| | | | | | . | Title | Author | Year Published | Read | Rating | . | Jerusalem in the 20th Century | Martin Gilbert | 1997 | March 2003 | ** | . | In Retrospect | Robert McNamara | 1996 | March 2003 | ***** | . | Winston Churchill | John Keegan | 2002 | March 2003 | *** | . | My War | Andy Rooney | 1995 | March 2003 | *** | . | Mao Zedong | Johnathon Spence | 1999 | March 2003 | *** | . | Patriots and Profiteers | R.T. Taylor | 1999 | April 2003 | * | . | Reagan | Lou Cannon | 1982 | June 2003 | ** | . | Poker Nation | Andy Bellin | 2002 | June 2003 | **** | . | Northern Links | Brian Kendall | 2001 | July 2003 | ** | . | Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black | John Feinstein | 2003 | July 2003 | **** | . | War in a Time of Peace | David Halberstam | 2001 | October 2003 | ***** | . | Who's Your Caddy? | Rick Reilly | 2003 | October 2003 | *** | . | The Shadow War Against Hitler | Christof Mauch | 1999 | October 2003 | ** | . | The Teammates | David Halberstam | 2003 | November 2003 | **** | . | Prairie People | Robert Collins | 2003 | November 2003 | *** | . | Dispatches From the Sporting Life | Mordecai Richler | 2002 | December 2003 | * | . | Bringing Down the House | Ben Mezrich | 2003 | December 2003 | **** | . | The Velocity of Honey | Jay Ingram | 2003 | December 2003 | *** | . | The Power of Gold | Peter Bernstein | 2000 | January 2004 | *** |
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| | | | | | . | Franklin and Winston | Jon Meacham | 2003 | February 2004 | *** | . | Defining America | David Halberstam | 2003 | March 2004 | ** | . | An End to Evil | David Frum, Richard Pearle | 2003 | March 2004 | ** | . | We Were Soldiers Onceā¦And Young | Harold G. Moore | 1992 | April 2004 | ***** | . | The Road to Hell | Julian Sher, William Marsden | 2003 | April 2004 | **** | . | Donnie Brasco | Joseph Pistone | 1989 | May 2004 | **** | . | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | 1971 | May 2004 | *** | . | The Greatest Generation | Tom Brokaw | 1998 | May 2004 | *** | . | A Rumor of War | Philip Caputo | 1977 | June 2004 | *** | . | Mobsters, Gangsters and Men of Honour | Pierre de Champlain | 2004 | June 2004 | *** | . | Call of the Mall | Paco Underhill | 2004 | June 2004 | *** | . | My Life | Bill Clinton | 2004 | July 2004 | ** | . | Blue Blood | Edward Conlon | 2004 | August 2004 | * | . | Ball Four | Jim Bouton | 1970 | September 2004 | *** | . | The Wild Blue | Stephen Ambrose | 2001 | October-04 | **** | . | Under the Banner of Heaven | Jon Krakauer | 2003 | October-04 | **** | . | Argument Without End | Robert McNamara | 1999 | October-04 | **** | . | Thirteen Days | Robert F. Kennedy | 1969 | November-04 | *** | . | The Bad Guys Won | Jeff Pearlman | 2004 | November-04 | *** | . | Empire of Tea | Alan Macfarlane | 2003 | December-04 | ** |
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| | | | | | . | Let Me Tell You a Story | John Feinstein | 2004 | December-04 | *** | . | The Corner | David Simon | 1997 | January-05 | **** | . | The Biography of an American Hero | Leigh Montville | 2004 | February-05 | **** | . | Blink | Malcolm Gladwell | 2004 | March-05 | **** | . | The Gay Talese Reader | Gay Talese | 2003 | March-05 | *** | . | Collapse | Jared Diamond | 2005 | April-05 | ** | . | Down to This | Shaugnessy Bishop-Stall | 2004 | May-05 | *** | . | The Wisdom of Crowds | James Surowiecki | 2004 | June-05 | ** | . | The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell | 2000 | June-05 | *** | . | Freakonomics | Stephen Levitt | 2005 | June-05 | *** | . | Turnaround | William Bratton | 1998 | July-05 | *** | . | Double Down | Frederick Barthelme | 2001 | July-05 | *** | . | Last Season; A Team in Search of its Soul | Phil Jackson | 2004 | July-05 | **** | . | Homocide Special | Miles Corwin | 2003 | August-05 | **** | . | Moneyball | Michael Lewis | 2004 | August-05 | **** | . | How Soccer Explains the World | Franklin Foer | 2005 | August-05 | * | . | Why we buy: The Science of Shopping | Paco Underhill | 2000 | September-05 | *** | . | The World is Flat | Thomas Friedman | 2005 | October-05 | **** | . | The Wire; Truth be Told | Rafael Alvarez | 2005 | October-05 | * | . | Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming | Terry Frei | 2002 | November-05 | *** |
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| | | | | | . | Three Nights in August | Buzz Bissinger | 2005 | November-05 | **** | . | The Professional | W.C. Heinz | 1961 | December-05 | **** | . | Under and Alone | William Queen | 2005 | December-05 | **** | . | License to Deal | Jerry Crasnick | 2005 | January-06 | ** | . | Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning | Johnathon Mahler | 2005 | January-06 | **** | . | The Secret Mulroney Tapes | Peter C. Newman | 2005 | January-06 | **** | . | Searching for El Dorado | Marc Herman | 2003 | January-06 | **** | . | The Killing Season | Miles Corwin | 1998 | February-06 | *** | . | Next Man Up | John Feinstein | 2005 | March-06 | **** | . | Illicit | Moses Naim | 2005 | March-06 | ** | . | Sacred Hoops | Phli Jackson | 1996 | April-06 | **** | . | Crash Out | David Goewey | 2005 | April-06 | *** | . | Honor thy Father | Gay Talese | 1971 | May-06 | **** | . | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | 1966 | May-06 | *** | . | And Still we Rise | Miles Corwin | 2001 | June-06 | *** | . | The Undercover Economist | Tim Harford | 2005 | June-06 | *** | . | Reporting; Writings from the New Yorker | David Remnick | 2006 | July-06 | **** | . | Last Dance | John Feinstein | 2006 | August-06 | ** | . | The Last Best League | Jim Collins | 2003 | September 2006 | **** | . | Confessions of an Economic Hitman | John Perkins | 2004 | October 2006 | *** |
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| | | | | | . | The Long Tail | Chris Anderson | 2006 | October 2006 | **** | . | A Writer's Life | Gay Talese | 2006 | November 2006 | **** | . | The Kingdom and the Power | Gay Talese | 1969 | December 2006 | **** | . | A Death in Belmont | Sebastian Junger | 2006 | January 2007 | *** | . | Liar's Poker | Michael Lewis | 1989 | January 2007 | *** | . | The Blind Side | Michael Lewis | 2006 | February 2007 | ** | . | Two Years on the Yangtze | Peter Hessler | 2001 | March 2007 | **** | . | Notes From a Small Island | Bill Bryson | | April 2007 | * | . | Better | Atul Gawande | 2007 | May 2007 | **** | . | Off the Books | Sudhir Venkatesh | 2006 | June 2007 | *** | . | Here is your war | Ernie Pyle | 1943 | July 2007 | **** | . | Escape from China | Zhang Boli | 1999 | August 2007 | **** | . | All God's Children | Rene Denfield | 2007 | September 2007 | ** | . | Blood Diamonds | Greg Campbell | 2002 | September 2007 | *** | . | Rivethead | Ben Hamper | 1993 | October 2007 | **** | . | 1 Dead in Attic | Chris Rose | 2007 | October 2007 | ** | . | :07 or Less | Jack McCallum | 2006 | November 2007 | **** | . | Heat | Bill Buford | 2005 | December 2007 | **** | . | Down the Nile: Alone in a fisherman's skiff | Rosemary Mahoney | 2007 | January 2008 | ** | . | Nixon in China | Margaret Macmillan | 2005 | January 2008 | **** |
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| | | | | | . | Quiet Strength | Tony Dungy | 2007 | January 2008 | *** | . | A Prayer for the City | Buzz Bissinger | 2000 | February 2008 | **** | . | Gang Leader For a Day | Sudhir Venkatesh | 2008 | February 2008 | *** | . | The Progress Paradox | Gregg Easterbrook | 2003 | March 2008 | ** | . | Complications: A Surgeon's notes on an imperfect science | Atul Gawande | 2003 | March 2008 | **** | . | Service Included | Phoebe Damrosch | 2007 | May 2008 | **** | . | Fifteen Days | Christine Blatchford | 2007 | May 2008 | *** | . | The G.M. | Tom Callahan | 2007 | June 2008 | ** | . | Stumbling on Happiness | Daniel Gilbert | 2006 | July 2008 | ** | . | Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink | David Remnick | 2007 | August 2008 | **** | . | Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson | 2005 | September 2008 | *** | . | Race against time | Stephen Lewis | 2005 | October 2008 | *** | . | Dreams From my Father | Barack Obama | 2002 | November 2008 | **** | . | Red China Blues | Jan Wong | 1997 | December 2008 | **** | . | Another Bullshit Night in Suck City | Nick Flynn | 2004 | January 2009 | **** | . | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | David Foster Wallace | 2000 | February 2009 | * | . | Oracle Bones | Peter Hessler | 2004 | February 2009 | *** | . | Boys Will Be Boys | Jeff Pearlman | 2008 | March 2009 | **** | . | Hot, Flat and Crowded | Thomas Friedman | 2008 | March 2009 | ** | . | Factory Girls | Leslie Chang | 2008 | March 2009 | **** |
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| | | | | | . | McCain's Promise | David Foster Wallace | 2000 | April 2009 | **** | . | The Forever War | Dexter Filkins | 2007 | April 2009 | **** | . | Dishwasher | Pete Jordan | 2007 | May 2009 | ** | . | Beijing Confidential | Jan Wong | 2008 | May 2009 | *** | . | Uncommon: Finding your path to significance | Tony Dungy | 2009 | June 2009 | ** | . | Loose Balls | Terry Pluto | 1990 | July 2009 | **** | . | Hella Nation | Evan Wright | 2009 | July 2009 | **** | . | A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do Again | David Foster Wallace | 1998 | July 2009 | **** | . | Pitching on the Black | John Feinstein | 2008 | August 2009 | ** | . | Paper Trails | Pete Dexter | 2008 | August 2009 | *** | . | Now I Can Die In Peace | Bill Simmons | 2005 | September 2009 | *** | . | Consider the Lobster | David Foster Wallace | 2005 | September 2009 | *** | . | | | | | | . | The Odds | Chad Millman | 2000 | October 2009 | * | . | Nurtureshock | Po Bronson and Ashley Merrymen | 2009 | November 2009 | **** |
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