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1. My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method

   Jim Lahey, Rick Flaste

   Lahey’s “breathtaking, miraculous, no-work, no-knead bread” (Vogue) has revolutionized the food world.More

2. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

   Annette Gordon-Reed

   Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New YorkerMore

3. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

   Paul Krugman

   The New York Times bestseller: the Nobel Prize–winning economist shows how today’s crisis parallels the Great Depression—and explains how to avoid catastrophe. With a new foreword for this paperback edition.More

4. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

   Sebastian Junger

   A real-life thriller that leaves us with the taste of salt on our tongues and a terror of the deep.More

5. How the Mind Works

   Steven Pinker

   “A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear.” —New York Review of BooksMore

6. The Garden of Last Days: A Novel

   Andre Dubus III

   “So good, so damn compulsively readable, that I can hardly believe it.” —Stephen King, Entertainment WeeklyMore

7. The Post-American World

   Fareed Zakaria

   “Zakaria . . . may have more intellectual range and insights than any other public thinker in the West.” —Boston Sunday GlobeMore

8. The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration

   Jack Goldsmith

   A central player’s account of the clash between the rule of law and the necessity of defending America.More

9. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

   Mary Roach

   “Rich in dexterous innuendo, laugh-out-loud humor and illuminating fact. It’s compulsively readable.” —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewMore

10. Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

    Miriam Horn, Fred Krupp

    How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe.More

11. Body of Lies: A Novel

    David Ignatius

    Movie Tie-in Edition

    The novel made into the major motion picture released October 2008, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe: "Clever [and] well-paced, Body of Lies is hard to put down."—John Miller, Wall Street JournalMore

12. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

    Diane Ackerman

    2008 Orion Book Award
    
    The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.More

13. The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

    Linda J. Bilmes, Joseph E. Stiglitz

    "This is a catalog [of costs] the Bush team never looked at. It's a catalog that they still don't want you to see."—James GalbraithMore

14. The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us

    Robyn Meredith

    "A comprehensive primer on the development of these Asian tigers."—Noam Lupu, San Francisco ChronicleMore

15. The 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