Peter Rand: China Hands (****)
Richard Evans: Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China: Revised Edition (****)
William Hinton: Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village (****)
Pu Yi Aisin-Gioro: From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi (*****)
Andrew Nathan: Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security (****)
Joe Studwell: The China Dream: The Quest for the Last Great Untapped Market on Earth
Bruce Gilley: Tiger on the Brink: Jiang Zemin and China's New Elite (****)
Neal Gabler: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (****)
Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson: Bringing Heaven Down to Earth: 365 Meditations of the Rebbe (*****)
Arthur Gelb: City Room (*****)
William Manchester: Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (****)
Robert D. Kaplan: Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground (*****)
Gerald Lyn Early: One Nation Under A Groove: Motown and American Culture (***)
Seth Godin: Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable (****)
Robert D. Kaplan: The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (****)
Sally Denton: The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America (****)
Walter J. Williams: The Rift (****)
Tom Clancy: Without Remorse (****)