"One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining. Most New Yorkers wouldn't travel to Minnesota if a bright star shone in the west and hosts of angels were handing out plane tickets, but they might read a book about Minnesota and thereby form some interesting and useful impression of us. This is the benefit of literacy. Life is lonely; it is less so if one reads." G. Keiller
Book Reviews
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard, Four Corners: One Woman's Journey Into the Heart of Papua New Guinea by Kira Salak
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You - Dr. Sam Gosling
Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
I Love Ranch Dressing - And Other Stuff White Midwesterners Like by Cara Freie
Look at My Striped Shirt! - The Phat Phree
Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in their Homes - Kyle Cassidy
Masters - Art Quilts - Major Works by Leading ArtistsStumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert
Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary - Traudl Junge - Ed. Melissa Muller
Retro Hell - Life in the '70s and '80s, from Afros to Zotz - by the editors of ben is dead magazine and The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Things You Hate to Love - by Sam Stall, Lou Harry and Julie Spalding
Pete and Pickles - Berkeley Breathed
Dictator Style - Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots - Peter York, forward by Douglas Coupland
Photography in Japan: 1853-1912 - Terry BennettExposed:Confessions of a Wedding Photographer - Claire Lewis
Call of the Mall - Paco Underhill
Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies - Roger Bennet and Jules Shell
Up for Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex and Starting Over - Cathy Alter
Half-Assed: A Memoir - Jeanette Fulda
The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World - Guillame de Laubier
Beneath the Roses - Gregory CrewdsonSnobbery: The American Version - Joseph Epstein
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
I Love Led Zeppelin: Panty-dropping Comics by Ellen Forney
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey - Trenton Lee Stewart and Genius Squad - Catherine Jinks
Nation - Terry PratchettThe Young Hitler I Knew - August "Gustl" Kubizek
The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death - Laurie Notaro
The Year of Yes - Maria Dahvana Headley
Maxed Out - James Scurlock
Stuff White People Like - Christian Lander
Do Everything Better (Urawaza) - Lisa KatayamaU-Turn :What if You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life? - Bruce Grierson
House Lust: America's Obsession with Our Homes - Daniel McGinn
Green With Envy: A Whole New Way to Look at Financial (un)Happiness. Why keeping up with the Joneses Is Keeping Us in Debt - Shira Boss
How Starbucks Saved My Life - Michael Gates Gill
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere - Mike Carey and Glenn FabryHelping Me Help Myself - Beth Lisick
I Was Told There'd Be Cake - Essays by Sloane Crosley
Built by Hand - Vernacular Buildings Around the World - Bill Steen, Athena Steen, Eiko Komatsu, Photos by Yoshio KomatsuAmerican Nerd: The Story of My People by Benjamin Nugent
The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) - Peter Sagal
The Full Body Project - Leonard NimoyThe Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap - Ed. Matthew Diffee
Voyage of the Basset - James Christensen
Escape - Carolyn Jessop
Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited - Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss - Claire Nouvian
Bizarre Books - Russell Ash and Brian Lake
The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. JacobsOctober 07One Red Paperclip - Kyle MacDonald
See You in a Hundred Years - Logan Ward
American Hair Metal - Steven Blush
Some Danger Involved - Will Thomas
Michael Palin - Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
Money Changes Everything - Edited by Jenny Offill and Elissa Shappell
Pontoon - Garrison KeillerThe Know-It-All and Esquire Presents, What it Feels Like - A.J. Jacobs
My Life in Orange (Tim Guest) and Bhagwan, the God that Failed (Hugh Milne)
The Surfboard - Art, Style, Stoke - Ben Marcus
Sex, Lies and Handwriting - Michelle Dresbold
Where We Lived - Jack Larkin
Ancient Micronesia and the Lost City of Nan Madol - David Hatcher ChildressIsland of the Colorblind - Oliver Sacks
London Then and Now - Diane Bursten
London Sight Unseen - Snowdon
Making Money - Terry Pratchett
The Children of the Lamp Series - PB Kerr
The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
Evil Genius - Catherine JinksFame Junkies - The Hidden Truth Behind America's Favorite Addiction - Jake Halpern
Teun Hocks
Christopher Fowler's Bryant and May Series
Practically Perfect in Every Way - Jennifer Niesslein
Caroline Graham's Chief Inspector Barnaby MysteriesUnderworld Sites of Concealment - Peter Seidel and Manfred Sack
Ghostly Ruins - America's Forgotten Architecture - Harry Skrdla
Access All Areas - Ninjalicious
There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell - Laurie Notaro
Roller Girl - Totally True Tales from the Track - Melissa - "Melicious" Joulwan
Who ARE You People? Shari Caudron
One Perfect Day - The Selling of the American Wedding - Rebecca Mead
The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan - Wendy McClure
Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes and Golden Sharks - Bill Belleville
Beneath the Metropolis - The Secret Life of Cities - Alex MarshallMountain Man Dance Moves - The McSweeney's Book of Lists
Toilets of the World - Morna Gregory and Sian James
The Commitment - Dan Savage
A Thief of Time - Tony HillermanMr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder - Lawrence Wescheler
A Perfect Mess - Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman
American Prospects - Joel Sternfeld
I Am Plastic: The Designer Toy Explosion - Paul Budnitz
The League of Extraordinary Gentleman - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
Reaching Climax And Other Towns Along the American Highway - Gary Gladstone
Nature Girl (Karl Hiaasen) and The Big Bamboo (Tim Dorsey)
To Air is Human - Björn Töroque
They Call Me Naughty Lola - Personal Ads from the London Review of Books
The Rejection Collection - edt. Matthew Diffee
Graceland - An Interactive Pop-Up tour - Chuck Murphy with a forward by Priscilla Presley
Jpod - Douglas Coupland and Deep Storm - Lincoln ChildWitness to Nuremberg - Richard Sonnenfeldt
Space - Japanese Design Solutions for Compact Living - Michael Freeman
Your Disgusting Head and Giraffes? Giraffes! The Haggis-on-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance
Mindless Eating - Dr. Brian Wansink
Iron Lake - William Kent Krueger
Still Life with Crows - Lincoln Child and Michael PrestonPenguin Dreams and Stranger Things - Berkeley Breathed
Part Asian - 100% Hapa - Portraits by Kip Fulbeck Forward by Sean Lennon
Half-Moon Investigations - Eoin Colfer
Offbeat Museums - Saul Rubin
Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett
Cheap Laffs - The Art of the Novelty Item - Mark NewgardenNeil Gaiman and Peter Straub at the WI Book Festival
Secret Girl - Molly Bruce Jacobs
Crackpot - The Obsessions of John Waters
Beyond Mammoth Cave- James Borden and Roger Brucker
Tattoo Blues - Michael McClelland
The Lighthouse, A Certain Justice, Murder Room and Original Sin - P.D. JamesThe City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Paint it Black: A Guide to Gothic Homemaking - VoltaireIn Praise of Slowness: How the Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed - Carl Honorè
Fargo Rock City and Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story - Chuck Klosterman
Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market Dilettante - ayun halliday
A Working Stiff's Manifesto - Iain LevisonNërd Girl Rocks Paradise City - Anne Thomas Soffee
The Loch - Steve Alten
The Beard and Moustache Championships - The First Official Book (with entry form!)
The Big Bento Box of Ununesless Japanese Inventions - Kenji Kawakami
Slow Fat Triathlete - Jayne Williams
The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell, Dustin ThomasonDairy Queen - Catherine Murdock
Inside Havana - Chronicle Books
Early Bird: A Memoir of Early Retirement - Sidney Rothman
Childfree and Loving It! - Nicki DeFago
Different Dances - Shel Silverstein
Anybody Out There? - Marian KeyesPostville - A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America - Stephen Bloom
The Celebration Chronicles - Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Values in Disney’s New Town - Andrew Ross
Utopia - Lincoln Child
Hungry Planet - What the World Eats - Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio
Death on the Nile - Agatha ChristieNever Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers: Best of Blogs - Edited by Alan Graham and Bonnie Burton
Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels - Hella Winston
Bar Mitzvah Disco - Robert Bennett, Jules Shell and Nick Kroll with a foreword by The Village People
Monsieur Pamplemousse Hits the Headlines - Michael BondGullibles Travels - Cash Peters
Why Do Men Have Nipples? Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D.
Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel - Scott Adams
Post Secret - Frank Warren
Our Smallest Towns - Big Falls, Blue Eye, Bonanza & Beyond - by Dennis Kitchen, intro by Garrison Keillor
A Collaboration with Nature - Andy Goldsworthy
Cadillac Beach and Triggerfish Twist - Tim DorseyHome Work - Hand Built Shelters - Lloyd Kahn
Crap Cars - Richard Porter
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
Museum of Bad ArtThe Ice Queen - Alice Hoffman
Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland
The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd
Leaving the Saints - Martha Beck
Here Speeching American - Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras
Very Bad Poetry - The Petras SiblingsAngry Little Girls by Lela Lee
Material World: A Global Family Portrait and Women in the Material World by Peter Menzel
Loretta Lux
Fabulous Jewelry from Found Objects by Marthe LeVan and The Jeweler's Directory of Decorative Finishes by Jinks McGrath
The Blackbird Papers by Ian SmithAnansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
Good Poems & Good Poems for Hard Times, Edited by Garrison Keiller
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, "Captain Charles Johnson"
Sleeping by the Mississippi - Alec Soth
Boring Postcards USA, Phaidon Press
Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit, Laura PennyAmy's Answering Machine, Amy Borkowsky
The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club, We Thought You Would Be Prettier, I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies I have Told), Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro
Twilight, Gregory Crewdson
Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child
Archeology Magazine
Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon KrakauerNew York Underground by Julie Solis and Invisible Frontier: Exploring the Tunnels, Ruins, and Rooftops of Hidden New York by L.B. Deyo
Fresh Fruits - Shoichi Aoki
Thud! Terry Pratchett
Cabinet of Curiosities, by Patrick Mauries
The Cabinet of Curiosities - Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke, Suze Orman
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