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Starred Reviews
Notable Nonfiction 2003
August 19, 2008
Notable listings include selected award nominees and winners, New York Times Book Review Notable Books, Washington Post Book World Raves, PW Best Books, Library Journal Best Books, Booklist Best Books and ALA Notable Books.
AUTHOR |
TITLE |
ISBN |
PUBLISHER |
$ |
DATE |
YA |
CAT |
stars/nonfiction/notable notes |
| Ackroyd, Peter | Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination | 0385497725 | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $40.00 | Oct-03 | HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR | |
| Aczel, Amir D. | Pendulum | 0743464788 | Pocket Books | $25.00 | Aug-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | LJ STAR, LJ BEST BOOKS | |
| Albright, Madeleine & Bob Woodward | Madam Secretary: A Memoir | 0786868430 | Hyperion Books | $27.95 | Sep-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Alexander, Caroline | The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty | 067003133X | Penguin | $27.95 | Sep-03 | YA | HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, PW STAR, NYT EDITORS' CHOICE, LJ BEST BOOKS |
| Allen, Brooke | Twentieth-Century Attitudes: Literary Powers in an Age of Uncertainty | 1566635209 | Natl Book Network | $26.00 | Sep-03 | LITERARY CRITICISM | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Angell, Roger | Game Time: A Baseball Companion | 0151008248 | Harcourt | $25.00 | Apr-03 | SPORTS | BOOKLIST STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Applebaum, Anne | Gulag: A History | 0767900561 | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $35.00 | Apr-03 | POLITICS/HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, NYT NOTABLE, WASHINGTON POST RAVE, LJ BEST BOOKS, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Baiev, Khassan | The Oath | 0802714048 | Walker & Co | $26.00 | Oct-03 | YA | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, PW STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE |
| Balakian, Peter | The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response | 0060198400 | Harpercollins | $26.95 | Oct-03 | POLITICS | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Barrow, John D. | The Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega--The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe | 0375422218 | Random House | $26.00 | Jan-03 | SCIENCE | BOOKLIST STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Bate, Jonathan | John Clare | 0374179905 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $40.00 | Nov-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Bearden, Milt | The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the Cia's Final Showdown With the KGB | 0679463097 | Random House | $27.95 | May-03 | POLITICS | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Bellow, Adam | In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History | 0385493886 | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $30.00 | Jul-03 | SOCIAL ISSUES | PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Benfey, Christopher | The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan | 0375503277 | Random House | $25.95 | May-03 | HISTORY | PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Berlin, Ira | Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves | 0674010612 | Harvard | $29.95 | Feb-03 | HISTORY | LJ STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Berman, Paul | Terror and Liberalism | 0393057755 | W W Norton | $21.00 | Apr-03 | POLITICS | LJ STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Berry, Wendell | Citizenship Papers | 1593760000 | Pub Group West | $24.00 | Aug-03 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | BOOKLIST STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Binyon, T. J. | Pushkin: A Biography | 1400041104 | Random House | $35.00 | Oct-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | LJ STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Bizot, Francois | The Gate | 037541293X | Random House | $24.00 | Mar-03 | YA | BIO/HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE |
| Black, Conrad | Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom | 1586481843 | Perseus | $39.95 | Nov-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Bobrick, Benson | Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War | 0743250915 | Simon & Schuster | $23.00 | Sep-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Botsford, Gardner | A Life of Privilege, Mostly | 0312303432 | St Martins | $24.95 | Jan-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Bowden, Charles | Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family | 0684853434 | Simon & Schuster | $27.00 | Nov-02 | TRUE CRIME | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Boyd, Valerie | Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston | 0684842300 | Simon & Schuster | $30.00 | Jan-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, WASHINGTON POST RAVE, ALA RUSA NOTABLE | |
| Braudy, Leo | From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity | 0679450351 | Random House | $30.00 | Oct-03 | SOCIAL ISSUES | KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Braudy, Susan | Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left | 0679432949 | Random House | $27.95 | Oct-03 | HISTORY | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Brazaitis, Peter | You Belong in a Zoo | 1400060125 | Random House Inc | $24.95 | Sep-03 | YA | NATURE | BOOKLIST BEST ADULT BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS |
| Brenner, Frederic | Diaspora | 0060087781 | Harpercollins | $100.00 | Oct-03 | PHOTOGRAPHY | BOOKLIST STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, LJ BEST BOOKS | |
| Brill, Steven | After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era | 0743237099 | Simon & Schuster | $29.95 | Apr-03 | HISTORY | LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Brinkley, Douglas | Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003 | 067003181X | Penguin | $34.95 | Apr-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Brookhiser, Richard | Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution | 0743223799 | Simon & Schuster | $26.00 | Jun-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Brown, Chip | Good Morning Midnight: Life and Death in the Wild | 1573222364 | Putnam | $24.95 | Apr-03 | NATURE | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Brown, James | The Los Angeles Diaries: A Memoir | 0060521511 | Harpercollins | $21.95 | Sep-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Bruck, Connie | When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence | 0375501681 | Random House | $29.95 | Jun-03 | BIO/HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Bryson, Bill | A Short History of Nearly Everything | 0767908171 | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $27.50 | May-03 | YA | SCIENCE | KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE |
| Burr, Chandler | The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses | 0375507973 | Random House | $24.95 | Jan-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Buruma, Ian | Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 | 0679640851 | Random House | $19.95 | Feb-03 | HISTORY | ||
| Cahill, Thomas | Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter | 0385495536 | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $27.50 | Oct-03 | YA | HISTORY | KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS |
| Calloway, Colin G. | One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark | 0803215304 | Univ of Nebraska | $39.95 | Aug-03 | HISTORY | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Carpenter, Teresa | The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis | 0743200551 | Simon & Schuster | $24.00 | Jun-03 | HISTORY | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Casasola, August Victor (Pht) | Mexico | 1931788227 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $50.00 | Oct-03 | PHOTOGRAPHY | BOOKLIST STAR, LJ BEST BOOKS | |
| Chapin, Theodore S. | Everything Was Possible | 0375413286 | Random House Inc | $30.00 | Sep-03 | ARTS/PERFORMANCES | BOOKLIST STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Chen, Patrizia | Rosemary and Bitter Oranges: Growing Up in a Tuscan Kitchen | 0743222237 | Simon & Schuster | $24.00 | Mar-03 | COOKBOOK/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Chretien, Jean-Pierre | The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History | 189095134X | MIT | $36.00 | Apr-03 | HISTORY | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Cohen, Lizabeth | A Consumer's Republic | 0375407502 | Random House Inc | $35.00 | Jan-03 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | BOOKLIST STAR, PW STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Colley, Linda | Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850 | 0375421521 | Random House | $27.50 | Jan-03 | HISTORY | PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Collins, Gail | America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines | 0060185104 | Harpercollins | $27.95 | Oct-03 | HISTORY | KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Colt, George Howe | The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home | 0684845172 | Simon & Schuster | $26.00 | May-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Cook, Michael | A Brief History of the Human Race | 0393052311 | W W Norton | $26.95 | Oct-03 | HISTORY | WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Crile, George | Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History | 0871138549 | Pub Group West | $26.00 | May-03 | HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Critser, Greg | Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World | 0618164723 | Houghton Mifflin | $24.00 | Jan-03 | HEALTH | LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Curtis, James | W.C. Fields: A Biography | 0375402179 | Random House | $35.00 | Mar-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Dallek, Robert | An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 | 0316172383 | Little Brown | $30.00 | May-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, NYT NOTABLE, WASHINGTON POST RAVE, LJ BEST BOOKS | |
| Damasio, Antonio | Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain | 0151005575 | Harcourt | $28.00 | Feb-03 | SCIENCE | BOOKLIST STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| D'Emilio, John | Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin | 0684827808 | Simon & Schuster | $35.00 | Aug-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Denton, Sally | American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 11, 1857 | 0375412085 | Random House | $26.95 | Jun-03 | HISTORY | KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Di Giovanni, Janine | Madness Visible: A Memoir of War | 0375410732 | Random House | $24.00 | Nov-03 | HISTORY | KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Di Robilant, Andrea | A Venetian Affair | 037541181X | Random House | $24.00 | Sep-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Didion, Joan | Where I Was from | 0679433325 | Random House | $23.00 | Sep-03 | HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Dirda, Michael | An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland | 0393057569 | W W Norton | $24.95 | Oct-03 | YA | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR |
| Donoghue, Denis | Speaking of Beauty | 0300098936 | Yale | $24.95 | May-03 | LITERARY COLLECTION | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Dumas, Firoozeh | Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America | 1400060400 | Villard | $21.95 | Jun-03 | YA | BIO/AUTOBIO | SLJ BEST BOOKS |
| Dyer, Geoff | Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It | 0375422145 | Random House | $22.00 | Jan-03 | TRAVEL | PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Eire, Carlos M. N. | Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy | 0743219651 | Simon & Schuster | $25.00 | Jan-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER, PW BEST BOOKS, WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Eisler, Benita | Chopin's Funeral | 0375409459 | Random House | $23.00 | Mar-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Elie, Paul | The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage | 0374256802 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $27.00 | Apr-03 | LITERARY CRITICISM | LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Ellis, Richard | The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World's Marine Life | 1559639741 | Island Pr | $26.00 | Jul-03 | NATURE | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Espada, Martin | Alabanza | 0393051927 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $24.95 | Apr-03 | POETRY | ALA RUSA NOTABLE BOOK | |
| Faderman, Lillian | Naked in the Promised Land | 0618128751 | Houghton Mifflin | $26.00 | Jan-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | ALA RUSA NOTABLE BOOK | |
| Feld, Ross | Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston | 1582432848 | Perseus | $25.00 | Aug-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Ferguson, Niall | Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power | 0465023282 | Perseus | $35.00 | Apr-03 | HISTORY | NYT NOTABLE, WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Figes, Eva | Tales of Innocence and Experience: An Exploration | 1582342598 | St Martins | $23.95 | Apr-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Foster, R. F. | W. B. Yeats, a Life II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939 | 0198184654 | Oxford | $45.00 | Oct-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Freese, Barbara | Coal: A Human History | 0738204005 | Perseus | $25.00 | Dec-02 | HISTORY | KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Frey, James | A Million Little Pieces | 0385507755 | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $22.95 | Apr-03 | YA | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, LJ BEST BOOKS |
| Fussell, Paul | The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 | 0679640886 | Random House | $19.95 | Sep-03 | HISTORY | KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Galison, Peter Louis | Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time | 0393020010 | W W Norton | $23.95 | Aug-03 | YA | SCIENCE | BOOKLIST STAR, NYT NOTABLE, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | Living to Tell the Tale | 1400041341 | Random House | $26.95 | Nov-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | LJ STAR, NYT EDITORS' CHOICE. LJ BEST BOOKS, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Gelb, Arthur | City Room | 0399150757 | Putnam | $29.95 | Oct-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Gilmour, David | Curzon | 0374133565 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $45.00 | Jun-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Glanz, James | City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center | 0805074287 | Henry Holt | $26.00 | Nov-03 | HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Gleick, James | Isaac Newton | 0375422331 | Random House | $22.95 | May-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Glock, Allison | Beauty Before Comfort: A Memoir | 0375401210 | Random House | $20.00 | Apr-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Gonzales, Laurence | Deep Survival | 0393052761 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $25.95 | Oct-03 | YA | NATURE/SPORTS | BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE BEST ADULT BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS |
| Goodwin, Jason | Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America | 0805064079 | Henry Holt | $26.00 | Jan-03 | HISTORY | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Greene, Melissa Fay | Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster | 0151005591 | Harcourt | $25.00 | Apr-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Gregorian, Vartan | The Road to Home: My Life and Times | 068480834X | Simon & Schuster | $29.95 | Jun-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Hagedorn, Ann | Beyond the River | 0684870657 | Simon & Schuster | $25.00 | Jan-03 | HISTORY | ALA RUSA NOTABLE BOOK | |
| Halberstam, David | The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship | 140130057X | Hyperion Books | $22.95 | May-03 | SPORTS | KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Hall, Stephen S. | Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension | 0618095241 | Houghton Mifflin | $25.00 | May-03 | SCIENCE | LJ STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE, LJ BEST BOOKS | |
| Hamilton, Hugo | The Speckled People | 0007149980 | Harpercollins | $24.95 | May-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE, WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Harris, Dave | Game Art: The Graphic Art of Computer Games | 0823020800 | Watson Guptill | $29.95 | Jul-03 | YA | COMPUTERS/GAMES | SLJ BEST BOOKS |
| Harrison, Kathryn | Seeking Rapture: Scenes from a Woman's Life | 037550558X | Random House | $22.95 | May-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Hart, Mickey | Songcatchers | 079224107X | Simon & Schuster | $30.00 | Jun-03 | YA | MUSIC | BOOKLIST BEST ADULT BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS |
| Hartley, Aidan | The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands | 0871138719 | Pub Group West | $24.00 | Jul-03 | HISTORY | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Haygood, Wil | In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. | 037540354X | Random House | $26.95 | Oct-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Hays, Sharon | Flat Broke With Children | 0195132882 | Oxford Univ Pr | $30.00 | Jan-03 | POLITICS | ALA RUSA NOTABLE | |
| Hecht, Jennifer Michael | Doubt, a History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson | 0060097728 | Harpercollins | $27.95 | Oct-03 | HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Hedges, Chris | What Every Person Should Know About War | 0743255127 | Simon & Schuster | $11.00 | Jun-03 | POLITICS | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Hemley, Robin | Invented Eden | 0374177163 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $25.00 | May-03 | SOCIAL SCIENCE/HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Hesser, Amanda | Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship With Recipes | 039305196X | W W Norton | $23.95 | Apr-03 | COOKBOOK | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Hilts, Philip J. | Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation | 037540466X | Random House | $26.95 | Mar-03 | HEALTH | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Hirsch, Edward | Lay Back the Darkness | 0375415211 | Random House Inc | $23.00 | Mar-03 | YA | POETRY | BOOKLIST STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE |
| Hobsbawm, E. J. | Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life | 037542234X | Random House | $30.00 | Aug-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Hodel, Steve | Black Dahlia Avenger: The True Story | 1559706643 | Little Brown | $27.95 | Apr-03 | TRUE CRIME | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Hornby, Nick | Songbook | 0971904774 | McSweeneys Books | $26.00 | Dec-02 | MUSIC | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Horne, Alistair | The Seven Ages of Paris | 0679454810 | Random House | $35.00 | Nov-02 | HISTORY | LJ STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Hughes, Robert | Goya | 0394580281 | Random House | $40.00 | Nov-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE, LJ BEST BOOKS, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Hulbert, Ann | Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children | 0375401202 | Random House | $27.50 | Apr-03 | CHILDCARE/PARENTING | BOOKLIST STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Humes, Edward | School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School | 0151007039 | Harcourt | $25.00 | Sep-03 | YA | EDUCATION | WASHINGTON POST RAVE, BOOKLIST BEST ADULT BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters | 0385490356 | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $40.00 | Oct-02 | LITERARY COLLECTION | BOOKLIST STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Hynes, Samuel Lynn | The Growing Seasons: An American Boyhood Before the War | 0670031933 | Penguin | $24.95 | Mar-03 | YA | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE |
| Isaacson, Walter | Benjamin Franklin: An American Life | 0684807610 | Simon & Schuster | $30.00 | Jul-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE, WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Johnson, George | A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to a Quantum Computer | 0375411933 | Random House | $24.00 | Feb-03 | SCIENCE | LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE, LJ BEST BOOKS | |
| Kagan, Robert | Of Paradise and Power | 1400040930 | Random House Inc | $18.00 | Feb-03 | POLITICS | BOOKLIST STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Kanfer, Stefan | Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball | 0375413154 | Random House | $25.95 | Aug-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Karabell, Zachary | Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal | 0375408835 | Random House | $27.50 | May-03 | POLITCS/HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Karbo, Karen | The Stuff of Life: A Daughter's Memoir | 1582341834 | St Martins | $24.95 | Sep-03 | FAMILY/BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Keay, John | Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East | 0393058492 | W W Norton | $28.95 | Sep-03 | HISTORY | WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Keegan, John | Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleaon to Al-Queda | 0375400532 | Random House | $30.00 | Oct-03 | HISTORY | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Kennedy, Randall | Interracial Intimacies | 0375402551 | Random House Inc | $30.00 | Jan-03 | SOCIAL SCIENCE | BOOKLIST STAR, LJ STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Kermode, Frank | Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism 1958-2002 | 0809076012 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $26.00 | Sep-03 | LITERARY CRITICISM | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Kersten, Jason | Journal of the Dead: A Story of Friendship and Murder in the New Mexico Desert | 0060184701 | Harpercollins | $24.95 | Aug-03 | TRUE CRIME | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Kidder, Tracy | Mountains Beyond Mountains | 0375506160 | Random House | $25.95 | Sep-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, NYT NOTABLE, ALA RUSA NOTABLE | |
| King, Ross | Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling | 0802713955 | Walker & Co | $28.00 | Jan-03 | HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, ALA RUSA NOTABLE | |
| Kinzer, Stephen | All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror | 0471265179 | John Wiley & Sons | $24.95 | Jun-03 | HISTORY | NYT NOTABLE, WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Kipnis, Laura | Against Love: A Polemic | 0375421890 | Random House | $24.00 | Aug-03 | SOCIAL ISSUES | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Klinkenborg, Verlyn | Gardenscapes | 1931788200 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $40.00 | Oct-03 | PHOTOGRAPHY | BOOKLIST STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Kolata, Gina Bari | Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health | 0374204772 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $24.00 | Apr-03 | HEALTH | LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Korda, Michael | Horse People: Scenes from the Riding Life | 0066212529 | Harpercollins | $25.95 | Nov-03 | PETS/ANIMALS | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Krakauer, Jon | Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith | 0385509510 | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $26.00 | Jul-03 | RELGION | KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE, ALA RUSA NOTABLE | |
| Krugman, Paul R. | The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century | 0393058506 | W W Norton | $25.95 | Sep-03 | BUSINESS | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Kukla, Jon | A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America | 0375408126 | Random House | $30.00 | Apr-03 | HISTORY | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Larson, Erik | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America | 0609608444 | Random House | $25.95 | Feb-03 | YA | TRUE CRIME/HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, LJ BEST BOOKS, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE |
| Leblanc, Adrian Nicole | Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx | 0684863871 | Simon & Schuster | $25.00 | Jan-03 | SOCIAL ISSUES | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, NYT EDITORS' CHOICE, ALA RUSA NOTABLE, BORDERS ORIGINAL VOICES AWARD | |
| Lederer, Katherine | Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers | 0609608983 | Random House | $23.95 | Aug-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Leider, Emily W. | Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino | 0374282390 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $35.00 | May-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Lesueur, Joe | Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara | 0374139806 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $25.00 | Apr-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Levy, Bernard Henri | Who Killed Daniel Pearl? | 0971865949 | Independent | $25.95 | Sep-03 | POLITICS | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Lewis, Bernard | The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror | 0679642811 | Random House | $19.95 | Apr-03 | HISTORY | PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Lewis, Michael | Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game | 0393057658 | W W Norton | $24.95 | Jun-03 | SPORTS | KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Light, Michael | 100 Suns | 1400041139 | Random House Inc | $45.00 | Oct-03 | PHOTOGRAPHY/SCIENCE | BOOKLIST STAR, PW STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Lipsky, David | Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point | 061809542X | Houghton Mifflin | $25.00 | May-03 | YA | HISTORY | LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE |
| Louvish, Simon | Stan and Ollie the Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy | 0312266510 | St Martins | $27.95 | Dec-02 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| MacCarthy, Fiona | Byron: Life and Legend | 0374186294 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $35.00 | Dec-02 | BIO/AUTOBIO | LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Macfarlane, Robert | Mountains of the Mind: How Desolate and Forbidding Heights Were Transformed into Experiences of Indomitable Spirit | 0375421807 | Random House | $24.00 | Jun-03 | NATURE | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Mackenzie, Dana | The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be | 0471150576 | John Wiley & Sons Inc | $24.95 | Apr-03 | YA | SCIENCE | BOOKLIST, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE |
| Mahar, Maggie | Bull!: A History of the Boom, 1982-1999 : What Drove the Breakneck Market--And What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial Cycles | 006056413X | Harpercollins | $27.95 | Nov-03 | BUSINESS | LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Malone, Nancy M. | Walking a Literary Labyrinth: A Spirituality of Reading | 1573222461 | Putnam | $17.95 | Jun-03 | RELGION | PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Manea, Norman | The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir | 0374282560 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $30.00 | Aug-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Mantel, Hilary | Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir | 0805074724 | Henry Holt | $23.00 | Oct-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Maraniss, David | They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October, 1967 | 0743217802 | Simon & Schuster | $29.95 | Oct-03 | YA | HISTORY | KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, WASHINGTON POST RAVE |
| Marsden, George M. | Jonathan Edwards: A Life | 0300096933 | Yale | $35.00 | Apr-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Massie, Robert K. | Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea | 0679456716 | Random House | $35.00 | Oct-03 | HISTORY | PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE, WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| McCourt, James | Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985: Excursions in the Mind of the Life | 0393050513 | W W Norton | $29.95 | Dec-03 | SOCIAL ISSUES | KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| McGerr, Michael | A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 | 0684859750 | Simon & Schuster | $30.00 | Sep-03 | HISTORY | LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| McKibben, Bill | Enough | 0805070966 | Henry Holt & Co | $25.00 | Apr-03 | YA | SCIENCE/SOCIAL SCIENCE | PW STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE |
| McManus, James | Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker | 0374236488 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $26.00 | Mar-03 | GAMES | PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| McPhee, John A. | The Founding Fish | 0374104441 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $25.00 | Sep-02 | NATURE | KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Meacham, Jon | Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship | 0375505008 | Random House | $29.95 | Oct-03 | HISTORY | WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Meyer, Karl Ernest | The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland | 1586480480 | Perseus | $26.00 | May-03 | HISTORY | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Miller, Sue | The Story of My Father: A Memoir | 0375414797 | Random House | $22.50 | Mar-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Moorehead, Caroline | Gellhorn | 0805065539 | Henry Holt & Co | $27.50 | Sep-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Morrison, Blake | Things My Mother Never Told Me | 1862075824 | Pub Group West | $24.95 | Mar-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Murphy, Bruce Allen | Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas | 0394576284 | Random House | $35.00 | Mar-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Nafisi, Azar | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books | 0375504907 | Random House | $23.95 | Mar-03 | YA | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, LJ BEST BOOKS |
| Nasdijj | The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping | 0345453891 | Ballantine Books | $22.95 | Feb-03 | YA | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, |
| Nash, Alanna | The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley | 0743213017 | Simon & Schuster | $25.00 | Jul-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Nicolson, Adam | God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible | 0060185163 | Harpercollins | $24.95 | May-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Niederman, Derrick | What the Numbers Say: A Field Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World | 0767909984 | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $24.95 | Jun-03 | STATISTICS | PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Nuland, Sherwin B. | Lost in America: A Journey With My Father | 0375412948 | Random House | $24.00 | Jan-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| O'Faolain, Nuala | Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman | 1573222410 | Putnam | $24.95 | Feb-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Oney, Steve | And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank | 0679421475 | Random House | $35.00 | Oct-03 | HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, WASHINGTON POST RAVE, LJ BEST BOOKS | |
| Pagels, Elaine | Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas | 0375501568 | Random House | $24.95 | May-03 | RELGION | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Pepin, Jacques | The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen | 0618197370 | Houghton Mifflin | $26.00 | Apr-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, NYT NOTABLE, LJ BEST BOOKS | |
| Philbrick, Nat | Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 | 067003231X | Penguin | $27.95 | Nov-03 | YA | HISTORY | KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE, LJ BEST BOOKS |
| Phillips, Sian | Public Places: My Life in the Theater, With Peter O'Toole, and Beyond | 0571211283 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $30.00 | May-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Pipher, Mary Bray | Letters to a Young Therapist: Stories of Hope and Healing | 0465057667 | Perseus | $22.50 | Aug-03 | PSYCHOLOGY | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Posner, Gerald L. | Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11 | 0375508791 | Random House | $24.95 | Aug-03 | POLITICS | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Postrel, Virginia | The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness | 0060186321 | Harpercollins | $24.95 | Sep-03 | PHILOSOPHY | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Powers, Thomas | Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda | 1590170237 | Pub Group West | $27.95 | Sep-02 | HISTORY | NYT NOTABLE, WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Price, David A. | Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation | 0375415416 | Random House | $25.95 | Oct-03 | HISTORY | KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Pringle, Peter | Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto-The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest | 0743226119 | Simon & Schuster | $24.00 | Jun-03 | SCIENCE | NYT NOTABLE, ALA RUSA NOTABLE | |
| Purdum, Todd S. | A Time of Our Choosing: Americ's War in Iraq | 0805075623 | Henry Holt | $25.00 | Nov-03 | POLITICS | PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Quammen, David | Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind | 0393051404 | W W Norton | $26.95 | Sep-03 | YA | NATURE | BOOKLIST STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, NYT NOTABLE, LJ BEST BOOKS, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE TOP OF THE LIST, ALA RUSA NOTABLE |
| Quart, Alissa | Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers | 0738206644 | Perseus | $25.00 | Dec-02 | BUSINESS | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Ravitch, Diane | The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn | 0375414827 | Random House | $24.00 | Apr-03 | POLITICS | KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Reynolds, Nancy | No Fixed Points | 0300093667 | Yale Univ Pr | $50.00 | Oct-03 | ARTS/PERFORMANCES | BOOKLIST STAR, LJ STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Riccardi, Victoria Abbott | Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto | 0767908511 | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $23.95 | May-03 | TRAVEL | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Roach, Mary | Stiff | 0393050939 | W W Norton & Co Inc | $23.95 | Apr-03 | SCIENCE | KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, SLJ BEST BOOKS, BOOKLIST BEST BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS | |
| Rocco, Fiammetta | The Miraculous Fever-Tree | 0060199512 | Harpercollins | $24.95 | Aug-03 | YA | MEDICAL/HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE |
| Rossant, Colette | Return to Paris: A Memoir | 0743439678 | Pocket Books | $22.00 | Mar-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Royal Geographic Society | Everest | 0743243862 | Simon & Schuster | $50.00 | May-03 | YA | PHOTOGRAPHY/NATURE | BOOKLIST STAR, LJ STAR, BOOKLIST BEST ADULTS BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS, SLJ BEST BOOKS |
| Salisbury, Gay | The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic | 0393019624 | W W Norton | $24.95 | May-03 | YA | HISTORY | KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS |
| Salzman, Mark | True Notebooks | 0375413081 | Random House | $24.00 | Sep-03 | YA | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, BOOKLIST BEST ADULT BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS |
| Satrapi, Marjane | Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood | 0375422307 | Random House | $17.95 | Apr-03 | YA | BIO/AUTOBIO | LJ STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE, LJ BEST BOOKS, BOOKLIST BEST ADULT BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS |
| Schlosser, Eric | Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market | 0618334661 | Houghton Mifflin | $23.00 | May-03 | SOCIAL ISSUES | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Schott, Ben | Schott's Original Miscellany | 1582343497 | St Martins | $14.95 | Aug-03 | REFERENCE | PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Seaman, Barbara | The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women | 0786868538 | Hyperion Books | $24.95 | Jul-03 | HEALTH/SOCIAL SCIENCE | BOOKLIST STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Sears, Stephen W. | Gettysburg | 0395867614 | Houghton Mifflin | $30.00 | Jun-03 | HISTORY | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Segal, William | A Voice at the Borders of Silence: An Intimate View of the Gurdjieff Work, Zen Buddhism, and Art | 1585674427 | Penguin | $29.95 | Nov-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Shah, Saira | The Storyteller's Daughter | 0375415319 | Random House | $24.00 | Sep-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Shapiro, Harvey (Edt) | Poets of World War II | 1931082332 | Penguin USA | $20.00 | Jan-03 | POETRY | BOOKLIST STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Shapiro, Michael | The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers and Their Final Pennant Race Together | 0385501528 | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $24.95 | Mar-03 | SPORTS | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Sheehy, Gail | Middletown, America: One Town's Passage from Grief to Recovery | 0375508627 | Random House | $25.95 | Sep-03 | POLITICS | LJ STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Sheehy, Helen | Eleonora Duse: A Biography | 0375400176 | Random House | $32.50 | Aug-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Shloss, Carol | Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake | 0374194246 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $30.00 | Dec-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Sifton, Elisabeth | The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War | 0393057461 | W W Norton | $26.95 | Oct-03 | RELGION | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Silverman, Kenneth | Lightning Man | 0375401288 | Random House Inc | $35.00 | Oct-03 | YA | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE |
| Sims, Michael | Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form | 0670032247 | Penguin | $24.95 | Aug-03 | SCIENCE | KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Smith, Janna Malamud | A Potent Spell: Mother Love and the Power of Fear | 0618063498 | Houghton Mifflin | $25.00 | Jan-03 | FAMILY | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Smith, Marc Kelly (Edt) | The Spoken Word Revolution | 1402200374 | Sourcebooks Inc | $24.95 | Mar-03 | POETRY | BOOKLIST, BOOKLIST BEST ADULT BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS | |
| Solnit, Rebecca | River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West | 0670031763 | Penguin | $25.95 | Feb-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Sontag, Susan | Regarding the Pain of Others | 0374248583 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $20.00 | Feb-03 | LITERARY CRITICISM | LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Sorin, Gerald | Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent | 0814798217 | New York | $32.95 | Jan-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Spurling, Hilary | The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell | 1582432430 | Perseus | $24.00 | May-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Starkey, David | Six Wives | 069401043X | Harpercollins | $29.95 | Jul-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Sterba, Jim | Frankie's Place: A Love Story | 0802117473 | Pub Group West | $23.00 | Jun-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Stern, Jessica | Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill | 006050532X | Harpercollins | $27.95 | Aug-03 | POLITICS | KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Stevenson, Helen | Instructions for Visitors: Life and Love in a French Town | 0743456890 | Pocket Books | $13.00 | Jan-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Summer, Lauralee | Learning Joy from Dogs Without Collars | 0743201027 | Simon & Schuster | $24.00 | Jun-03 | YA | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, BOOKLIST BEST BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS |
| Swofford, Anthony | Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles | 0743235355 | Simon & Schuster | $24.00 | Mar-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Tan, Amy | The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings | 0399150749 | Putnam | $24.95 | Oct-03 | LITERARY COLLECTION | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Taubman, Philip | Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the Cia, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage | 0684856999 | Simon & Schuster | $27.00 | Mar-03 | POLITICS | PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Taubman, William | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era | 0393051447 | W W Norton | $35.00 | Mar-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, PW STAR, NYT EDITORS' CHOICE, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE, ALA RUSA NOTABLE | |
| Taylor, D. J. | Orwell: The Life | 0805074732 | Henry Holt | $30.00 | Sep-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Tenner, Edward | Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology | 0375407227 | Random House | $26.00 | Jun-03 | SCIENCE | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Theroux, Paul | Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town | 0618134247 | Houghton Mifflin | $28.00 | May-03 | TRAVEL | KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Thomas, Evan | John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy | 0743205839 | Simon & Schuster | $26.95 | May-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE, WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Thomas, Nicholas | Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook | 0802714129 | Walker | $28.00 | Oct-03 | HISTORY | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Thomson, Hugh | The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland | 1585673552 | Penguin | $27.95 | Jan-03 | HISTORY | PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Thwe, Pascal Khoo | From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey | 0060505222 | Harpercollins | $24.95 | Nov-02 | BIO/AUTOBIO | PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Toker, Franklin | Fallingwater Rising | 1400040264 | Random House Inc | $35.00 | Sep-03 | HISTORY | KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, LJ BEST BOOKS | |
| Tomalin, Claire | Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self | 0375411437 | Random House | $30.00 | Nov-02 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, NYT EDITORS' CHOICE | |
| Trillin, Calvin | Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties from Kansas City to Cuzco | 0375508082 | Random House | $22.95 | May-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Van Natta, Don | First Off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers, and Cheaters from Taft to Bush | 1586480081 | Perseus | $26.00 | Apr-03 | SPORTS | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Van Pelt, Elizabeth Cohen | The House on Beartown Road | 0375507272 | Random House Inc | $23.95 | Apr-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, LJ BEST BOOKS | |
| Van Pelt, Elizabeth Cohen | The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting | 0375507272 | Random House | $23.95 | Apr-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Vincent, Edgar | Nelson: Love & Fame | 0300097972 | Yale | $35.00 | Apr-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Vollmann, William T. | Rising Up and Rising Down | 1932416021 | McSweeneys Books | $120.00 | Nov-03 | HISTORY | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Von Drehle, David | Triangle: The Fire That Changed America | 0871138743 | Pub Group West | $25.00 | Aug-03 | HISTORY | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, NYT NOTABLE, WASHINGTON POST RAVE, ALA RUSA NOTABLE | |
| Warner, Marina | Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self | 0198187262 | Oxford | $29.95 | Nov-02 | LITERARY CRITICISM | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Watson, James D. | DNA | 0375415467 | Random House Inc | $39.95 | Apr-03 | YA | SCIENCE | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE |
| Wawro, Geoffrey | The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871 | 0521584361 | Cambridge | $35.00 | Aug-03 | HISTORY | PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Weldon, Fay | Auto Da Fay: A Memoir | 0802117503 | Pub Group West | $25.00 | May-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| West, Francis J. | The March Up: Taking Baghdad With the 1st Marine Division | 055380376X | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $24.95 | Sep-03 | POLITICS | WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| White, Curtis | The Middle Mind | 0060524367 | Harpercollins | $23.95 | Sep-03 | POLITICS | LJ STAR, LJ BEST BOOKS | |
| Whitehead, Colson | The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts | 0385507941 | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $19.95 | Oct-03 | LITERARY COLLECTION | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Whitney, Craig R. | All the Stops: The Glorious Pipe Organ and Its American Masters | 1586481738 | Perseus | $30.00 | Apr-03 | MUSIC | LJ STAR, NYT NOTABLE, PW BEST BOOKS | |
| Wiencek, Henry | An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America | 0374175268 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $26.00 | Nov-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, LJ BEST BOOKS | |
| Williams, C. K. | The Singing | 0374292868 | Farrar Straus & Giroux | $20.00 | Nov-03 | POETRY | BOOKLIST STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | |
| Wills, Garry | Mr. Jefferson's University | 0792265319 | Simon & Schuster | $20.00 | Nov-02 | HISTORY | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Wilson, A. N. | The Victorians | 0393049744 | W W Norton | $35.00 | Jan-03 | HISTORY | KIRKUS STAR, WASHINGTON POST RAVE | |
| Winchester, Simon | Krakatoa | 0066212855 | Harpercollins | $25.95 | Apr-03 | YA | HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, PW BEST BOOKS, NYT NOTABLE, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE |
| Winchester, Simon | The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary | 0198607024 | Oxford | $25.00 | Sep-03 | HISTORY | BOOKLIST STAR, KIRKUS STAR, LJ STAR, PW STAR, NYT NOTABLE | |
| Wolff, Geoffrey | The Art of Burning Bridges: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 | 0679427716 | Random House | $30.00 | Aug-03 | BIO/AUTOBIO | BOOKLIST STAR, NYT NOTABLE, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Woodward, Bob | Bush at War: A Life of John O'Hara | 0743204735 | Simon & Schuster | $28.00 | Nov-02 | POLITICS | NYT NOTABLE | |
| Zahl, Paul F. M. | The First Christian | 0802821103 | Eerdmans Pub Co | $16.00 | Jul-03 | RELIGION | BOOKLIST STAR, BOOKLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE | |
| Zakaria, Fareed | The Future of Freedom: Inside the Bush White House | 0393047644 | W W Norton | $24.95 | Apr-03 | POLITICS | NYT NOTABLE |
Hotlists
African American Fiction | Christian Fiction
2008 Excel Files: (download - print, sort, etc.)
Crime Fiction | Fiction | African American Fiction | Christian Fiction | Nonfiction Notables
Stars
Fiction: Jan-June | July-Dec Crime Fiction: Jan-June | July-Dec
Speculative Fiction Romance Historical Nonfiction | YA
2009 Hotlists
Fiction - excel file more coming soon...
Crime Fiction - excel file more coming soon...
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