Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction

October - December 2011 Issue

See also:

Albers, Patricia.  Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter: A Life.
al-Khalili, Jim.  The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance.
Allen, Paul.  Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft.

Barrow, John D.  The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos.
Bloom, Harold.  The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life.
Bosworth, Patricia.  Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman.
Budnick, Dean.  Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public got Scalped.
Burleigh, Nina.  The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox.

Carle, Glenn L.  The Interrogator: An Education.
Coleman, Melissa.  This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone.

di Robilant, Andrea.  Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers.
Daugherty, Tracy.  Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller.
Deresiewicz, William.  A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things that Really Matter.
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter.  Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s.

Farrell, John A.  Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned.
Ferreiro, Larrie D.  Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World.
Figes, Orlando.  The Crimean War: A History.
Flannery, Tim.  Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet.
Foreman, Amanda.  A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War.
Fuller, Alexandra.  Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness.
Fumaroli, Marc.  When the World Spoke French.

Gessner, David.  My Green Manifesto: Down the  Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism.
Gibler, John.  To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War.
Goodheart, Adam.  1861: The Civil War Awakening.
Grant, James.  Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed, the Man Who Broke the Filibuster.
Gray, Geoffrey.  Skyjack: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper.
Greenblatt, Stephen.  The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.

Haag, Pamela.  Marriage Confidential: The Post-Romantic Age of Workhorse Wives, Royal Children, Undersexed Spouses, and Rebel Couples Who Are Rewriting the Rules.
Hanson, Thor.  Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle.
Hartshorn, Peter.  I Have Seen the Future: A Life of Lincoln Steffens.
Hendrickson, Paul.  Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Live and Lost, 1934-1961.
Hoffman, Adina.  Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza.
Holroyd, Michael.  A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers.
Hunt, Terry.  The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island.

Jacobsen, Rowan.  Shadows on the Gulf: A Journey Through Our Last Great Wetland.
James, Bill.  Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence.
Jenkins, McKay.  What’s Gotten Into Us? Staying Healthy in a Toxic World.

Kaiser, David.  How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival.
Kastin, David.  Nica’s Dream: The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness.
Kempe, Frederick.  Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth.
Kendall, Joshua.  The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture.
Kissinger, Henry.  On China.

Lauterbach, Preston.  The Chitlin’ Circuit: And the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Levin, Gail.  Lee Krasner: A Biography.
Lipsyte, Robert.  An Accidental Sportswriter.
Lodge, Tom.  Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and Its Consequences.

Mabey, Richard.  Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants.
McGraw, Seamus.  The End of Country.  (Natural-gas industry in Pennsylvania)
Mann, Charles C.  1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.
Marable, Manning.  Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.
Markel, Howard.  An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle
Drug Cocaine.
Mitnick, Kevin.  Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker.
Montgomery-Fate, Tom .  Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father’s Search for the Wild.
Montville, Leigh.  Evel: The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: An American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend.
Mould, Bob.  See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody.

Owings, Alison.  Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans.
Parks, Tim.  Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing.
Prud’homme, Alex.  The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century.

Raban, Jonathan.  Driving Home: An American Journey.
Robbins, Alexandra.  The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School.
Rosenberg, Tina.  Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World.

Salamon, Julie.  Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein.
Shipler, David K.  The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties.
Stokes, David R.  The Shooting Salvationist: J. Frank Norris and the Murder Trial That Captivated America.
Swift, Earl.  The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways.

Thomas, Louisa.  Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family - a Test of Will and Faith in World War I.
Tomsen, Peter.  The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers.

Wagler, Ira.  Growing Up Amish: A Memoir.
Wall, Mick.  Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica.
Wells, Gully.  The House in France.
White, Richard.  Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America.
Willrich, Michael.  Pox: An American History.

Young, Rob.  Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music.
Zuk, Marlene.  Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World.