
Jonathan Sacks: To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Leslie T. Chang: Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Larry Devlin: Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone
Thomas P.M. Barnett: Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating
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 (****)
Kevin Starr: Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (*****)
Brian; Anderson, Kevin J. Herbert: Machine Crusade, The: Legends of Dune (****)
Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in America : The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist (****)
Hunter S. Thompson: The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (*****)
Alan Moore: Watchmen (****)
Alex Steffen: Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (*****)
Tom Clancy: Battle Ready (****)
Ling Zhijun: The Lenovo Affair: The Growth of China's Computer Giant and Its Takeover of IBM-PC (**)
Robert Whiting: Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan (****)
Jane S. Gerber: Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience (****)
William Gibson: Idoru (*****)
Stephen King: On Writing (*****)
Sasha Issenberg: The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy (****)
Gerald Lyn Early: One Nation Under A Groove: Motown and American Culture (***)
Seth Godin: Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable (****)
Neal Gabler: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (****)
William Manchester: Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (****)
Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson: Bringing Heaven Down to Earth: 365 Meditations of the Rebbe (*****)
Arthur Gelb: City Room (*****)
Tom Clancy: Without Remorse (****)
Walter J. Williams: The Rift (****)
Robert D. Kaplan: Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground (*****)
Sally Denton: The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America (****)
Robert D. Kaplan: The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (****)
Agnes Smedley: The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh (Modern Reader)