non-fiction

2010

Elegy for Iris John Bayley
HTML5 for Web Designers Jeremy Keith
No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4’33” Kyle Gann
On Photography Susan Sontag
Strange Big Moon Joanne Kyger
Ways of Seeing John Berger

2009

Art and Fear Paul Virilio
The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan
Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi
The Sweet Life in Paris David Lebovitz

2008

Bottomfeeder Taras Grescoe
Here is New York E.B. White
Print is Dead : Books in our digital age Jeff Gomez
Wanderlust Rebecca Solnit
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami
Where I Was From Joan Didion
The World Without Us Alan Weisman

2007

The Book on the Bookshelf Henry Petroski
Ex Libris: confessions of a common reader Anne Fadiman
A Field Guide to Getting Lost Rebecca Solnit
Forever Young Forever Healthy Indra Devi
The Future of Nostalgia Svetlana Boym
Geography of Home : writings on where we live Akiko Busch
The Heart of Yoga T.K.V. Desikachar
How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul Adrian Shaughnessy
Print is Dead : Books in our digital age Jeff Gomez
Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion

2006

American Pie Pascale Le Draoulec
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson
Julie and Julia Julie Powell
Rules of the Red Rubber Ball Kevin Carroll
Savage Inqualities Jonathan Kozol
Time’s Magpie Myla Goldberg

2005

The Botany of Desire Michael Pollan
The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs
Eats, Shoots & Leaves Lynne Truss
Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words Jay Rubin
The Mother Tongue Bill Bryson
When Things Fall Apart Pema Chödrön
You Grow Girl Gayla Trail

2004

About This Life Barry Lopez
The Book of Tea Okakura Kakuzo
Girl, Interrupted Susanna Kaysen
Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke
On Death and Dying Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The Poetics of Space Gaston Bachelard
Stitch ‘N Bitch Debbie Stoller
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families Philip Gourevitch

2003

Beloved Chicago Man: Letters to Nelson Algren 1947-64 Simone de Beauvoir
Camera Lucida Roland Barthes
The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs
Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser
Just as I Thought Grace Paley
Power Politics Arundhati Roy
Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul Susan Harrow
The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston

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