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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Everythiing You Wanted to Know About Indians, but Were Afraid to Ask, Anton Treuer
- Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 indomitablei 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
- 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 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Zero History, William Gibson