The Book Goddess

Nonfiction

The book of vice : very naughty things (and how to do them) / Peter Sagal.

Religious literacy : what every American needs to know–and doesn’t / Stephen Prothero.

Born on a blue day : inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant : a memoir / Daniel Tammet.

A Year In The Life Of An Esl Student : Idioms And Vocabulary You Can’t Live Without

The canon : a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science / Natalie Angier.

Food : the history of taste / edited by Paul Freedman.

Cuba avant-garde : contemporary Cuban art from the Farber collection / by Abelardo G. Mena Chicuri.

Basilica : the splendor and the scandal : building St. Peter’s / R.A. Scotti.

Tricia Guild pattern / text by Elspeth Thompson with Tricia Guild ; special photography by James Merrell.

House thinking : a room-by-room look at how we live / Winifred Gallagher.

The new kings of nonfiction / edited and introduced by Ira Glass.

Cultural amnesia : necessary memories from history and the arts / Clive James.

Boom! : voices of the sixties : personal reflections on the ’60s and today / Tom Brokaw.

Fiction

War and peace / Leo Tolstoy ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

David Golder ; The ball ; Snow in autumn ; The Courilof affair / by Némirovsky, Irène, ; translated from the French by Sandra Smith ; with an introduction by Claire Messud.

The pillars of the earth / Ken Follett.

Fellow travelers / Thomas Mallon.

Tree of smoke / Denis Johnson.

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz.

Piece of my heart / Peter Robinson.

What the dead know / Laura Lippman.

T is for trespass / Sue Grafton.