Index by Author

This is an index of my Bell, Book and Candle reviews organized by author or editor.

All authors or editors of a work are listed, and all works credited to a given person are listed for them, so some works appear multiple times.

Edward Abbey: Desert Solitaire
The Federal Aviation Administration: Instrument Procedures Handbook
Saladin Ahmed: Engraved on the Eye
Mitch Albom: The Five People You Meet in Heaven; Tuesdays with Morrie
Amir Alexander: Infinitesmal
Sherman Alexie: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven; War Dances
David Allen: Getting Things Done
Stephen Ambrose: Undaunted Courage
Charlie Jane Anders: Fourteen Days
Kurt Andsersen: Turn of the Century
Cristin Aptowicz: Doctor Mütter's Marvels
Richard Arroyo: Mexican American Baseball In The San Fernando Valley
Joey Asher: Fifteen Minutes Including Q&A
Issac Asimov: Azazel; The Planet That Wasn't; The Relativity Of Wrong; The Stars In Their Courses
Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace; The Blind Assassin; Cat's Eye; Fourteen Days; The Handmaid's Tale; I'm Starved For You; MaddAdam; Oryx and Crake; The Penelopiad; Stone Mattress; Surfacing; The Year of the Flood
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Paul Auster: I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project
Eric Avila: Folklore of the Freeway
Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Martha Baer: As Francesca
Robert Baer: Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
Howard G. Baetzhold: The Bible According To Mark Twain
Brian Bagnall: Commodore: A Company On The Edge
Gretchen Bakke: The Grid
Travis Baldree: Legends and Lattes
Edward Baptist: The Half Has Never Been Told
P. T. Barnum: The Humbugs of the World
Mike Baron: Nexus
Andrew Barr: Drink: A Social History of America
Laura Barrachough: A people's Guide To Los Angeles
Dave Barry: Dave Barry Does Japan
Mary Beard: How Do We Look?
Paul Beatty: The Sellout; The White Boy Shuffle
Andrew Behar: Twain's Feast
Kevin Behr: The Phoenix Project
Richard Bek: The Big Jump
Rod Belcher: The Six-Gun Tarot
Lauren Belfer: City of Light
David Benjamin: The Joy of Sumo: A Fan's Notes
A. Scott Berg: Lindbergh
John Biguenet: Oyster; The Torturer's Apprentice
Laurent Binet: HHhH
Will Bingley: Gonzo
Mike Birbiglia: Sleepwalk with Me
Ian Black: Enemies and Neighbors
Lewis Black: Me of Little Faith
Sandra Blakeslee: Phantoms in the Brain
Jim Blinn: Dirty Pixels; A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline
David Bodanis: The Secret Family
Jeorge Luis Borges: Ficciones
Ben Bova: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 2B
John Bowe: Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
Marisa Bowe: Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
T. Coraghessan Boyle: If the River Was Whiskey; Talk To Me
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451; The Vintage Bradbury
Taylor Branch: At Cannan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68; Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63; Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
H. W. Brands: The Age of Gold; The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin; Lone Star Nation
W. T. Brannon: "Yellow Kid" Weil: The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler
Kevin Break: Bridges of Downtown Los Angeles
Alan Brinkley: The American Presidency
John Brockman: What Have You Changed Your Mind About?
Richard Brookhiser: Alexander Hamilton, American
Fred Brooks: The Mythical Man-Month
Michael Brooks: 13 Things That Don't Make Sense
Rosa Brooks: How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything; Tangled Up in Blue
Craig Brown: Hello Goodbye Hello
Steven Brust: Dragon; Dzur; Hawk; Iorich; Issola; Jhegaala; Tiassa; Vallista
Bill Bryson: At Home: A Short History of Private Life; The Body; I'm A Stranger Here Myself; In A Sunburned Country; The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid; The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America; Made In America; The Mother Tongue: English And How It Got That Way; One Summer, America, 1927; Shakespeare; A Short History of Nearly Everything; A Walk in the Woods
Rinker Buck: Flight of Passage
Robert N. Buck: Weather Flying
Christopher Buckley: They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?
Peter Buffington: Squawk 7700
Ken Burns: The Civil War: An Illustrated History
Ric Burns: The Civil War: An Illustrated History
Ingrid Burrington: Networks of New York
Edwin G. Burrows: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Octavia Butler: Parable of the Sower; Parable of the Talents; Unexpected Stories
David Byrne: The Bicycle Diaries
Deborah Cadbury: Dreams of Iron and Steel
Andrew Campbell: Letters of a Nation
Francisco Cantú: The Line Becomes a River
Truman Capote: A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor; In Cold Blood
Orson Scott Card: Children of the Mind
Drew Carey: Dirty Jokes and Beer
George Carlin: Braindroppings; When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops
Glenn E. Carlson: Airplane Talk
Caleb Carr: The Alienist
Nicholas Carr: The Shallows
Abigail Carroll: Three Squares
Lewis Carroll: The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
Sean Carroll: The Big Picture
Jimmy Carter: A Call To Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power; The Hornet's Nest; Our Endangered Values America's Moral Crisis; Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Joseph Cassara: Fourteen Days
Eleanor Catton: Birnam Wood
Michael Chabon: McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
Becky Chambers: A Closed and Common Orbit; The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet; A Prayer for the Crown-Shy; A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The Long Goodbye; Trouble Is My Business
Rajiv Chandrasekaran: Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Roz Chast: Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
François Chastanet: Cholo Writing
Bruce Chatwin: In Patagonia
Margaret Cheney: Tesla: Man Out Of Time
Wendy Cheng: A people's Guide To Los Angeles
G. K. Chesterton: What's Wrong With The World
Noam Chomsky: Understanding Power: The Essential Chomsky
Martin Clark: The Many Aspects Of Mobile Home Living
Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Carl von Clausewitz: On War
Ernest Cline: Ready Player One
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
Michael Coe: Breaking The Maya Code
Bryan Cohen: Ted Saves The World
Danny Cohen: The World According to Professor James A. Finnegan
Emily Colas: Just Checking: scenes from the life of an obsessive-compulsive
David Colbert: Eyewitness To America
Stephen Colbert: I Am America (And You Can Too)
Teju Cole: Every Day Is For The Thief
E. Gabriella Coleman: Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl; Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident; Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
Steve Coll: Private Empire
Max Allan Collins: Chicago Lightning: The Collected Nathan Heller Stories
Richard Collins: Flying the Weather Map
The quakebook community: 2:46 Aftershock: Stories from the Japan Earthquake
Alfredo Corchado: Midnight in Mexico
Bernard Cornwell: Sharpe's Company; Sharpe's Eagle; Sharpe's Gold; Sharpe's Rifles
Dougles Coupland: Worst. Person. Ever
James Cowan: A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice
Molly Crabapple: Drawing Blood
Stephen Crane: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, and other writing about New York; The Red Badge of Courage
Jeffrey Cranor: You Feel It Just Below The Ribs
David Cross: I Drink For A Reason
Tom Crouch: The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright
Jennine Capó Crucet: Fourteen Days
Angie Cruz: Fourteen Days
Pat Cummings: Fourteen Days
Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.: In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson
John D'Agata: The Lifespan of a Fact
Roald Dahl: Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life; James and the Giant Peach; My Uncle Oswald; Over To You; The Roald Dahl Omnibus: Perfect Bedtime Stories For Sleepless Nights; Switch Bitch
James Daily: The Law Of Superheroes
Richard Henry Dana: Two Years Before The Mast
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves
Christopher Daniels: Teleport This
Edward Earl of Darby: The Iliad
Larry Dark: Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards; Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards; Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards; Prize Stories 2002: The O. Henry Awards
James Davidson: Courtesans And Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
Ryan Davidson: The Law Of Superheroes
Erik Davis: High Weirdness
Mike Davis: City of Quartz; Set The Night On Fire
Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Sylvia Day: Fourteen Days
Stephen Deadman: The Art of Arrow Cutting
Pamela Dean: Tam Lin
Len Deighton: James Bond – My Long and Eventful Search for his Father
Samuel R. Delany: Dhalgren; Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand
William Deverell: Whitewashed Adobe
Jared Diamond: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed; Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep; Eye in the Sky; The Man in the High Castle; A Scanner Darkly; VALIS
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol; Oliver Twist; A Tale of Two Cities
Joan Didion: Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Annie DiDonna: Logicomix
Craig DiLouie: Paranoia
Stephen Dobyns: Boy in the Water; The Burn Palace; The Church of Dead Girls
Christopher Docter: Mexican American Baseball In The San Fernando Valley
Cory Doctorow: Little Brother; The Rapture of the Nerds
David Herbert Donald: We Are Lincoln Men
Emma Donoghue: Fourteen Days
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
Caitlin Doughty: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
John W. Dower: Embracing Defeat
Apostolos Doxiadis: Logicomix
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Gardner Dozios: Mashup; The Year's Best Science Fiction (2002)
Annette Lawrence Drew: Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of Submarine Espionage
Christopher Drew: Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of Submarine Espionage
Stephen J. Dubner: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Lou Dubose: Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
Mike Duncan: Hero of Two Worlds
Nick Dybek: When Captain Flint Was Still A Good Man
Davis Dyer: The American Presidency
Roger Ebert: Life Itself
Umberto Eco: How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays
Ed.: The Best of Richard Matheson
Timothy Egan: The Worst Hard Time
Dave Eggers: Fourteen Days
Will Eisner: Will Eisner's Shop Talk
Joseph Ellis: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson; Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation; His Excellency; Passionate Sage: The Character And Legacy Of John Adams
Warren Ellis: Crooked Little Vein; Cunning Plans; Dead Pig Collector; Elektrograd:Rusted Blood; Gun Machine; Normal
Ralph Ellison: Juneteenth
James Ellroy: The Best American Noir of the Century
Daniel Ellsberg: The Doomsday Machine
Kerry Emanuel: What We Know About Climate Change
Chris Epting: Teddy Roosevelt in California; University Park, Los Angeles: A Brief History; Victorian Los Angeles
William David Estrada: The Los Angeles Plaza
Danielle Evans: The Office of Historical Corrections
Michael Faber: Under The Skin
Anne Fadiman: Ex Libris
James Fallows: Free Flight
John Fante: Ask The Dust
Barry Fantoni: Harry Lipkin Private Eye
Adam Felber: Schrödinger's Ball
John Ferguson: Basic Heraldry
Jonathan Fetter-Vorm: Trinity
Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out; Six Easy Pieces; Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
Dexter Filkins: The Forever War
Jim Fingal: The Lifespan of a Fact
David Finkel: Thank You For Your Service
David Fisher: Up Till Now
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby; This Side of Paradise
Bill Fitzhugh: Pest Control
Tim Flannery: The Weather Makers
Fergus Fleming: Barrow's Boys
Thomas Fleming: Liberty!: The American Revolution
E. Randall Floyd: The Good, the Bad, and the Mad: Some Weird People in American History
Franklin Foer: How Soccer Explains the World
Ken Follett: Hornet Flight
Eric Foner: Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution; Second Founding; Who Owns History?
Shelby Foote: The Civil War, A Narrative
James Forman, Jr.: Locking Up Our Own
Thomas Frank: What's the Matter with Kansas?
Al Franken: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right; The Truth with Jokes; Why Not Me?
Stephen Friar: Basic Heraldry
Howard Fried: Beyond The Checkride
Thomas L. Friedman: From Beirut to Jerusalem; The World Is Flat
Luis Fuerte: Louie, Take A Look At This
Laura Furman: The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005; The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007; The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017; The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010
Diana Gabaldon: Fourteen Days
Neil Gaiman: American Gods; Anansi Boys; Norse Mythology; Smoke and Mirrors; Unnatural Creatures
Ernest K. Gann: Fate Is The Hunter
John Gardner: Cold Fall
Martin Gardner: The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
Atul Gawande: The Best American Science Writing 2006
Frederick George: Interface
Tess Gerritsen: Fourteen Days
J. Paul Getty: As I See It
William Gibson: Agency; Pattern Recognition; The Peripheral; Spook Country; Zero History
Martin Gilbert: A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1: 1900-1933; A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 2: 1933-1951; A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 3: 1952-1999
Ira Glass: The New Kings of Non-Fiction
William Goldman: The Princess Bride
Amy Goldstein: Janesville
Amy Goodman: Exception to the Rulers
David Goodman: Exception to the Rulers
Doris Kearns Goodwin: The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Linda Gordon: The Second Coming of the KKK
Mary Gordon: Spending
Angelica Gorodischer: Kalpa Imperial
David Graeber: The Utopia of Rules
Seth Grahame-Smith: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Greg Grandin: Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Hank Green: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
John Green: The Anthropecene Reviewed
Karen Greenberg: The Least Worst Place
Scott S. Greenberger: The Unexpected President
Brian Greene: The Elegant Universe
John Grisham: Fourteen Days
Lewis Grizzard: My Daddy Was A Pistol And I'm A Son Of A Gun
Dale Gronic: Tales from the Pittsburgh Steelers Sidelines
Winston Groom: The Aviators
Sara Gruen: Water for Elephants
Jean Guerrero: Crux
Jeff Guinn: The War on the Broder
Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind
Joe Haldeman: Cosmic Laughter
Alexander Hamilton: The Federalist Papers
James Hamilton-Patterson: Marked For Death
Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon
Zach Hample: Watching Baseball Smarter
Daniel Handler: Adverbs; All the Dirty Parts; The Basic Eight; Why We Broke Up
Nick Harkaway: Gnomon
Sam Harris: Letter To A Christian Nation
Colin Harrison: Afterburn
Harry Harrison: The Stainless Steel Rat for President
Robert Harvey: Bolivar
David G. Harwell: The Science Fiction Century
Tony Hawks: Round Ireland With A Fridge
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Chris Hayes: A Colony In A Nation
David S. Heidler: Old Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire
Jeanne T. Heidler: Old Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire
Robert Heinlein: Double Star; Stranger In A Strange Land
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
David Henry: Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him
Joe Henry: Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him
Frank Herbert: Dune
John Heylar: Lords of the Realm
Carl Hiaasen: Bad Monkey; Basket Case; The Downhill Lie; Hoot; Sick Puppy; Star Island; Stormy Weather
Dave Hill: Tasteful Nudes
Maria Hinojosa: Fourteen Days
Christopher Hitchens: Arguably
Paul Hoffman: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
Nathalia Holt: The Queens of Animation
Homer: The Iliad
Anthony Hope-Smith: Gonzo
Nick Hornby: High Fidelity; The Polysyllabic Spree; Shakespeare Wrote For Money; Talking With The Angel
Tony Horwitz: Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War; Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War; Spying on The South
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
Harry Houdini: The Right Way To Do Wrong
Sean Howe: Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
Hugh Howey: Wool
Darrell Huff: How To Lie With Statistics
Kelli Huggins: Curiosities of Elmira
Victor Hugo: Les Miserables
Sparky Imeson: Mountain Flying
Daniel Immerwahr: How To Hide An Empire
Peter Irons: A People's History of the Supreme Court
John Irving: In One Person; The Last Chairlift; A Widow for One Year
Washington Irving: Tales of a Traveler
Nancy Isenberg: Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr; White Trash
Molly Ivins: Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush; Who Let The Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known
Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House
Mira Jacob: Fourteen Days
Chip Jacobs: Smogtown
Will Jacobs: My Pal Splendid Man
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw
John Jay: The Federalist Papers
Thomas Jefferson: The Jefferson Bible
N. K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season; How Long 'til Black Future Month
Ken Jennings: Because I Said So!; Brainiac; Maphead
Penn Jillette: Sock
Denis Johnson: The Laughing Monsters
Steven Johnson: The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Gerard Jones: Men of Tomorrow; My Pal Splendid Man
Gregg Jones: Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of US Imperialism
Erica Jong: Fourteen Days
James Kakalios: The Physics of Superheroes
David Kalakaua: Legends and Myths of Hawaii
Eric Kaplan: Does Santa Exist
Justin Kaplan: The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories
Sam Kean: The Disappearing Spoon
Garrison Keillor: Homegrown Democrat; WLT: A Radio Romance
Colm Kelleher: Hunt For The Skinwalker
Michael Kelley: Smogtown
Ibram X. Kendi: Stamped From The Beginning
Brian Kernighan: Unix: A History and a Memoir
William K. Kershner: Logging Flight Time
Daniel J. Kevles: The Baltimore Case
Gene Kim: The Phoenix Project
Gilbert King: Devil In The Grove
David Kipen: Dear Los Angeles
Rudyard Kipling: Just So Stories
Chuck Klosterman: But What If We're Wrong; Eating The Dinosaur; I Wear The Black Hat
George Knapp: Hunt For The Skinwalker
Darrell Knight: Buffalo Airways
James Knowles: The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights
DuVay Knox: The Pussy Detective
Brendan Koerner: The Skies Belong To Us
Steven Koonin: Unsettled
Ted Koppel: Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public
Jean Hanff Korelitz: The Plot
Jon Krakauer: Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
Gary Krist: City of Scoundrels
Peter W. Kundhardt: The American President
Philip B. Kundhardt, III: The American President
Philip B. Kundhardt, Jr.: The American President
Scott Kurashige: The Shifting Grounds of Race
Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity Is Near
Phil Lapsley: Exploding the Phone
Erik Larson: The Devil in the White City; In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Susan LaTempa: Paperback LA Book 1
Victor LaValle: The Best of Richard Matheson
Keith Law: Smart Baseball
Jenny Lawson: Furiously Happy; Let's Pretend This Never Happened
John LeCarre: A Delicate Truth
Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird
Ursula LeGuin: The Left Hand of Darkness
Stanislaw Lem: Tales of Pirx the Pilot
Jill Lepore: The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Marc Levinson: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Steven D. Levitt: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Buddy Levy: Conquistador
Bernard Lewis: The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years
Michael Lewis: The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine; Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt; Elmer Gantry; Main Street
Grace D. Li: Portrait of a Thief
Sam Lipyte: The Fun Parts
Cixin Liu: The Dark Forest; Death's End; The Three Body Problem
Nathaniel Lloyd: Manuscript Found
James W. Loewen: Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong; Lies My Teacher Told Me
Sandra Tsing Loh: Depth Takes a Holiday
Bjorn Lomberg: The Skeptical Environmentalist
H. P. Lovecraft: Black Seas of Infinity: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft
Edward Luce: The Retreat of Western Liberalism
Peter Lunefenld: The City on the Edge of Forever
Clarance Lusane: A Black History of The White House
Joseph M. Lynch: Negotiating the Constitution: The earliest debates over original intent
CJ Lyons: Fourteen Days
Tom MacCarthy: Satin Island
Carmen Maria Machado: In The Dream House
Ben MacIntyre: Operation: Mincemeat
Ken MacLeod: The Corporation Wars: Dissidence
Malcom MacPherson: The Black Box
Rachel Maddow: Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
James Madison: The Federalist Papers
Ray Magliozzi: In Our Humble Opinion
Tom Magliozzi: In Our Humble Opinion
John Malone: Unsolved Mysteries of Science
Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven
Beryl Markham: West With The Night
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Tim Marshall: Prisoners of Geography
John F. Marszalek: Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order
Judith Martin: Star-Spangled Manners
Steve Martin: Born Standing Up; Shopgirl
Alyssa Mastromonaco: Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?
Richard Matheson: The Best of Richard Matheson
Valerie J. Matsumoto: City Girls
Joe Matthews: California Crackup
Janina Matthewson: You Feel It Just Below The Ribs
W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories, Volume 1; Collected Short Stories, Volume 2; Collected Short Stories, Volume 3; Collected Short Stories, Volume 4; The Razor's Edge
David W. Maurer: The Big Con
Robert R. McCammon: Boy's Life
Scott McCloud: The Sculptor
Frank McCourt: Angela's Ashes
Malachy McCourt: A Monk Swimming
Johnston McCulley: The Mark of Zorro
Gretchen McCulloch: Because Internet
Joseph B. McCulloch: The Bible According To Mark Twain
David McCullough: The Johnstown Flood; Mornings On Horseback; The Path Between The Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914; Truman
Brian McDonald: My Father's Gun: One Family, Three Badges, One Hundred Years in the NYPD
Ian McEwan: Amsterdam
Paula McLain: Circling The Sun; When the Stars Go Out
James McPherson: To The Best Of My Ability: The American Presidents
LaTanya McQueen: When the Reckoning Comes
Robert Meyer: Super Folks
Scott Meyer: Off To Be The Wizard
Stephenie Meyer: Breaking Dawn; Eclipse; New Moon; Twilight
Jennifer Miller: The Year of the Gadfly
Stewart Miller: Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain
Susan Minot: Evening
David Mitchell: The Bone Clocks
Joseph Mitchell: McSorley's Wonderful Saloon
Peter R. Mitchell: Understanding Power: The Essential Chomsky
Randall Monroe: How To
Michael Moorcock: The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius
Louis Moore: I Fight for a Living
Silvia Morena-Garcia: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Edmund Morris: Colonel Roosevelt; Theodore Rex
Boyd Morrison: The Ark
Michael Morrison: Race and the Early Republic
Greg Mortenson: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to promote Peace .. One School at a Time
Walter Mosley: Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned; Fearless Jones; Futureland
Robert Mrazak: The Indomitable Florence Finch
Alice Munro: Dear Life
Charles Neider: Life As I Find It: A Treasury of Mark Twain Rarities
Craig Nelson: Thomas Paine
Andres Neuman: Traveler Of The Century
Annalee Newitz: Autonomous
Celeste Ng: Everything I Never Told You; Fourteen Days; Little Fires Everywhere; Our Missing Hearts
Marieke Nijkamp: This Is Where It Ends
Larry Niven: A Hole in Space
Trevor Noah: Born a Crime
Jeff Noon: Channel Sk1n
Victoria C. Norton: Mexican American Baseball In The San Fernando Valley
Meghan O'Gieblyn: Interior States
Mallory O'Meara: The Lady From The Black Lagoon
P. J. O'Rourke: Eat the Rich; On The Wealth Of Nations; Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism
Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope
Tommy Orange: Fourteen Days
Susan Orlean: The Library Book
Monica Ortiz: Mexican American Baseball In The San Fernando Valley
George Orwell: 1984; Animal Farm
Chad Orzel: How To Teach Physics To Your Dog
Mary Pope Osborne: Fourteen Days
Thomas Paine: Common Sense
Nell Irvin Painter: The History Of White People
Alecos Papadatos: Logicomix
Christos Papadimitriou: Logicomix
Blaine Pardoe: Terror of the Autumn Skies
Jay Parini: The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Robert Park: Voodoo Science
Dorothy Parker: Complete Stories
Mark Paul: California Crackup
Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture
Laurie Penny: Bitch Doctrine; Unspeakable Things
Otto Penzler: The Best American Noir of the Century
Michael Perry: From The Top; Population: 485; Truck: A Love Story; Visiting Tom
Robert Persig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Kevin Phillips: Wealth and Democracy
Charles Pierce: Idiot America
Steven Pinker: The Better Angels Of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined; The Blank Slate; The Stuff of Thought; Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
Gary M. Pomerantz: Their Life's Work
Daniel Pool: Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters - The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelists
Liane de Pougy: My Blue Diaries
Ron Powers: Mark Twain: A Life
Douglas Preston: Fourteen Days
S. L. Price: Playing Through The Whistle
Cherie Priest: Boneshaker
Annie Proulx: Accordion Crimes; The Shipping News; That Old Ace In The Hole
Laura Pualido: A people's Guide To Los Angeles
Belvoir Publications: Lightplace Maintenance Aircraft Engine Operating Guide
Philip Pullman: The Amber Spyglass; The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife
David Quammen: Spillover: Animal Infections And The Next Human Pandemic
Nathan Rabin: You Don't Know Me But You Don't Like Me
David Rakoff: Don't Get Too Comfortable; Fraud; Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
V. S. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D: Phantoms in the Brain
Alice Randall: Fourteen Days
Lisa Randall: The Higgs Discovery
James Randi: The Faith Healers
Kent Rassmussen: Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls
Ishmael Reed: Fourteen Days
Martin Rees: Just Six Numbers
Robert Reich: Aftermath: The Next Economy and America's Future
Carlton Reid: Roads Were Not Built For Cars
David Oliver Relin: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to promote Peace .. One School at a Time
Robert V. Remini: The Life Of Andrew Jackson
Adam Resnick: Will Not Attend
Keith Richards: Life
Manfred von Richthofen: The Red Air Fighter
Edward V. Rickenbacker: Fighting the Flying Circus; Rikenbacker: An Autobiography
Thomas E. Ricks: Fiasco:: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Mary Roach: Gulp; Packing For Mars; Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Cokie Roberts: Founding Mothers
J. M. Roberts: A History of Europe
Si Robertson: Si-Cology 10 1
Roxana Robinson: Fourteen Days
Spider Robinson: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Luis Rodriguez: Always Running
Jon Ronson: Them: Adventures with Extremists
Kevin Roose: The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester At America's Holiest University; Young Money
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Looking Forward
Theodore Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
Robert Roper: Now The Drum of War
Nelly Rosario: Fourteen Days
Richard N. Rosenfeld: American Aurora
Davy Rothbart: My Heart is an Idiot
Carlo Rovelli: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Greg Rucka: Alpha
Rudy Rucker: Totem Poles
Steven Ruffin: Flights to No Return
Karen Russell: Vampires In The Lemon Grove
Tim Russert: Big Russ & Me
Richard Russo: Empire Falls
William Safire: Watching My Language
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Wind, Sand and Stars
Carl Sandburg: Rootabaga Stories
David Sanger: The Perfect Weapon
Richard A. Santillan: Mexican American Baseball In The San Fernando Valley
Dan Savage: Skipping Toward Gomorrah
Lon Savage: Thunder In The Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War 1920-21
John Scalzi: The Collapsing Empire; The Consuming Fire; The Last Emperox; Redshirts
Barry Schiff: The Proficient Pilot, Vol. 1; The Proficient Pilot, Vol. 2; The Proficient Pilot, Vol. 3, Flying Wisdom
Mark Schlabach: Si-Cology 10 1
Andrea Batista Schlesinger: The Death of Why?: The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy
Richard Schmitt: The Aerialist
John Schoeffel: Understanding Power: The Essential Chomsky
Peter Schrag: Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future
Charles Schultz: Peanuts: A Golden Celebration
Samuel Schwartz: Street Smart
David Sedaris: Barrel Fever; Calypso; Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim; Holidays On Ice; Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls; Me Talk Pretty One Day; Naked; Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk; When You Are Engulfed In Flames
Amity Shales: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
James Shapiro: Fourteen Days
William Shatner: Up Till Now
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Jean Shepard: Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and other disasters
Michael Shermer: Why People Believe Weird Things
Lionel Shriver: We Need To Talk About Kevin
Max Shulman: I Was A Teen-Age Dwarf
Seth Shulman: Unlocking The Sky
Hampton Sides: Fourteen Days
Jeff Silverman: Classic Baseball Stories
Simon Singh: The Code Book: The Evolution Of Secrecy From Mary, Queen Of Scots To Quantum Cryptography
Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Robin Sloan: Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore; Sourdough
Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
E. E. Smith: First Lensman; Triplanetary
Harriet Elinor Smith: Autobiography of Mark Twain; Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume 2
Richard Norton Smith: Patriarch
Dava Sobel: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Octavio Solis: Retablos
Sherry Sontag: Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of Submarine Espionage
George Spafford: The Phoenix Project
William Spaniel: Game Theory 101: The Basics
James Spencer: The Pilots
Francis Spufford: Backroom Boys
Tom Standage: A History of the World in Six Glasses; The Victorian Internet
Kio Stark: When Strangers Meet
Ralph Steadman: The Joke's Over
Jean Stein: West of Eden
Mark Stein: How The States Got Their Shapes
John Steinbeck: The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights; America and Americans and selected nonfiction; The Grapes of Wrath; To A God Unknown
Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon; Interface; REAMDE; Snow Crash; Some Remarks
Bruce Sterling: Distraction; The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things; Holy Fire; Totem Poles
George R. Stewart: Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
Jon Stewart: Naked Pictures of Famous People
Rory Stewart: The Places In Between; The Prince of the Marshes: and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq
Sean Stewart: Perfect Circle
R.L. Stine: Fourteen Days
Sting: Broken Music
Bram Stoker: Dracula
John Stossel: Give Me A Break
Jonathan Strahan: Engineering Infinity
Sabin Streeter: Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
Charles Stross: The Annihilation Score; The Apocalypse Codex; The Atrocity Archives; Equoid; The Fuller Memorandum; Halting State; The Jennifer Morgue; The Rapture of the Nerds; Rule 34; Saturn's Children
Paul Suhler: From RAINBOW to GUSTO: Stealth and the Design of the Lockheed Blackbird
John Jeremiah Sullivan: Pulphead
Shin Takahashi: The Manga Guide To Statistics
Penn & Teller: How To Play in Traffic
Hugh Thomas: The Golden Empire; Rivers of Gold
Kas Thomas: Lightplace Maintenance Aircraft Engine Operating Guide
Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72; Kingdom of Fear; Screwjack
Nafissa Thompson-Spires: Fourteen Days
The Dalai Lama of Tibet: My Land And My People
Lavie Tidhar: Central Station
Robert D. Tilden: Gone Flyin'
Paul Tobin: Prepare to Die!
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Return Of The King; The Two Towers
Leo Tolstoy: What Is Art?
David Samuel Torres-Rouff: Before LA
Anton Treuer: Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians, but Were Afraid to Ask
Monique Truong: Fourteen Days
Lynne Truss: Eats, Shoots & Leaves; Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
Scott Turow: Fourteen Days
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Autobiography of Mark Twain; Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume 2; The Bible According To Mark Twain; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain; Following the Equator, Vol 1; Life As I Find It: A Treasury of Mark Twain Rarities; Life On The Mississippi; Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls; The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories; A Tramp Abroad
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry; Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries
David Ulin: Sidewalking
Kevin Underhill: The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance
Harlow Giles Unger: The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
Luis Alberto Urrea: Fourteen Days
Rachel Vail: Fourteen Days
Anthony J. Vallone: Air Vagabonds
J. D. Vance: Hillbilly Elegy
Jules Verne: Journey To The Center Of The Earth
Gore Vidal: Burr; Lincoln; The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: The Undocumented Americans
Margarte Visser: The Rituals of Dinner
Kurt Vonnegut: Bagombo Snuff Box; Breakfast of Champions; Cat's Cradle; Deadeye Dick; If This Isn't Nice, What Is?; Jailbird; Man Without A Country; Player Piano; Slaughterhouse-Five; Timequake; Welcome to the Monkey House
Sarah Vowell: Assassination Vacation; Lafayette in the Somewhat United States; The Partly Cloudy Patriot; Take The Cannoli; Unfamiliar Fishes; The Wordy Shipmates
Jeste de Vries: Shine: An Anthology of Near-future Optimistic Science Fiction
Dan Wakefield: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
Steven Waldman: Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
David Foster Wallace: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Mike Wallace: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Bill Walsh: Lapsing Into a Comma: A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print - and How to Avoid Them
Jo Walton: What Makes This Book So Great
Weike Wang: Fourteen Days
Geoffrey C. Ward: The Civil War: An Illustrated History
Claire Vaya Watkins: Battleborn
Helene Wecker: The Golem and the Jinni
J. R. "Yellow Kid" Weil: "Yellow Kid" Weil: The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler
Tim Weiner: Enemies
Andrew Weir: The Martian
Eben Weiss: The Ultimate Bicycle Owner's Manual
H. G. Wells: The Invisible Man; The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Time Machine; The Wheels of Chance
Irvine Welsh: Filth
Erica Westly: Fastpitch
Jay Wexler: The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions
Wil Wheaton: Memories of the Future
Andrew Wheeler: Black Seas of Infinity: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft
Corey White: Killing Gravity; Static Ruin; Void Black Shadow
Robert Whiting: Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
Jon Wiener: Set The Night On Fire
Oscar Wilde: De Profundis; The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sean Wilentz: The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Caroline Randall Williams: Fourteen Days
Garry Wills: James Madison; A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government
Simon Winchester: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
De’Shawn Charles Winslow: Fourteen Days
Meg Wolitzer: Fourteen Days
G. K. Wuori: Nude in Tub
John Wyndham: The Midwich Cuckoos
Charles Yu: How To Live Safely In A Science Fiction Universe
Gabrielle Zevin: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikrey
Howard Zinn: Passionate Declarations
Tom Zoellner: The National Road
Karel Čapek: The War with the Newts