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January
2012
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Last Call: the Rise
and Fall of Prohibition
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Daniel Okrent
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February
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The Warmth of Other
Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great
Migration
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Isabel Wilkerson
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March
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The Woman Behind the
New Deal: the Life and Legacy of Frances
Perkins
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Kirstin Downey
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April
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The Discovery of
Jeanne Baret: a Story of Science, the
High Seas, and . . .
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Glynis Ridley
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May
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The Grand Inquisitor’s
Manual: a History of Terror in the Name
of God
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Jonathan Kirsch
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June
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Kitchen Confidential:
Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Anthony Bourdain
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September
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Sugar: a Bittersweet
History
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Elizabeth Abbott
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November
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The Ghost Map: the
Story of London’s Most Terrifying
Epidemic . . .
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Steven Johnson
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January
2011
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The Worst Hard Time:
the Untold Story of Those Who Survived .
. .
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Timothy Egan
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February
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Cigarettes
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Tara Parker-Pope
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March
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The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot
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April
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The Big Burn: Teddy
Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved
America
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Timothy Egan
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May
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The River of Doubt:
Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
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Candice Millard
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June
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Bright-Sided
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Barbara Ehrenreich
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September
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Cod: a Biography of
the Fish That Changed the World
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Mark Kurlansky
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October
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Escape from the Deep
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Alex Kershaw
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November
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Empire of the Summer
Moon
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S. C. Gwynne
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