Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction, Summer 2018

Beyond Bestsellers - Nonfiction, Summer 2018

July - September 2018 Issue

       

 

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Abouzeid, Rania.  No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria. 
Al Samawi, Mohammed.  The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America. 
Auvinen, Karen.  Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living. 
Austen, Ben.  High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing. 

Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio.  My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food. 
Becker, Adam.  What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics. 
Benson, Michael.  Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece. 
Berry, Wendell.  The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry. 
Blum, Howard.  In the Enemy’s House: The Secret Saga of the F.B.I. Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies. 
Branch, John.  The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West.
Brill, Steven.  Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall--And Those Fighting to Reverse It. 
Brown, Austin Channing.  I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. 
Brusatte, Steve.  The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World. 

Carreyrou, John.  Bad Blood: Secrets and Lives in a Silicon Valley Startup. 
Chabon, Michael.  Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces. 
Chee, Alexander.  How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays. 
Childs, Craig.  Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America. 

Dickey, J.D.  Rising in Flames: Sherman’s March and the Fight for a New Nation. 
Doyle, Martin.  The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers. 
Duplass, Mark.  Like Brothers. 
Dyson, Freeman.  Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters. 

Eizenstat, Stuart E.  President Carter: The White House Years. 
Eubanks, Virginia.  Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. 
Evans, Claire L.  Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. 

Fieseler, Robert W.  Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation. 
Fincham-Gray, Suzy.  My Patients and Other Animals: A Veterinarian’s Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope. 
Fontaine, Tessa.  The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts. 
Fox, Margalit.  Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World’s Most Famous Detective Writer. 
Frank, Adam.  Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth. 

Gaddis, John Lewis.  On Grand Strategy. 
Gay, Roxane.  Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture. 
Gessen, Masha.  Never Remember: Searching for Stalin’s Gulags in Putin’s Russia. 

Hampl, Patricia.  The Art of the Wasted Day. 
Hanna-Attisha, Mona.  What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City. 
Hersh, Seymour M.  Reporter: A Memoir. 
Hinton, Anthony Ray.  The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row. 
Hisham, Marwan.  Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War. 
Holt, Jim.  When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought. 
Horn, Stacy.  Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad & Criminal in 19th-Century New York. 
Hurston, Zora Neale.  Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo.”

Iftin, Abdi Nor.  Call Me American: A Memoir. 
Itzkoff, Dave.  Robin. 
Johnson, Kirk Wallace.  The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. 
King, Gilbert.  Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found. 

McFaul, Michael.  From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia. 
Moore, Darnell L.  No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America. 
Morris, Desmond.  The Lives of the Surrealists. 
Morrison, Melanie S.  Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham. 
Murphy, Lynne.  The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English. 

O’Connell, Meaghan.  And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready. 
Pardlo, Gregory.  Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America. 
Platt, Stephen R.  Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age. 
Purdum, Todd S.  Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution. 
Pyenson, Nick.  Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures. 

Reel, Monte.  A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA’s Secret War. 
Reich, Robert B.  The Common Good. 
Rhodes, Richard.  Energy: A Human History. 
Richards, Cecile.  Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead. 
Roker, Al.  Ruthless Tide: The Tragic Epic of the Johnstown Flood. 
Russo, Richard.  The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life. 

Sampson, Fiona.  In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein. 
Scovell, Nell.  Just the Funny Parts: ...And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys’ Club. 
Sedaris, David.  Calypso. 
Sheffer, Edith.  Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna. 
Slade, Rachel.  Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro. 
Smith, Tracy K.  Wade in the Water: Poems. 

Tea, Michelle.  Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticism. 
Theroux, Paul.  Figures in a Landscape: People and Places. 
Thiong’o, Ngugi wa.  Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir. 
Uglow, Jenny.  Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense. 
Unger, Miles J.  Picasso and the Painting that Shocked the World. 

Wamariya, Clemantine.  The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After. 
Wehrey, Frederic.  The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya. 
Weisberg, Jessica.  Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed. 
Winchester, Simon.  The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World. 
Young, Kevin.  Brown.
Zimmer, Carl.  She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity.