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Books - by title

1776 (2005)
by David McCullough


The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks the United States (2018)
by Don Wonnell


290: A Novel of the American Civil War (2015)
by Don Wonnell


47 Down: The 1922 Argonaut Gold Mine Disaster (2004)
by O. Henry Mace


Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
by William Faulkner


The African Queen (1935)
by C.S. Forester


The Age of Grief (1987)
by Jane Smiley


Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds - Survival in the Andes (2013)
by David Roberts


All the Light We Cannot See (2017)
Anthony Doerr


Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (2013)
by David Roberts


The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
by Michael Chabon


American Dirt (2020)
by Jeanine Cummins


American Pastoral (1997)
by Phillip Roth


Anatomy of a Murder (1958)
by Robert Traver


Another Part of the Forest (1946)
by Lillian Hellman


Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base (2012)
by Annie Jacobsen


The Art of Fielding: A Novel (2011)
by Chad Harbach


Assassination Vacation (2005)
by Sarah Vowell


The Assistant (1957)
by Bernard Malamud


August: Osage County (2008)
by Tracy Letts


Barrel Fever (1994)
by David Sedaris


Beat Not the Bones (1952)
by Charlotte Jay


A Bend in the River (1979)
by V.S. Naipal


The Big Book of the Continental Op (2017)
by Dashiell Hammett


The Big Sleep (1939)
by Raymond Chandler


Birdsong (1993)
by Sebastian Faulks


The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-flight Accidents (1998)
by Malcolm MacPherson


Black Dogs (1992)
by Ian McEwan


Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (1932)
by Black Elk and John G. Neihardt


Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy (2016)
by Heather Ann Thompson


The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (And How to Do Them) (2007)
by Peter Sagal


The Book Thief (2006)
by Markus Zuzak


Born A Crime (2016)
by Trevor Noah


The Boy Detective Fails (2006)
by Joe Meno


The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin  Olympics (2013)
by Daniel James Brown


Brighton Rock (1938)
by Graham Greene


Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age (2023)
by Fred M. Kray


The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History (2002)
by David A. Vise


The Burglar in the Closet (1978)
by Lawrence Block


Burmese Days (1934)
by George Orwell


Bury Me Standing (1995)
by Isabel Fonseca


The Cage (1983)
by Kenzo Kitakata


Captain Bligh and Mister Christian: The Men and the Mutiny (1973)
by Richard Alexander Hough


The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier (2004)
by Scott Zesch


Charlie Wilson’s War (2003)
by George Crile


The Chicago Way (2007)
by Michael Harvey


The Children of Henry VIII (1996)
by Alison Weir


The Children’s Blizzard (2004)
by David Laskin


Chicago’s Great Fire (2020)
by Carl S. Smith


Cinnamon Skin (1982)
by John G. MacDonald


The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1997)
by Francisco Jimenez


The Circus Fire: A True Story (2000)
by Stewart O’Nan


Cities of the Plain (1998)
by Cormac McCarthy


Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (1997)
by Stephen E. Ambrose


City of Scoundrels (2012)
by Gary Krist


A Civil Action (1995)
by Jonathan Harr


A Cold Dish: A Walt Longmire Mystery (2004)
by Craig Johnson


Collapse (2005)
by Jared Diamond


Consequence: A Memoir (2017)
by Eric Fair


A Conspiracy of Paper (2000)
by David Liss


Corelli’s Mandolin (1994)
by Louis De Bernieres


Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life (2003)
by Toby Cecchini


County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital (2010)
by David Ansell


Cruising Paradise: Tales (1996)
by Sam Shepard


The Crying of Lot 49 (1988)
by Thomas Pynchon


Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy (2020)
by Talia Lavin


Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (2005)
by Laura M. MacDonald


Cutting for Stone (2009)
by Abraham Verghese


Damascus Gate (1998)
by Robert Stone


A Dangerous Remedy (2017)
by Russell Fee


A Dangerous Season: A Sheriff Matt Callahan Mystery (2017)
by Russell Fee


Darkness at Noon (1941)
by Arthur Koestler


Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (2003)
by Stephen Puleo


Dark Voyage (2004)
by Alan Furst


The Daughter of Time (1951)

by Josephine Tey


The Da Vinci Code (2003)
by Dan Brown


Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (2015)
by Erik Larson


The Dean’s December (1982)
by Saul Bellow


Death in Summer (1998)
by William Trevor


The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America (2016)
by Ethan Michaeli


Delta of Venus (1969)
by Anaïs Nin


The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be (2019)
by Thomas Lynch


The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (2003)
by Erik Larson


The Devil's Highway: A True Story (2005)
by Luis Alberto Urrea


Disappearing Earth (2019)
by Julia Phillips


Disgrace (1999)
by J. M. Coetzee


Doc (2011)
by Mary Doria Russell


Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic (1995)
by George W. Hilton


The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006)
by Muriel Barbery


Empire Falls (2001)
by Richard Russo


Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (1959)
by Alfred Lansing


An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2006)
Cesar Aira


Eve Reviv’d, or the Fair One Stark-Naked (1684)
anonymous


Everything is Illuminated (2002)
by Jonathan Safran Foer


Every Man Dies Alone (1947)
by Hans Fallada


F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century (2007)
by Mark Levine


The Fabulous Clipjoint (1953)
by Frederic Brown


Fat City (1969)

by Leonard Gardner


Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
by Hunter S. Thompson


The Finkler Question (2010)
by Howard Jacobson


Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire (1999)
by John MacLean


Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History (2002)
by Denise Gess and William Lutz


The Flame Alphabet (2012)
by Ben Marcus


Flashman in the Great Game (1975)
by George MacDonald Fraser


Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (1985)
by Richard Holmes


Fort Dearborn (2007)
by Jerry Crimmins & Gerald A. Danzer


The Fortress of Solitude (2003)
by Jonathan Lethem


Frankenstein (1818)
by Mary Shelley


The Fugitive Eye (1953)
by Charlotte Jay


Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life (2006)
by Ira Berkow


The Gadfly (1897)

by Ethel Lilian Voynich


Geronimo: His Own Story – The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior (1970)
by Geronimo and S. M. Barrett

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World (2006)
by Steven Johnson

The Ghost of Cleopatra:  Edmonia Lewis and Her Lost Masterpiece (2019)
by John Rice and Gail Tanzer


Ghost Stories: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (2002)
by Hampton Sides


The God of Small Things (1997)
by Arundhati Roy


A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992)
by Robert Olen Butler


The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991)
by Jose Saramago


The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
by John Steinbeck


The Great Atlantic Air Race (1977)
by Percy Rowe


The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and his City (2010)

by Stephen Dando-Collins


The Great Gatsby (1925)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald


The Guards (2001)
by Ken Bruen


Guilt (2012)
by Ferdinand von Schirach


The Hamilton Affair (2016)
by Elizabeth Cobbs


A Handful of Dust (2012)
by Evelyn Waughn


Hannibal's Niece: A Tale of Love, Murder and Deceit in Ancient Rome (2017)
by Anthony Licata


Herzog (1964)
by Saul Bellow


HHhH: A Novel (2012)
by Laurent Binet


A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (2018)

by James B. Comey


Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J.D. Vance


Hostile Waters (1997)
by Peter Huchthausen, Igor Kurdin & Alan White


House Made of Dawn (1969)
by N. Scott Momaday


How the Battleship Maine was Destroyed (1976)
by Hyman George Rickover


The Human Stain (2000)
by Philip Roth


The Illustrated Man (1951)
by Ray Bradbury


The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010)
by Rebecca Skloot


An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America (2003)
by Henry Wiencek


In Cold Blood (1965)
by Truman Capote


Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man (2019)
by Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic


The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and its Astonishing Aftermath (2014)
by Michael Griesbach


In the Garden of Beasts (2011)
by Erik Larson


In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of Whaleship Essex (2000)
by Nathaniel Philbrick


In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (2014)
by Hampton Sides


In the Lake of the Woods (1994)
by Tim O’Brien


In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir (2009)
by Neil White


Into the Wild (1998)
by Jon Krakauer


Invisible Man (1947)
by Ralph Ellison


The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (2000)
by Miles Harvey


Isaac’s Storm: a Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (1999)

by Erik Larson


I Was Dora Suarez (1990)
by Derek Raymond


James (2024)
by Percival Everett


Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel (1969)
by Wallace Stegner


The Johnstown Flood (1968)
by David McCullough


Joyland (2013)
by Stephen King


The Killer Inside Me (1952)
by Jim Thompson


Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert (2012)
by John Barylick


Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (2018)
by David Grann


The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch (2020)
by Harvey Miles


King Solomon’s Mines (1885)
by R. Haggard


Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000)
Anthony Bourdain


The Kite Runner (2003)
Khaled Hosseini


Knowledge and Information Technology (2000)
from Partisan Review


The Known World (2003)
by Edward P. Jones


The Laughing Monsters (2014)
by Denis Johnson


The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed 30,000 Lives (2002)
by Ernest Zebrowski, Jr.


The Last Road Trip (2018)
by James Elsener


Laura Rider's Masterpiece (2009)
by Jane Hamilton


Legs (1975)
by William Kennedy


Let the Great World Spin (2009)
by Colum McCann


Liberation Day: Stories (2022)
by George Saunders


Life of Pi (2001)
by Yann Martel


The Light Between Oceans (2012)
by ML Stedman


The Likeness (2008)
by Tana French


The Living & the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (1996)
by Paul Hendrickson


Lolita (1955)
by Vladimir Nabokov


The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006)
by Lawrence Wright


The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story (2017)
by Douglas Preston


Lost Horizon (1933)
by James Hilton


Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (2011)
by Mitchell Zuckoff


The Loved One (1948)
by Evelyn Waugh


Lucky Medicine: A Memoir of Success beyond Segregation (2023)
by Lester W. Thompson


The Maltese Falcon (1929)
by Dashiell Hammett


The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter (2011)
by Mark Sea


Man Without a Gun (1999)
by Giandomenico Picco


The Man With the Golden Arm (1949)
by Nelson Algren


Marie (1912)
by H. Rider Haggard


The Martian (2011)
by Andy Weir


The Martian Chronicles (1950)
by Ray Bradbury


Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier (2004)
by Alfred F. Young


Master and Commander (1970)
by Patrick O’Brian


Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written (2000)
by Lennard Bickel


Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
by David Sedaris


Milosz’s ABC’s (2001)
by Czeslaw Milosz


Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America (2019)
by Christopher Wylie


Mister Wonderful: A Love Story (2011)
by Daniel Clowes


Monster (1997)
by John Gregory Dunne


The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (2009)
by Robert Edse


The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995)
by Salman Rushdie


Motherless Brooklyn (1999)
by Jonathan Lethem


The Murder of Napoleon (1982)
by David Hapgood


My Antonia (1918)
by Willa Cather


My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018)
by Oyinkan Braithwaite


News of the World (2016)
by Paulette Jiles


No Other Life (1993)
by Brian Moore


Norwegian by Night (2013)
by Derek B. Miller


Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (2000)
by Stephen E. Ambrose


Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America (2009)

by Adam Cohen


Not Me (2005)

by Michael Lavigne


Now You See Him (2009)

by Eli Gottlieb


The Odyssey of Kostas Volakis (1999)

by Harry Mark Petrakis


The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 (2003)
various authors


The Old Gringo (1985)
by Carlos Fuentes


Old Heart (2015)
by Peter Ferry


The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

by Ernest Hemingway

One Summer: America, 1927 (2013)
by Bill Bryson


Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (2014)
by Annie Jacobsen


Orbital: A Novel (2023)
by Samantha Harvey


Ordinary Wolves (2004)
by Seth Kantner


The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma (1998)
by Alex Kotlowitz


Out (2003)
by Natsuo Kirin


Out Stealing Horses (2007)
by Per Petterson


The Ox-Bow Incident (1940)
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark


Painter in a Savage Land (2008)
by Miles Harvey


Peace (2008)
by Richard Bausch


Pellucidar (1915)
by Edgar Rice Burroughs


People of the Book (2008)
by Geraldine Brooks


Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (1885)
by Ulysses S. Grant


Planes (2022)
by Peter C. Baker


The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
by John Millington Synge


Playing the Moldovans at Tennis (2001)
by Tony Hawks


The Plot Against America (2004)
by Philip Roth


Poetry magazine (Dec. 1998 issue)
various authors


Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life (1986)
translated by Dennis Tedlock


The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America’s Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds (2003)
by Mike Stanton


The Promise (2021)

by Damon Galgut


Ray (1980)
by Hannah Barry


Razor Girl (2016)
by Carl Hiaasen


Red China Blues (1996)
by Jan Wong


The Red Fox (1982)
by Anthony Hyde


Reflections of Valour (2021)
by James Eisener


Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party (2009)
by Max Blumenthal


Riders of the Purple Sage (2005)
by Zane Grey


Ring Lardner: Selected Stories (1997)
by Ring Lardner and Jonathan Yardley


A Rising Man (2016)
by Abir Mukherjee


The Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1998)
by John Barry


The Road (2006)
by Cormac McCarthy


Runner in the Sun (1954)
by D’Arcy McNickle


The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002)
by Gary Shteyngart


Sabbath's Theater (1995)
by Philip Roth


San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires (2005)

by Dennis Smith


Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2019)
by Patrick Radden Keefe


The Searchers (1954)
by Alan LeMay


The Secret Agent (1907)
by Joseph Conrad


The Secret Hours (2023)
by Mick Herron


The Secret Scripture (2008)
by Sebastian Barry


The Sense of an Ending (2011)
by Julian Barnes


A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler (2006)
by Jason Roberts


Seven Years in Tibet (1953)
by Heinrich Harrer


Shadow Country (2008)
by Peter Matthiessen


Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II (2004)
by Robert Kurson


The Sheltering Sky (1949)
by Paul Bowles


Shipping News (1993)
by Annie Proulx


Ship of Gold (1987)
by Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar


The Silver Swan (2008)
by Benjamin Black


Silverview (2021)

by John le Carré


Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul (2007)
by Karen Abbott


Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)
by Kurt Vonnegut


Slaves in the Family (1998)
by Edward Ball


Small Things Like These (2020)
by Claire Keegan


So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980)
by William Maxwell


The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (2020)
by Erik Larson


The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (2018)
by Ben Macintyre


Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike (2021)
by Brian Castner


Stardust: A Novel (2009)
by Joseph Kanon


Stones from the River (1994)
by Ursula Hegi


Stormy Weather (1995)
by Carl Hiaasen


Strangers on a Train (1950)
by Patricia Highsmith


Suite Française (2007)
by Irène Némirovsky


Supreme Courtship (2008)
by Christopher Buckley


The Sympathizer (2016)
by Viet Thanh Nguyen


Tabloid Dreams (1996)
by Robert Olen Butler


Tales of the Tikongs (1983)
by Epeli Hau'fa


Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (1999)
by Daniel Stashower & Sherlock Holmes


Tenth of December: Stories (2013)
by George Saunders


The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History (1999)
by Peter Maas


The Things They Carried (1990)
by Tim O’Brien


The Third Policeman (1967)
by Fann O'Brien


Those Who Wish Me Dead (2014)
by Michael Koryta


Three Men in a Boat (2018)
by Jerome K. Jerome


The Three Musketeers (1844)
by Alexandre Dumas


Thunderstruck (2006)
by Erik Larson


The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003)
by Audrey Niffenegger


Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 (2003)
by Anthony P. Hatch


Tinkers
by Paul Harding


Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison (2013)
by Michael Daly


Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (1997)
by John Ehle


Treasure Island (1883)
by Robert Louis Stevenson


The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1935)
by B. Traven


The Trial (1926)
by Franz Kafka


Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (2003)
by David von Drehle


True Grit (1968)
by Charles Portis


Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre (2019)
by Randy Krehbiel


Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World (1870)
by Jules Verne


Two Years Before the Mast (1840)
by Richard Henry Dana Jr.


Twilight of Empire (1989)
by Allan W. Eckert


Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010)
by Laura Hillenbrand


Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinkley Firestorm of 1894 (2006)
by Daniel James Brown


The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010)
by Isabel Wilkerson


Washington Black (2018)
by Esi Edugyan


Water Music (1980)
by T.C. Boyle


We All Fall Down
by Michael Harvey


We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
by Shirley Jackson


What's the Matter with White People? Finding Our Way in the Next America (2012)
by Joan Walsh


When Nietzsche Wept (1992)
by Irvin D. Yalom


The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998)
by Sebastian Barry


Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Great Divide (1995)
by Robert Michael Pyle


The White Cascade: The Greatest Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (2007)
by Gary Krist


The White Devil (1612)
by John Webster


White Noise (1984)
by Don DeLillo


The White Tiger (2008)
by Aravind Adiga


Who You've Got to Kill (2009)
by Russell Ó Fiaich


The Wide Sargasso Sea (1967)
by Jean Rhys


The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997)
by Haruki Murakami


Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure (2001)
by Don & Petie Kladstrup


The Wings of the Dove (1902)
by Henry James


Wise Blood (1952)

by Flannery O'Connor


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2006)
by Timothy Egan


The Yacoubian Building (2004)
by Alaa Al Aswany


Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos (2010)
by Judy Pasternak


The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)
by Michael Chabon

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