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Not sure what to do when you're not watching NOW? Below is a selected list of books written or suggested by some of NOW's past guests.
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Environment, Science and Nature
- Dawkins, Richard, THE ANCESTOR'S TALE, THE SELFISH GENE, THE EXTENDED PHENOTYPE, THE BLIND WATCHMAKER, RIVER OUT OF EDEN, CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE, UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW, A DEVIL'S CHAPLAIN
- Houston, Charles, K2—THE SAVAGE MOUNTAIN
- Hertsgaard, Mark, EARTH ODYSSEY: AROUND THE WORLD IN SEARCH OF OUR ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURE
- Kennedy, Robert F. Jr., CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, THE RIVERKEEPERS, JUDGE FRANK M. JOHNSON, JR: A BIOGRAPHY
- Lomborg, Bjorn, THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST: MEASURING THE REAL STATE OF THE WORLD
- Maathai, Wangari, THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT: SHARING THE APPROACH AND THE EXPERIENCE
- Suzuki, David, THE SACRED BALANCE
- Williams, Terry Tempest, REFUGE: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY OF FAMILY AND PLACE
- Wilson, Diane, AN UNREASONABLE WOMAN
Middle East
- Grossman, David, DEATH AS A WAY OF LIFE: ISRAEL TEN YEARS AFTER OSLO, YELLOW WIND
- MacArthur, John R., SECOND FRONT: CENSORSHIP AND PROPAGANDA IN THE GULF WAR
- Makiya, Kanan, REPUBLIC OF FEAR: THE POLITICS OF MODERN IRAQ
- Nasr, Vali, THE ISLAMIC LEVIATHAN: ISLAM AND THE MAKING OF STATE POWER
- Packer, George THE ASSASSINS' GATE: AMERICA IN IRAQ
- Risen, James, STATE OF WAR
- Tessler, Mark, A HISTORY OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
News, Media, and Technology
- Auletta, Ken, BACKSTORY: INSIDE THE BUSINESS OF NEWS
- Bouton, Jim, FOUL BALL
- Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, and Paul Waldman, THE PRESS EFFECT: POLITICIANS, JOURNALISTS, AND THE STORIES THAT SHARE THE POLITICAL WORLD
- Robert, McChesney, THE PROBLEM OF THE MEDIA: U.S. COMMUNICATIONS POLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
- Nichols, John and Robert McChesney, OUR MEDIA, NOT THEIRS: THE DEMOCRATIC STRUGGLE AGAINST CORPORATE MEDIA
- Scheer, Robert, THINKING TUNA FISH, TALKING DEATH: ESSAYS ON THE PORNOGRAPHY OF POWER
- Trippi, Joe, THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED: DEMOCRACY, THE INTERNET AND THE OVERTHROW OF EVERYTHING
- Viguerie, Richard and David Franke, AMERICA'S RIGHT TURN: HOW THE CONSERVATIVES USED NEW AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA TO TAKE POWER
- Zolli, Andrew, TECHTV'S CATALOG OF TOMORROW
History and Politics
- Badnarik, Michael, GOOD TO BE KING: THE FOUNDATION OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM
- Barr, Bob, THE MEANING OF IS, THE SQUANDERED IMPEACHMENT AND WASTED LEGACY OF WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTOM
- Blight, James and Robert McNamara, WILSON'S GHOST: REDUCING THE RISK OF CONFLICT, KILLING AND CATASTROPHE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
- Boorstin, Daniel, THE IMAGE
- Carter, Dan T., FROM GEORGE WALLACE TO NEWT GINGRICH: RACE IN THE CONSERVATIVE COUNTERREVOLUTION, 1963-1994
- Dean, John, WORSE THAN WATERGATE: THE SECRET PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. BUSH, BLIND AMBITION
- Emmott, Bill, 20/21 VISION: TWENTIETH-CENTURY LESSONS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
- Farah, George, NO DEBATE
- Ferguson, Niall, EMPIRE: THE RISE AND DEMISE OF THE BRITISH WORLD ORDER AND THE LESSONS FOR GLOBAL POWER
- Hedges, Chris, WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING; LOSING MOSES ON THE FREEWAY
- Hentoff, Nat, FREE SPEECH FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE: HOW THE AMERICAN LEFT AND RIGHT RELENTLESSLY CENSOR EACH OTHER, LIVING THE BILL OF RIGHTS: HOW TO BE AN AUTHENTIC AMERICAN, THE NAT HENTOFF READER
- Henwood, Doug, AFTER THE NEW ECONOMY
- Hertsgaard, Mark, THE EAGLE'S SHADOW: WHY AMERICA FASCINATES AND INFURIATES THE WORLD
- Hertz, Noreena, THE SILENT TAKEOVER: GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY
- Hitchens, Christopher, WHY ORWELL MATTERS
- Huffington, Arianna, PIGS AT THE TROUGH: HOW CORPORATE GREED AND POLITICAL CORRUPTION ARE UNDERMINING AMERICA
- Hutton, Will, A DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE: WHY AMERICA SHOULD JOIN THE WORLD
- Isaacson, Walter, THE WISE MEN: SIX FRIENDS AND THE WORLD THEY MADE
- Ivins, Molly, SHRUB; THE SHORT BUT HAPPY POLITICAL LIFE OF GEORGE W. BUSH
- Jackson, Brooks, HONEST GRAFT: BIG MONEY AND THE AMERICAN POLITICAL PROCESS
- Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT POLITICS…AND WHY YOU'RE WRONG
- Kupchan, Charles, THE END OF THE AMERICAN ERA: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND GEOPOLITICS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
- Lappé, Frances Moore, DEMOCRACY'S EDGE, DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET
- Leonard, John, THESE UNITED STATES
- Lewis, Charles, THE BUYING OF THE PRESIDENT 2004: WHO'S REALLY BANKROLLING BUSH AND HIS DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGERSAND WHAT THEY EXPECT IN RETURN
- Mitchell, Greg and Robert J. Lifton, HIROSHIMA IN AMERICA: FIFTY YEARS OF DENIAL
- Nader, Ralph, THE GOOD FIGHT: DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE AND CLOSE THE DEMOCRACY GAP
- Power, Samantha, "A PROBLEM FROM HELL": AMERICA AND THE AGE OF GENOCIDE
- Powers, John, SORE WINNERS
- Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur, THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY
- Skocpol, Theda, DIMINISHED DEMOCRACY: FROM MEMBERSHIP TO MANAGEMENT IN AMERICAN CIVIL LIFE
- Udall, Stewart, THE FORGOTTEN FOUNDERS
- Whitman, Christine Todd, IT'S MY PARTY, TOO
- Zinn, Howard, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES: 1492-PRESENT
Art & Photography
- Berman, Nina, PURPLE HEARTS: BACK FROM IRAQ
- Glaser, Milton and Mirko Ilic, THE DESIGN OF DISSENT: SOCIALLY AND POLITICALLY DRIVEN GRAPHICS
- Gowin, Emmet, CHANGING THE EARTH
- Grinker, Lori, AND Diana Bletter, THE INVISIBLE THREAD
- Salgado, Sabastiao, THE END OF POLIO
- Sontag, Susan, ON PHOTOGRAPHY
Philosophy, Religion & Ethics
- Armstrong, Karen, A HISTORY OF GOD: THE 4,000-YEAR QUEST OF JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM, THE BATTLE FOR GOD
- Carroll, James, CONSTANTINE'S SWORD: THE CHURCH AND THE JEWS A HISTORY
- Carter, Jimmy, OUR ENDANGERED VALUES : AMERICA'S MORAL CRISIS
- Chittister, Sister Joan, CALLED TO QUESTION: A SPIRITUAL MEMOIR, SCARRED BY STRUGGLE; TRANSFORMED BY HOPE, WISDOM DISTILLED FROM THE DAILY
- Coffin, William Sloane, CREDO
- Esposito, John, UNHOLY WAR: TERROR IN THE NAME OF ISLAM, editor, OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD
- Gorenberg, Gershom, THE END OF DAYS: FUNDAMENTALISM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE TEMPLE MOUNT
- Kaminer, Wendy, FREE FOR ALL: DEFENDING LIBERTY IN AMERICA TODAY
- Manji, Irshad, THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM : A MUSLIM'S CALL FOR REFORM IN HER FAITH
- Neiman, Susan, EVIL IN MODERN THOUGHT : AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
- Pagels, Elaine, BEYOND BELIEF: THE SECRET GOSPEL OF THOMAS, THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS, ADAM, EVE, AND THE SERPENT, THE ORIGIN OF SATAN
- Kass, Leon, THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM: READING GENESIS
- Woodruff, Paul, REVERENCE: RENEWING A FORGOTTEN VIRTUE
Poetry
Literature & Fiction
- Allende, Isabel, THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
- Buckley, Christopher, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING
- Grossman, David, BE MY KNIFE
- Jong, Erica, SAPPHO'S LEAP, FEAR OF FLYING
- Kingsolver, Barbara, SMALL WONDER
- Kushner, Tony (Author), Sendak, Maurice, Michael di Capua, BRUNDIBAR
- Lessing, Doris, THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK, THE FIFTH CHILD
- Mosley, Walter, FEAR ITSELF
- Mukherjee, Bharati, DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS
- Restrepo, Laura, THE DARK BRIDE
- Roiphe, Katie, STILL SHE HAUNTS ME
- Roy, Arundhati, THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS
- Sendak, Maurice, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
- Shawn, Wallace, MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, THE FEVER, THE DESIGNATED MOURNER, AUNT DAN AND LEMON, FINAL EDITION
- Vonnegut, Kurt, A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, SLAUGHTERHOUSR-FIVE, PLAYER PIANO
- Walker, Alice, THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR, THE COLOR PURPLE
Sociology
- Adams, Michael Henry et al., HARLEM: LOST AND FOUND
- Blackwell, Angela Glover and Manuel Pastor, Jr., SEARCHING FOR THE UNCOMMON COMMON GROUND
- Esquith, Rafe, THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS: CHANGING THE WORLD ONE KID AT A TIME
- Lapham, Lewis, MONEY AND CLASS IN AMERICA: NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE CIVIL RELIGION
- Mitchell, Greg and Robert J. Lifton, WHO OWNS DEATH? CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, THE AMERICAN CONSCIENCE, AND THE END OF EXECUTIONS
- Moses, Robert and Charles E. Cobb, RADICAL EQUATIONS: MATH LITERACY AND CIVIL RIGHTS
- Roiphe, Katie, THE MORNING AFTER: SEX, FEAR AND FEMINISM
- Rovner, Julie, HEALTH CARE POLICY AND POLITICS A TO Z
- Sontag, Susan, REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS
- Wolfe, Alan, MORAL FREEDOM: THE SEARCH FOR VIRTUE IN A WORLD OF CHOICE
- Wolfe, Alan, ONE NATION, AFTER ALL: WHAT AMERICANS REALLY THINK ABOUT GOD, COUNTRY, FAMILY, RACISM, WELFARE, IMMIGRATION, HOMOSEXUALITY, WORK, THE RIGHT, THE LEFT AND EACH OTHER
- Wu, Frank, YELLOW: RACE IN AMERICA BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE
Terrorism & Life After September 11
- Barber, Benjamin, FEAR'S EMPIRE: WAR, TERRORISM AND DEMOCRACY, JIHAD VS. MCWORLD, HOW GLOBALISM AND TRIBALISM ARE RESHAPING THE WORLD
- Brill, Steven, AFTER: HOW AMERICA CONFRONTED THE SEPTEMBER 12 ERA
- Cole, David, ENEMY ALIENS
- Lapham, Lewis, THEATER OF WAR
- Levy, Bernard-Henri, WHO KILLED DANIEL PEARL?
- Mukherjee, Bharati, and Clark Blaise, THE SORROW AND THE TERROR: THE HAUNTING LEGACY OF THE AIR INDIA TRAGEDY
- Parenti, Christian, THE FREEDOM: SHADOWS AND HALLUCINATIONS IN OCCUPIED IRAQ
- Zinn, Howard, TERRORISM AND WAR
Economy
- Dobbs, Lou, EXPORTING AMERICA: WHY CORPORATE GREED IS SHIPPING AMERICAN JOBS OVERSEAS
- Ehrenreich, Barbara, NICKEL AND DIMED: ON (NOT) GETTING BY IN AMERICA
- Gates, William H. and Chuck Collins, WEALTH AND OUR COMMONWEALTH
- Johnston, David Cay, PERFECTLY LEGAL: THE COVERT CAMPAIGN TO RIG OUR TAX SYSTEM TO BENEFIT THE SUPER RICH - AND CHEAT EVERYBODY ELSE
- Kotlikoff, Laurence and Scott Burns, THE COMING GENERATIONAL STORM: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AMERICA'S ECONOMIC FUTURE
- Lewis, Charles, CHEATING OF AMERICA: HOW TAX AVOIDANCE AND EVASION BY THE SUPER RICH ARE COSTING THE COUNTRY BILLIONS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
- Madrick, Jeff, TAKING AMERICA, THE END OF AFFLUENCE, WHY ECONOMIES GROW: THE FORCES THAT SHAPE PROSPERITY, AND HOW WE CAN GET THEM WORKING AGAIN
- Parker, Richard, JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH: THE MAKING OF AMERICAN ECONOMICS
- Perkins, John, CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN
- Peterson, Pete, RUNNING ON EMPTY: HOW THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES ARE BANKRUPTING OUR FUTURE, AND WHAT AMERICANS CAN DO ABOUT IT
- Phillips, Kevin, WEALTH AND DEMOCRACY: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN RICH, THE POLITICS OF RICH AND POOR: WEALTH AND THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE IN THE REAGAN AFTERMATH
- Shlaes, Amity, THE GREEDY HAND: HOW TAXES DRIVE AMERICANS CRAZY AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
- Spotts, Greg, AMERICAN JOBS, CAFTA AND FREE TRADE: WHAT EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW
- Warren, Elizabeth and Amelia Warren Tyagi, THE TWO-INCOME TRAP: WHY MIDDLE-CLASS MOTHERS AND FATHERS ARE GOING BROKE
- Zweig, Michael, THE WORKING CLASS MAJORITY: AMERICA'S BEST-KEPT SECRET, editor, WHAT'S CLASS GOT TO DO WITH IT: AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Memoirs
- Allende, Isabel, MY INVENTED COUNTRY: A NOSTALGIC JOURNEY THROUGH CHILE, PAULA
- Carroll, James, AN AMERICAN REQUIEM: GOD, MY FATHER, AND THE WAR THAT CAME BETWEEN US
- Collins, Judy, SANITY & GRACE: A JOURNEY OF SUICIDE, SURVIVAL, AND STRENGTH
- Foote, Horton, FAREWELL: THE MEMOIR OF A TEXAS CHILDHOOD
- Garofalo, Janeane, FEEL THIS BOOK
- Gollob, Herman, ME AND SHAKESPEARE: ADVENTURES WITH THE BARD
- Harlan, Malvina Shanklin and Amelia Newcomb with a foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SOME MEMORIES OF A LONG LIFE, 1854-1911
- Hakakian, Roya, JOURNEY FROM THE LAND OF NO: A GIRLHOOD CAUGHT IN REVOLUTIONARY IRAN
- Hentoff, Nat, SPEAKING FREELY: A MEMOIR
- McCain, John, WORTH THE FIGHTING FOR: A MEMOIR
- Mosley, Walter, WHAT NEXT?
- Nafisi, Azar, READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN: A MEMOIR IN BOOKS
- Rodriguez, Richard, BROWN: THE LAST DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
- Thomas, Helen, THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, MR. PRESIDENT: WIT AND WISDOM FROM THE FRONT ROW AT THE WHITE HOUSE
- Zander, Benjamin, THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE
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