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09/30/2011 Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein Julie Salamon The New Republic Adam Kirsch
09/29/2011 Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat Jeff Benedict The Oregonian Lynne Terry
09/28/2011 The Echo Chamber Luke Williams Bookslut Jaya Chatterjee
09/27/2011 The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement David Brooks The Wilson Quarterly Jag Bhalla
09/26/2011 Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us about Being Human Grant Morrison Rain Taxi Greg Baldino
09/25/2011 Habibi Craig Thompson NPR Glen Weldon
09/24/2011 Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith Jon Krakauer Powells.com Doug Brown
09/23/2011 Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America David S. Reynolds The New Republic Drew Gilpin Faust
09/22/2011 Driving Home: An American Journey Jonathan Raban The Oregonian Debra Gwartney
09/21/2011 Life Itself: A Memoir Roger Ebert Washington Post Book World Gerald Bartell
09/20/2011 Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America Faye E. Dudden The Wilson Quarterly Nina Silber
09/19/2011 Mister Wonderful: A Love Story Daniel Clowes Rain Taxi James R. Fleming
09/18/2011 In Red Magdalena Tulli NPR Jessa Crispin
09/17/2011 Big Vegan: 400 Recipes: No Meat, No Dairy, All Delicious Robin Asbell Powells.com Jill Owens
09/16/2011 Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent John Reader The New Republic Peter Duffy
09/15/2011 Birds of Paradise Diana Abu-Jaber The Oregonian Christine Selk
09/14/2011 The Missing of the Somme (Vintage) Geoff Dyer Bookslut Kerri Arsenault
09/13/2011 Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams Charles King The Wilson Quarterly Timothy Snyder
09/12/2011 Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue Eric Felten Rain Taxi Will Wlizlo
09/11/2011 Wonderstruck Brian Selznick NPR Dan Kois
09/10/2011 The Pale King David Foster Wallace Powells.com Nathan Weatherford
09/09/2011 Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany Rudolph Herzog The New Republic Monica Osborne
09/08/2011 The Cut George P. Pelecanos The Oregonian Steve Duin
09/07/2011 The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka Star Tribune Meganne Fabrega
09/06/2011 The Union War Gary W. Gallagher The Wilson Quarterly Kevin Adams
09/05/2011 Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir Susie Bright Rain Taxi Peter S. Scholtes
09/04/2011 Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein Julie Salamon NPR Heller McAlpin
09/03/2011 Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) Daniel Defoe Powells.com Doug Brown
09/02/2011 Retromania Signed Edition Simon Reynolds The New Republic Nicholas Carr
09/01/2011 Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Signed Edition Alexandra Fuller The Oregonian Sarah Cypher
08/31/2011 Ethan Allen: His Life and Times Willard Sterne Randall The Wall Street Journal Robert K. Landers
08/30/2011 Juvenilia (Yale Series of Younger Poets #104) Ken Chen Cerise Press William La Ganza
08/29/2011 Universe of Things: Short Fiction Gwyneth Jones Rain Taxi Matthew Cheney
08/28/2011 Ready Player One Ernest Cline NPR Michael Schaub
08/27/2011 The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment Anne Waldman Powells.com Chris Faatz
08/26/2011 Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside Henry Luce's Media Empire (Politics and Culture in Modern America) Robert Vanderlan The New Republic Michael Kimmage
08/25/2011 Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country in Between Jeff Sharlet The Oregonian Steve Yarbrough
08/24/2011 Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial Janet Malcolm Los Angeles Review of Books Michael Washburn
08/23/2011 French Cinema Charles Drazin Cerise Press Jose-Luis Moctezuma
08/22/2011 Open City Teju Cole Rain Taxi Laird Hunt
08/21/2011 A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness Nassir Ghaemi NPR Michael Schaub
08/20/2011 Drood Dan Simmons Powells.com Doug Brown
08/19/2011 Druggist of Auschwitz Dieter Schlesak The New Republic Adam Kirsch
08/18/2011 Skyjack: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper Geoffrey Gray The Oregonian Steve Weinberg
08/17/2011 Partitions Amit Majmudar The National Jacob Silverman
08/16/2011 Beyond Words: Translating the World Susan Ouriou Cerise Press Maryanne Hannan
08/15/2011 Arthouse Jeffrey Deshell Rain Taxi Derek M. Jackson
08/14/2011 The Magician King Signed Edition Lev Grossman NPR Alexander Chee
08/13/2011 Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poems Robinson Jeffers Powells.com Chris Faatz
08/12/2011 The Sea: A Cultural History John Mack The New Republic Alexander Nazaryan
08/11/2011 Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller Tracy Daugherty The Oregonian John Strawn
08/10/2011 The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll Preston Lauterbach The Christian Science Monitor David Kirby
08/09/2011 Missing You, Metropolis Gary Jackson Cerise Press Kate Welsh
08/08/2011 West of Here Jonathan Evison Rain Taxi Robert M. Detman
08/07/2011 Bright's Passage Josh Ritter NPR Alice Gregory
08/06/2011 Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (Vintage) Tom Bissell Powells.com Nathan Weatherford
08/05/2011 No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf Carolyn Burke The New Republic David Hajdu
08/04/2011 Pathfinder: Blazing a New Wilderness Trail in Modern America Ron Strickland The Oregonian Barney Mann
08/03/2011 Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day Ben Loory Boston Globe Michael Patrick Brady
08/02/2011 Tourist in Hell (Phoenix Poets) Eleanor Wilner Cerise Press Christina Cook
08/01/2011 Trilogy of Resistance Antonio Negri Rain Taxi Justin Maxwell
07/31/2011 The Last Werewolf Glen Duncan NPR Jessica Ferri
07/30/2011 Methodist Hatchet Ken Babstock Powells.com Jill Owens
07/29/2011 The Long Night: William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Steve Wick The New Republic Richard J. Evans
07/28/2011 Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion Janet Reitman The Oregonian Anne Saker
07/27/2011 Centuries of June Keith Donohue Rain Taxi Andrew Cleary
07/26/2011 Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution Serena Mayeri Ms. Magazine Pamela D. Bridgewater
07/25/2011 Walking the Dog's Shadow (A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America) Deborah Brown Rain Taxi Scott F. Parker
07/24/2011 Northwest Corner John Burnham Schwartz NPR Sarah Weinman
07/23/2011 Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror Jason Zinoman Powells.com Gerry Donaghy
07/22/2011 Our Kind of Traitor John Le Carre The New Republic Todd Gitlin
07/21/2011 The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes Marcus Sakey The Oregonian Peter Handel
07/20/2011 Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America Christopher Turner Slate Peter D. Kramer
07/19/2011 Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis (Merloyd Lawrence Book) Sandra Steingraber Ms. Magazine Laura Orlando
07/18/2011 Us Michael Kimball Rain Taxi Andy Stewart
07/17/2011 A Dance with Dragons (Song of Ice and Fire #5) George R. R. Martin NPR Lev Grossman
07/16/2011 Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics) Fyodor Dostoevsky and Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) Powells.com Doug Brown
07/15/2011 The Bible Now Richard Elliott Friedman The New Republic Adam Kirsch
07/14/2011 The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter Mark Seal The Oregonian Anne Saker
07/13/2011 The Beginners Rebecca Wolff Bookforum Trinie Dalton
07/12/2011 If Sons, Then Heirs Lorene Cary Ms. Magazine Lori L. Tharps
07/11/2011 Free World David Bezmozgis Rain Taxi Tori Schacht
07/10/2011 The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting Rachel Shteir NPR Rachel Syme
07/09/2011 Swamplandia! Karen Russell Powells.com Nathan Weatherford
07/08/2011 The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris David Mccullough The New Republic David A. Bell
07/07/2011 Voodoo Vintners: Oregon's Astonishing Biodynamic Winegrowers Katherine Cole The Oregonian Angie Jabine
07/06/2011 The Land at the End of the World Antonio Lobo Antunes Words Without Borders Adam Eaglin
07/05/2011 Caleb's Crossing Geraldine Brooks Ms. Magazine Karen Joy Fowler
07/04/2011 Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir Margaux Fragoso Rain Taxi Yevgeniya Traps
07/03/2011 On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe Andrzej Stasiuk NPR Jessa Crispin
07/02/2011 1, 2, 3 Sew: Build Your Skills with 33 Simple Sewing Projects Ellen Luckett Baker Powells.com Megan Zabel
07/01/2011 Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy Thomas J. Schaeper The New Republic Jack Rakove
06/30/2011 Wire to Wire (Tin House New Voice) Scott Sparling The Oregonian Doug Baldwin
06/29/2011 The Pale King David Foster Wallace The Nation William Deresiewicz
06/28/2011 What Technology Wants Kevin Kelly American Scientist David E. Nye
06/27/2011 Netsuke Rikki Ducornet Rain Taxi Mark Gustafson
06/26/2011 Congress of the Animals Jim Woodring NPR Glen Weldon
06/25/2011 Haunted Houses Lynne Tillman Powells.com Jill Owens
06/24/2011 The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families After World War II Tara Zahra The New Republic Mark Mazower
06/23/2011 The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century Scott Miller The Oregonian Elinor Langer
06/22/2011 The Burning House Paul Lisicky Boston Globe Joseph Peschel
06/21/2011 The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture Evelyn Fox Keller American Scientist Daniel W. McShea
06/20/2011 And If You Don't Go Crazy I'll Meet You Here Tomorrow Filip Marinovich Rain Taxi Ian Bodkin
06/19/2011 Ten Thousand Saints Eleanor Henderson NPR Phoebe Connelly
06/18/2011 Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV Ben Shapiro Powells.com Gerry Donaghy
06/17/2011 Day of the Oprichnik Vladimir Sorokin The New Republic Alexander Nazaryan
06/16/2011 The Murder of the Century Signed Edition Paul Collins The Oregonian Marc Mohan
06/15/2011 Walt Before Mickey: Disney's Early Years, 1919-1928 Timothy S. Susanin Los Angeles Times Charles Solomon
06/14/2011 The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania (Origins of Human Behavior and Culture) Frank Marlowe American Scientist Melvin Konner
06/13/2011 Death-in-a-Box Alta Ifland Rain Taxi Peter Grandbois
06/12/2011 State of Wonder Ann Patchett NPR Heller McAlpin
06/11/2011 Heads You Lose Lisa Lutz and David Hayward Powells.com Doug Brown
06/10/2011 India: A Portrait Patrick French The New Republic Isaac Chotiner
06/09/2011 The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction Marjorie Sandor The Oregonian Nancy Rommelmann
06/08/2011 The Sentimentalists Johanna Skibsrud Paste Magazine Rayyan Al-Shawaf
06/07/2011 The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future Andrew Pickering American Scientist Brian Hayes
06/06/2011 Sad Stories of the Death of Kings Barry Gifford Rain Taxi Christopher Matthew Jensen
06/05/2011 To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays Gertrude Stein NPR Heller McAlpin
06/04/2011 The Instructions Adam Levin Powells.com Nathan Weatherford
06/03/2011 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 100th Anniversary Edition (Books of Wonder) L. Frank Baum The New Republic Ellen Handler Spitz
06/02/2011 Second Fiddle Rosanne Parry The Oregonian Helen Babbitt
06/01/2011 I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive Steve Earle San Francisco Chronicle Don Waters
05/31/2011 Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (Terry Lectures) Marilynne Robinson Cerise Press Mary Helen Stefaniak
05/30/2011 On Paris (On) Ernest Hemingway Rain Taxi Jesse Freedman
05/29/2011 The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding Sarah Burns NPR Jessica Ferri
05/28/2011 Damned Fools in Utopia: And Other Writings on Anarchism and War Resistance Nicolas Walter Powells.com Chris Faatz
05/27/2011 Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition James T. Kloppenberg The New Republic David Greenberg
05/26/2011 The Sisters Brothers Patrick deWitt The Oregonian J. David Santen Jr.
05/25/2011 Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise Kevin M. Schultz Tablet Magazine Adam Kirsch
05/24/2011 Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness Daniel Maier-Katkin Cerise Press William T. Walker
05/23/2011 The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar Rain Taxi John Pistelli
05/22/2011 The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt Signed Edition Jon-Jon Goulian NPR Dan Kois
05/21/2011 Essays from the Nick of Time Mark Slouka Powells.com Jill Owens
05/20/2011 Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game Rob Ruck The New Republic Michael Kazin
05/19/2011 Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing Alan Paul The Oregonian John Strawn
05/18/2011 I Have Seen the Future: A Life of Lincoln Steffens Peter Hartshorn The Wall Street Journal Robert K. Landers
05/17/2011 There's the Hand and There's the Arid Chair Tomaz Salamun Cerise Press Erica Mena
05/16/2011 On Tact, and the Made Up World Michele Glazer Rain Taxi Fred Muratori
05/15/2011 Big Girl Small Rachel Dewoskin NPR Maureen Corrigan
05/14/2011 Fatale Jean-patrick Manchette Powells.com Gerry Donaghy
05/13/2011 Age of Deception Mohamed El Baradei The New Republic Stuart A. Reid
05/12/2011 A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS Jennet Conant The Oregonian Nancy Rommelmann
05/11/2011 The Book of Things (Lannan Translations Selections) Ales Steger Three Percent David Shook
05/10/2011 Here Be Monsters (National Poetry) Colin Cheney Cerise Press Erica Goss
05/09/2011 The Animal Part: Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination Mark Payne Rain Taxi Stephen Burt
05/08/2011 Leeches David Albahari NPR Jessa Crispin
05/07/2011 New and Selected Poems, Volume 2 Mary Oliver Powells.com Doug Brown
05/06/2011 A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America Leila Ahmed The New Republic Christine Stansell
05/05/2011 News from the World: Stories & Essays Paula Fox The Oregonian Dawn Marlan
05/04/2011 Suicide (French Literature) Edouard Leve The National Scott Esposito
05/03/2011 A Thousand Threads (the Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series) Steve Orlen Cerise Press Linwood Rumney
05/02/2011 Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry Christine Sneed Rain Taxi Justin Courter
05/01/2011 A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism Peter Mountford NPR Jessica Loudis
04/30/2011 Big Machine Victor LaValle Powells.com Nathan Weatherford
04/29/2011 How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One Stanley Eugene Fish The New Republic Simon Blackburn
04/28/2011 Kapitoil (P.S.) Teddy Wayne The Oregonian Robin Cody
04/27/2011 Address (Wesleyan Poetry) Elizabeth Willis The Critical Flame Abigail Licad
04/26/2011 Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World Maya Jasanoff The Wilson Quarterly Nancy Isenberg
04/25/2011 Urn Burial (New Directions Pearls) Thomas Browne Rain Taxi Laird Hunt
04/24/2011 The Tragedy of Arthur Arthur Phillips NPR Heller McAlpin
04/23/2011 Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink Randy Mosher Powells.com Doug Brown
04/22/2011 Spain: A Unique History Stanley G. Payne The New Republic Matthew Kaminski
04/21/2011 Say Her Name Francisco Goldman The Oregonian Kassten Alonso
04/20/2011 Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag Sigrid Nunez Tablet Magazine Rachel Shteir
04/19/2011 Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Manning Marable The Wilson Quarterly David Garrow
04/18/2011 Zabime Sisters Aristophanes Rain Taxi David Kennedy-Logan
04/17/2011 Bossypants Tina Fey NPR Janeane Garofalo
04/16/2011 The Chronology of Water: A Memoir Lidia Yuknavitch Powells.com Megan Zabel
04/15/2011 The Use and Abuse of Literature Marjorie Garber The New Republic Todd Gitlin
04/14/2011 Sex and the River Styx Edward Hoagland The Oregonian Steve Yarbrough
04/13/2011 Under the Mercy Trees Heather Newton Contrary Magazine Cynthia Newberry Martin
04/12/2011 Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines Vaclav Smil The Wilson Quarterly Mark Reutter
04/11/2011 Gryphon: New and Selected Stories Charles Baxter Rain Taxi James Naiden
04/10/2011 The Pale King David Foster Wallace NPR Daniel Roberts
04/09/2011 Every Riven Thing Christian Wiman Powells.com Jill Owens
04/08/2011 Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism Deborah Lutz The New Republic by Chloe Schama
04/07/2011 The Chronology of Water: A Memoir Lidia Yuknavitch The Oregonian Debra Gwartney
04/06/2011 Funeral for a Dog Thomas Pletzinger The Quarterly Conversation Chad Post
04/05/2011 Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins J. E. Lendon The Wilson Quarterly James Carman
04/04/2011 Determination Kit Robinson Rain Taxi Tyrone Williams
04/03/2011 Bent Road Lori Roy NPR Sarah Weinman
04/02/2011 When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade Dave Kehr Powells.com Gerry Donaghy
04/01/2011 We, the Drowned Carsten Jensen The New Republic Hillary Kelly
03/31/2011 Unfamiliar Fishes Sarah Vowell The Oregonian Jeff Baker
03/30/2011 Lee Krasner: A Biography Gail Levin The Wall Street Journal Jonathan Lopez
03/29/2011 Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain Antonio Damasio The Wilson Quarterly Richard Restak
03/28/2011 The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time David L. Ulin Rain Taxi Kevin Smokler
03/27/2011 Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books William M. Kuhn Bookslut Jeanne-Marie Jackson
03/26/2011 Song of Ice and Fire Boxed Set (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows) George R. R. Martin Powells.com Doug Brown
03/25/2011 Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life Nicholas Phillipson The New Republic Yuval Levin
03/24/2011 The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood James Gleick The Oregonian Marc Mohan
03/23/2011 Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer Wesley Stace The Boston Phoenix Clea Simon
03/22/2011 Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary Daniel Patrick Moynihan The Wilson Quarterly Steven Lagerfeld
03/21/2011 My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me Kate Bernheimer Rain Taxi Rudi Dornemann
03/20/2011 Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Wendy Brown Bookslut Jacob Mikanowski
03/19/2011 Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart Powells.com Nathan Weatherford
03/18/2011 Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition David Garland The New Republic Marie Gottschalk
03/17/2011 Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness Frank Brady The Oregonian Marc Mohan
03/16/2011 How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming Mike Brown Bookslut Richard Wirick
03/15/2011 Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age Susan Jacoby The Wilson Quarterly James Morris
03/14/2011 Self Portraits: Fictions Frederic Tuten Rain Taxi Dylan Hicks
03/13/2011 To Hell with Cronje Ingrid Winterbach Bookslut Jeanne-Marie Jackson
03/12/2011 Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism Peter Marshall Powells.com Chris Faatz
03/11/2011 Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence Joelle (edt) Biele The New Republic Hannah Brroks-Motl
03/10/2011 The Foremost Good Fortune Susan Conley The Oregonian Debra Gwartney
03/09/2011 The Docks Bill Sharpsteen Books and Culture: A Christian Review John Pattison
03/08/2011 Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas about Cities Witold Rybczynski The Wilson Quarterly Blair A. Ruble
03/07/2011 Missing You, Metropolis Gary Jackson Rain Taxi Richard Oyama
03/06/2011 Whistleblower Kathryn Bolkovac Ms. Magazine Natalie Wilson
03/05/2011 Cannery Row (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) John Steinbeck Powells.com Doug Brown
03/04/2011 Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying Mark Regnerus The New Republic Evan Hughes
03/03/2011 A Widow's Story Signed Edition Joyce Carol Oates The Oregonian Anne Saker
03/02/2011 And Furthermore Judi Dench New York Journal of Books Vinton Rafe McCabe
03/01/2011 American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam The Wilson Quarterly Kevin M. Schultz
02/28/2011 It Is Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings Dave Eggers Rain Taxi Kevin Carollo
02/27/2011 I Love a Broad Margin to My Life Maxine Hong Kingston Ms. Magazine Helen Zia
02/26/2011 Scenes from an Impending Marriage Adrian Tomine Powells.com Gerry Donaghy
02/25/2011 Selected Prose Works C. P. Cavafy The New Republic Peter Green
02/24/2011 The Terror of Living Urban Waite The Oregonian Katherine Dunn
02/23/2011 A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear Atiq Rahimi Words Without Borders Shaun Randol
02/22/2011 The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene Aidan Wasley The Wilson Quarterly Troy Jollimore
02/21/2011 Comedy in a Minor Key Hans Keilson Rain Taxi Yevgeniya Traps
02/20/2011 The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life Jasmin Darznik Ms. Magazine Persis Karim
02/19/2011 Room Emma Donoghue Powells.com Heidi Mager
02/18/2011 The English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas de Quincey Robert Morrison The New Republic Laura Marsh
02/17/2011 American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee Karen Abbott The Oregonian John G. Rodwan Jr.
02/16/2011 Pacazo Roy Kesey Bookforum John Domini
02/15/2011 Armed Humanitarians: The Rise of the Nation Builders Nathan Hodge The Wilson Quarterly James Gibney
02/14/2011 The Scoundrel and the Optimist Maceo Montoya Rain Taxi Zach Czaia
02/13/2011 A Life in Motion: A Memoir (Jewish Women Writers) Florence Howe Ms. Magazine Deirdre English
02/12/2011 Buddhism through American Women's Eyes Karma Lekshe Tsomo Powells.com Chris Faatz
02/11/2011 Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper Alexandra Harris The New Republic Jed Perl
02/10/2011 The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 Douglas Brinkley The Oregonian Marc Covert
02/09/2011 Twin: A Memoir Allen Shawn Los Angeles Times Heller McAlpin
02/08/2011 Preaching with Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present Martha (edt) Simmons The Wilson Quarterly Jonathan Rieder
02/07/2011 Tales of Woe John Reed Rain Taxi Jesse Tangen-Mills
02/06/2011 Akata Witch Nnedi Okorafor Ms. Magazine Nisi Shawl
02/05/2011 The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival John Vaillant Powells.com Nathan Weatherford
02/04/2011 Caribou Island Signed Edition David Vann The New Republic Ian Crouch
02/03/2011 The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear Seth Mnookin The Oregonian Paul Collins
02/02/2011 Swamplandia! Karen Russell Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Mike Fischer
02/01/2011 Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone Richard Settersten and Barbara Ray The Wilson Quarterly Michael C. Moynihan
01/31/2011 The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide Eva Talmadge Rain Taxi Greg Baldino
01/30/2011 Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb David C. Cassidy American Scientist Michael D. Gordin
01/29/2011 Incredible Change-Bots Jeffrey Brown Powells.com Chris Bolton
01/28/2011 Theodore Roosevelt's History of the United States: His Own Words Theodore Roosevelt The New Republic Franklin Foer
01/27/2011 View from Lazy Point Carl Safina The Oregonian Alice Evans
01/26/2011 Shah Abbas Milani San Francisco Chronicle Susanne Pari
01/25/2011 How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer Sarah Bakewell The Wilson Quarterly Sarah L. Courteau
01/24/2011 The Book of Things (Lannan Translations Selections) Ales Steger Rain Taxi Amy Groshek
01/23/2011 A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe Marcelo Gleiser American Scientist Lee Smolin
01/22/2011 Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin Timothy Snyder Powells.com Doug Brown
01/21/2011 Just Kids Patti Smith Powells.com Gerry Donaghy
01/20/2011 Vertical Rex Pickett The Oregonian Angie Jabine
01/19/2011 Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World John Szwed Seattle Times Curt Schleier
01/18/2011 A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism Silvio Pons The Wilson Quarterly Irving Louis Horowitz
01/17/2011 Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, from the Creators of Superman Thomas Andrae Rain Taxi John Pistelli
01/16/2011 Image and Reality: Kekul, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination (Synthesis) Alan J. Rocke American Scientist Jeremiah James
01/15/2011 The Orange Eats Creeps Grace Krilanovich Powells.com Gerry Donaghy
01/14/2011 Molotov's Magic Lantern Rachel Polonsky The New Republic Alexander Nazaryan
01/13/2011 As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece Joan Reardon The Oregonian Peggy McMullen
01/12/2011 Night Soul and Other Stories (American Literature) Signed Edition Joseph McElroy Bookforum James Gibbons
01/11/2011 Saul Bellow: Letters Saul Bellow The Wilson Quarterly Michael O'Donnell
01/10/2011 Picture This Lynda Barry Rain Taxi Jen Besemer
01/09/2011 Flatland (Maa Spectrum) Edwin Abbott Abbott American Scientist Colin C. Adams
01/08/2011 Lamb Bright Saviors (Flyover Fiction) Robert Vivian Powells.com Kelly Lenox
01/07/2011 An Object of Beauty Steve Martin The New Republic Andrew Butterfield
01/06/2011 The Petting Zoo Jim Carroll The Oregonian Nancy Rommelmann
01/05/2011 Hate: A Romance Tristan Garcia Words Without Borders Adam Eaglin
01/04/2011 Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (American Empire Project) Andrew Bacevich The Wilson Quarterly Thomas Rid
01/03/2011 C.G. Jung in the Humanities: Taking the Soul's Path Susan Rowland Rain Taxi Rinda West
01/02/2011 Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology (Animals, History, Culture) Erika Lorraine Milam American Scientist Joan Roughgarden
01/01/2011 Moonlight Mile Dennis Lehane Powells.com Chris Bolton
12/31/2010 What Ever Happened to Modernism? Gabriel Josipovici The New Republic Robert Boyers
12/30/2010 Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will Judith Schalansky The Oregonian Brian Doyle
12/29/2010 The Memory Chalet Tony Judt The Denver Post John Broening
12/28/2010 Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. X2014;how the Working Poor Became Big Business Gary Rivlin The Wilson Quarterly Jeremy Lott
12/27/2010 Zippy Annual #10: Ding Dong Daddy from Dingburg Bill Griffith Rain Taxi Paul Buhle
12/26/2010 Bride of E (10 Edition) Mary Jo Bang Cerise Press Christina Cook
12/25/2010 Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women Mary Rechner Powells.com Sheila Ashdown
12/24/2010 Young Mandela: The Revolutionary Years David James Smith The New Republic Joshua Hammer
12/23/2010 Compass Rose John Casey The Oregonian Peggy McMullen
12/22/2010 The Box: Tales from the Darkroom Gunter Grass San Francisco Chronicle Gregory Leon Miller
12/21/2010 The Disappearing Center: Engaged Citizens, Polarization, and American Democracy Alan I. Abramowitz The Wilson Quarterly Ethan Porter
12/20/2010 Your Republic Is Calling You Young-ha Kim Rain Taxi Scott F. Parker
12/19/2010 Best European Fiction (Best European Fiction) Aleksandar Hemon Cerise Press John Givens
12/18/2010 C Tom McCarthy Powells.com Nathan Weatherford
12/17/2010 Silver Roses (Karen & Michael Braziller Books) Rachel Wetzsteon The New Republic Rosanna Warren
12/16/2010 A Week at the Airport (Vintage International Original) Alain De Botton The Oregonian M. Allen Cunningham
12/15/2010 The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb Allen M. Hornblum Forward Glenn C. Altschuler
12/14/2010 Books as Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for World Markets in the Era of World War II John B. Hench The Wilson Quarterly John Brown
12/13/2010 I Hotel Karen Tei Yamashita Rain Taxi Scott Bryan Wilson
12/12/2010 The Ginkgo Light Arthur Sze Cerise Press Maryanne Hannan
12/11/2010 The Rest Is Jungle and Other Stories Mario Benedetti Powells.com Jeremy Garber
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