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Reviewed by Nina
You Had Me At Woof by Julie Klam

The Sun at Midday by Gini Alhadeff

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

97 Orchard Street by Jane Ziegelman

Overcoming Katrina, edited by D'Ann Penner and Keith Ferdinand

In Search of England by H.V. Morton

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson

Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill

After a Funeral by Diana Athill

Coin Street Chronicles by Gwen Southgate

The Possessed by Elif Batuman

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Days of Fear by Daniele Mastrogiacomo

Searching for Tamsen Donner by Gabrielle Burton

The Hidden Life of Deer  by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Scout's Honor by Peter Applebome

The Tomb in Seville by Norman Lewis

The Peregrine by J.A. Baker

The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
by Anne Fadiman

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

A Terrible Splendor by Marshall Jon Fisher

On the Line by Serena Williams and Daniel Paisner

The Slippery Year by Melanie Gideon 

The Devil's Tickets by Gary M. Pomerantz

The Crofter and the Laird by John McPhee

Somewhere Towards the End by Dianna Athill

Pressure is a Privilege by Billie Jean King

Will Work for Drugs by Lydia Lunch

Gerald Keegan's Famine Diary by James Mangan

The Mercy Papers by Robin Romm

The Salt-Box House by Jane de Forest Shelton

Marley and Me by John Grogan

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
by Haruki Murakami

A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind

Madame De Stael, The First Modern Woman
by Francine Du Plessix Gray

Are You Somebody? by Nuala O'Faolain

Algren at Sea by Nelson Algren

Happens All The Time by Isabel Gillies

Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinksi

Out of Captivity  by Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Tom Howes, with Gary Brozek

Russian Journal by Andrea Lee

Cooking and Screaming by Adrienne Kane

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave
by Frederick Douglas

Christmas in Plains  by Jimmy Carter

Rimbaud by Edmund White

The Good Life According to Hemingway by A. E. Hotchner

The King and the Cowboy by David Fromkin

The Three of Us by Julia Blackburn

Nothing to Be Frightened Of
by Julian Barnes

The Yellow Leaves by Frederick Buechner

Charles Dickens by Melisa Klimaszewski and Melissa Gregory

Newton by Peter Ackroyd

Ronald Reagan by Andrew Helfer, illustrated by Steve Buccellato and Joe Staton

GirlBoyGirl by Savannah Knoop
Essays
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman

Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Ancient Shore by Shirley Hazzard

Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Dangerous Games by Margaret MacMillan

Will War Ever End? by Paul K. Chappell

On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt

Death etc. by Harold Pinter

Love and Death  by Forrest Church

Climate of Fear: The Quest for Human Dignity in a Dehumanized World by Wole Soyinka

The Seven Deadly Sins, The Common Reader Edition

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

Payback by Margaret Atwood

Ten Poems to Set You Free  by Roger Housden

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
Tennis
On the Line by Serena Williams and Daniel Paisner

Winning Ugly by Brad Gilbert

Pressure is a Privilege by Billie Jean King

The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
                      
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