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Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq, John R. Crawford

The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq

By John R. Crawford

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The only book about the war in Iraq by a soldier on the ground-destined to become a classic of war literature. John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition-it had... read more

Mighty Heart, Danny Pearl

A Mighty Heart

By Danny Pearl

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In A Mighty Heart an astonishingly courageous woman tells the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband's life and death. For five weeks, the world watched and worried about Danny Pearl, a... read more

Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, James Shapiro

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

By James Shapiro

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An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and... read more

Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon

Manhood for Amateurs

By Michael Chabon

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction. Manhood for... read more

Night of the Gun, David Carr

The Night of the Gun

By David Carr

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Do we remember only the stories we can live with? The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In The Night of the Gun, David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years... read more

Alice Behind Wonderland, Simon Winchester

The Alice Behind Wonderland

By Simon Winchester

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On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean,... read more

Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes from the Underground

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Often considered a primary forerunner of existentialist philosophy, Notes from the Underground is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written in the form of a memoir by its central, unnamed character, a... read more

Building Bridges : Stephen King Live at the National Book Awards, Stephen King

Building Bridges : Stephen King Live at the National Book Awards

By Stephen King

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Each Autumn, in conjunction with the conferring of The National Book Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature, the Board of Directors of the Foundation presents a Medal... read more

Mark Twain: A Life, Ron Powers

Mark Twain: A Life

By Ron Powers

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In "Mark Twain," Ron Powers consummates years of research with a "tour de force" on the life of our culture's founding father. He offers Sam Clemens as he lived, breathed, and wrote. With the... read more

Who Is Mark Twain?, Mark Twain

Who Is Mark Twain?

By Mark Twain

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You had better shove this in the stove," Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published... read more