A list of great nonfiction reads not on the Best Sellers list from Winter 2015
January - March 2015 Issue
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Ackerman, Diane. The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us.
Ackroyd, Peter. Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life.
Aftel, Mandy. Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent.
Alinder, Mary Street. Group f.64: Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and the Community of Artists Who Revolutionized American Photography.
Almond, Steve. Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto.
Armstrong, Karen. Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence.
Bai, Matt. All The Truth Is Out: The Fall of Gary Hart and the Rise of Tabloid Politics.
Baptist, Edward E. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.
Beachy, Robert. Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity.
Bell, Ian. Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan.
Bragg, Rick. Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story.
Branch, John. Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard.
Brand, Christo with Barbara Jones. Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend.
Calvino, Italo. Collection of Sand: Essays.
Carr, Nicholas. The Glass Cage: Automation and Us.
Darman, Jonathan. Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America.
Eig, Jonathan. The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution.
Fukuyama, Francis. Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy.
Garelick, Ronda K. Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History.
Gawande, Atul. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.
Gay, Roxane. Bad Feminist: Essays.
Gefter, Philip. Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe.
Genoways, Ted. The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food.
Goodman, Ruth. How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life.
Gwynne, S.C. Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson.
Hancock, Herbie with Lisa Dickey. Possibilities.
Hirsch, Edward. Gabriel: A Poem.
Hobbs, Jeff. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League.
Howley, Kerry. Thrown.
Isaacson, Walter. The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.
Johnson, Marilyn. Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble.
Kelly, Thomas Forrest. Capturing Music: The Story of Notation.
Kenneally, Christine. The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures.
Kim, Suki. Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite.
Krist, Gary. Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans.
Kristof, Nicholas D. and Sheryl WuDunn. A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity.
Kwarteng, Kwasi. War and Gold: A 500-year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt.
Lahr, John. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh.
Lamott, Anne. Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace.
Leaming, Barbara. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story.
Lear, Norman. Even This I Get to Experience.
Lee, Hermione. Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life.
LeoGrande, William M. and Peter Kornbluh. Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana.
Lepore, Jill. The Secret History of Wonder Woman.
Levine, Amy-Jill. Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi.
Levy, Deborah. Things I Don’t Want to Know: On Writing.
Lichtblau, Eric. The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men.
MacLean, Rory. Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries.
McBee, Thomas Page. Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness, and Becoming A Man.
Madrick, Jeff. Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World.
Marcus, Greil. The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs.
Meredith, Martin. The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor.
Merkin, Daphne. The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontes, and the Importance of Handbags.
Moorehead, Caroline. Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France.
Penny, Laurie. Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies, and Revolution.
Pinker, Steven. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.
Pollitt, Katha. Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights.
Richtel, Matt. A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention.
Ritz, David. Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin.
Roberts, Andrew. Napoleon: A Life.
Roberts, Paul. The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification.
Schneider, Peter. Berlin Now: The City after the Wall.
Secrest, Meryle. Elsa Schiaparelli.
Smith, Michael. Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer.
Smith, Richard Norton. On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller.
Stark, Lizzie. Pandora’s DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree.
Stangneth, Bettina. Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer.
Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy. A Story of Justice and Redemption.
Stott, Andrew McConnell. The Poet and the Vampyre: The Curse of Byron and the Birth of Literature’s Greatest Monsters.
Tobar, Hector. Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free.
Tooze, Adam. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931.
Vallianatos, E. G. and McKay Jenkins. Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the E.P.A.
Wilson, A. N. Victoria: A Life.
Worsley, Lucy. The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock.
Wright, Lawrence. Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David.