Category: Nonfiction (Sorted by Author's last name)
The Denial of Death (1973) - Ernest Becker (9/27/1924
-3/06/1974) (Grade:D+)
Making Patriots (2001) - Walter Berns (5/03/1919
-1/10/2015) (Grade:A)
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us (1996) - James Carroll (1943-) (Grade:D-)
 The White Album (1979) - Joan Didion (12/05/1934
-12/23/2021) (Grade:A+)
Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives (2002) - Todd Gitlin (1/06/1943
-2/05/2022) (Grade:C-)
Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line (1991) - Ben Hamper (-) (Grade:B-)
The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man (2014) - Luke Harding (April 21, 1968-) (Grade:B)
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963) - Richard Hofstadter (08/16/1916
-10/24/1970) (Grade:D)
The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation (2006) - David Kamp (-) (Grade:B-)
Making Hay (1997) - Verlyn Klinkenborg (
-1952) (Grade:C+)
Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health (2003) - Gina Kolata (02/25/1948-) (Grade:A-)
The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the Nationalal Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food (2009) - Mark Kurlansky (12/07/1948-) (Grade:C)
The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life (2005) - Steve Leveen (1954-) (Grade:B+)
In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (2011) - Steven Levy (1951-) (Grade:A+)
The Journalist and the Murderer (1990) - Janet Malcolm (-) (Grade:A+)
Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson (1985) - Judith Martin (-) (Grade:A-)
The American Language (1936) - H. L. Mencken (9/12/1880
-1/29/1956) (Grade:A)
The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It (2002) - John Miller (-) (Grade:B-)
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (1998) - Susan Orlean (10/31/1955
-) (Grade:A)
Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon (1991) - Jim Paul (-) (Grade:B)
The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America (1994) - Hugh Pearson (-) (Grade:B)
The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress (1998) - Virginia Postrel (-) (Grade:A-)
Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague (1997) - Richard Rhodes (-) (Grade:B-)
Waiting for the Weekend (1991) - Witold Rybczynski (3/01/1943
-) (Grade:B+)
The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense (1994) - John Ralston Saul (1947-) (Grade:B+)
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (1999) - Neal Stephenson (1959-) (Grade:B+)
Suez (1966) - Hugh Thomas (1931-) (Grade:B+)
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (1969) - Simon Wiesenthal (12/31/1908-9/20/2005) (Grade:B+)
Moonshine: : A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor () - Alec Wilkinson (3/29/1952-) (Grade:A-)
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