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The Driftless Book Review Catalog


Adventure

Blind Descent -- James Tabor

The Magnetic North -- Sara Wheeler


Biography

Catch Me If You Can -- Frank W. Abagnale

Columbus:The Four Voyages -- Laurence Bergreen

Over the Edge of the World -- Laurence Bergreen

Endgame -- Frank Brady

Shakespeare: The World as Stage -- Bill Bryson

Off the Deep End -- Hodding Carter

The Mysterious Private Thompson -- Laura Leedy Gansler

Anarchy Evolution -- Greg Graffin

The Girl in the Song -- Heatley and Hopkinson

The Lost Cyclist -- David Herlihy

Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand

Thomas Jefferson: Author of America -- Christopher Hitchens

Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power -- Ross King

The Dragon Seekers -- Christopher McGowan

The Ninth -- Harvey Sachs

Ruined by Reading -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz

The Last Greatest Magician in the World -- Jim Steinmeyer

The Assassination of Hole in the Day – Anton Treuer

The Professor and the Madman -- Simon Winchester

Dreaming of Baghdad -- Haifa Zangana


Cycling

Le Métier -- Michael Barry

The Spring Classics -- Phillipe Bouvet et al.

We Might as Well Win -- Johan Bruyneel

Bicycle Diaries -- David Byrne

The Lost Cyclist -- David Herlihy

Road to Valor -- Aili & Andres McConnon

A Dog in a Hat -- Joe Parkin

Bobke II -- Bob Roll


Economics

The Ripple Effect -- Alex Prud'homme

$20 Per Gallon -- Christopher Steiner

Griftopia -- Matt Taibbi

Ayn Rand Nation -- Gary Weiss


Fiction

Raptor Red -- Robert Bakker

Dandelion Wine -- Ray Bradbury

Now and Forever – Ray Bradbury

God is Dead – Ron Currie, Jr.

Trilobites! -- Kenneth Gass

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

The Pleasure of My Company – Steve Martin

Concord, Virginia – Peter Neofotis

Elliot Allagash -- Simon Rich

Burr – Gore Vidal

Julian -- Gore Vidal

Lincoln – Gore Vidal

Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut

The Book Thief -- Markus Zusak


Food

The China Study – T. Colin Campbell

Farm City – Novella Carpenter

The Fruit Hunters -- Adam Leith Gollner

Vegetable Heaven – Molly Katzen

Southern Cakes – Nancie McDermott

Extra Virginity -- Tom Mueller

The Everything Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook – Rachel Rappaport

Crust & Crumb – Peter Reinhart

The New American Cheese – Laura Werlin


Gardening/Plants

Farm City -- Novella Carpenter

The Name of Plants -- David Gledhill

Seedheads in the Garden -- Noel Kingsbury


Geology/Paleontology

Earth: An Intimate History – Richard Fortey

The Hobbit Trap – Maciej Henneberg

The Dragon Seekers – Christopher McGowan

Boneheads -- Richard Polsky***

Your Inner Fish – Neil Shubin

Hawai’i: Land of Volcanoes – Jan Tenbruggencate

Sand – Michael Welland

The Planet in a Pebble -- Jan Zalasiewicz


History

Dust -- Joseph A. Amato

Over the Edge of the World -- Laurence Bergreen

The Poisoner's Handbook -- Deborah Blum

American Insurgents, American Patriots -- T.H. Breen

The American West -- Dee Brown

The Murder of the Century -- Paul Collins

1453 -- Roger Crowley

Empire of the Summer Moon -- S. C. Gwynne

In the Garden of Beasts -- Erik Larson

ROME 1960 -- David Maraniss

Prairie Fever -- Peter Pagnamenta

The History of White People -- Nell Irvin Painter

Earthrise -- Robert Poole

Meeting Mr. Lincoln -- Victoria Radford

Wicked River -- Lee Sandlin

The Killer of Little Shepherds -- Douglas Starr

Unfamiliar Fishes -- Sarah Vowell

Atlantic -- Simon Winchester

A People's History of Sports in the US -- Dave Zirin


Humor

Eating the Dinosaur -- Chuck Klosterman

Mentally Incontinent -- Joe Peacock

Free-Range Chickens -- Simon Rich

Ant Farm -- Simon Rich


Kids

The Stupids Step Out – Harry Allard

To Be a Princess – Hugh Brewster and Laurie Coulter

The Goats -- Brock Cole

Insect – Laurence Mound

Aldo Leopold's Shack -- Nancy Nye Hunt


Maps & Travel

2010 Rand-McNally Road Atlas

2008 Paris – Rick Steeves

Streetwise Paris Pocket Map


Medicine

Mortality -- Christopher Hitchens

The Emperor of All Maladies -- Siddhartha Mukherjee

Spillover -- David Quammen

The Undead -- Dick Teresi


Miscellany

The Ultimate Book of Useless Information -- Neil Botham

Hello, Goodbye, Hello -- Craig Brown

The New Kings of Nonfiction -- Ira Glass


Nature

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating -- Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Beekeeping for Dummies -- Howland Blackiston

Mycophilia -- Eugenia Bone

Plan Bee -- Susan Brackney

Icebound Summer-- Sally Carrighar

The Devil's Teeth -- Susan Casey

The Wave -- Susan Casey

The Species Seekers -- Richard Conniff

Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time -- Richard Conniff

The Secret Life of Lobsters -- Trevor Corson

The Ancestor’s Tale -- Richard Dawkins

It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes -- Jerry Dennis

Mark Twain’s Book of Animals -- Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms -- Richard Fortey

Bees, Wasps and Ants -- Eric Grissell

The Fate of the Species -- Fred Guterl

Pavlov’s Dogs and Schrödingers’ Cat -- Rom Harré

Life Everlasting -- Bernd Heinrich

The Nesting Season -- Bernd Heinrich

Summer World -- Bernd Heinrich

The Leafcutter Ants --Holldobler and Wilson

Aldo Leopold's Shack -- Nancy Nye Hunt

Sandhill and Whooping Cranes -- Paul A. Johnsgard

The Darwin Archipelago -- Steve Jones

The Violinist's Thumb -- Sam Kean

The Queen Must Die -- William Longgood

Insect -- Laurence Mound

The Beekeeper's Lament -- Hannah Nordhaus

The Death & Life of Monterey Bay – Palumbi & Sotka

Natural Acts -- David Quammen

The View from Lazy Point – Carl Safina

The Last Tortoise -- Craig B. Stanford

Tree: A Life Story -- Suzuki and Grady

Three Among the Wolves -- Helen Thayer

The Golden Spruce -- John Vaillant

The Tiger -- John Vaillant

The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Insects -- Martin Walters

Kraken -- Wendy Williams

Kingdom of Ants – Wilson & Durán

Skulls -- Simon Winchester

A Planet of Viruses -- Carl Zimmer


Outer Space

The Day the World Discovered the Sun -- Mark Anderson

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming -- Mike Brown

Moon: A Brief History -- Bernd Brunner

Earthrise -- Robert Poole

Packing for Mars -- Mary Roach

The Planets -- Dava Sobel


Photography

Chased by the Light – Jim Brandenberg

Above Paris – Jean-Louis Cohen

Nocturnes -- Chris Faust

Driftless: Photographs from Iowa – Danny Wilcox Frazier

Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs

Hawai’i: Land of Volcanoes – Jan Tenbruggencate

First Steps: Conserving our Environment – Joe Zammit-Lucia


Physical Sciences

Periodic Tales -- Hugh Aldersey-Williams

About a Mountain – John D’Agata

The 13th Element – John Emsley

Zero Decibels – George Foy

Gold Medal Physics – John Eric Goff

The Grand Design – Hawking & Mlodinow

The Disappearing Spoon – Sam Kean

The 4% Universe – Richard Panek

Kivalina: A Climate Change Story -- Christine Shearer


Poetry

The Art of Drowning -- Billy Collins

Horoscopes for the Dead -- Billy Collins

Dismantling the Hills -- Michael McGriff


Psychology

We Have Met the Enemy -- Daniel Akst

Brave Girl Eating -- Harriet Brown

Incognito -- David Eagleman

Lying -- Sam Harris

The Moral Landscape -- Sam Harris

Thinking, Fast and Slow -- Daniel Kahneman

How to Think Like a Neandertal -- Wynn and Coolidge