CHINA TODAY
The New Chinese Empire - Ross Terrill
The Pipa - Wu Man
Chinese Literatrure Today
- Gao Xinjian ("Soul Mountain")
- Ha Jin ("Waiting")
- Annie Wang ("Lili")
The Chinese in America - Iris Chang
Words on the Night Breeze - Xinran Xue

THE SHOW BUSINESS
The Sideshow - Todd Robbins
P.T. Barnum's America - Benjamin Reiss
Circus Animal Rights - Janet Davis
Showman Dan Rice - David Carlyon

SPIES
Iraq War Intelligence - Ray McGovern
Keep No Secrets - Victor Navasky
National Security Agency - James Bamford
Anthony Blunt - Miranda Carter
"Copenhagen" - Michael Frayn

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Dysfunctional Family Vacation - Mark & Rae Jacobson
Comic Travelogues - Ross Noble
Roman Holidays - Tony Perrottet
Train Hopping - Jack Cahill & David Eberhardt

THE DEVIL
Church of Satan - Blanche Barton
A Date with the Devil - Samuel Ramey
Running from the Devil - Steve Kissing
Dante's "Inferno" - Mark Palma
The Crossroads - Adam Gussow

TALES FROM BOOKWORLD
Bookselling Town in Wales - Paul Collins
Literary Detective - Jasper Fforde
Literary Forger - Simon Worrall
Writing Columns & Novels - Anna Quindlen
Writing as Therapy - Julia Glass

FLIGHT
Aerobatics - Josh Ramo
Wright Brothers - James Tobin
Alberto Santos-Dumont - Paul Hoffman
Mercury 13 - Martha Ackman

EVOLUTION: OUR ANCESTORS, OUR CHILDREN
Redesigning Humans - Gregory Stock
Future Evolution - Peter Ward
Human Ancestors - Jean Auel
Alfred Russel Wallace - Jane Camerini

LOST AND FOUND
Found Magazine - Davy Rothbart
Tasaday Tribe - Robin Hemley
Beatles Drummer - Pete Best
Hana's Suitcase - Karen Levine

TREES
Remarkable Trees - Thomas Pakenham
Novel about Father in a Tree - Judy Pascoe
Tree Storyteller - Wayne Pauly
American Elm - Thomas Campanella
Forest Sounds - Nadine Svoboda

CALL OF THE WILD
Raising Bear Cubs - Ben Kilham
Lost Species - Scott Weidensaul
Wolves in Yellowstone - Renee Askins
Fishing - Ian Frazier

THE POET
Virtual Muse - Charles Hartman
Poetry in Somalia - Alexander Stille
Nature Poetry - Pattiann Rogers
How to Speak Shakespeare - Louis Colaianni
Life of Rimbaud - Graham Robb

MOVIES
Katherine Berg - A. Scott Berg
Great Movies - Roger Ebert
Straight Story - Mary Sweeney
Book of Illusions - Paul Auster

RETURN TO PLEASURE
Authentic Happiness - Martin Seligman
Daily Afflictions - Andrew Boyd
Birth of Pleasure - Carol Gilligan
Kamasutra - Wendy Doniger

BEING COOL
Dogtown and Zboys - Stacey Peralta
White Boy Being Black - Adam Mansbach
Girls and Popularity - Rachael Simmons
Danger of Cool - Ron Powers

LITERARY LIVES
World's Worst Parents - Paula Fox
Charles Dickens - Jane Smiley
Young Writers on Love
- Emma Richler, Thisbe Nissen, Matthew Klamm
Writing On-Line - Robert Olen Butler
Duende and Artists - Edward Hirsch

AUTISM
Thinking in Pictures - Temple Grandin
Increase in Autism - Catherine Lord
"Refrigerator Mothers" - Maria Mombille & JJ Hanley
Unlocking the Inner Savant - Allan Snyder
Autism Novel - Mark Haddon

DICTATORS
September 11 - Isabel Allende
Pinochet File - Peter Kornbluh
Victor Jara - Florencia Mallon
Talking with Dictators - Riccardo Orizio
Dominic Republic's Trujillo - Mario Vargas Llosa

THE AGONY OF DEFEAT
Vanity Fair Debacle - Toby Young
Failure Magazine on Comebacks - Jason Zasky
Artists & Rejection - Jay Allison
Jump the Shark - Jon Hein
Enron - Sherron Watkins

BELIEVERS
Town the Talks to the Dead - Christine Wicker
Search for Her Sister's Spirit - Justine Picardie
Secret Gospel of Thomas - Elaine Pagels
Translating the Bible - Alister McGrath

HELPERS
Small Town Rescue Squad - Michael Perry
Personal Posse - Christopher Noxon
Dog Sleds vs Diphtheria - Laney Salisbury
Let Dogs Be Dogs! - Jon Katz
Handicapped Riding Therapy - Dena Duncan

YOUNG BLUES
Young Blues Singer - Shemekia Copeland
Critique of Alan Lomax Legacy - David Hajdu
Blues Poetry - Kevin Young
Hip Hop & the Blues - Chris Thomas King

AMATEURS
Shakespeare & Me - Herman Gollob
Amateur Astronomy - Timothy Ferris
Amateur Paleontology - Peter Larson
Amateur Songwriting - Jamie Meltzer
TTBOOK Song-Poem - Art Kaufman