Nonfiction Book Reviews

Welcome to our Nonfiction book reviews section. Here you find highlights of our reviews in nonfiction including biographies, lifestyle, true stories and more. More reviews can be found on page 2 of the archives.

• 1000 Years for Revenge
  by Peter Lance (ReganBooks)
• The 24-Hour Turnaround
  by Jay Williams, Ph.D., Debra Fulghum Bruce (ReganBooks)
• The Acne Prescription
  by Nicholas Perricone, M.D. (HarperCollins)
• America: The Book
  by Jon Stewart and the Writers of The Daily Show (Warner Books)
• An Actor's Guide: Your First Year in Hollywood
  by Michael Saint Nicholas (Allworth Press)
• Angel Whiskers
  by Laurel E. Hunt (editor) (Hyperion)
• At Home: A Short History of Private Life
  by Bill Bryson (Doubleday)
• Bacchus & Me: Adventures in the Wine Cellar
  by Jay McInerney (Vintage Books)
• Back to the Table: The Reunion of Food and Family
  by Art Smith (Hyperion)
• Band of Brothers
  by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster)
• Birth of the Chess Queen
  by Marilyn Yalom (HarperCollins)
• Bobbi Brown Beauty Revolution
  by Bobbi Brown with Sally Wadyka (Harper Resource)
• Bobby Flay Cooks American
  by Bobby Flay with Julia Moskin (Hyperion)
• Built to Last
  by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras (HarperBusiness)
• The Buttercup Bake Shop Cookbook
  by Jennifer Appel (Simon and Schuster)
• CareerXRoads 2001
  by Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler (Jist Works)
• CareerXRoads 2002
  by Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler (MMC Group)
• CareerXRoads 2003
  by Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler (MMC Group)
• The Circle of Healing
  by Cathy Holt (Talking Bird Press)
• The Coming Storm
  by Bob Reiss (Hyperion)
• Cooking the Roman Way
  by David Downie, Photographs by Alison Harris (Harper Resource)
• Cover Up: What the Government is Still Hiding About the War on Terror
  by Peter Lance (ReganBooks)
• The Daily Drucker
  by Peter F. Drucker (HarperBusiness)
• The Demon in the Freezer
  by Richard Preston (Random House)
• Depression is a Choice: Winning the Battle Without Drugs
  by A.B. Curtiss (Hyperion)
• Dilemmas
  by James Sywell and Anne-Marie Roffi (Perigee)
• Dim Sum: The Art of Chinese Tea Lunch
  by Ellen Leong Blonder (Clarkson Potter)
• Don't Send a Resume and Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job
  by Jeffrey J. Fox (Hyperion)
• Eating, Drinking, Overthinking : The Toxic Triangle of Food, Alcohol, and Depression--and How Women Can Break Free
  by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema (Henry Holt)
• Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition
  by Peggy Post (HarperCollins)
• Essentially Lilly: A Guide to Colorful Entertaining
  by Lilly Pulitzer (HarperCollins)
• Everest: Summit of Achievement
  by Stephen Venables, Forward by the Dalai Lama, Introduction by Sir Edmund Hilary (Simon and Schuster)
• Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed is Shipping American Jobs Overseas
  by Lou Dobbs (Warner Business)
• The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
  by Barry Cunliffe (Walker Books)
• Fire Lover
  by Joseph Wambaugh (William Morrow)
• The Flag, The Poet and The Song
  by Irvin Molotsky (Dutton)
• Flip Dictionary
  by Barbara Ann Kipfer, Ph.D. (Writer's Digest Books)
• French Lessons
  by Peter Mayle (Vintage Books)
• Getting Loaded: Get Ready, Get Set, Get Rich
  by Peter Bielagus (New American Library)
• Ghost Soldiers
  by Hampton Sides (Doubleday)
• A Good Book is the Best of Friends: A Reader's Journal
  by Robin Doak, introduction by Natalie Goldberg (Hyperion)
• How to Become a Great Boss
  by Jeffrey J. Fox (Hyperion)
• How to Cook
  by Delia Smith, Miki Duisterhof, Photographer (DK Books)
• How to Taste: A Guide to Enjoying Wine
  by Jancis Robinson (Simon and Schuster)
• In the Hands of a Chef: Cooking With Jody Adams of Rialto Restaurant
  by Jody Adams & Ken Rivard (William Morrow)
• Italy in Small Bites
  by Carol Field (William Morrow)
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
  by Thomas Shippey (Houghton Mifflin)
• Lab257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory
  by Michael Christopher Carroll (William Morrow)
• A Little Book of Coincidence
  by John Martineau (Walker Books)
• Making A Good Brain Great
  by Daniel G. Amen, MD (Harmony Books)
• Martha Stewart's Hors D'Oeuvres Handbook
  by Martha Stewart (Clarkson Potter)
• The Mediterranean Vegan Kitchen
  by Donna Klein (HP Books)
• Men and Speed
  by G. Wayne Miller (PublicAffairs)
• The Middle Path Cookbook: A Vegetarian Awakening!
  by Jay Disney (The Overlook Press)
• The Naked Chef Takes Off
  by Jamie Oliver (Hyperion)
• Nemesis: The True Story
  by Peter Evans (ReganBooks)
• Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker
  by Stuart Y. Silverstein (Scribner)
• The Occidental Tourist
  by Stan Frankenthaler and Sally Sampson (Simon and Schuster)
• A Passion for Parties: Your Guide to Elegant Entertaining
  by David Tutera (Simon and Schuster)
• Patrick O'Connell's Refined American Cuisine: The Inn at Little Washington
  by Patrick O'Connell (Bulfinch)
• The Pill Book
  by Harold M. Silverman, Pharm. D. (Bantam)
• Platonic & Archimedean Solids
  by Daud Sutton (Walker Books)
• Potluck at Midnight Farm
  by Tamara Weiss, Photographs by Nina Bramhall (Clarkson Potter)
• The Provence Cookbook
  by Patricia Wells (HarperCollins)
• Putting First What Matters Most
  by Jane K. Cleland (New American Library)
• Radical Collaboration
  by James W. Tamm and Ronald J. Luyet (HarperBusiness)
• The Rarest of the Rare
  by Nancy Pick, Photographs by Mark Sloan (HarperCollins)
• Recipe for a Country Inn
  by Donna Leahy (William Morrow)
• Relax: Company's Coming!
  by Kathy Gunst (Simon and Schuster)
• The Rosedale Diet
  by Ron Rosedale, MD and Carol Colman (HarperResource)
• Run for Your Life: A Book for Beginning Women Runners
  by Deborah Reber (Perigee)
• Scheherazade Goes West
  by Fatema Mernissi (Washington Square Press)
• The Shy Single
  by Bonnie Jacobson, Ph.D. (Rodale)
• Simple Pleasures
  by Alfred Portale and Andrew Friedman (William Morrow)
• Skeletons on the Zahara
  by Dean King (Little, Brown)
• Stonehenge
  by Robin Heath (Walker Books)
• The Story of The West
  by Robert M. Utley (DK)
• The Success Principles
  by Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer (HarperCollins)
• Surviving Ophelia
  by Cheryl Dellasega, Ph.D. (Perseus Publishing)
• Tea & Sympathy
  by Anita Naughton, with Nicola Perry (Putnam)
• Ten Days to D-Day
  by David Stafford (Little, Brown)
• The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History
  by John M. Barry (Viking Books)
• The Triple Whammy Cure
  by David Edelberg, MD (Free Press)
• The Ultimate Shrimp Book
  by Bruce Weinstein (William Morrow)
• Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors
  by Barbara Delinsky (Simon and Schuster)
• Vino Italiano: Discovering the Regional Wines of Italy
  by Joseph Bastianich & David Lynch (Clarkson Potter)
• Wild Nights : Nature Returns to the City
  by Anne Matthews (North Point Press)
• The Will Eisner Companion
  by N.C. Christopher Couch and Stephen Weiner (D.C. Comics)
• Wine for Every Day and Every Occasion: Red, White, and Bubbly to Celebrate the Joy of Living
  by Dorothy J. Gaiter, John Brecher (William Morrow)
• Write Right!
  by Jan Venolia (Ten Speed Press)
• A Year in the World
  by Frances Mayes (Broadway Books)
• Yoga: The Poetry of the Body
  by Rodney Yee, Nina Zolotow (St. Martin's Press)