History, Memoir and Biography
by
John Q McDonald
--- 9 July 2009
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Alda, Alan:
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed
Ambrose, Stephen E.:
Undaunted Courage
Atlas, James:
My Life in the Middle Ages
Ayers, Bill:
Fugitive Days
Baldick, Robert (ed.):
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand
Brautigan, Ianthe:
You Can't Catch Death
Brechin, Gray:
Imperial San Francisco
Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace:
Gotham
Butor, Michel:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape
Cahill, Thomas:
Desire of the Everlasting Hills
Cahill, Thomas:
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Cain, Chelsea (ed.):
Wild Child
Caro, Robert A.:
The Power Broker
Carter, Jimmy:
Living Faith
Chaikin, Andrew:
A Man on the Moon
Cherry-Garrard, Apsley:
The Worst Journey in the World
Chevalier, Tracy:
The Lady and the Unicorn
Coleman, Ray:
Lennon
Coyote, Peter:
Sleeping Where I Fall
Crane, George:
Beyond the House of the False Lama
Crosby, Caresse:
The Passionate Years
Darlington, Sandy:
Buzz River Letters
Davidson, Keay:
Carl Sagan: A Life
Davies, Marion:
The Times We Had
Daws, Gavan:
Shoal of Time
Diamond, Stephen:
What the Trees Said
Didion, Joan:
Where I was From
Durrell, Gerald:
Garden of the Gods
Eggers, Dave:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Ellis, Joseph J.:
Founding Brothers
Florence, Ronald:
The Perfect Machine
French, Patrick:
Younghusband
Gibson, Ian:
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí
Grass, Günter:
My Century
Hamill, Pete:
Downtown
Harington, Donald:
The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks
Harington, Donald:
Let Us Build Us a City
Hayward, Clane:
The Hypocrisy of Disco
Hickam, Homer H., Jr.:
Rocket Boys
Horne, Alistair:
Seven Ages of Paris
Howarth, David:
1066: The Year of the Conquest
Jacobs, Ron:
The Way the Wind Blew
Johnson, Joyce:
Minor Characters
Junger, Sebastian:
The Perfect Storm
Kazin, Alfred:
A Walker in the City
Kershaw, Alex:
Jack London: A Life
Kingsolver, Barbara:
Holding the Line
Krakauer, Jon:
Into the Wild
Lessard, Suzannah:
The Architect of Desire
Levin, Gail:
Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography
Lord, M. G.:
Astro Turf
Lord, Walter:
A Night to Remember
MacDonald, Michael Patrick:
All Souls
Markham, Beryl:
West with the Night
Mason, Nick:
Inside Out
Maurois, André:
The World of Marcel Proust
McCullough, David:
Mornings on Horseback
McNally, Dennis:
A Long Strange Trip
Mercer, Jeremy:
Time was Soft There
Meston, Daja Wangchuk with Clare Ansberry:
Comes the Peace
Mungo, Raymond:
Famous Long Ago
Naipaul, V. S.:
Reading & Writing
Newman, Janis Cooke:
The Russian Word for Snow
Nisker, Wes:
The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom
Oates, Stephen B.:
Let the Trumpet Sound
O'Shea, Stephen:
The Perfect Heresy
Pears, Iain:
An Instance of the Fingerpost
Perry, Michael:
Truck: A Love Story
Preston, Douglas:
Cities of Gold
Reed, John:
Insurgent Mexico
Reid, Robert L. (ed.):
A Treasury of the Sierra Nevada
Rosner, Bernat, and Frederic C. Tubach:
An Uncommon Friendship
Rubin, Jerry:
Growing (Up) at 37
Rybczynski, Witold:
A Clearing in the Distance
Rybczynski, Witold:
One Good Turn
Sanders, Edward:
1968: A History in Verse
Sarraute, Nathalie:
Childhood
Schama, Simon:
Rembrandt's Eyes
Shainberg, Lawrence:
Ambivalent Zen
Slater, Lauren:
Lying
Sobel, Dava:
Galileo's Daughter
Sobel, Dava:
Longitude
Sperber, A. M., and Eric Lax:
Bogart
Stein, Gertrude:
Picasso
Teltscher, Kate:
The High Road to China
Temko, Allan:
Notre-Dame of Paris
Terán, Lisa St. Aubin de:
The Hacienda
van Hensbergen, Gijs:
Guernica
Vowell, Sarah:
Assassination Vacation
Watt, Ben:
Patient
Weiss, Michael:
Living Together
Welty, Eudora:
One Writer's Beginnings
White, Edmund:
Marcel Proust
Wolfe, Tom:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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