American

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Unknown author

Once Upon a Town

Bob Greene

Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun

Rhoda Blumberg

Flat Stanley: His Original Adventure!

Jeff Brown

Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook

Alice L. Waters

Chain of Command

Seymour M. Hersh

A Giraffe and a Half

Shel Silverstein

These Is My Words

Unknown author

Thanks for Thanksgiving

Julie Markes

Manhunt

James L. Swanson

The Children's Blizzard

David Laskin

In My Blood

John Sedgwick

Reign of Iron

James L. Nelson

Escaping the Delta

Elijah Wald

A Thread Across the Ocean

John Steele Gordon

Burro Genius

Victor Villasenor

1812

Walter R. Borneman

Gold

Isaac Asimov

Lord of Light

Unknown author

A Crack in the Edge of the World

Simon Winchester

The People Speak

Howard Zinn

Southern Storm

Noah Andre Trudeau

Godric

Frederick Buechner

Dialogues With Silence

Thomas Merton

Good Luck Life

Rosemary Gong

Reading Like a Writer

Francine Prose

A Short History of the United States

Robert V. Remini

Thomas Jefferson

Christopher Hitchens

Mysterious Skin

Scott Heim

Washington

Fergus Bordewich