A list of books recently-read that I have discussed here.
For many years, Phoebe-Lou Adams wrote wonderful short reviews for The Atlantic. The short reviews were part of the month and part of the landscape; only when they were gone did I think about them. Short notes are tricky, but they make a nice sort of postmodern commonplace book, and way to share impressions and small joys.
This page is also an experiment in information architecture with Tinderbox. Tinderbox lets me gather and maintain this list automatically, so it's easy to build and easier to keep current.
Karen Abbott, Sin in the Second City
Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas with Dave Beran, Paris 1906
Amir D Aczel, Pendulum
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Andrei Alexandrescu, Modern C++ Design
Monica Ali, In The Kitchen
David Allen, Getting Things Done
David Allen, Ready for Anything
Ted Allen et al., Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Jonathan Ames, Wake Up, Sir!
Kevin David Anderson, Night of the Living Trekkies
Catherine Asaro, The Moon's Shadow
Timothy Garton Ash, The Magic Lantern
Diana Athill, Stet: An Editor's Life
Rick Atkinson, Day of Battle
Rick Atkinson, Army At Dawn
Cliff Atkinson, Beyond Bullet Points
Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?
Douglas Atwill, Why I won't Be Going To Lunch Anymore
Jane Austen, Emma
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Ed Ayers, In The Presence of Mine Enemies
Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker
Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl
Iain M. Banks, The Player Of Games
Ian M. Banks, Consider Phlebas
L. A. Banks, Minion
Lynn Barber, An Education
Toby Barlow, Sharp Teeth
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
Richard Barre, Echo Bay
Mary Beard, The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
Kent Beck, Implementation Patterns
Kent Beck, Test-Driven Development
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler, Planning Extreme Programming
Arnold Bennett, How To Live on 24 Hours a Day
Lauren Beukes, Zoo City
H. G. Bissinger, Friday Night Lights
Cara Black, Murder in the Sentier
Holly Bkacl and Cecil Castellucci, Geektastic
Holly Black and Ellen Kushner, eds., Welcome To Bordertown
Rebecca Blood, The Weblog Handbook
Amy Bloom, Away
Amy Bloom, Love Invents Us
Roy Blount, Jr., About Three Bricks Shy Of A Load
Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola, Richard J. A. Talber, The Romans: From Village To Empire
Steven Bochco, Death by Hollywood
Harry Parr and Sam Bompas, Jellymongers
James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw
Anthony Bourdain, Les Halles Cookbook
Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour
Clare Boylan, Emma Brown
H. W. Brands, Franklin
Stuart Brent, The Seven Stairs
Jimmy Breslin, Damon Runyon
David Brin, Kiln People
Geraldine Brooks, March
Vera Brosgol, Anya’s Ghost
Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code
Robert Brustein, Letters to a Young Actor
Robert Brustein, Siege of the Arts
Bill Bryson, In A Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson, Notes From A Small Island
John Buchan, Greenmantle
John Buchan, Greenmantle
Michael Buckland, Emanuel Goldberg and his Knowledge Machine
Bill Buford, Heat
Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls
Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game
Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse Of Chalion
Emma Bull, War for the Oaks
Chan Lwok Bun and Claire Chang See Ngoh, Stepping Out
John Burdett, Bangkok 8
Paul Butcher, Debug It!
Herbert Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation of History
A. S. Byatt, Posession
A. S. Byatt, Possession
A. S. Byatt, The Little Black Book of Stories
A. S. Byatt, On Histories and Stories
Michael Bywater, Big Babies
Michael Bywater, Lost Worlds
Adam Cohen, Nothing To Fear
Jack Campbell, Dauntless
Peter Carey, His Illegal Self
John Carey, What Good Are The Arts?
Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
Gail Carriger, Soulless
Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue
Lionel Casson, Libraries in the Ancient World
James Chace, 1912
Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Susan Cheever, American Bloomsbury
Susan Cheever, Notes Found in a Bottle
Rudolph Chelminski, The Perfectionist
Alex Prud'homme and Julia Child, My Life In France
Sasanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Curt Cloninger, Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from Underground
Harlan Coben, Just One Look
Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay (The Hunger Games 3)
Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire (The Hunger Games 2)
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Chip Conley and Eric Friedenwald-Fishman, Marketing That Matters
John Connolly, The Gates
Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe's Triumph
Colin Cotterill, Thirty-Three Teeth
Geoff Cox and Alex McLean, Speaking Code: coding as aesthetic and political expression
David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, Space Opera Renaissance
Pat Crocker, 150 Best Tagine Recipes
Douglas Crockford, Javascript: The Good Parts
John Crowley, Four Freedoms
David Crystal, By Hook or by Crook
Michael Cunningham, Specimen Days
Hillman Curtis, MTIV
Rachel Cusk, The Last Supper
Carlo D'Este, Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life
Mike Daisey, 21 Dog Years
Caroline H. Dall, Alongside
Robert Darnton, The Case For Books
Avram Davidson, The Other 19th Century
Francis Davis, Afterglow
Joshua Davis, Flash to the Core
Val Davis , Thread of the Spider
Edmund de Waal, The Hare With The Amber Eyes
Ton DeMarco and Timothy Lister, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Rachel DeWoskin, Big Girl Small
R. E. Delderfield, To Serve Them All My Days
Guy Deustcher, Through the Language Glass
Philip K. Dick, The Man In The High Castle
Michael Dirda, Classics for Pleasure
Michael Dirda, On Conan Doyle
Michael Dirda, Bound To Please
Michael Dirda, Book by Book
Michael Bigelow Dixon and Amy Wegener, eds., Humana Festival 2000
Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
Cory Doctorow, Homeland
Andrew Dornenburg, Karen Page, Dining Out
Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page, Culinary Artistry
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog
Andrew Dupont, Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us
Clotilde Dusolier, Chocolate and Zucchini
Clotilde Dusoulier, Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris
Stephen L. Dyson, Rome: a living portrait of an ancient city
Edward Eager, Half Magic
Terry Eagleton, After Theory
Roger Ebert, Great Movies II
Roger Ebert, The Great Movies
Holly Edwards, Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures
Ruth Dudley Edwards, Matricide at St. Martha’s
Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan, The Invisible Circus
Tom Ehrenfeld, The Startup Garden
James Elkins, What Happened to Art Criticism?
Aaron Elkins, Loot
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democraxy
Carol Emswhiller, The Mount
Jason Epstein, Book Business: Publishing Past and Future
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Peter Faulkner, Against The Age
Richard Fawkes, History of the Musical
Michael C. Feathers, Working Effectively With Legacy Code
Joshua Ferris, Then We Came To The End
Jasper Fforde, Lost In A Good Book
David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere’s Ride
M. F. K. Fisher, The Gastronomical Me
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Judith Flanders, Inside the Victorian Home
Judith Flanders, A Circle of Sisters
Ian Fleming, Dr. No
Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure
Charles Bracelen Flood, 1864: Lincoln At The Gates Of History
C. S. Forester, Beat To Quarters
E. M. Forster, Howards End
Richard Fortey, Trilobite!
Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club
Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe François, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
George MacDonald Fraser, Royal Flash
George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman
Marianne Fredriksson, Two Women
Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna's Daughters
Marianne Fredriksson, Simon's Family
J. M. Frey, Triptych
Robert Frost, Robert Frost
Robert Frost, North of Boston
Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled
Stephen Fry, Revenge
Stephen Fry, The Liar
Alan Furst, Night Soldiers
Alan Furst, The World At Night
Alan Furst, Mission To Paris
Paul Fussell, Abroad
Paul Fussell, The Boy's Crusade
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens
Damon Galgut, The Quarry
Luiz Alfredo Gracia-Roza, Southwesterly Wind
Simon Garfield, Mauve
Jesse James Garrett, The Elements of User Experience
Thomas Geoghegan, Which Side Are You On
Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
William Gibson, Spook Country
William Gibson, Count Zero
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
Robert Gildea, Marianne in Chains
Charles Glass, Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation
Jessica Abel and Ira Glass, Radio: An Illustrated Guide
Phoebe Gloeckner, Diary of a Teenage Girl
Susan Goin, Sunday Suppers at Lucques
Rich Gold, Plenitude
Steven Goldman, ed., Mind Game
Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, The Goal
Adrian Goldsworthy, How Rome Fell
Adam Goodheart, 1861
Allegra Goodman, Intuition
Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector
Allegra Goodman, Intuition
Doris Keans Goodwin, Team Of Rivals
Adam Gopnik, The Table Comes First
Jacob Gordin, Ruth Gay, The Jewish King Lear
Hiromi Goto, The Kappa Child
Patience Gray, Honey from a Weed
Graham Greene, The Third Man
K. C. Greenlief, Cold Hunter's Moon
Jeff Greenwald, Shopping for Buddhas
W. E. B. Greffin, Counterattack
W. E. B. Griffin, The Captains
W.E. B. Grifiin, Under Fire
W. E. B. Griffin, Retreat, Hell!
W.E.B. Griffin, Special Ops
W.E.B. Griffin, Retreat Hell
W. E. B. Griffin, By Order Of The President
W.E. B. Grifiin, Under Fire
Antony Griffiths, Prints and Printmaking
William Grimes, Straight Up or On The Rocks
John Grisham, Skipping Christmas
Lev Grossman, The Magicians
Lev Grossman, The Magician King
Eileeen Gunn, Stable Strategies
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
Joe Haldeman, The Hemingway Hoax
Shannon Hale, Austenland
Barbara Hambly, Those Who Hunt The Night
Barbara Hambly, Fever Season
Laurell K. Hamilton, Seduced by Moonlight
Laurell K. Hamilton, A Caress of Twilight
Lyn Hamilton, The Thai Amulet
Dashiell Hammett, The Continental Op
Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
Zack Hample, Watching Baseball Smarter
Daniel Handler, Watch Your Mouth
Jonathan Harr, The Lost Painting
Robert Harris, The Ghost
Robert Harris, Conspirata
Robert Harris, Fatherland
Robert Harris, Imperium
Robert Harris, Pompeii
Robert Harris, The Fear Index
John Hart, The Last Child
David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer eds, Year's Best SF 10
Mo Hayder, Hanging Hill
J. M. Hayes, Prairie Gothic
Peter Heather, Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe
Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire
Daniel Hecht, Land of Echoes
Robert A. Heinlein, Friday
Gustav Hermansen, Ostia: Aspects of Roman City Life
Stefan Heym, The King David Report
Tony Hillerman, The Shapeshifter
Tony Hillerman, Skeleton Man
Tony Hillerman, The Sinister Pig
Tony Hillerman, The Wailing Wind
Craig Hockenberry, iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual
John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise
Alan Holinghurst, The Stranger’s Child
Anne Hollander, Feeding The Eye
Michael Holley, The War Room
Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, eds, Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd)
Nick Hornby, Slam
Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked
Nick Hornby, Shakespeare Wrote for Money
Nick Hornby, Housekeeping vs. The Dirt
Nick Hornby, More Baths, Less Talking
Georginal Howell, Getrude Bell
Keith Humphrey, Walking Calcutta
Michelle Huneven, Blame
Mark Hurst, Bit Literacy
Shaun Inman, Lift Off: The Last Rocket Development Diary
Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
Norman Ishkowitz, Ottoman Empire
Pico Iyer, Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead
Bill James, Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
Philip Jeyaretnam, Abraham's Promise
Alaya Johnson, Moonshine
Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish
Lloyd Jones, Mr. Pip
Judith Jones, The Tenth Muse
Nicolai M. Josuttis, C++ STL
Cem Kamer, James Bach, Bret Pettichord, Lessons Learned in Software Testing
Edwin B. Kantar, Introduction to Declarer's Play
John Kantner, Ancient Puebloan Southwest
Roz Kaveny, ed., Reading the Vampire Slayer
Guy Kawasaki, Rules for Revolutionaries
Carolyn Keane, By The Light of the Study Lamp
Jonathan and Faye Kellerman, Double Homicide
Jonathan Kellerman, The Murder Book
Thomas Forrest Kelly, First Nights: Five Musical Premieres
Joshua Kerievsky, Refactoring To Patterns
Tracy Kidder, Home Town
Laurie R. King, The Pirate King
Laurie R. King, The Language Of Bees
Laurie R. King, The God of the Hive
Stephen King, The Shining
Laurie R. King, The Art Of Detection
Laurie King, Locked Rooms
Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, Faithful
Laurie King, The Game
Laurie King, Folly
Laurie R. King, Justice Hall
Laurie R. King, O Jerusalem
Lucy Knisely, Relish
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
William Kotzwinkle, The Bear Went Over The Mountain
Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think
Thomas Kunkel, ed., Letters from the Editor: The New Yorker's Harold Ross
Tony Kushner, Death and Taxes
Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You And Me
Erik Larson, The Devil In The White City
Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest
Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Brenda Laurel, Utopian Entrepreneur
John Le Carre, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John Le Carré, Call for the Dead
John LeCarré, Our Kind of Traitor
Steven D. Leavitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Conflict of Honors
Russell Lee, Singapore Ghost Stories 8
Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
Stephen Lekson, The Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Stephen Lekson, The Chaco Meridian
Stephen H. Lekson, A History Of The Ancient Southwest
Ray Lemoine and Jeff Neumann, Babylon By Bus
Elmore Leonard, Road Dogs
Elmore Leonard, Tishomingo Blues
Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty
Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham, The Wiki Way
Jeremy Lewis, Cyril Connolly
Roy Lewis, Evolution Man
Michael Lewis, Moneyball
Lucia Leão, O Chip e o Caleidoscópio
Martin Limón, Buddha's Money
Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners
Alvin Liu, ed., The Art of Miyazaki's Spirited Away
Sir E. Llewellyn Woodward, The Age of Reform: 1815-1870
David Lodge, Changing Places
David Lodge, Small World
John Lukacs, The Duel
Sidney Lumet, Making Movies
John Lusk and Kyle Harrison, The Mouse Driver Chronicles
Benjamin Lytal, A Map Of Tulsa
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making
Gregory Maguire, Out Of Oz
Ian R. Macleod, The Light Ages
Matt Madden, 99 Ways To Tell A Story
Stewart Mader, WikiPatterns
Gregory Maguire, What The Dickens
Gregory Maguire, Wicked
Thomas Mallon, A Book of One's Own: people and their diaries
David Mamet, Bambi vs. Godzilla
David Mamet, The Wicked Son
David Mamet, True and False
David Mamet, On Directing Film
David Mamet, The Boston Marriage
David Mamet, The Old Neighborhood
David Mamet, Jafsie and John Henry: Essays
David Mamet, The Spanish Prisoner and The Winslow Boy
David Mamet, Make-Believe Town
David Mamet, The Old Neighborhood
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, Bring Up The Bodies
Joseph Moncure March (Art Spiegelman, illus), The Wild Party
Megan Marshall, The Peabody Sisters
George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin, The Game of Thrones
Robert C. Martin, ed., C++ Gems
Steve Martin, Shopgirl
Patricia Marx, Him Her Him Again The End of Him
Sujata Massey, Samurai's Daughter
Sujata Massey, The Bride's Kimono
Lia Matera, Havana Twist
Armistead Maupin, Mary Ann In Autumn
Armistead Maupin, Michael Tolliver Lives
Ernest R. May, Strange Victory
Peter Mayle, French Lessons
Mark Mazower, The Balkans
Mark Mazower, Dark Continent
Scott McCloud, Making Comics
David McCullough, 1776
David McCullough, John Adams
David McCullough, The GreaterJourney
Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan, Atonement
Ian McEwan, The Black Dogs
Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth
Michael McGarrity, The Big Gamble
Michael McGarrity, Under the Color of Law
Harold McGee, On Food and Cooking
Robin McKinley, Sunshine
John McPhee, In Suspect Terrain
John McPhee, Basin and Range
John McPhee, The Crofter and the Laird
Russell Meiggs, Roman Ostia
Louis Menand, The Marketplace of Ideas
Louis Menand, American Studies
Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club
Jane Mendelsohn, Innocence
Maria Rosa Menocal, The Ornament of the World
Gerard Meszaros, xUnit Test Patterns
Isaac Metzker, ed., A Bintel Brief
L. A. Meyer, Bloody Jack
Scott Meyers, Effective STL
Candice Millard, River of Doubt
Steve Miller and Sahron Lee, Agent Of Change
Susan Cummins Miller, Death Assemblage
John Milton, Paradise Lost
David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Miyuki Miyabe, All She Was Worth
China Miéville, The City & The City
Rick Moody, Garden State
Christopher G. Moore, Chairs
Christopher G. Moore , A Killing Smile
Franco Moretti, Graphs Maps Trees
Judith and Neil Morgan, Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel: A Biography
Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon
Sheldon Morgenstern, No Vivaldi in the Garage
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
Samuel Eliot Morison, Guadalcanal
Samuel Eliot Morison, Strategy and Compromise
Jan Morris, Hav
Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex
M. K. Moulton, A Prayer for Gershon Levin
Stefran Mumaw, Simple: Web Sites
Jim Munro, Everyone in Silico
William Murray, City of the Soul: A Walk In Rome
Reggie Nadelson, Londongrad
John J. Nance, Headwind
Theodore Holm Nelson, Possiplex
Jo Nesbø, The Redbreast
Jennifer New, Drawing from Life
Charles Nicholl, The Lodger Shakespeare
Juliet Nicolson, Abdication
David Noakes, Samuel Johnson
Patrick O'Brain, The Truelove
James O'Brian, Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian, Desolation Island
Patrick O'Brian, Joseph Banks: A Life
Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen
Patrick O'Brian, The Reverse of the Medal
Patrick O'Brian, Letter of Marque
Patrick O'Brian, The Golden Ocean
Patrick O'Brian, Thirteen Gun Salute
Patrick O'Brian, The Commodore
Patrick O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral
Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days
Patrick O'Brian, Far Side of the World
John O'Hara, Pal Joey
Patrick O'Brain, The Wine-Dark Sea
Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World
Julie Orringer, How To Breathe Underwater
Josiah Osgood, Caesar's Legacy
Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won
George Packer, The Assassins’ Gate
James E. Packer, The Forum of Trajan in Rome
Michael Parenti, The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Sara Paretsky, Breakdown
Robert B. Parker, Hundred Dollar Baby
Robert B. Parker, Bad Business
Robert Parker, Shrink Rap
Robert B. Parker, Back Story
Robert B. Parker, Widow's Walk
I. J. Parker, Rashomon Gate
Tim Parks, Medici Money
Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club
Ian Pears, The Dream of Scipio
Mary Peck, Stephen Lekson, et al, Chaco Canyon: a center and its world
Thomas Penn, Winter King
Jacques Pepin, The Apprentice: My Life In The Kitchen
Arturo Perez-Reverte, The Club Dumas
Anne Perry, Half Moon Street
Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Diana Peterfreund, Rampant
Arthur Phillips, Angelica
Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
Michael Pollan, A Place Of My Own
Charles Portis, True Grit
Derek Powazek, Design for Community
Julie Powell, Julie & Julia: my year of cooking dangerously
Tim Powers, A Soul In A Bottle
Magdalen Powers, Hand Over Fist
David Poyer, The Med
Terry Pratchett, Mort
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Cherie Priest, Dreadnought
Cherie Priest, Boneshaker
Francine Prose, Blue Angel
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
Phillip Pullman, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Phillip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
Phillip Pullman, Lyra's Oxford
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Phillip Pullman, Ruby in the Smoke
Hannu Rajaniemi, The Quantum Thief
Joan Reardon, ed., As Always, Julia
David Remnick , ed., The Complete New Yorker
David Remnick, ed., Wonderful Town
Gareth Renowden, The Aviator
Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Emerson: The Mind on Fire
Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco
John Ringo, Gust Front
John Ringo, A Hymn Before Battle
Jancis Robinson, How To Taste
Claudia Roden, The Book of Jewish Food
John Rodzvilla, ed., We've Got Blog
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Scott Rosenberg, Dreaming In Code
Ross King, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Veronica Roth, Divergent
Veronica Roth, Insurgent
Veronica Roth, Divergent (again)
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
C. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
C. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Nicholas Royle, Antwerp
Michael Ruhlman, The Elements Of Cooking
Michael Ruhlman, Ratio: the simple codes behind the craft of everyday cooking
Michael Ruhlman, Making of a Chef
Michael Ruhlman, The Reach of a Chef: Beyond The Kitchen
Michaerl Ruhlman, Soul of a Chef
Michael Ruhlman, Making of a Chef
John Ruskin, Mornings In Florence
Richard Russo, Empire Falls
Joe Sacco, The Fixer
Walter Satterthwait, Masquerade
Leigh Sauerwein, Song for Eloise
Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise
Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?
Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Darothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon
Dorothy R. Sayers, The Nine Tailors
Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Jill Patton Walsh and Dorothy Sayers, A Presumption of Death
John Scalzi, Old Man's War
John Scalzi, Redshirts
Sally Schneider, A New Way To Cook
Barbara Seagram and Marc Smith, Bridge: 25 Ways to Compete In The Bidding
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
Joann Sfar, The Rabbi's Cat
Bob Shacochis, Swimming in the Volcano
James Shapiro, 1599
James Shapiro, Contested Will
Stephen A. Shaw, Turning The Tables
Owen Shears, Resistance
Nathan Shedroff, Experience Design
T. A. Shippey, J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
Anita Shreve, Testimony
Dan Simmons, Ilium
Eric Sink, Eric Sink of the Business of Software
Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Martin Cruz Smith, Three Stations
Sarah Smith, The Other Side of Dark
Anna Deavere Smith, Letters to a Young Artist
Zadie Smith, On Beauty
Ali Smith, The Accidental
Sarah Smith, Chasing Shakespeares
Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Craig Smith, The Whisper of Leaves
J. Percy Smith, ed., Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells
Amy Sohn, My Old Man
Elizabeth Speller, Following Hadrian
Julia Spencer-Fleming, In The Bleak Midwinter
Boris Starling, Vodka
Barbara M. Stecher, Sketchbooking
Peter Steinhart, The Undressed Art
Rory Stewart, Prince of the Marshes
Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
Julian Stockwin, Kydd
Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures
Peter Straub, A Dark Matter
Charles Stross, The Jennifer Morgue
Charles Stross, Saturn’s Children
Charles Stross, Halting State
Charles Stross, Singularity Sky
Charles Stross, The Family Trade
Charles Stross, The Hidden Family
Charles Stross, The Clan Corporate
Charles Stross, Accelerando
Charles Stross, Iron Sunrise
Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives
Charles Stross, The Fuller Memorandum
William Styron, Set This House On Fire
Brian Suda, Designing With Data
Koushum Takami, Battle Royale
Frank Tallis, Vienna Blood
Sandi Tan, The Black Isle
Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira, The Emerging Democratic Majority
David Thomas, Andrew Hunt, Programming Ruby
Chuck Thompson, Smile When You’re Lying
Charles Todd, A Test Of Wills
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, This Earth of Mankind
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Christina Tosi, Momofuku Milk Bar
Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne
Peter Turchi, Maps of the Imagination: The Writers As Cartographer
Sarah Turnbull, Almost French
Mark Twain, Roughing It
Charles Neider, ed., The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
Kenneth Tynan, John Lahr, ed., The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
David L. Ulin, The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter In A Distracted Time
Ellen Ullman, The Bug
Barry Unsworth, Land Of Marvels
Arthur Upfield, Man of Two Tribes
Janwillem van de Wetering, Hard Rain
John Varley, Red Thunder
David Walder, Nelson
Howard Waldrop and Jake Saunders, The Texas-Israeli War: 1999
Jo Walton, Among Others
Jo Walton, Ha'penny
Jo Walton, Half A Crown
Jo Walton, Tooth and Claw
Jo Walton, Farthing
Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall Of Rome
Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles
Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger
Alice Waters, The Art of Simple Food
Sarah Waters, The Night Watch
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
David Weinberger, Everything Is Miscellaneous
Miriam Weinstein, Yiddish
H. G. Wells, The World Brain
Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan
Donald E. Westlake, The Hot Rock
Tony Wheeler et al., Lonely Planet: Unpacked Again
E. B. White, The Second Tree from the Corner
Andrew White, ed., London Walks
Jerry White, London in the 19th Century
Thornton Wilder, Cabala
Max Wilk, OK: the story of Oklahoma!
Connie Willis, Blackout
Robert Wilson, The Company of Strangers
Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon
Simon Winchester, The Map That Changed The World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Simon Winder, Germania
Tobias Wolf, Old School
Gene Wolfe, The Knight
Rebecca Wolff, The Beginners
Gordon Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Bob Woodward, State of Denial
Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books: reading and publishing in an age of abundance
Charlotte Mosley, ed., The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh