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