On Food and Cooking: Science & Lore of the Kitchen, Harold McGee
Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
Red Dust a Journey Around China, Ma Jian
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, Yann Martel
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
The Invisibles a Tale of the Eunuchs of India, Zia Jaffrey
March, Geraldine Brooks *
Tan Tien Chi Kung, Mantok Chia
The Courtesans demi-monde of 19th century Paris, Joanna Richardson
The Angel of the Left Bank: Delacroix’s Murals in St. Sulpice, Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong
The Orientalist: Life of Lev Nussimbaum (Kurdan Said/Assad Bey) Tom Reiss *
Alexandra, Valerie Martin
An Intimate History of Humanity, Theodore Zeldin
Unformed Landscape, Peter Stamm
The Lake, Yasunari Kawabata *
Art & Innovation: the Xerox PARC PAIR Program, ed. Craig Harris
Orbiting the Giant Hairball, Gordon MacKenzie
The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
The Informer, Liam O’Flaherty
Europe Central, William Vollman
The Storytellers Daughter, Saira Shah
The Man of Fifty, Johan Wolfgang Goethe
Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey **
Defining the Wind: Beaufort’s Scale, Scott Huler
The Good Soldier, Ford Maddox Ford
Going Sane: Maps of Happiness, Adam Phillips
Multiple Intelligences Theory in Practice, Howard Gardner
Personal Effects, Francesca Duranti
Whores for Gloria, W. Vollman
Rat, Andrej Zaniewski *
The Rescue Artist, Edward Dolnick (art fraud)
Ghosting, Jennie Erdal
In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World, John Thackara
Freakonomics, Stephen Levitt and Steven Grubaer
Duveen, S. N. Behrman
The Crazy Ladies of Pearl Street, Trevanian
You: the Owners Manual
Parisian Sketches, J.K. Huysmans
The Desert Smells Like Rain: a Naturalist in Papago Country, Gary Paul Nabham
Voices from the Other World:ancient Egyptian Tales, Naguib Mahfouz
Every Tongue Got to Confess, Zora Neale Hurston (folktales from Gulf States rr)
History of Palm Springs area
The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force, Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Sharon Begley *
Darkness in Summer, Takeshi Kaiko. (trans by Cecilia Seagwa Seigle)
Cinema Eden, Juan Goytisolo (travels in Mediterranean & Turkey)
Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz (autobiography) *
A Woman in Berlin, Anonymous *
The Art of Speed-Reading People, Paul Tieger Barbara Barron-Tieger
Duchess, Stephen Birmingham
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
Faust, Ivan Turgenev
The Singing Life of Birds, Donald Kroodsma *
Happy Ending, Francesca Duranti
In Search of Zarathustra, Paul Kriwaczek
Wall of Light, Edeet Ravel
The Same Sea, Amos Oz
Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante
The Class, Hermann Ungar
Sultan in Oman, Jan Morris
The Power & the Glory, Graham Greene
Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
Conundrum, Jan Morris *
Feng Shui Handbook, Master Lam Kam Chuen
The Control of Nature, John McPhee
Eclipse Fever, Walter Abish
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, David Hackett Fischer
Culture and Prosperity, John Kay
Ali and Nino, Kurban Said
Amerika, the Man who Disappeared, Franz Kafka
Brisees, Michel Leiris
Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture, Ruth Benedict
Bruges La Morte, Geroge Rodenbach
The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig *
The Unknowable Gurdjieff, Margaret Anderson
Book of the Year, Anthony Aveni