Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction

January - March 2012 Issue

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Adler, William M. The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon. 
Anderson, Tom. Chasing Dean: Surfing America’s Hurricane States.
Araton, Harvey. When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks.

Barr, James. A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948.
Bartlett, Rosamund. Tolstoy: A Russian Life.
Baumeister, Roy F. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength.
Bragg, Melvyn. The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible, 1611-2011.
Brauen, Yangzom. Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family’s Epic Journey From Oppression to Freedom.
Buonomano, Dean. Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape our Lives.

Cannell, Michael. The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit.
Cliff, Nigel. Holy War: How Vasco da Gama’s Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations.
Cobb, Tanya Denckla. Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement is Changing the Way We Eat.

Davidson, Cathy N. Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.
Deb, Siddhartha. The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India.
Didion, Joan. Blue Nights.
Dudden, Faye E. Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America.
  
Ebert, Roger. Life Itself: A Memoir.
Estés, Clarissa Pinkola. Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother’s Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul.

Ferry, Luc. A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living.
Friedberg, Aaron L. A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia.
Friedman, Thomas L. That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back.
Fuller, Alexandra. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness.

Gabriel, Mary. Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution.
Graham-Dixon, Andrew. Caravaggio: A Life of Sacred and Profane.

Hansen, Jonathan M. Guantánamo: An American History.
Heller, Erica. Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a “Catch-22.”
Hitchens, Christopher. Arguably: Essays.
Horwitz, Tony. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War.
Hughes, Evan. Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life.
Hughes, Robert. Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History.

Jonas, Raymond. The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire.

Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking Fast and Slow.
Kazin, Michael. American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation.
Kellow, Brian. Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark.
Keneally, Thomas. Three Famines: Starvation and Politics.
Kennedy, Randall. The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency.
Kershaw, Ian. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-1945.
Kurzman, Charles. The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists.

Lagnado, Lucette. The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, From Cairo to Brooklyn.
Linden, David J. The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning and Gambling Feel So Good.
Lindsay-Hogg, Michael. Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond.
Lithgow, John. Drama: An Actor’s Education.

McKinney, Megan. The Magnificent Medills: The McCormick-Patterson Dynasty: America's Royal Family of Journalism During a Century of Turbulent Splendor.
Marcus, Greil. The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years.
Margolick, David. Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock.
Marlantes, Karl. What It Is Like to Go to War.
Massie, Robert K. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman.
Meyers, Jeffrey. John Huston: Courage and Art.
Millard, Candice. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President.
Montefiore, Simon Sebag. Jerusalem: A Biography.
Moore, Michael. Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life.
Morris, Errol. Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography.
Myint-U, Thant. Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia.

Orlean, Susan. Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend.
Pennebaker, James W. The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us.

Randall, Lisa. Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World.
Reid, Anna. Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944.
Ribowsky, Mark. Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports.
Riess, Jana. Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving my Neighbor.
Rodgers, Nile. Le Freak: The Life & Times of Nile Rodgers.
Roy, Arundhati. Walking with the Comrades.
Rubenstein, Jay. Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse.

Scroggins, Deborah. Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui.
Smith, Dennis. A Decade of Hope: Stories of Grief and Endurance from 9/11 Families and Friends.
Soto, Jock. Every Step You Take: A Memoir.
Stevenson, David. With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918.
Stout, Glenn. Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway’s Remarkable First Year.
Sullivan, John Jeremiah. Pulphead: Essays.
Suskind, Ron. Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President.

Tomalin, Claire. Charles Dickens: A Life.
Turner, Christopher. Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America.

Wilson, David Sloan. The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time.

Yergin, Daniel. The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World.
Zuk, Marlene. Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language From the Insect World.