New York Times Notable Selection

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  1. Book ImageThe Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

    Michael Lewis

    "Lewis has such a gift for storytelling...he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons."—Janet Maslin, New York TimesMore

  2. Book ImageThe Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World

    Matthew Stewart

    “A colorful reinterpretation. . . . Stewart’s wit and profluent prose make this book a fascinating read.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewMore

  3. Book ImageSpook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

    Mary Roach

    "Equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining."—Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain NewsMore

  4. Book ImageThe Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

    Sean Wilentz

    Winner of the Bancroft Award: "Monumental…a tour de force…awesome in its coverage of political events."—Gordon Wood, New York Times Book ReviewMore

  5. Book ImageAmerican Smooth: Poems

    Rita Dove

    "Rita Dove pulls the ultimate dance trick: she makes it look easy."--New York Times Book ReviewMore

  6. Book ImageWodehouse: A Life

    Robert McCrum

    "An invaluable portrait, thanks to a broad, incisive and complex understanding of Wodehouse's psyche." --Janet Maslin, New York TimesMore

  7. Book ImageThe Complete Works of Isaac Babel

    Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel, Peter Constantine, Et Al.

    "A celebration of literary genius framed by 20th-century tragedy."--Richard Bernstein, New York TimesMore

  8. Book ImagePerilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism

    Geoffrey R. Stone

    "A masterpiece of constitutional history, Perilous Times promises to redefine the national debate on civil liberties and free speech."—Elena Kagan, Harvard Law School
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  9. Book ImageWill in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    Stephen Greenblatt

    "So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration."—Dan Cryer, NewsdayMore

  10. Book ImageThe Persistence of Memory: A Novel

    Tony Eprile

    "Throws all its chips in the air like a dazzling Nabokovian trick."—Daphne Merkin, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewMore

  11. Book ImageOut of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil

    David Goodstein

    Science tells us that an oil crisis is inevitable. Why and when? And what will our future look like without our favorite fuel?More

  12. Book ImageStrangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century

    Graham Robb

    "A brilliant work of social archaeology....A major historical contribution."—Adam Goodheart, The New York Times Book ReviewMore

  13. Book ImageThe 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

    National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

    Authorized Edition

    Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomoc, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its soil.
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  14. Book ImageThe Hazards of Good Breeding: A Novel

    Jessica Shattuck

    "Reading Jessica Shattuck's pitch perfect first novel is like spying on the children and grandchildren of John Cheever's Wapshots."—Los Angeles TimesMore

  15. Book ImageNothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

    Patricia Highsmith

    "Highsmith is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre...than are Doestoevsky, Faulkner and Camus."—Joan Smith, Los Angeles TimesMore

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