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Novel of the Year

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold


Thus Spake Henry

The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken

by Terry Teachout

The Diary of H.L. Mencken

edited by Charles A. Fecher

My Life as Author and Editor

by H.L. Mencken, edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Yardley

Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken

by William Manchester

Mencken: A Life

by Fred Hobson

In Defense of Marion: The Love of Marion Bloom and H.L. Mencken

edited by Edward A. Martin

The Vintage Mencken

edited by Alistair Cooke

The Impossible H.L. Mencken: A Selection of His Best Newspaper Stories

edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters: The Private Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt

edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

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‘The Water Hose Is on Fire’

Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952–1954

by Kenneth Koch

A Possible World

by Kenneth Koch


Rudy Rules!

Leadership

by Rudolph W. Giuliani, with Ken Kurson

The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice

by Bernard B. Kerik


Bugs Without Borders

The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story

by Richard Preston

Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: People, Parasites, Politics

by Robert S. Desowitz


‘Castle of the Imagination’

Child of My Heart

by Alice McDermott


Apocalypse When?

The Heart of Redness

by Zakes Mda

Ways of Dying

by Zakes Mda


Divide and Conquer

Barnett Newman

Catalog of the exhibition edited by Ann Temkin, with essays by Ann Temkin and Richard Shiff, and contributions by Suzanne Penn and Melissa Ho


The Power of Positive Thinking

A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany

by Jürgen Habermas, translated from the German by Steven Rendall, with an introduction by Peter Hohendahl

The Past as Future

by Jürgen Habermas, interviewed by Michael Haller, translated from the German and edited by Max Pensky, with an introduction by Peter Hohendahl

The Inclusion of the Other

by Jürgen Habermas, edited by Ciaran Cronin and Pablo De Greiff

Knowledge and Human Interests

by Jürgen Habermas

Religion and Rationality

by Jürgen Habermas, edited and with an introduction by Eduardo Mendieta

Jürgen Habermas: A Philosophical-Political Profile

by Martin Beck Matustík

Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity

by Jan-Werner Müller

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