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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New WorldTony Horwitz
All the Sad Young Literary MenKeith Gessen
American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to WorkNick Taylor
Another Thing to FallLaura Lippman
Blood KinCeridwen Dovey
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and SexMary Roach
Child 44Tom Rob Smith
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of HistoryTed Sorensen
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle EastRobin Wright
Fall of FrostBrian Hall
FanonJohn Edgar Wideman
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon Sheila Weller
Hollywood CrowsJoseph Wambaugh
I Was Told There'd Be CakeSloane Crosley
LaviniaUrsula K. Le Guin
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal UnderworldMisha Glenny
NetherlandJoseph O'Neill
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of AmericaRick Perlstein
Olive KitteridgeElizabeth Strout
Our Story Begins: New and Selected StoriesTobias Wolff
PeaceRichard Bausch
RetributionMax Hastings
Skeletons at the FeastChris Bohjalian
So Brave, Young, and HandsomeLeif Enger
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell And John D. RockefellerSteve Weinberg
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American CenturySteve Coll
The BoatNam Le
The FinderColin Harrison
The Forgery of VenusMichael Gruber
The God of WarMarisa Silver
The HakawatiRabih Alameddine
The House on Fortune StreetMargot Livesey
The Lazarus ProjectAleksandar Hemon
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai LamaPico Iyer
The Palace of IllusionsChitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Plague of DovesLouise Erdrich
The Post-American WorldFareed Zakaria
The ResurrectionistJack O'Connell
The Sorrows of an AmericanSiri Hustvedt
The Stone GodsJeanette Winterson
The Story of a MarriageAndrew Sean Greer
The Sum of Our Days: A MemoirIsabel Allende
The Ten-Year NapMeg Wolitzer
The Third AngelAlice Hoffman
TraumaPatrick McGrath
Unaccustomed EarthJhumpa Lahiri
White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their SpeechwritersRobert Schlesinger
Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway Joyce Carol Oates
Winter StudyNevada Barr
Wit's EndKaren Joy Fowler