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November 21
Debra Spark: "Good for the Jews"

November 14
Murray Brown: "The Book Shopper"

November 7
Joseph Kanon: "Stardust"

October 31
Arnie Bernstein: "Bath Massacre"

October 24
Kapka Kasabova: "Street Without a Name"

October 17
Diane Ackerman: "Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways To Greet the Day"

October 10
Mardi Link: "Isadore's Secret"

October 3
Judith Jones: "The Pleasures of Cooking for One"

September 26
Christopher Beha: "The Whole Five Feet"

September 19
Dennis Drabelle: "Mile High Fever"

September 12
Tom Gjelton: "Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba"

September 5
Daniel Silva: "The Defector"

August 29
Ida Lichter: "Muslim Women Reformers"

August 22
David Savran: "Highbrow/Lowdown"

August 15
Dan Hofstadter: "The Earth Moves"

August 8
Bryan Burrough: "Public Enemies"

August 1
Vanina Marsot: "Foreign Tongue"

July 25
Emyl Jenkins: "The Big Steal"

July 18
Peter DeJonge: "Shadows Still Remain"

July 11
Michael Perry: "Coop"

July 4
Laura Dave: "The Divorce Party"

June 27
Christopher Potter: "You Are Here"

June 20
Jeff Zaslow: "The Girls from Ames"

June 13
Marie Brenner: "Apples and Oranges"

June 6
Martha Sandweiss: "Passing Strange"

May 30
Tom Dean: "Under a Midland Sky"

May 23
Chrisina Aveness: "Living Beyond Organic"

May 16
Sandra Harper: "High Tea"

May 9
Rob Kirkpatrick: "1969"

May 2
Robin Ryan: "60 Seconds and You're Hired"

April 25
Frances Wilson: "The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth"

April 18
Ian Kelly: "Casanova"

April 11
C. Arthur Ellis: "Zora Hurston and the Strange Case of Ruby McCollum"

April 4
D.J. Taylor: "Bright Young People"

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March 28
Jess Winfield: "My Name Is Will"

March 21
Barry Sears: "Toxic Fat"

March 14
Michael Welland: "Sand"

March 7
Ella March Chase: "The Virgin Queen's Daughter"

February 28
William Rodarmor: "France: A Traveler's Literary Companion"

February 21
Janis Bell: "Clean Well-lighted Sentences"

February 14
Ariel Sabar: "My Father's Paradise"

February 7
Sharon Waxman: "Loot"

January 31
Adam Nicholson: "Quarrel with the King"

January 24
Richard LeMieux: "Breakfast at Sally's"

January 17
Li-Young Lee: "Behind My Eyes"

January 10
Marcella Hazan: "Amarcord"

January 3
Michelle Karen: "Astrology for Enlightenment"

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