Books Archive: A

Richard Abanes

• One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002)

Chris Abani

• The Virgin of Flames by Chris Abani
• Song for Night (Akashic, 2007)

Karen Abbott

• Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul (Random House, 2007)

Shirley Abbott

• The Future of Love: A Novel (Algonquin, 2008)

Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie

• Aya (Drawn & Quarterly, 2007)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  The book serves as a reminder of a period of greatness for a country that is now struggling to regain its footing.

   

Diana Abu-Jaber

• Origin (Norton, 2007)

Chinua Achebe

• News: African novel of the century: An interview with Chinua Achebe

Andre Acimen

• The Proust Project (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004)

Marc Acito

• How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (Broadway Books, 2004)
• How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (Broadway Books, 2004)

Peter Ackroyd

• Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives (Nan A. Talese, 2005)
• Shakespeare: The Biography (Nan A. Talese, 2005)

Joan Acocella

• Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays (Knopf, 2007)

Christina Adam

• Love and Country (Little, Brown and Company, 2003)

Alice Adams

• The Stories of Alice Adams (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)

Jessica Adams

• Cool for Cats (Black Swan (UK); Pan MacMillan (Australia), 1969)

Kim Addonizio

• In the Box Called Pleasure (Fiction Collective 2, 2000)

Kim Adelman

• The Ultimate Guide to Chick Flicks: The Romance, the Glamour, the Tears, and More! (Broadway Books, 2005)

Rudy Adler, Victoria Criado, and Brett Huneycutt

• Border Film Project: Photos by Migrants & Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Harry N. Abrams, 2007)

Theodor Adorno; Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor

• Philosophy of New Music (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)

Jonis Agee

• The River Wife (Random House, 2007)

Taner Akcam

• A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan Books, 2006)

Yousef Al-Mohaimeed

• Wolves of the Crescent Moon (Penguin, 2007)

Daniel Alarcón

• War By Candlelight (HarperCollins, 2005)

Daniel Alarcon

• Lost City Radio (HarperCollins, 2007)

Alan Alda

• Never Have Your Dog Stuffed and Other Things I've Learned (Random House, 2005)

Charles C. Alexander

• Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era (Columbia University Press, 2002)

Sherman Alexie

• Ten Little Indians (Grove Press Books, 2003)
• News: Back-to-back works of fiction reveal a Sherman Alexie mellowed and tempered

Mike Allen

• Strange Wisdoms of the Dead (Wildside Press, 2006)

Paul Allen

• Alan Ayckbourn: Grinning At the Edge (Continuum Books, 2002)

Isabel Allende

• News: Allende's new novel is set in the 1500s, but the parallels to contemporary issues are unmistakable

Kirstie Alley

• How to Lose Your Ass and Regain Your Life: Reluctant Confessions of a Big-butted Star (Rodale Books/Pan Macmillan, 2005)

Will Allison

• What You Have Left (Free Press, 2007)

Steve Almond

• (Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions (Random House, 2007)

Nora M. Alter

• Chris Marker (University of Illinois Press, 2006)

Eric Alterman

• What Liberal Media? the Truth About Bias and the News (Basic Books, 2003)

David Ambrose

• The Man Who Turned Into Himself: A Novel (Picador, 2008)

Brian Ames

• Eighty-sixed: A Compendium of the Hapless (stories) (Word Riot Press, 2004)

Jonathan Ames

• Wake Up, Sir! (Scribner, 2004)

Mark Ames

• Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: from Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond (Soft Skull, 2005)

Anita Amirrezvani

• The Blood of Flowers (Little, Brown and Company, 2007)

Martin Amis

• House of Meetings (Knopf, 2007)
• Yellow Dog (Jonathan Cape (UK), Miramax (US), 1969)
• The Second Plane (Knopf, 2008)

David Amsden

• Important Things That Don't Matter (William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2003)

Tahmima Anam

• A Golden Age (HarperCollins, 2008)

Kurt Andersen

• Heyday (Random House, 2007)

Pamela Anderson

• Star Struck (Atria Books, 2005)

Robert Mailer Anderson

• Boonville (Perennial, 2003)

Tim J. Anderson

• Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)

Julie Andrews

• Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (Hyperion, 2008)

Anonymous

• The Bride Stripped Bare (Fourth Estate, 2004)

Tina McElroy Ansa

• You Know Better (William Morrow (HarperCollins), 2002)

Brian Antoni

• South Beach: The Novel (Black Cat, 2008)

Jeffrey Archer

• News: Best-selling author Jeffrey Archer returns to merely writing about scandal

Simon Armitage (Translator)

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation (Norton, 2007)

Jake Arnott

• He Kills Coppers (Soho Press, 2002)

Ronald Aronson

• Camus & Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It (The University of Chicago Press, 2004)

John Ashbery

• A Worldly Country: New Poems (Ecco, 2007)

Jabari Asim

• Column: The NAACP’s Mock Burial of Its Relevance

Reza Aslan

• No God But God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (Random House, 2005)

Stephen T. Asma

• The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005)

Ace Atkins

• White Shadow (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2006)

Kate Atkinson

• One Good Turn (Little, Brown & Co., 2006)
• Case Histories: A Novel (Little, Brown and Company, 2004)

Rick Atkinson

• The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Henry Holt & Co., 2007)

  Featured Article

  

  Relying on military histories and documents, the private letters and diaries of generals and front-line soldiers, news accounts and interviews, Atkinson creates a seamless, stunning narrative that is the equal of An Army at Dawn.

   
• The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Henry Holt & Co., 2007)

  Featured Article

  

  Atkinson's earlier work, An Army at Dawn, won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2003, and, if anything, The Day of Battle is even more engrossing.

   

James Atlas

• My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor's Tale (HarperCollins, 2005)

Margaret Atwood

• Oryx and Crake (Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, 2003)
• The Tent (Nan A. Talese, 2006)

Louis Auchincloss

• Manhattan Monologues: Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2002)

Stephane Audeguy

• The Theory of Clouds (Harcourt, 2007)

Marc Augé

• In the Metro (University of Minnesota Press, 2002)

Jake Austen

• TV a-Go-Go: Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol (Chicago Review Press, 2005)

Paul Auster

• The Brooklyn Follies (Henry Holt, 2005)
• Oracle Night (Faber (UK); Henry Holt & Co. (US), 2004)

Joe Austin

• Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became An Urban Crisis in New York City (Columbia University Press, 2002)

Steve Aylett

• Atom (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000)

Karen Valentin with Rev. Edwin Aymat

• The Flavor of Our Faith: Reflections on Hispanic Life and Christian Faith (Doubleday, 2005)

Michael Azerrad

• Kurt Cobain

Ariella Azoulay

• Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy (The MIT Press, 2003)