To The Best of Our Knowledge

A

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Black Profiles in Courage: a legacy of African-American Achievement Morrow
• Pearl Abraham, The Romance Reader Riverhead, Putnam
• Diane Ackerman, The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Aminals, Timeless Worlds Random House
• Amir Aczel, Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem Four Walls Eight Windows
• Susan Allport, A Natural History of Parenting Harmony
• Cleveland Amory, Ranch of Dreams Viking
• Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: a revolutionary life Grove Press
• Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor Little, Brown
• David Attenborough, The Private Life of Plants Princeton University Press
• Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace Doubleday
• Marilou Awiakta, Selu: Seeking the Corn Mother's Wisdom Fulcrum
• William Ayers, A Kind and Just Parent: the Children of Juvenile Court Beacon

B

• Alfred Bader, Adventures of a Chemist Collector Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Beryl Bainbridge, The Birthday Boys Carrol and Graf
• Beryl Bainbridge new introduction for Robert Falcon Scott, Scott's Last Journals Carrol and Graf
• Nigel Barley, Grave Matters: a lively history of death around the world Henry Holt
• John Barrow, The Artful Universe Oxford
• John M. Barry, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America Simon and Schuster
• Nicholas Basbanes, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and The Eternal Passion for Books Henry Holt
• Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House: essays on fiction Graywolf Press
• Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine Free Press
• Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence Little Brown
• Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution Free Press
• Richard Bell, Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture Cambridge
• Beryl Lieff Benderly, In Her Own Right: The Institute of Medicine's Guide to Women's Health Issues National Academy Press
• Medea Benjamin, Don't Be Afraid, Gringo! Institute for Food and Policy Development
• Jacob B. Berkson, A Canary's Tale (P.O. Box 2041 Hagerstown, MD 21742)
• David Berlinski, A Tour of the Calculus Pantheon
• Peter Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk Wiley
• Michael Berube, Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child Pantheon
• Steven Biel, Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultureal History of the Titanic Disaster Norton
• Julia Blackburn, Daisy Bates in the Desert: Life Among the Aborigines Vintage
• Brad Blanton, Radical Honesty Dell Trade Paperback
• Claire Bloom, Leaving A Doll's House Little Brown
• Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler, Bloomberg by Bloomberg Wiley
• Deborah Blum, Sex on the Brain: The Biological Difference Between Men and Women Viking
• Robert Bly, The Sibling Society Addison Wesley
• David Bodanis, The Secret Family Simon & Schuster
• Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith Harper Collins
• Ruth Bottigheimer, The Bible for Children Yale
• Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown: fame and its history Oxford
• Stephen Braun, Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine Oxford
• C. Brooks Brenneis, Recovered Memories of Trauma: Transferring the Present to the Past International Universities Press, Inc.
• Joel Brinkley, Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television Harcourt Brace
• William J. Broad, The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea Simon and Schuster
• Po Bronson, The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest: A Silicon Valley Novel Random House
• Mildred Brown with Chloe Ann Rounsely, True Selves: Understanding Transexualism Jossey-Bass Publishers
• Jane Brox, Here and Nowhere Else Beacon
• Stephen Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan, The Forgotten Pollinators Island Press
• Art Buchwald, I'll Always Have Paris: A Memoir Putnam
• Christopher Buckley, Wry Martinis Random House
• Stephen Budiansky, The Nature of Horses Free Press
• Stephen Budiansky, Nature's Keepers: The New Science of Nature Management Free Press
• Carmel Budiardjo, Surviving Indonesia's Gulag Cassell
• Dan Buettner, MayaQuest: The Interactive Expedition Onion Press
• Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America Knopf
• A.S. Byatt, Babel Tower Random House
• Richard Byrne, The Thinking Ape: Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence Oxford

C

• Tim Cahill, Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered Villard
• Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness Random House
• John Casti, Would-Be Worlds: How Simulation is Changing the Frontiers of Science John Wiley and Sons, Inc
• Susan Cayleff, Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias University of Illinois Press
• Ron Chernow, The Death of the Banker - due out in July 1997 Vintage
• Daniel Chirot, Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age Princeton University Press
• CIA Wives, Spies, Black Ties and Mango Pies Community Communications Corporation
• Claude Andrew Clegg, An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijuah Muhammad St. Martin's Press
• Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, Murrow's Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism Houghton Mifflin
• Leonard Cole, The Eleventh Plague: the Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare W.H. Freeman
• Jonathan Coleman, Long Way to Go: Black & White in America Atlantic
• Robert Coles, The Moral Intelligence of Children: How to Raise a Moral Child Random House
• Peter Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography Cambridge
• Jill Ker Conway, Written by Herself: Volume II Vintage
• Susan Cooper, Dreams and Wishes - essays on writing for children McElderry Books
• Vicki Croke, The Modern Ark: The Story of Zoos North Point Press
• Gary Cross, Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood Harvard
• Ken Croswell, Planet Quest: The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems Free Press
• Mikhaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow: the psychology of engagement with everyday life Basic Books
• Clive Cussler, The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks Simon and Schuster
• Linda Katherine Cutting, Memory Slips: a memoir of music and healing Harper Collins

D

• Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak! Vintage
• Arthur Danto, After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History Princeton University Press
• David Darlington, The Mojave: A Portrait of the Definitive American Desert Henry Holt
• John Darnton, Neanderthal St. Martin's paperbacks
• Osha Gray Davidson, The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South Simon and Schuster
• Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable Norton
• Terrence Deacon, The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain Norton
• Stanislas Dehaene, The Number Sense Oxford
• Benjamin DeMott, The Trouble With Friendship: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Race Atlantic Monthly
• David Denby, Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and other Indestructible Writers of the Western World Simon and Schuster
• David B. Dennis, Beethoven in German Politics, 1870-1989 Yale University Press
• Alan Dershowitz, The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century Little, Brown and Co.
• Michael Dertouzos, What Will Be: How the new world of information will change our lives Harper Collins
• Frans de Waal, Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape California
• A.K. Dewdney, Yes, We Have No Neutrons John Wiley and Sons
• Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Norton
• Jared Diamond, Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality Basic - forthcoming
• Bram Dijkstra, Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality and the Cult of Manhood Knopf
• Fred Donaldson, Playing by Heart Health Communications, Inc
• Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast Harper Collins
• John Douglas with Mark Olshaker, Journey into Darkness Scribner
• Alan Downs, Corporate Executions: the ugly truth about layoffs Amacom
• Michael Drosnin, The Bible Code Simon and Schuster
• Elizabeth Drew, Whatever It Takes: the real struggle for political power in America Viking
• Dan Duane, Caught Inside: a surfer's year on the California Coast North Point Press (FSG)
• Dianne Dumanoski, Our Stolen Future (with Theo Colborn and John Peterson Myers) Dutton
• Robin Dunbar, Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language Harvard
• John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake Scribners
• John Dunning, Booked to Die Scribners
• Michael Eric Dyson, Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line Vintage

E

• Barbara Ehrenreich, Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War Metropolitan Books
• Paul Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future Island Press
• Richard Ellis, Deep Atlantic: Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss Knopf
• Jean Bethke Elshtain, Democracy on Trial Basic Books
• Maggie Estep, Diary of an Emotional Idiot Harmony Books
• Clarissa Pinkola Estes, The Faithful Gardener Harper Collins
• Charles Euchner, Extraordinary Politics: How Protest and Dissent Are Changing American Democracy Westview Press

F

• Timothy Ferris, The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report Simon and Schuster
• Susan Ferriss and Ricard Sandoval, The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement Harcourt Brace
• Nan Fink, Stranger in the Midst: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery Basic Books
• Robben Fleming, Tempests into Rainbows: Managing Turbulence University of Michigan Press
• Larry Flynt, An Unseemly Man: My Life as Pornographer, Pundit, and Social Outcast Dove Books
• Lyla Foggia, Reel Women: the world of women who fish Beyond Words Publishing
• Roger Fouts, Nex of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are Morrow
• Nicols Fox, Spoiled: The Dangerous Truth About a Food Chain Gone Haywire Basic Books
• Linda Bird Francke, Ground Zero: The Gender Wars in the Military Simon and Schuster
• Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City Farrar, Straus Giroux
• Jonathan Franzen, Strong Motion Farrar, Straus Giroux
• Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain Atlantic Monthly Press
• Albert French, Patches of Fire: A Story of War and Redemption Anchor Books
• Marilyn French, My Summer with George Knopf
• Paul Fussell, Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic Little Brown
• Mr. Fussell was interviewed on Weapons of War and The New Europe

G

• Winifred Gallagher, I.D.: How Heredity and Experience Make You Who you Are Random House
• James Finn Garner, Once Upon a More Enlightened Time MacMillan
• Annie Laurie Gaylor, Women Without Superstition "No Gods, No Masters" Freedom from Religion Foundation
• James Gilbert, Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science Chicago
• John R. Gillis, A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual and the Quest for Family Values Basic Books
• Jon Gjerde, The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917 University of North Carolina Press
• Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman Atlantic Monthly Press
• Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone, Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World St. Martin's Press
• Mary Gordon, The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father Random House
• Stephen Jay Gould, Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin Harmony Books (a guest on programs 97-01-19-B and 96-10-06-C)
• Michael Goulding, Floods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy Along the Amazon Columbia University Press
• Kenneth Greenberg, Honor and Slavery Princeton
• Peter Greenberg, Learning Adventures Around the World Peterson
• Stanley Greenspan, The Growth of the Mind Addison Wesley
• Jeff Greenwald, The Size of the World Globe Pequot
• Colin Greer and Herbert Kohl, A Call to Character: A Family Treasury Harper Collins
• William Greider, One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism Simon and Schuster
• David Grinspoon, Venus Revealed: A new Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet Addison Wesley
• Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Little, Brown
• Jan Zita Grover, North Enough Graywolf Press
• Michael Guillen, Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics Hyperion
• Rochelle Gurstein, The Repeal of Reticence: A History of America's Cultural and Legal Struggles Over Free Speech, Obsenity, Sexual Liberation and Modern Art Hill and Wang
• Alan Guth, The Inflationary Universe Addison Wesley

H

• Stephen Hall, A Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, and the Immune System Henry Holt
• Andrew Harvey, editor, The Essential Mystics: The Soul's Journey into Truth Harper Collins
• Andrew Harvey, Hidden Journey: A Spiritual Awakening Penguin
• Andrew Harvey, A Journal in Ladakh Houghton Mifflin
• Molly Haskell, Holding My Own in No Man's Land: Women and Men and Film and Feminists Oxford
• Robert Hazen, Why Aren't Black Holes Black? Anchor Books
• Paul Hendrickson, The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War Knopf
• Kevin Henkes, Sun and Spoon Greenwillow
• Arthur Herman, The Idea of Decline in Western History Free Press
• Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot Little, Brown
• Rachel Herzlinger, Market Driven Health Care Addison Wesley
• Chaim Herzog, Living History Pantheon
• John Hildebrand, Mapping the Farm Knopf
• James Hillman, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling Random House
• John Hoberman, Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race Houghton Mifflin
• Arlie Hochschild, The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work Metropolitan
• Andrew Hoffman, Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens Morrow
• A.M. Homes, The End of Alice Scribner
• John Horgan, The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age Addison-Wesley
• Neil Howe (with William Strauss), The Fourth Turning Broadway
• Sarah Hrdy, The Langurs of Abu Harvard
• Sarah Hrdy, The Woman That Never Evolved Harvard
• Robert Hughes, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America Knopf
• Benjamin Hunnicutt, Work Without End Temple University Press
• Benjamin Hunnicutt, Kellogg's Six-Hour Day Temple University Press

I

• David Ignatius, A Firing Offense Random House
• Pico Iyer, Cuba and the Night Knopf
• Mr. Iyer was interviewed on Travel Writing and Contemporary Cuba

J

• Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance Doubleday
• Gish Jen, Mona in the Promised Land Knopf
• Donald Johanson, From Lucy to Language Simon and Schuster
• Alexandra Johnson, The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life Doubleday
• Donald S. Johnson, Phantom Islands of the Atlantic: The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were Walker
• Loch Johnson, Secret Agencies: U.S. Intelligence in a Hostile World Yale
• James Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey: a Public/Private Life Norton
• Tony Judt, A Grand Illusion? An Essay on Europe Hill and Wang
• Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm: a true story of men against the sea Norton

K

• Joanna Kadi, Sketches from a Cultural Worker South End Press
• Michio Kaku, Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century Anchor Books
• Joe Kane, Savages Knopf
• Stefan Kanfer, Serious Business: The Art and Commerce of Animation in America Scribner
• Robert Kanigel, The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency Viking
• Mary Karr, The Liars' Club Penguin
• John Katz, Virtuous Reality Random House
• Jonathan Kaufman, A Hole in the Heart of the World Viking
• John Keay, Empire's End: A History of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong Scribner
• George Kelling with Catherine Coles, Fixing Broken Windows: Resorting Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities Vintage
• Daniel Kemmis, The Good City and the Good Life Houghton Mifflin
• Randall Kennedy, Race, Crime and the Law Pantheon
• Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern Consciousness Columbia University Press
• Jonathan Kirsch, The Harlot by the Side of the Road: forbidden tales of the bible Ballantine Books
• Carl Klaus, My Vegetable Love: A Journal of a Growing Season Houghton Mifflin
• Carl Klaus, Weathering Winter: A Gardener's Daybook University of Iowa Press
• Richard Klein, Eat Fat Pantheon
• Ivan Klima, Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light Grove Press
• Roger Knutson, Furtive Fauna: A Field Guide to Creatures Who Live on You Ten Speed Press
• Alan Kolata, Valley of the Spirits: A Journey to the Lost Realm of the Aymara Wiley
• Gabriel Kolko, Vietnam: Anatomy of a Peace Routledge
• David Murphy, Sergei Kondrashev and George Bailey, Battle Ground Berlin: CIA vs KGB in the Cold War Yale
• Harold Koplewicz, It's Nobody's Fault: New Hope and Help for Difficult Children and Their Parents Times Books
• Phyllis Kornfeld, Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America Princeton
• Sarah Kortum, The Hatless Man: An Anthology of Odd and Forgotten Manners Viking
• Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Villard
• Peter Kramer, Listening to Prozac Viking
• Iris Krasnow, Surrendering to Motherhood: Losing Your Mind, Finding Your Soul Hyperion
• Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Mark Kurlansky, Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world Walker

L

• Joan Lambert, Circles of Stone Pocket Books
• Annie Lamott, Crooked Little Heart Pantheon
• William Langewiesche, Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert Pantheon
• John Lantos, Do We Still Need Doctors? Routledge
• Joseph Lanza, Gravity: Tilted Perspectives on Rocketships, Rollercoasters, Earthquakes and Angel Food Picador USA
• David Laskin, Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather Doubleday
• Eric Lax and A.M. Sperber, Bogart Morrow
• Penelope Leach, Your Baby and Child Knopf
• Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf: a biography Knopf
• Brad Leithauser, The Friends of Freeland Knopf
• John Leonard, Smoke and Mirrors: Violence, Television and Other American Cultures The New Press
• Gerda Lerner, Why History Matters Oxford
• Harriet Lerner, PhD., Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life Harper Collins
• Steve Lerner, Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today's Environmental Problems M.I.T. Press
• James Levine, Working Fathers: New Strategies for Balancing Work and the Family Addison Wesley
• John S. Lewis, Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets and Planets Addison Wesley
• Michael Lewis, Trail Fever: spin doctors, rented strangers, thumb wrestlers, toe sucker, girzzly bears, and other creatures on the road to the White House Knopf
• Jonathan Littman, The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulson Little, Brown
• Stanley Lomabardo - translator, Homer's Iliad Hackett
• Betty Bao Lord, The Middle Heart Knopf
• Melissa Ludtke, On Our Own: Unmarried Motherhood in America Random House
• Jackie Lyden, Daughter of the Queen of Sheba Houghton Mifflin
• Susan Gordon Lydon, The Knitting Sutra: craft as spiritual practice Harper Collins
• Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: life studies from the dismal trade Norton

M

• Albert Manguel, A History of Reading Viking
• Charles Mann, Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species Knopf
• Jonathan Mantle, Car Wars: Fifty Years of Greed, Treachery and Skulduggery in the Global Marketplace Arcade
• Gina Maranto, The Quest for Perfection: The Drive to Breed Better Human Beings Scribner
• Jerry Martien, Shell Game: A True Accountof Beads and Money in North America Mercury House
• Judith Martin, Miss Manners Rescues Civilization Crown
• Jeffrey Masson, Dogs Never Lie About Love Crown
• Angeles Mastretta, Bordering on Chaos Little, Brown
• Charlotte Mayerson, Goin' to the Chapel: Dreams of Love, Realities of Marriage Basic Books
• Peter Mayle, Anything Considered Knopf
• Robert W. McChesney, Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy Seven Stories Press
• Robert W. McChesney and Edward S. Herman, The Global Media: the new missionaries of global capitalism Cassell
• John McCormack, Friend of the Flock Crown
• Joseph McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch, Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC Turner
• Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes Scribner
• David McCumber, Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey Random House
• Eileen McDonagh, Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent Oxford University Press
• Deborah McDowell, Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin Scribner
• George McGovern, Terry: My Daughter's Life and Death Struggle with Alcoholism Villard
• Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages Knopf
• Nellie McKay and Henry Louis Gates, The Norton Anthology: African American Literature Norton
• Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Please Kill Me: the uncensored oral history of Punk Grove Press
• James Medoff and Andrew Harless, The Indebted Society: Anatomy of an Ongoing Disaster Little, Brown
• Gita Mehta, Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India Doubleday
• Gita Mehta, Karma Cola Vintage
• Gita Mehta, A River Sutra Vintage
• Maurice Meisner, The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry into the Fate of Chinese Socialism Hill and Wang
• Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Frost: a biography Houghton Mifflin
• Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces Knopf
• Scott Minerbrook, Divided to the Vein: a journey into race and family Harcourt Brace
• Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance Vintage
• Jacqueline Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean Viking
• Stephen Mitchell, Genesis: a new translation of the classic biblical stories Harper Collins
• Steven Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science Thames and Hudson
• Kristen Renwick Monroe, The Heart of Altruism: Preceptions of a Common Humanity Princeton University Press
• Rick Moody, Purple America Little Brown
• Michael Moore, Downsize This! Crown
• Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul Walker and Co.
• Charles Moskos and John Sibley Butler, All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way Basic Books
• Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, I've Been Gone Far Too Long RDR Books, Oakland, CA
• David Mura, Where the Body Meets Memory: an odyssey of race, sexuality and identity Anchor Books
• Charles Murray, What It Means to be a Libertarian: a personal interpretation Broadway
• Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace Free Press

N

• Richard Nelson, Heart and Blood: Living With Deer in America Knopf
• Agate Nesaule, A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile SOHO
• Annalee Newitz and Matt Wray, White Trash: Race and Class in America Routledge
• Itabari Njeri, The Last Plantation: Color, Conflict, and Identity: Reflections of a New World Black Houghton Mifflin
• Michael Novak, Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life Free Press
• Sherwin Nuland, The Wisdom of the Body Knopf
• Hanna Nyala, Point Last Seen: A Woman Tracker's Story Beacon

O

• Brian Patrick O'Donoghue, My Lead Dog Was a Lesbian: Mushing Across Alaska in the Iditarod - the world's most grueling race Vintage
• Redmond O'Hanlon, No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo Knopf
• Buck O'Neil, I Was Right on Time Simon and Schuster
• Iona Opie, My Very First Mother Goose (illustrated by Rosemwary Wells) Candlewick
• Andres Oppenheimer, Bordering on Chaos Little, Brown
• Robert Ornstein, The Right Mind: Making Sense of the Hemispheres Harcourt Brace

P

• Nell Irvin Painter, Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol Norton
• Orhan Pamuk, The New Life Farrar, Straus, Giroux
• Gareth Patterson, With My Soul Amongst Lions St. Martin's Press
• Stanton Peele, The Truth About Addiction and Recovery Simon and Schuster
• Margot Peters, May Sarton: a biography Random House
• Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Perfect Vehicle: What it is about Motorcycles Norton
• Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works Norton
• Constancio Pinto and Matthew Jardine, East Timor's Unfinished Struggle Scribner
• Mark Plotkin, Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice Penguin
• Lynn Ponton, The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do Basic Books
• Joyce Poole, Coming of Age With Elephants Hyperion
• David Popenoe, Life Without Father Free Press
• John Prag with Richard Neave, Making Faces Texas A&M
• Richard Preston, The Cobra Event Random House

Q

• David Quammen, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions Scribners

R

• Sabrina Ramet, Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives Routledge
• Arnold Rampersad, Jackie Robinson: a biography Knopf
• Mamphela Ramphele, Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South Africa Woman Leader The Feminist Press
• Terrance Real, I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression Scribner
• Boyce Rensberger, Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell Oxford
• Glenn Reynolds with Peter Morgan, The Appearance of Impropriety Free Press
• John Richardson, The Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 - The Painter of Modern Life Random House
• Keith Richberg, Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa Basic Books
• Thomas Ricks, Making the Corps Simon and Schuster
• Monty Roberts , The Man Who Listens to Horses Random House
• David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class Verso
• Robert Root-Bernstein and Michelle Root-Bernstein, Honey Mud Maggots and other Medical Marvels Houghton Mifflin
• Mort Rosenblum, Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit North Point Press
• Carl T. Rowan, The Coming Race War in America: a wake-up call Little Brown
• Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things Random House
• William Rubenstein, The Myth of Rescue Routledge
• Lillian Rubin, The Transcendent Child: Tales of Triumph Over the Past Freeman
• Sharman Apt Russell, When the Land Was Young Addison Wesley
• Richard Russo, Straight Man Random House
• Frank Ryan, Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues Out of the Present and Into the Future Little Brown

S

• Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind Knopf
• Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the Sun Vintage International
• Palagummi Sainath, Everybody Loves a Good Drought Penguin (International Only)
• Joyce Salisbury, Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman Routledge
• George Sanchez, Becoming Mexican-American Oxford
• Robert Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers Freeman
• Sara Schechner-Genuth, Comets, Popular Culture and the Birth of Modern Cosmology Princeton
• Bernhard Schlink, The Reader Pantheon
• Stuart Schneiderman, Saving Face: America and the Politics of Shame Knopf
• Michael Schumacher, There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs Hyperion
• Regina Schwartz, The Curse of Cain: the violent legacy of montheism Chicago
• Lisbeth Schorr, Common Purpose: Stengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America Doubleday
• John Seabrook, Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace Simon & Schuster
• David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: stories and essays Little Brown
• Carolyn See, Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America Random House
• Will Self, Great Apes Grove Press
• Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney, How Monkeys See the World University of Chicago Press
• Francine Shapiro, EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Trauma Basic Books
• Thomas Shapiro, Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality Routledge
• Paula Sharp, Crows Over a Wheatfield Hyperion
• Roger Shattuck, Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography St. Martin's Press
• David Shaw, The Pleasure Police: How Bluenose Busybodies and Lily-livered Alarmists Are Taking All the Fun Out of Life Doubleday
• Jesse Sheidlower, The F Word Random House
• David Shenk, Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut HarperEdge
• Michael Shermer, Why People Believe Weird Things Freeman
• Alex Shoumatoff, Legends of the American Desert: sojourns in the Greater Southwest Knopf
• Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media Columbia
• David Shukman, Tomorrow's War: The Threat of High-Technology Weapons Harcourt Brace
• Alix Kate Shulman, Drinking the Rain Penguin
• Ted Simon, The Gypsy in Me Random House
• William Slaughter (with Michael Landon), Trail of Hope: The Story of the Mormon Trail Shadow Mountain
• Jim Sleeper, Liberal Racism Viking
• Lee Smolin, The Life of the Cosmos Oxford
• Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild North Point Press
• Don Snyder, The Cliff Walk Little, Brown
• Roberto Sosa, The Common Grief Curbstone Press
• Norman Spinrad, Journals of the Plague Years Bantam
• Judith Stacey, In the Name of the Family: Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age Beacon
• Carol Stack, A Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South Basic Books
• Mary Zeiss Stange, Woman the Hunter Beacon
• Sara Stein, Planting Noah's Garden: further adventures in backyard ecology Houghton Mifflin
• Shirley Steinberg and Joe Kincheloe, Kinderculture: the Corporate Construction of Childhood Westview Press
• Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment Addison Wesley
• Frank Sulloway, Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives Pantheon

T

• Sonsyrea Tate, Little X: Growinig Up in the Nation of Islam Harper Collins
• Michael Ray Taylor, Cave Passages: Roaming the Underground Wilderness Vintage
• Timothy Taylor, Global Pop: World Music, World Markets (due out 7/97) Routledge
• Timothy Taylor, The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture Bantam
• Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade Simon and Schuster
• Velma Maia Thomas, Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation Crown
• John Thorndike, Another Way Home: a single father's story Crown
• Lionel Tiger, The Pursuit of Pleasure Little, Brown
• Gillian Tindall, Celestine: Voice from a French Village Henry Holt
• Marianna Torgovnick, Primitive Passions: Men, Women and the Quest for Ecstasy Knopf
• Christopher Toumey, Conjuring Science: Scientific Symbols and Cultural Meanings in American Life Rutgers University Press
• David A. Traill, Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit St. Martin's Press
• Calvin Trillin, Messages from My Father Farrar, Straus, Giroux
• George Trow, Within Context of No Context Atlantic Monthly Press
• Dennis Trudell, editor, Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball Breakaway Press
• Scott Turow, The Laws of Our Fathers Farrar, Straus, Giroux
• Frederic Tuten, Van Gogh's Bad Cafe: A Love Story Morrow

U

• Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter Viking

V

• Geerat Vermeij, Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life W.H. Freeman & Co.
• Jose Ignacio Lopez Vigil, Rebel Radio: The Story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos Curbstone Press
• Victor Villasenor, Wild Steps of Heaven Delacorte Press
• Burton Visotzky, The Genesis of Ethics Crown

W

• David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Little, Brown (a guest on programs 97-08-03-C and 97-08-17-C)
• Alice Walker, Anything We Love Can Be Saved Random House
• Chet Walker with Chris Messenger, Long Time Coming: A Black Athlete's Coming-of-Age in America Grove Press
• John Wargo, Our Children's Toxic Legacy Yale University Press
• Janet Wasko, Hollywood in the Information Age University of Texas Press
• Jack Weatherford, The History of Money Crown
• Donovan Webster, Aftermath: The Remnants of War Pantheon
• Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder Pantheon
• Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The Controversy of Zion Addison Wesley
• Barbara Ehrlich White, Impressionists Side by Side: Their Friendships, Rivalries, and Artistic Exchanges Knopf
• Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony Knopf
• G. Edward White, Creating the National Pastime: Baseball Transforms Itself 1903-1953 Princeton
• Nancy Willard, Swimming Lessons: new and selected poems Knopf
• Gwendolyn Williams, Letters for our Children: 50 Americans Share Lessons in Living Random House
• Terry Tempest Williams, Desert Quartet Pantheon
  (a guest on programs 97-12-07-A and 96-10-06-B)
• Garry Wills, John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity Simon and Schuster
• Christopher Wills, Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues Addison Wesley
• A.N. Wilson, Paul: the mind of the Apostle Norton
• Barbara Wilson, Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood Picador
• Mark Winegardner, The Veracruz Blues Viking
• Ellen Winner, Gifted Children: Myths and Realities Basic Books
• Naomi Wolf, Promiscuities: the secret struggle for womanhood Random House
• Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question Knopf
• Milford Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari, Race and Human Evolution - A Fatal Attraction Simon and Schuster
• Sue Woolfe, Leaning Towards Infinity Faber and Faber
• Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence Houghton Mifflin
• Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz, White Trash: Race and Class in America Routledge
• Harry Wu, Troublemaker: One Man's Crusade Against China's Cruelty Times Books

X

Y

• Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Breast Knopf
• A.B. Yehoshua, Open Heart Doubleday

Z

• Jeff Zaleski, The Soul of Cyberspace HarperEdge
• Robert Zubrin with Richard Wagner, The Case for Mars: the Plan to Settle the Red Planet Free Press
• David Zucchino, Myth of the Welfare Queen Scribner