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

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

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• Jimmy Santiago Baca, A Place to Stand (Grove Press)
• Jimmy Santiago Baca, Healing Earthquakes: Poems (Grove Press)
• Ellyn Bache, The Activist's Daughter (Spinsters Ink)
• Chris Bachelder, Bear v. Shark: The Novel (Scribner/Simon and Schuster)
• Alfred Bader, Adventures of a Chemist Collector (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
• Robert Baer Blow the House Down (Crown)
• Hans Christian von Baeyer, Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes (Random House)
• Bruce Bagemihl, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (St. Martin's)
• Tara Bahrampour, To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America (FSG)
• Beryl Bainbridge, According to Queeney (Carroll & Graf)
• Beryl Bainbridge, The Birthday Boys (Carrol and Graf)
• Beryl Bainbridge new introduction for Robert Falcon Scott, Scott's Last Journals (Carrol and Graf)
• David Bainbridge, Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy (Harvard)
• Christopher P. Baker, Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba (National Geographic Adventure Press)
• Ian Baker, The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place (Penguin)
• Kevin Baker, Dreamland (Harper Collins)
• Larry Baker, Athens, America (First Coast Books; ISBN: 0975572407)
• Larry Baker, The Flamingo Rising (Ballantine)
• Nicholson Baker, Double Fold (Knopf)
• John Balaban, trans., Ca Dao Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry (Copper Canyon)
• Neil Baldwin, Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate (Public Affairs)
• Kevin Bales, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (University of California)
• Philip Ball, Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color (FSG)
• James Bamford, Body of Secrets: anatomy of the ultra-secret National Security Agency (Anchor)
• Sally Banes, Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage (Routledge)
• Russell Banks, The Angel on the Roof (Harper Collins)
• Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter: A Novel (Harper Flamingo)
• Lesley Bannatyne, Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History (Pelican)
• Marc Ian Barasch, Healing Dreams: Exploring the Dreams That Can Transform Your Life (Riverhead)
• Elizabeth Wayland Barber, The Mummies of Urumchi (Norton)
• Ann Louise Bardach, Cuban Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana (Random House)
• Coleman Barks, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems (Harper Collins)
• Coleman Barks, translator, The Soul of Rumi: a new collection of ecstatic poems (Harper San Francisco)
• Nigel Barley, Grave Matters: a lively history of death around the world (Henry Hol)t
• Neal Barnard, Foods That Fight Pain: Revolutionary New Strategies for Maximum Pain Relief (Harmony)
• Connie Barlow, The Ghosts of Evolution (Basic Books)
• Connie Barlow, Green Space, Green Time Copernicus Books
• Jean Benoit Nadeau & Julie Barlow, The Story of French (St. Martin's Press)
• Maude Barlow, Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water (New Press)
• Julian Barnes, England, England (Knopf)
• Patricia Barnes-Svarney and Thomas Svarney, Skies of Fury: Weather Weirdness Around the World (Fireside)
• Louise Barnett, Ungentlemanly Acts: The Army's Notorious Incest Trial (Hill & Wang)
• Nevada Barr, Blind Descent (Putnam)
• Andrea Barrett, The Voyage of the Narwhal (Norton)
• John Barrow, The Artful Universe (Oxford)
• John M. Barry, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (Simon and Schuster)
• Blanche Barton, The Church of Satan: A History of the World's Most Notorious Religion (Hells Kitchen Productions)
• Marcia Bartusiak, Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: listening to the sounds of space-time (Berkley)
• Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (HarperCollins)
• Nicholas Basbanes, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and The Eternal Passion for Books (Henry Holt)
• Jeanine Basinger, The Star Machine (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Rick Bass, The New Wolves (The Lyons Press)
• Thomas Bass, The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street (Henry Holt)
• Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here (Putman)
• Richard Bausch, The Stories of Richard Bausch (HarperCollins)
  
• Charles Baxter, Saul and Patsy (Pantheon)
  
• Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House: essays on fiction (Graywolf Press)
• John Bayley, Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire (Norton)
• Jo Ann Beard, The Boys of My Youth (Back Bay Books, Little Brown)
• Jack Beatty, The World According to Peter Drucker (Free Press)
• Tom Beaudoin, Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X (Jossey-Bass)
• Peter Bebergal & Scott Korb, The Faith Between Us: A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of God (Bloomsbury)
• Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine (Free Press)
• Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence (Little Brown)
• Marc Bekoff, Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart (Oxford)
• David Beers, Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace (Doubleday)
• Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (Free Press)
• Richard Bell, Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture (Cambridge)
• Rudolph Bell, How to Do It: Guides to Good Living From Renaissance Italians (Chicago)
  • Children Lost and Found
  • The Good Doctor,
• Beryl Lieff Benderly, In Her Own Right: The Institute of Medicine's Guide to Women's Health Issues (National Academy Press)
• Jeff Benedict and Don Yaeger, Pros and Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the NFL (Warner)
• Gregory Benford, Cosm (Avon)
• David Benjamin, The Life and Times of The Last Kid Picked (Random House)
• Medea Benjamin, Don't Be Afraid, Gringo!( Institute for Food and Policy Development)
• David Bennahum, Extra Life: Coming of Age in Cyberspace (Basic)
• Michael Benson, Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes (Abrams)
• John Berendt The City of Falling Angels (Penguin Press)
• A. Scott Berg, Kate Remembered (Putnam)
• Scott Berg, Lindbergh (Putnam)
• William Berger, Wagner Without Fear: Learning to Love -- and Even Enjoy -- Opera's Most Demanding Genius (Vintage)
• Jacob B. Berkson, A Canary's Tale (P.O. Box 2041 Hagerstown, MD 21742)
• David Berlinski, The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World (Harcourt)
• David Berlinski, A Tour of the Calculus Pantheon
• Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism (Norton)
• Anne Bernays & Justin Kaplan, The Language of Names Simon & Schuster
• Peter Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk Wiley
• Steve Berry, The Third Secret (Ballantine Books; ISBN: 0345476131)
• Wendell Berry, A Timbered Choir: The Collected Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997 (Counterpoint)
• Michael Berube, Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child Pantheon
• Roag Best (with Pete Best & Rory Best), The Beatles: the true beginnings (Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press)
• Derek Bickerton, Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages (Hill and Wang)
• Steven Biel, American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting (Norton; ISBN: 039305912X)
• Steven Biel, Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultureal History of the Titanic Disaster Norton
• Burkhard Bilger, Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts (Scribner)
• Will Birch, No Sleep Till Canvey Island: The Great Pub Rock Revolution (Virgin Books)
• Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street read by Susan Denaker (Listening Library)
• David Biro, One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient (Pantheon)
• Holley Bishop, Robbing the Bees - a Biography of Honey (Free Press)
• Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Simon & Schuster)
• Buzz Bissinger, A Prayer for the City (Random House)
• Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Harper Collins)
• Marcia Bjornerud Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (Basic Books A member of the Perseus Books Group)
• Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi, The Spiderwick Chronicles (Simon & Schuster)
• Julia Blackburn, Daisy Bates in the Desert: Life Among the Aborigines Vintage
• Ann Blackman, Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy A True Story (Random House)
• Michael Blake, Marching To Valhalla: A Novel of Custer's Last Days (Villard)
• Brad Blanton, Practicing Radical Honesty (Sparrowhawk Publications)
• Brad Blanton, Radical Honesty Dell Trade Paperback
• David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Belknap Press)
• Nicholas Blincoe and Matt Thorne, editors, All Hail The New Puritans (Fourth Estate)
• Jacqueline Blix and David Heitmiller, Getting a Life: Real Lives Transformed by Your Money or Your Life (Viking)
• Chana Bloch, Mrs. Dumpty (Wisconsin)
• Claire Bloom, Leaving A Doll's House Little Brown
• Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why (Scribner)
• Stephen G. Bloom, Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America (Harcourt)
• Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler, Bloomberg by Bloomberg Wiley
• Roy Blount, Jr., Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans (Crown Journeys)
• Robert Bluestone, Convergence (Linares 1897 - CD)
• Deborah Blum , Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life after Death (Penguin)
• Deborah Blum, Sex on the Brain: The Biological Difference Between Men and Women Viking - also heard in our Human Origins - Violence program
• Laura Blumenfeld, Revenge: a story of hope (Simon & Schuster)
• Judy Blunt, Breaking Clean (Knopf)
• Robert Bly, Kabir: Ecstatic Poems (Beacon)
• Robert Bly, The Sibling Society Addison Wesley
• David Bodanis, E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation (Walker)
• David Bodanis, The Secret Family Simon & Schuster
• Eric Bogosian, Mall (Simon & Schuster)
• Chris Bohjalian, The Law of Similars: A Novel (Harmony)
• Chris Bohjalian, Midwives Vintage
• Jonathan Bond and Richard Kirshenbaum, Under the Radar: Talking to Today's Cynical Consumer (Wiley)
• Paulina Borsook, Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-Tech (Public Affairs)
• Sylvia Boorstein, That's Funny: You Don't Look Buddhist Harper San Francisco
• Wayne Booth, For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals (University of Chicago)
• Marcus J. Borg and N.T. Wright, The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (Harper Collins)
• Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith Harper Collins
• Phil Borges, Enduring Spirit (Rizzoli)
• Jorge Louis Borges. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbooks)
• Amy Borkowsky, Amy's Answering Machine: Messages From Mom (Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster) CD available at: (http://www.sendamy.com)
• Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and The Rest of Us (Vintage)
• Andy Borowitz, The Trillionaire New Door: The Greedy Investor's Guide to Day Trading (Harperbusiness)
• Alfred B. Bortz, To the Young Scientist: Reflections on Doing and Living Science (Watts)
• Karyn Bosnak, Save Karyn: One Shopaholic's Journey to Debt and Back (Perennial)
  
• Laure-Anne Bosselaar, ed. Outsiders: Poems about Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades (Milkweed)
• Laure-Anne Bosselaar,ed. Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the City (Milkweed Editions)
• Leon Botstein, Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture (Doubleday)
• Ruth Bottigheimer, The Bible for Children Yale
• Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Bloomsbury)
• Angela Bourke, The Burning of Bridget Cleary (Viking)
• Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Penguin)
• Neal Bowers, Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist (Norton)
• Rob Bowman, Soulsville U.S.A.: the story of Stax Records (Schirmer Trade Books)
• Matthijs van Boxsel, The Encyclopaedia of Stupidity (Reaktion Books)
• Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Me (Harmony)
• Valerie Boyd, Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (Scribner)
• Todd Boyd, The New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop (NYU) (also in The Black Generation Gap)
• Jeanne Boylan, Portraits of Guilt (Pocket)
• Jennifer Finney Boylan, She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (with an Afterword by Richard Russo) (Broadway Books; ISBN: 064170551
• T. Coraghessan Boyle, Drop City (Penguin USA)
  
• T.C. Boyle, A Friend of the Earth (Viking)
• T.C.Boyle, After the Plague: and other stories (Viking)
• Svetlana Boym, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia
• Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia (Basic Books)
• Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha (Bantam)
  (Tara Brach is also heard in 071111a.html)
• Arthur Bradford, Dogwalker: stories (Knopf)
• James Bradley, Flags of Our Fathers (Bantam)
• James Bradley, Flyboys: A True Story of Courage (Little, Brown)
• Hilary Bradt, Guide to Madagascar (Bradt Publications)
• Susan Braudy, Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left (Knopf)
• Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin' Pantheon
• Rick Bragg also heard in "Is Washington Obsolete?
• Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 (Simon and Schuster)
• Stewart Brand, The Clock of the Long Now (Basic Books)
• Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown: fame and its history Oxford
• Stephen Braun, Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine Oxford
• Robert Brawer, Fictions of Business: Insights on Management From Great Literature (Wiley)
• David Breashears, High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Simon & Schuster)
• Karen Brennan, Being With Rachel: A Story of Memory and Survival (Norton)
• C. Brooks Brenneis, Recovered Memories of Trauma: Transferring the Present to the Past International Universities Press, Inc.
• Jonathan Brent, Annals of Communism (25 Volumes) (Yale)
• John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Rob Brezsny, Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings (Frog, Ltd.; ISBN: 1583941231)
• Bob Brier, The Murder of Tutankhamun (Berkley Pub Group)
• Joe Bob Briggs, Profoundly Disturbing: Shocking Movies That Changed History! (Universe)
• Andre Brink, The Rights of Desire (Harcourt Brace)
• Joel Brinkley, Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television Harcourt Brace
• Susan J. Brison, Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self (Princeton)
• Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain (Morgan Road Books)
• William J. Broad The Oracle: The Lost Secrets and Hidden Message of Ancient Delphi (The Penguin Press)
• William J. Broad, The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea Simon and Schuster
• John Brockman, ed., The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years: Today's Leading Thinkers Choose the Creations That Shaped Our World (Simon & Schuster)
• Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead (Vintage Contemporaries)
• David Broder, Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money (Harcourt)
• Virginia Warner Brodine, Seed of the Fire: A Novel (International Publishers)
• Steve Brodner, Freedom Fries: The Political Art of Steve Brodner (Fantagraphics books)
• Hugh Brody, Maps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier (Jill Norman and Hobhouse, London 1981)
• Hugh Brody, The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World (North Point Press)
• Po Bronson, The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest: A Silicon Valley Novel Random House
• Po Bronson, Why Do I Love These People?: Honest and Amazing Stories of Real Families (Random House)
• Richard Brookhiser, Alexander Hamilton, American (Free Press)
• David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (Simon & Schuster)
• Mr. Brooks contributed a commentary to Can You Trust Reporters? 01-03-18-A
• Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead (Three Rivers Press)
• Terry Brooks, Angel Fire East (Ballantine)
• Mikita Brottman, editor, Car Crash Culture(Palgrave)
• Azby Brown, The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas for Living Well in Limited Space (Kodansha)
• Celia Brooks Brown, Party Food for Vegetarians (Laurelglen)
• Cecil Brown, Stagolee Shot Billy (Harvard University Press)
• Fleda Brown, Reunion (Wisconsin)
• Kurt Brown, ed., Verse & Universe: Poems About Science and Mathematics (Milkweed)
• Louise Brown, The Dancing Girls of Lahore (Harper Collins)
• Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture? (Harvard)
• Mildred Brown with Chloe Ann Rounsely, True Selves: Understanding Transexualism Jossey-Bass Publishers
• Anthony Browne, Willy the Champ (Knopf)
• Jane Brox, Here and Nowhere Else Beacon
• Joseph Bruchac, Lasting Echoes: An Oral History of Native American People (Harcourt Brace)
• Robert Bruegmann, Sprawl: A Compact History (University of Chicago Press)
  
• Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project: an intimate history of American girls Random House
• Jan Harold Brunvand, Encyclopedia of Urban Legends (W.W. Norton)
• Bill Bryson, *A Short History of Nearly Everything (Broadway)
• Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods (Broadway)
• Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country (Broadway)
• Matthew Brzezinski, Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capitalism's Wildest Frontier (Free Press)
• James Buchan, Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money Farrar, Straus Giroux
• Stephen Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan, The Forgotten Pollinators Island Press
• Art Buchwald, I'll Always Have Paris: A Memoir Putnam
• Christopher Buckley and John Tierney, God is My Broker Random House
• Christopher Buckley, Wry Martinis Random House
• William F. Buckley, Nearer, My God: an autobiography of faith Doubleday
• Stephen Budiansky, The Nature of Horses Free Press
• Stephen Budiansky, Nature's Keepers: The New Science of Nature Management Free Press
• Carmel Budiardjo, Surviving Indonesia's Gulag Cassell
• Dan Buettner, MayaQuest: The Interactive Expedition Onion Press
• A'Lelia Bundles, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame C.J. Walker (Washington Square Press)
• Susan Burch, Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 - 1942 (NYU Press)
• Sophy Burnham, A Book of Angels (Ballantine)
• Chandler Burr, The Emperor of Scent (Random House)
• Ramiro Burr, The Billboard Guide to Tejano and Regional Mexican Music
• Ian Buruma, Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing (Random House)
• Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America Knopf
• Robert Olen Butler, The Deep Green Sea (Henry Holt)
• Robert Olen Butler, Fair Warning (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Brian Butterworth, What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math (Free Press)
• Colby Buzzell, My War: Killing Time in Iraq (Putnam)
• A.S. Byatt, Babel Tower Random House
• A.S. Byatt, The Biographer's Tale: a novel (Knopf)
• Richard Byrne, The Thinking Ape: Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence Oxford

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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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