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Business: Technology

  • Ken Auletta: World War 3.0
  • Clayton M. Christensen: The Innovator's Dilemma
  • Robert X. Cringely: Accidental Empires
  • John Heilemann: Pride Before the Fall
  • Michael Lewis: The New New Thing
  • Geoffrey A. Moore: Crossing the Chasm
  • Gary Rivlin: The Plot to Get Bill Gates
  • Andrew L. Shapiro: The Control Revolution
  • Seth Shulman: Owning the Future

Economics

  • George P. Brockway: The End of Economic Man
  • George P. Brockway: Economists Can Be Bad for Your Health
  • Paul Krugman: Fuzzy Math

Education

  • James W. Loewen: Lies My Teacher Told Me

Environment

  • Ian Frazier: Great Plains
  • Tracy Kidder: House
  • Richard Manning: Last Stand
  • Richard Manning: A Good House
  • Richard Manning: Grassland
  • Richard Manning: One Round River
  • Alice Outwater: Water: A Natural History
  • Stephen J. Pyne: How the Canyon Became Grand

Food

  • Harold McGee: On Food and Cooking
  • Ruth Reichl: Tender at the Bone
  • Jeremy Steingarten: The Man Who Ate Everything

Food: Cookbooks

  • Ayla Algar: Classical Turkish Cooking
  • Penelope Casas: ¡Delicioso!
  • Yamuna Devi: The Best of Lord Krishna's Cuisine
  • Betty Fussell: I Hear America Cooking
  • Marcella Hazan: Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
  • Irene Kuo: The Key to Chinese Cooking
  • Tess Mallos: The Complete Middle East Cookbook
  • Julie Sahni: Classic Indian Cooking
  • Charmaine Solomon: The Complete Asian Cookbook
  • Charmaine Solomon: Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking
  • Barbara Tropp: The Modern Art of Chinese Cooking
  • Barbara Tropp: The China Moon Cookbook
  • Anya von Bremzen, John Welchman: Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook
  • Anya von Bremzen, John Welchman: Terrific Pacific Cookbook: (null)
  • Paula Wolfert: The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Sarah Woodward: The Classic Mediterranean Cookbook
  • Su-Mei Yu: Cracking the Coconut

History

  • Michael Allin: Zarafa
  • Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel
  • Misha Glenny: The Balkans
  • Jason Goodwin: Lords of the Horizon
  • Hugh Thomas: The Slave Trade

Houses

  • David Owen: The Walls Around Us

Music: Criticism

  • Robert Christgau: Any Old Way You Choose It
  • Robert Christgau: Grown Up All Wrong
  • Geoff Dyer: But Beautiful
  • Gary Giddins: Visions of Jazz

Music: Record Guides

  • Robert Christgau: Christgau's Record Guide
  • Robert Christgau: Christgau's Consumer Guide: The '80s
  • Robert Christgau: Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s
  • Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on Compact Disc
  • John Morthland: The Best of Country Music
  • Tom Piazza: The Guide to Classic Recorded Jazz
  • Robert Santelli: The Best of the Blues
  • Dave Thompson: Alternative Rock
  • Scott Yanow: Swing
  • Scott Yanow: Bebop
  • Scott Yanow: Afro-Cuban Jazz

Politics

  • Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair: Al Gore: A User's Manual
  • Molly Ivins: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
  • Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose: Shrub

Science

Science: Biological

  • David Quammen: The Song of the Dodo

Science: Earth Science

  • Kenneth J. Hsü: Challenger at Sea

Software: Development Tools

Software: Free

  • Chris DiBona, Mark Stone, Sam Ockman: Open Sources
  • Pekka Himanen: The Hacker Ethic
  • Glyn Moody: Rebel Code
  • Eric S. Raymond: The Cathedral and the Bazaar
  • Donald K. Rosenberg: Open Source
  • Neal Stephenson: In the Beginning Was the Command Line
  • Linus Torvalds: Just for Fun
  • Peter Wayner: Free for All
  • Robert Young, Wendy Goldman Rohm: Under the Radar

Software: Programming

Software: Web Publishing

Sport: Baseball

  • Bill James: The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
  • Bill James: The Politics of Glory
  • Bill James: The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers

Travel

  • Bill Bryson: The Lost Continent
  • Bill Bryson: Made in America
  • Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island
  • Bill Bryson: A Walk in the Woods
  • Bill Bryson: I'm a Stranger Here Myself
  • Robert D. Kaplan: Balkan Ghosts
  • Robert D. Kaplan: An Empire Wilderness
  • Jon Krakauer: Eiger Dreams
  • Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild
  • Larry McMurtry: Roads
  • Jonathan Raban: Bad Land
  • Jonathan Raban: Passage to Juneau

Work

  • Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential
  • Reg Theriault: How to Tell When You're Tired