National Book Critics Circle Award Short List

Searching for the Ox

The Gates

The Names of the Lost

The Mind-Reader

Bloodshed and Three Novellas

Speedboat

The Easter Parade

Details of a Sunset and Other Stories

World of Our Fathers

Roots

The Damnable Question: A Study in Anglo-Irish Relations

Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality

Kicked a Building Lately?

Arnold Shoenberg

Letters of E.B. White

Representations: Essays on Literature and Society

Lucky Life

Houseboat Days

Out-of-the-Body Travel

The Fuhrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress

A Book of Common Prayer

Falconer

Union Dues

The Professor of Desire

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914

Coming into the Country

Dispatches

Afterimages

Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays, 1973-1976

Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties

Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing

The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977

Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems

The Late Hour

New & Selected Things Taking Place

The World According to Garp

Wrinkles

The Coup

Final Payments

Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

The Snow Leopard

Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

In Search of History: A Personal Adventure

New York Jew

Seeing Through Clothes

Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978

Orientalism

The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews

The World Within the Word: Essays

The Venetian Vespers

Goshawk, Antelope

Notes from the Castle

Blue Wine and Other Poems

The Ghost Writer

Sophie's Choice

Sleepless Nights

King of the Jews: A Novel of the Holocaust

The White Album

The Right Stuff

African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan

America Revised

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century

Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet

A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal

The Morning of the Poem

Being Here: Poetry, 1977-1980

Scripts for the Pageant

A Part of Speech

The Second Coming

So Long, See You Tomorrow

Morgan's Passing

Loon Lake

Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality

Walt Whitman: A Life

China Men

Alice James: A Biography

Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875

Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

Henry Adams

Lectures on Literature

Brotherly Love

What Manner of Beast

The Revisionist

The Sleepwalkers

A Flag for Sunrise

Sixty Stories

The Men's Club

Riddley Walker

National Defense

The Sage of Monticello: Jefferson and His Time, Volume Six

Forms of Talk

No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920

Early Auden

The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

Science: Good, Bad and Bogus

Boccaccio

Monolithos, Poems, 1962 and 1982

Hundreds of Fireflies

Visiting Rites

Finding the Islands

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Shiloh and Other Stories

Levitation: Five Fictions

The Fate of the Earth

Stolen Lightning

The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age

Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood

Going to the Dance

Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism

All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity

Women and the Demon

Thomas Carlyle: A Biography

Black Apollo of Science: the Life of Ernest Everett Just

The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeth's

Eleni

The Kingfisher

Tar

Picture Bride

Erosion

Cathedral

During the Reign of the Queen

The Anatomy of a Lesson

Magnetic Field(s)

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

The Price of Power

Present History: On Nuclear War, Détente and Other Controversies

Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman

Art and Ardor: Essays

The Odes of John Keats

All American Music

The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century

Josephine Herbst

One Writer's Beginnings

Walt Whitman: The Making of a Poet

Home Before Dark

The Other Side of the River

Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic

A Wave

Ground Work: Before the War

Stones for Ibarra

Foreign Affairs

Family Dancing

Machine Dreams

The Abandonment of the Jews

Son of the Morning Star

Brothers and Keepers

The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History

Dawn to the West

Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic

The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion

The Innocent Eye

Giacometti: A Biography

Brigham Young: American Moses

Visible Light: Four Creative Biographies

What the Light was Like

The Past

The Lamplit Answer

Late Settings

White Noise

The Old Forest and Other Stories

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

Distant Neighbors: The Portrait of the Mexicans

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens

House

Occasional Prose: Essays

Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss

Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel

Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: 19th Century French Literary Artistis and Comic Pantomine

Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter

Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865

Maus: A Survivor's Tale

Velazquez: Painter and Courtier

The Key to the City

Cats of the Temple

All of Us Here and Other Poems

Sapphics Against Anger

Kate Vaiden

Roger's Version

The Best Queen

The Moon Pinnace

War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War

Bird of Life, Bird of Death: A Naturalist's Journey Through a Land of Political Turmoil

Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water

The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art

Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics and Boundaries of Bourgeois Life

The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History

A History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950: Vols. 5 & 6

An American Childhood

Timebends: A Life

Private Domain

Don't Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman

Happy Hour

The Sunset Maker

April Galleons

In Other Words

The Age of Grief

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Crossing to Safety

The Genius of the People

Democracy Is in the Streets

And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic

Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle

Sight Lines

Every Force Evolves a Form

Understanding Toscanini

Collected Prose

The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981

Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information

The Letters of T.S. Eliot, 1909-1922

New and Collected Poems

Harp Lake

One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays

Selected Poems, 1938-1988

Libra

Wheat That Springeth Green

Paris Trout

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

Europeans

Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language

The Death of Rhythm and Blues

Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation

Poetry and the World

Richard Milhouse Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician

And God Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Civil War

Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations

This Boy's Life: A Memoir

Earthquake Weather

Water Walker

Human Wishes

Pyramid of Bone

Spartina

The Joy Luck Club

Ordinary Love & Good Will

The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier

Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class

A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922

Among Schoolchildren

Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation

Metaphor & Memory: Essays

A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost

America's Rome

The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880-1918

Strong Drink, Strong Language

A Hole in the World

Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes

The Transparent Man

The Book of Gods and Devils

In the Western Night

New Poems, 1980-88

Middle Passage

The Things They Carried

Family Pictures

Collected Stories

Samba

The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Regan Aftermath

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the 20th Century

Emily Dickinson

Selected Writings, 1950-1990

Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989

Essays in Disguise

Maus II

Anne Sexton: A Biography

The Journals of John Cheever

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991

What Work Is

The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New & Selected (1979-1991)

Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New & Selected Poems

Wartime Lies

Mating

Typical American

The Gold Bug Variations

Praying for Sheetrock

Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Which Side Are You on? Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back

Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other Media

Old Jobs

Female Perversions: The Temptations of Emma Bovary

Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works & Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century

Kissinger

The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958

Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott

Gilgamesh

A Dream of Mine

Looking for Luck

The Father

Black Water

Outerbridge Reach

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

Clockers

Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America

The Diversity of Life

Breaking the Maya Code

Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture

The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy

Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West

French Lessons

A Different Person

The Passion of Michael Foucault

Feather Crowns

Vindication

The Jade Cabinet

The Last Panda

Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age

Genie: An Abused Child's Flight From Silence

United States: Essays 1952-1992

The Phantom Empire

Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright

The Queen's Throat

D.H. Lawrence

Naturalist

Toulouse-Lautrec

Winchell

The Simple Truth

What We Carry

Winter Numbers

Sunday Skaters

A Frolic of His Own

The Prince of West End Avenue

In the Time of the Butterflies

And All Our Wounds Forgiven

Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

My Own Country

Sex and Suits

The Western Canon

Poetry of Mourning

Reasonable Creatures

Walt Whitman's America

Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence

The Liars' Club

Emerson: The Mind on Fire

Cortege

Kyrie

A Scattering of Salts

The Only World

Moo

The Tent of Orange Mist

Galatea 2.2

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder

All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence

In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle

A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books

After the Fact

Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew

The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994

The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poest and Poetasters

The Last Happy Occasion

Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

Charles Ives: A Life in Music

Pear S. Buck: A Cultural Biography

The Vigil

Music Minus One

Imagine the Angels of Bread

Loosestrife

Dancing After Hours

From Bondage

The Autobiography of My Mother

About Schmidt

The Middle East

Hitler's Willing Executioners

The Great Books

Fame and Folly

The Love Affair as a Work of Art

Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life

The True Story of the Novel

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Walking in the Shade

Virginia Woolf

Desire

Loose Sugar

Questions for Ecclesiastes

Does Your House Have Lions?

Underworld

Dreams of My Russian Summers

Cold Mountain

How the Mind Works

The Bible as It Was

American Scripture

God and the American Writer

The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets

The Pleasures of the Imagination

The End of the Novel of Love

Everbody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

Rocket Boys: A Memoir

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

The Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Self-Evidence

Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler

Thieves of Paradise

Preston Falls

Birds of America

No Lease on Life

King Leopold's Ghost

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford Engligh Dictionary

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

Out of Sheer Rage

Hip Hop America

The Sounds of Poetry

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

Morgan: American Financier

Coleridge: Vol. II: Darker Reflections

The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times

Diva

On the Bus with Rosa Parks

Dailies & Rushes

HIV, Mon Amour

Midnight Champagne

The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories

The Night Inspector

Disgrace

Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History

The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena

I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory

Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season

Lives of the Poets

Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order

Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry

The Chief: The Life of William Randolf Hearst

Marcel Proust: A Life

The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945

Men in the Off Hours

Ultima Thule

The Ledge

Talking Dirty to the Gods

A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You

Assorted Fire Events: Stories

White Teeth

The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach

Way Out There in the Blue

Crucible of War

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present

Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New

Passionate Minds

A Poetry of Two Minds

The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal

Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina

Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on this Planet

Borrowed Finery: A Memoir

The Seven Ages

Animal Soul

A Treatise on Poetry

Given Sugar, Given Salt

John Henry Days

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

Bel Canto

Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland

The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair

Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books

Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art

De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong

Benjamin Franklin

Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music

Sleeping with the Dictionary

The Unswept Room

Leaving Saturn

Without End: New and Selected Poems

Nowhere Man

Roscoe

The Darts of Cupid and Other Stories

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center

Brown: The Last Discovery of America

Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life

Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color

Old Man Goya

Reviewery

Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist

A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage

Jonathan Edwards

Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake

Blue Hour

What Narcissism Means To Me

She Says

Granted

Brick Lane

A Distant Shore

The Time of Our Singing

Old School

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx

Rising Up and Rising Down

Gritos

Songbook

Michelangelo & the Pope’s Ceiling

Regarding the Pain of Others

Chronicles Vol. 1

Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart

The Orchard

Cocktails

Interglacial

Danger on Peaks

The Dew Breaker

The Plot Against America

Blue Blood

The Working Poor: Invisible in America

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

Paper Trail: Selected Prose 1965-2003

Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me

The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Lee Miller

Like a Fiery Elephant

Mark Twain

The Shout

Bent to the Earth

Crush

The Incentive of the Maggot

Veronica

Never Let Me Go

Small Island

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild

Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War

Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-millennial South

Unnatural Wonders

What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles

Fat Girl

Two Lives

Istanbul

Flaubert: A Biography

A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler

My Brother is Getting Arrested Again

Poems (1945-1971)

Ooga-Booga

Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems

Half of a Yellow Sun

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From Within

On Looking: Essays

The Afterlife

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Edith Wharton

The Life Of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932

Ralph Ellison: A Biography

Modern Life

Sleeping and Waking

The Ballad of Jamie Allan

New Poems

In The Country of Men

The Gravediggers Daughter

American Transcendentalism

Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982

Writing in an Age of Silence

A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia

Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family In An American Century

White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Sources

The Landscapist

Human Dark with Sugar

The Lazarus Project

Home

The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

White Protestant Nation

Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life Of Jean-Luc Godard

The Men in My Life

Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds

Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry

Why I Came West

The House On Sugar Beach

The Bishop’s Daughter

The Eaves Of Heaven.

Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone

Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line

A Village Life

Chronic

Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008

Museum of Accidents

The Book of Night Women

Blame

Lark and Termite

American Salvage

The Hindus: An Alternative History

Strength in What Remain

Imperial

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression

Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture

Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music

Lit

Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America

City Boy

Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love

The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham: A Biography

Charlie Chan: The Untold Story Of The Honorable Detective And His Rendezvous With American History

The Killing Of Crazy Horse

Simon Wiesenthal: The Lives And Legends

Lighthead

Nox

The Eternal City

The Best of It

The Eternal City

Skippy Dies

Freedom

To The End Of The Land

Comedy In A Minor Key

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American

Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

The Professor and Other Writings

The Cruel Radiance

Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978

The Autobiography of an Execution

Hitch-22: A Memoir

Hiroshima in the Morning

Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution

Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

The Chameleon Couch

Devotions

Core Samples from the World

Kingdom Animalia

The Stranger's Child

Open City

The Marriage Plot

Stone Arabia

A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War

The Information

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

Pulphead: Essays

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything

The Ecstasy of Influence

Karaoke Culture

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music

One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing

Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing

Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War

All We Know: Three Lives

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography

Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations

On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths

Fragile Acts

Olives

HHhH

Magnificence

NW

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Reinventing Bach

Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture

Madness, Rack, and Honey

The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

The Distance Between Us

My Poets

In the House of the Interpreter

Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis

Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Morre

Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Stay, Illusion

Milk and Faith

Elegy Owed

Blowout

A Tale for the Time Being

Someone

The Goldfinch

The Infatuations

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief

Thank You for Your Service

Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt that Brought Him to Justice

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus, translated and annotated by Jonathan Franzen with Paul Reiter and Daniel Kehlmann

Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

White Girls

Men We Reaped

The Faraway Nearby

The Book of My Lives

Wave

William Wells Brown: An African American Life

Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

“Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions

The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography

Prelude to Bruise

The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon

Once in the West

Abide

An Unnecessary Woman

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Euphoria

On Such a Full Sea

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free

Citizen: An American Lyric

On Immunity: An Innoculation

What Would Lynne Tillman Do?

Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

There Was and There Was Not

The Other Side

The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait

Little Failure

Dietrich and Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives

Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth

Bright Dead Things

How to Be Drawn

Parallax and Selected Poems

What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford

Fates and Furies

Eileen

The Tsar of Love and Techno

The Story of My Teeth

What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

SPQR: A History of Rome

Between the World and Me

The Nearest Thing to Life

On Elizabeth Bishop

Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake

H Is for Hawk

Bettyville

The Odd Woman and the City

The Light of the World

Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White

Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

Olio

Works and Days

At the Foundling Hospital

Blackacre

Commonwealth

Swing Time

Imagine Me Gone

Moonglow

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

Against Everything: Essays

Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live

The Iceberg

In Gratitude

The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father

Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times

Gorbachev: His Life and Times

The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek

The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography

Directions for Use, translated by Steven Teref and Maja Teref

The Darkness of Snow

Earthling

Fourth Person Singular

Exit West 

The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness

Sing, Unburied, Sing

The Ninth Hour

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes

Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History

The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

The Girl From the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia, translated by Anna Summers

Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous

Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History

The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century

The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

The Carrying

Holy Moly Carry Me

Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl

Asymmetry. Translated by Clare Cavanagh

Milkman

Slave Old Man. Translated by Linda Coverdale

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

The Mars Room

The House of Broken Angels

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017

Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight

The Reckonings: Essays

Feel Free: Essays

The Day That Went Missing: A Family’s Story

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood

Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home

Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

Educated: A Memoir

Gods of the Upper Air: How A Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated “Female Byron”

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Doomstead Days

Dunce

Deaf Republic

The Tradition

Feast Your Eyes

The Topeka School

Lost Children Archive

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future

The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution

Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Go Ahead in the Rain

Essays One

Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018

Axiomatic

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s

Obit

Imperial Liquor

The Shore

Homie

If I Had Two Wings

Inside Story

How to Pronounce Knife

Memorial

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

The Broken Heart of America: St, Louis and the Violent History of the United States

Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future

She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

Stranger Faces

Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader

Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America

This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope

Golem Girl

The Dragons, The Giant, The Women

Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser

Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America

Mike Nichols: A Life

Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York

Ceive

The Renunciations

Cutlish

The Rhinehart Frames

Second Place

Burntcoat

Harlem Shuffle

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

The Family Roe: An American Story

The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

Orwell's Roses

Why Didn't You Do What You Were Told?

Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul?

Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon

The Right To Sex

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

A Farewell To Gabo And Mercedes: A Son’s Memoir

A Ghost In the Throat

Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes

The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

Hello I Must be Going

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Milkweed Smithereens

Dr. No

A New Name

All the Lovers in the Night

The Furrows

Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

Fen, Bog, & Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold

Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes

A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast

Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan

The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir

You Can Be the Last Leaf

When I Sing, Mountains Dance

The Books of Jacob

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman’s Narrative

Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History

Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor

Trace Evidence

All Souls

The Gathering of Bastards

Information Desk

Blackouts

Tremor

North Woods

Vengeance Is Mine

Blackouts

Ordinary Notes

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs

Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques

I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm

Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison

Story of a Poem: A Memoir

The Last Pomegranate Tree

Owlish

Zakwato & Loglêdou’s Peril

Happy Stories, Mostly

Phantom Pain Wings