Greg Bellow, Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013) (From the bookjacket: " In Saul Bellow's Heart, Greg gives voice to a side of Saul unknown to most, the 'young Saul'--emotionally accessible, often soft, with a set of egalitarian social values and the ability to laugh at the world's folly and at himself. Saul's accessibility and lightheartedness waned as he aged, and his social views hardened. This is the 'old Saul' most well known to the world, and these changes taxed the relationship between Bellow and his son, now an adult, so sorely that Greg often worried that it wouldn't survive. But theirs were differences of mind, not of the heart.").
Robert Darton, The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future (New York: PublicAffairs, 2009).
Glenn Frankel, The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013).
Lawrence J. Friedman & Anke M. Schreiber, The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet (New York: Columbia U. Press, 2013).
Barbara Goldsmith, Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Great Discoveries) (New York & London: Atlas Books/ W.W. Norton, 2005).
Rebecca Goldstein, Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel (Great Discoveries) (New York & London: Atlas Books/ W.W. Norton, 2005).
George Johnson, Miss Levitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (Great Discoveries) (New York & London: Atlas Books/ W.W. Norton, 2005).
Michio Kaku, Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Eistein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time Curie (Great Discoveries) (New York & London: Atlas Books/ W.W. Norton, 2004).
Leslie Maitland, Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed (New York: Other Press, 2012).
Aasif Mandvi, No Land's Man (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2014).
Charles Marsh, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (New York: Knopf, 2014) (See Randall Balmer, Between God and the Fuhrer," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 8/10/2014.).
Sherwin B. Nuland, The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) (New York & London: Atlas Books/ W.W. Norton, 2003).
John W. O'Malley, Trent: What Happened at the Council (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Belknap/ Harvard U. Press, 2013).
Joe Queenan, One for the Books (New York: Viking, 2012).
Richard Reeves, A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (Great Discoveries) (New York & London: Atlas Books/ W.W. Norton, 2008).
Olga Savin, trans., The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way (Shambhala Classics), translated from the Russian (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2001).
W. G. Sebald, A Place In the Country: On Gottfried Keller, Johann Peter Hebel, Robert Walser, and Others, translated from the German and with an Introduction and Notes by Jo Catling (New York: Random House, 2013) (See Joshua Cohen, "Points of Departure," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 3/23/2014.).
Robert A. Segal, intro., In Quest of the Hero: Otto Rank, The Myth of the Birth of the Hero; Lord Raglan,The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth, and Drama, Part II; Alan Dundes, The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1990).
Desmond Seward, The Wars of the Roses (London: The Folio Society, 2011).
David Shields & Shane Salerno, Salinger (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014).
R. A. Stein, Tibetan Civilization, translated from the French by J. E. Stapleton Driver, with original drawings by Lobsang Tendzin (Stanford, CA: Stanford U. Press, 1972).
S. Frederick Starr, Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age From the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton U. Press, 2013).
Rebecca Walker, Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (New York: Riverhead Books, 2001).
Rebecca Walker, ed., To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism (New York: Anchor Books, 1995).
Rebecca Walker, ed., What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future (New York: Riverhead Books, 2004).
Colson Whitehead, The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death (New York: Doubleday, 2014).
