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BOOKS and AUTHORS

Listed alphabetically by author's surname. Here are links to each letter:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The author's name links to the program featuring the author.

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• Nick Abadzis, Laika (First Second)
• Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire (Ballantine Books)
• Elizabeth Abbot, A History of Celibacy (Scribner)
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Black Profiles in Courage: a legacy of African-American Achievement (Morrow)
• Jessica Abel, Artbabe (Fantagraphics Books)
• Marilyn J. Abraham, First We Quit Our Jobs: How One Work-Driven Couple Got on the Road to a New Life (Dell)
• Pearl Abraham, The Romance Reader Riverhead, Putnam
• Rachel Abramowitz, Is That a Gun in Your Pocket: Women's Experience of Power in Hollywood (Random House)
• Sasha Abramsky, American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment (Beacon)
• Diane Ackerman, A Slender Thread (Random House)
• Diane Ackerman, Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden (Harper Collins)
• Diane Ackerman, Deep Play (Random House)
• Diane Ackerman, The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Aminals, Timeless Worlds (Random House)
• Martha Ackmann, The Mercury 13: the untold story of thirteen American women and the dream of space flight (Random House)
• Amir Aczel, Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem (Four Walls Eight Windows)
• Maureen Adams, Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton and Emily Bronte (Ballantine Books)
• Michael Adams , Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values (Penguin Canada)
• Noah Adams, Far Appalachia: Following the New River North (Delacorte Press)
• Noah Adams, The Flyers: in search of Wilbur & Orville Wright (Crown)
  
• Noah Adams, Piano Lessons: Music, Love & True Adventures (Delta)
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (Random House)
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Thing around Your Neck (Knopf)
• Faith Adiele, Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun (Norton)
• Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon (Penguin)
• Leila Ahmed, A Border Passage: From Cairo to America - A Woman's Journey (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Bruce Aidells and Denis Kelly, The Complete Meat Cookbook (Houghton Mifflin)
• Daniel Alarcon, Lost City Radio (Harper Collins)
• Lyle Victor Albert, Scraping the Surface/Objects in the Mirror (NeWest Press)
• Madeline Albright, Madam Secretary: a memoir (Miramax Books)
• John Alcock, In a Desert Garden: Love and Death Among the Insects (Norton)
• Paulette Bates Alden, Crossing the Moon: A Journey Through Infertility (Hungry Mind Press)
• John Alderman, Sonic Boom: Napster, MP3 , and the NewPioneers of Music (Perseus Publishing)
• Caroline Alexander, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Knopf)
• Sherman Alexie, Flight (Grove Press)
• Sherman Alexie, Ten Little Indians (Grove Press)
  
• Sherman Alexie, Ten Little Indians (Grove/Atlantic)
• Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World (Atlantic Monthly)
• Henry Alford, How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth) (Twelve)
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel (Free Press)
• Tariq Ali, The Clash of Fundamentalisms
• Tariq Ali, The Stone Woman: a novel (Verso)
• Ali Allawi, The Crisis of Islamic Civilization (Yale University Press)
• Mary Allen, The Rooms of Heaven: A Story of Love, Death, Grief and the Afterlife (Knopf)
• Stewart Lee Allen, In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food (Ballantine)
• Isabel Allende, Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses (Harper Flamingo/Harper Collins)
• Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune (Harper Collins)
• Isabel Allende has a brief commentary in the program Letters
• Isabel Allende, My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile (Harper Collins)
• Isabel Allende is also heard in Democracy
• Isabel Allende, The Sum of Our Days (Harper)
• Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (University of Virginia)
• Anne Allison, Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (University of California Press)
  (Anne Allison is also heard in 071125a.html)
• Susan Allport, A Natural History of Parenting (Harmony)
• David Almond, Skellig (Yearling), Kit's Wilderness (Delacorte)
• Steve Almond, (Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions (Random House)
• Julia Alvarez, How Tia Lola Came to Stay (Knopf)
• Lori Arviso Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing (Bantam)
• Antonio D'Amasio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (Harvest Books)
• Stephen Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army From the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany June 7, 1944 - May 7, 1945 (Simon & Schuster)
• Stephen E. Ambrose, Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Build the Transcontinental Railroad (Simon & Schuster)
• Mark Ames & Matt Taibbi, the eXile: sex, drugs, and libel in the New Russia (Grove Press)
• Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir (Talk Miramax)
• Martin Amis, Night Train (Harmony Books)
• Cleveland Amory, Ranch of Dreams (Viking)
• David Anderegg, Ph.D., Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them (Tarcher/Penguin)
• Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: a revolutionary life Grove Press
• Mark Anderson, Shakespeare by Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare (Gotham)
• Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin, Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age (Crown)
• Lori Andrews, The Clone Age: Twenty Years on the Forefront of Reproductive Technology Henry Holt
• Carole Angier, The Doubled Bond: Primo Levi: a biography (FSG)
• Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography (Houghton Mifflin)
• Natalie Angier, The Beauty of the Beastly (Houghton Mifflin)
• William Anthony, The Art of Napping Larson Publications
• Anthony Appiah, The Dictionary of Culture (FSG)
• Peter Applebome, Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics and Culture (Harcourt Brace)
• Karen Armstrong, Buddha (Penguin)
• Karen Armstrong, The Case for God (Knopf)
• Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness (Knopf)
• Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation (Knopf)
• Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation (Knopf)
• Cindy Aron, Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States (Oxford)
• Ronald Aronson, Camus & Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel
  That Ended It (The University of Chicago Press)
  
• Stanley Aronowitz, From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future (Houghton Mifflin)
• Guillermo Arriaga, 21 Grams (faber and faber)
  
• Raymond Arsenault, "The End of the Long Hot Summer: The Air Conditioner and Southern Culture" in Searching for the Sunbelt: Historical Perspectives on a Region ed, Raymond Mohl (University of Tennessee)
• Mawi Asgedom, Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard (Little Brown)
• Timothy Garton Ash, The File: A Personal History (Random House)
• Frances Ashcroft, Life At the Extremes: the Science of Survival (California)
• Renee Askins, Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild (Doubleday)
• Reza Aslan, How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization and the End of the War on Terror (Random House)
• Stephen Asma, Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums (Oxford)
• Alaa Al Aswany, Chicago (Harper Collins)
• Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor (Little, Brown)
• Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir (Norton)
• James Atlas, Bellow: a Biography (Random House)
• David Attenborough, The Life of Birds (Princeton)
• David Attenborough, The Private Life of Plants (Princeton University Press)
• Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (Doubleday)
• Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
• Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake: a novel (Doubleday)
• Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (Doubleday)
• Ann Hagedorn Auerbach, Ransom: The Untold Story of International Kidnapping (Henry Holt)
• Jean Auel, The Shelters of Stone (Crown)
• Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions: A Novel (Henry Holt & Company)
• Paul Auster, Timbuktu (Henry Holt)
• Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead (Hyperion)
• David Awbrey, Finding Hope in the Age of Melancholy (Little, Brown)
• Marilou Awiakta, Selu: Seeking the Corn Mother's Wisdom (Fulcrum)
• Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days (Beacon Press)
• William Ayers, A Kind and Just Parent: the Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon)
• Damali Ayo, How to Rent a Negro (Lawrence Hill Books)
• Chris Ayres, War Reporting for Cowards (Atlantic Monthly Press)

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BOOKS and AUTHORS

Listed alphabetically by author's surname. Here are links to each letter:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The author's name links to the program featuring the author.

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