C50) (Amazon 04 E50) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer 107 reviews (2004) (384p) (PP His) (NBA Non) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt 38 reviews (2004) (384p) (PP Bio) (NBCCA Bio) (NBA Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (Amazon Dec EBio) (Amazon 04 E50) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 2003

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander 100 reviews (2003) (512p) (NBCCA Non) (NYTimes Non) (Amazon 03 E50) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 157 reviews (2003) (432p) (NBCCA Non) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

LIVING TO TELL THE TALE by Gabriel García Márquez 53 reviews (2003) (496p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman 50 reviews (2003) (908p) (PP Bio) (NBCCA Bio) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

SAMUEL PEPYS: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin 28 reviews (2003) (528p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 2002

ANTHONY BLUNT: His Lives by Miranda Carter 17 reviews (2002) (592p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

SEEING IN THE DARK by Timothy Ferris 23 reviews (2002) (400p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

BAD BLOOD by James H. Jones 18 reviews (2002) (288p) (NYTimes Non) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

PARIS 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan 153 reviews (2002) (624p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 2001

Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox 18 reviews (2001) (224p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

John Adams by David McCullough 878 reviews (2001) (736p) (PP Bio) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (Amazon Dec EBio) (ALA Non) (Amazon Dec CBio) (Amazon Dec C50) (Amazon 01 C50) (Amazon 01 E50) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand 85 reviews (2001) (568p) (PP His) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks 70 reviews (2001) (352p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 2000

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 943 reviews (2000) (496p) (PP Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (ALA Non) (Amazon 00 C50) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald 44 reviews (2000) (592p) (PP His) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley 188 reviews (2000) (344p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Rimbaud by Graham Robb 20 reviews (2000) (544p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev 44 reviews (2000) (624p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 1999

Reading the Holocaust by Inga Clendinnen 5 reviews (1999) (238p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio R. Damasio 53 reviews (1999) (400p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes 14 reviews (1999) (656p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The First World War by John Keegan 202 reviews (1999) (528p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton by Richard A. Posner 40 reviews (1999) (288p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse 38 reviews (1999) (848p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman 25 reviews (1999) (624p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 1998

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow 45 reviews (1998) (768p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey 48 reviews (1998) (400p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch 221 reviews (1998) (368p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

To End a War by Richard Holbrooke 38 reviews (1998) (464p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Victor Hugo by Graham Robb 5 reviews (1998) (720p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908 by Hilary Spurling 12 reviews (1998) (480p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 1997

Huxley by Adrian Desmond 9 reviews (1997) (820p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris 63 reviews (1997) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer 1502 reviews (1997) (368p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee 9 reviews (1997) (944p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier 23 reviews (1997) (336p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 1996

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt 1838 reviews (1996) (368p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen 68 reviews (1996) (704p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban 43 reviews (1997) (p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958 by Cary Reich 1 reviews (1996) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 1995

ZOLA: A Life by Frederick Brown 1 reviews (1995) (888p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

IN CONFIDENCE by Anatoly Dobrynin 2 reviews (1995) (688p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Lincoln by David Herbert Donald 107 reviews (1995) (720p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

OVERCOMING LAW by Richard A. Posner 6 reviews (1995) (608p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE HAUNTED LAND: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg 17 reviews (1995) (464p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE: Volume Two: 1939-1955 by Norman Sherry 4 reviews (1995) (400p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 1994

STALIN AND THE BOMB: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 by David Holloway 4 reviews (1994) (480p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

W. E. B. DU BOIS: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis 9 reviews (1994) (752p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT by Steven Pinker 111 reviews (1994) (576p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

BALZAC: A Life by Graham Robb 5 reviews (1994) (521p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

CONQUEST: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico by Hugh Thomas 35 reviews (1994) (832p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

NATURALIST by Edward O. Wilson 15 reviews (1994) (416p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE MORAL ANIMAL: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life by Robert Wright 116 reviews (1994) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 1993

Before Night Falls: A Memoir by Reinaldo Arenas 42 reviews (1993) (336p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE FATE OF THE ELEPHANT by Douglas H. Chadwick 4 reviews (1993) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

TRAVELS WITH LIZBETH by Lars Eighner 19 reviews (1993) (271p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

SHYLOCK: A Legend and Its Legacy by John Gross 1 reviews (1993) (384p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan 121 reviews (1993) (368p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

A MOMENT OF WAR: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War by Laurie Lee 5 reviews (1993) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick 39 reviews (1993) (624p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Last Panda by George B. Schaller 5 reviews (1993) (312p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 1992

THE ANT AND THE PEACOCK: Altruism and Sexual Selection From Darwin to Today by Helena Cronin 3 reviews (1992) (504p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

KISSINGER: A Biography by Walter Isaacson 17 reviews (1992) (896p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean 84 reviews (1992) (316p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills 56 reviews (1992) (320p) (PP His) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

New York Times® Best Nonfiction Books of 1991

THE JOURNALS OF JOHN CHEEVER by John Cheever 6 reviews (1991) (416p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=5 UnqBooks=3 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=2 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED by Daniel C. Dennett 102 reviews (1991) (528p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

HOLOCAUST TESTIMONIES: The Ruins of Memory by Lawrence L. Langer 5 reviews (1991) (235p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE TRUTH ABOUT CHERNOBYL by Grigory Medvedev 37 reviews (1991) (144p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

A LIFE OF PICASSO: Volume One, 1881-1906 by John Richardson 7 reviews (1991) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR: A Biography by Deirdre Bair 5 reviews (1990) (718p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

VLADIMIR NABOKOV: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd 7 reviews (1990) (608p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

TROPICAL GANGSTERS by Robert Klitgaard 11 reviews (1990) (296p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

BITING AT THE GRAVE: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of Despair by Padraig O'Malley 4 reviews (1990) (340p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE SEARCH FOR MODERN CHINA by Jonathan D. Spence 47 reviews (1990) (728p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: The Authorized Biography of T. E. Lawrence by Jeremy Wilson 6 reviews (1990) (1188p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM by Thomas L. Friedman 178 reviews (1989) (541p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

A PEACE TO END ALL PEACE: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922 by David Fromkin 129 reviews (1989) (635p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA: A Life by Ian Gibson 4 reviews (1989) (592p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

HAROLD MACMILLAN: Volume One: 1894-1956. Volume Two: 1957-1986 by Alistair Horne 175 reviews (1989) (541p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

CITIZENS: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama 52 reviews (1989) (976p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

HOW WAR CAME: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939 by Donald Cameron Watt   reviews (1989) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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THE MAGIC LANTERN: An Autobiography by Ingmar Bergman 4 reviews (1988) (314p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch 143 reviews (1988) (952p) (PP His) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

COMING OF AGE IN THE MILKY WAY by Timothy Ferris 29 reviews (1988) (512p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking 361 reviews (1988) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

BERNARD SHAW: Volume One, 1856-1898: The Search for Love by Michael Holroyd 5 reviews (1988) (264p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy 57 reviews (1988) (926p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

ORIGINAL INTENT AND THE FRAMERS' CONSTITUTION by Leonard W. Levy 7 reviews (1988) (543p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson 172 reviews (1988) (952p) (PP His) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan 78 reviews (1988) (896p) (PP His) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI by Nien Cheng 132 reviews (1987) (560p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

CHAOS: Making a New Science by James Gleick 110 reviews (1987) (368p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE FATAL SHORE by Robert Hughes 59 reviews (1987) (752p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE ICE: A Journey to Antarctica by Stephen J. Pyne 5 reviews (1987) (428p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes 167 reviews (1987) (928p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama 19 reviews (1987) (720p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

EVELYN WAUGH: The Early Years 1903-1939 by Martin Stannard 1 reviews (1987) (576p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE TRULY DISADVANTAGED: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson 5 reviews (1987) (261p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

VEIL: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward 9 reviews (1987) (592p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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THE VANISHED IMAM: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon by Fouad Ajami 3 reviews (1986) (228p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

VELAZQUEZ: Painter and Courtier by Jonathan Brown 5 reviews (1986) (323p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

FDR: The New York Years: 1928-1933 by Kenneth S. Davis   reviews (1986) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

CROSSING THE LINE: A Year in the Land of Apartheid by William Finnegan 3 reviews (1986) (464p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

A MACHINE THAT WOULD GO OF ITSELF: The Constitution in American Culture by Michael Kammen 1 reviews (1986) (550p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

ARCTIC DREAMS: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape by Barry Lopez 32 reviews (1986) (496p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE LIFE OF LANGSTON HUGHES: Volume One: 1902-1941. I, Too, Sing America by Arnold Rampersad   reviews (1986) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks 114 reviews (1986) (256p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

ARAB AND JEW: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler 20 reviews (1986) (608p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES: Volume One: Hopes Betrayed 1883-1920 by Robert Skidelsky   reviews (1986) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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FOOTSTEPS: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes 6 reviews (1985) (292p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

HOUSE by Tracy Kidder 31 reviews (1985) (352p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

MOVE YOUR SHADOW: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld 2 reviews (1985) (390p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE PERIODIC TABLE by Primo Levi 40 reviews (1985) (240p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

COMMON GROUND: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas 16 reviews (1985) (688p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

ALL FALL DOWN: America's Tragic Encounter With Iran by Gary Sick 4 reviews (1985) (432p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE ABANDONMENT OF THE JEWS: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman 15 reviews (1985) (488p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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WITH A DAUGHTER'S EYE: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson by Mary Catherine Bateson 2 reviews (1984) (368p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE BOURGEOIS EXPERIENCE: Victoria to Freud. Volume One: Education of the Senses by Peter Gay 40 reviews (1984) (240p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

IN HER OWN RIGHT: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Elisabeth Griffith 5 reviews (1984) (304p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

DAWN TO THE WEST: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era by Donald Keene   reviews (1984) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE QUALITY OF MERCY: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience by William Shawcross   reviews (1984) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE MEMORY PALACE OF MATTEO RICCI by Jonathan D. Spence 20 reviews (1984) (368p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

DEADLY GAMBITS: The Reagan Administration and the Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control by Strobe Talbott   reviews (1984) (380p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

BROTHERS AND KEEPERS by John Edgar Wideman 14 reviews (1984) (272p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

WALT WHITMAN: The Making of the Poet by Paul Zweig   reviews (1984) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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ATTLEE by Kenneth Harris 1 reviews (1983) (640p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE PRICE OF POWER by Seymour M. Hersh 4 reviews (1983) (p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

MODERN TIMES by Paul Johnson 102 reviews (1983) (880p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE ROSENBERG FILE by Ronald Radosh 8 reviews (1983) (649p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN MEDICINE by Paul Starr 13 reviews (1983) (528p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

HUGGING THE SHORE by John Updike 4 reviews (1983) (919p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=9 UnqBooks=6 PPNom=2 PPWin=2 NBCCANom=4 NBCCAWin=2 NBANom=2 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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TUMULTUOUS YEARS by Robert J. Donovan   reviews (1982) (444p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

SCHINDLER'S LIST by Thomas Keneally 107 reviews (1982) (400p) (LATimes) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

YEARS OF UPHEAVAL by Henry A. Kissinger 4 reviews (1982) (40p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE FATE OF THE EARTH by Jonathan Schell 2 reviews (1982) (460p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

BRONX PRIMITIVE by Kate Simon 4 reviews (1982) (192p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

AKE by Wole Soyinka 16 reviews (1982) (240p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

ISAK DINESEN by Judith Thurman 17 reviews (1982) (512p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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BAD BLOOD by James H. Jones 18 reviews (2002) (288p) (NYTimes Non) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

HAYDN: CHRONICLE AND WORKS by H. C. Robbins Landon   reviews (1981) (656p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLANATIONS by Robert Nozick 13 reviews (1981) (784p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

OLD GLORY by Jonathan Raban 18 reviews (1981) (416p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE by Jonathan D. Spence 10 reviews (1981) (560p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

PRISONER WITHOUT A NAME, CELL WITHOUT A NUMBER by Jacobo Timerman 8 reviews (1981) (176p) (NYTimes Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page