Playing for keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
Losing the ultimate winner- David Halberstam on the world of Michael Jordan, maybe the best and brightest ever to play the game , 1/31/99

Hall, Sir Peter
Bright lights, big cities
Historian Peter Hall writes of 15 urban places, and explores their pain,romance, and creativity , 12/13/98

Hassoun, Jacques
The Cruelty of Depression
Pining for the absent unknown, 1/18/98

Healy, Dermot
Angela's Ashes
A landscape of love, 3/15/98

Herrmann, Dorothy
Helen Keller: A Life
Second sight, 8/2/98

Hochschild, Adam
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
The monster who plundered the Congo, 9/16/98

Hoffman, Paul
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Genius and darkness, 7/5/98

Holbrook, Richard
To End a War
The art of the deal: Richard Holbrooke basks in the glory of his role in Bosnia's fragile peace, 6/14/98

Holcomb, Betty
Not Guilty
Working moms acquitted, 7/19/98

Holleran, Michael
Boston's 'Changeful Times'
In old Boston, preserving the even older, 8/2/98

Hyde, Lewis
Trickster Makes This World
The necessary joker, 1/18/98

Johnson, Barbara
The Feminist Difference
Feminism and Psycholoanalysis at odds, 5/17/98

Johnson, Paul
History of the American People
Whence the English Americans came, and what they wrought, 7/5/98

Jones, Jacqueline
American Work : Black and White Labor Since 1600
Division of Labor, 3/8/98

Jones, James H.
Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life
The 'moral tale' is often the furthest from the truth of life, 2/15/98

Kenan, Randall
Walking on water:Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Lifting every voice-From Martha's vineyard to the deep south, novelist randall kenan traveled america,looking and listening for the stories of african-americans, 2/14/99

Kershaw, Ian
Hitler:1889-1936: Hubris
The Master of Chaos- Ian Kershaw's new biography of Hitler,1/31/99

Kluger-Bell, Kim
Unspeakable Losses
The birth of pain, 4/26/98

Krauss, Rosalind
The Picasso Papers
The jilted Picasso wandering in theart wildreness, 2/15/98

Kurtz, Howard
Spin Cycle: How the White House and the Media Manipulate the News
In Washington, on spin patrol, 3/31/98

Kurzweil,Ray
The Age of Spiritual Machines:When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
The Machine of a new soul- Can `intelligent' machines ever be spiritual beings? High-tech prognosticator Ray Kurzweil thinks so, 12/27/98

Lahr, John
The King of Ring-a-Ding-Ding
Being perfectly Frank, 1/4/98

Landes, David
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Win some, lose some, 3/15/98

Lazarus, Edward
Closed Chambers
The end of the gag order, 4/19/98

Lehman, David
The Last Avant-Garde:The Making of the New York School of Poets.
The youth who became the new york school, 1/3/99

Lepore, Jill
The Name of War
Our first civil war, 3/1/98

Levy, Shawn
Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Showbiz Party
Of misspent youth, vituperation and other life's work, 5/24/98

Leyburn, James G.
The Scotch-Irish
Whence the English Americans came, and what they wrought, 7/5/98

Lincoln, Bruce
Between Heaven and Hell
The sacred and profane, 4/12/98

Litwack, Leon F.
Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
The freedom that wasn't: Leon F. Litwack documents the terror and misery of the Jim Crow system in the 'reconstructed' south, 4/26/98

Massing, Michael
The Fix
A report from both fronts in our `war on drugs',01/24/99

Mayer, Henry
All on Fire
The life of a crusader who would not retreat, 09/20/98

McDonald, Roger
Mr. Darwin's Shooter
In Darwin's Shadow - Imagining the life of the man who did the field work for `The Origin of Species, 1/24/99

McDougal, Jim
Arkansas Mischief
A bad ol' boy: President Clinton's former pal tells all. Is all or any of it true? That depends., 6/21/98

Middlebrook, Diane Wood
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
It's a man's world: Billy Tipton, Joe Carstairs -- women who decided to do things their way, 6/7/98

Miller, Susan J.
Never Let Me Down
Author faces ghosts of a horrid childhood, 2/9/98

Moeller, Susan D.
Compassion Fatigue:How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death
When disaster hits, how do -- and should -- the media respond?, 1/3/99

Moore, Thomas
The Soul of Sex
The region where the outer world meets inner desire, 7/5/98

Motion, Andrew
Keats
A man who had art, love, friends -- and bad luck, 2/8/98

Motley, Constance Baker
Equal Justice Under Law
Laying down the law of civil rights, 7/12/98

Murphy, Cullen
The Word According to Eve
The woman's Bible, 8/16/98

Naipaul, V.S.
Beyond Belief
The fundamentals of islam, 7/26/98

Nash Jr., John Forbes
A Beautiful Mind
Genius and darkness, 7/5/98

Naylor, Genevieve
The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor, 1940-1942
Fly down to Rio, 7/5/98

Neville-Sington, Pamela
Fanny Trollope:The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman
Womb of literature- Fanny Trollope, Anthony's mom, was a fecund author before her famous son, 12/27/98

O'Connor, Thomas H.
Civil War Boston
The turning point, 2/15/98

O'Donnell, Helen
A Common Good
RFK recalled, 30 years later, 5/31/98

Orlean, Susan
The Orchid Thief:A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
In Pursuit of a criminal and his breathtaking quarry, 01/10/99

Paley, Vivian Gussin
The Girl with the Brown Crayons
Of crayons, a teacher, and poultry, 8/2/98

Partridge, Elizabeth
Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange.
Two brilliant female artists, 2/21/99

Patrick, Diane
The New York Public Library Amazing African American History : A Book of Answers for Kids
Recalling the history of African-Americans, 1/18/98

Patten, Christopher
East and West: China, Power, and the Future of Asia
A blinkered but valuable view of Hong Kong, 10/13/98

Patterson, Orlando
Rituals of Blood:Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries
The traumas of bondage- Two books on the challenges to african-americans, in love, marriage, and the criminal justice system , 2/7/99

Pepper, William
Orders to Kill
Another case closed?, 4/5/98

Phillips, Kevin
The Cousins' Wars:Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America
The fruits of fratricide- Kevin Phillips writes that 3 civil wars assured. The rise of anglo-america and the democratic idea, 1/17/99

Pincus, Andrew L.
Tanglewood: The Clash Between Tradition and Change
An insider's solid look at Tanglewood rancor, 7/10/98

Pollack,Howard
Aaron Copland:The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man
The composer from Brooklyn , 3/7/99

Porter, Roy
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind
A healing history: In Roy Porter's hands, the progress of medical science is a vicid, cautionary tale, 5/17/98

Raban, Jonathan
Bad Lands
America the beautiful, the instructive, the arid, the malevolent, 1/4/98

Ravage, John W.
Black Pioneers
Home on the range, 2/8/98

Rayfield, Donald
Anton Chekhov : A Life
A novel Russian life, 3/29/98

Raymo, Chet
Skeptics and True Believers
Bridging the gulf between faith and empiricism, 5/24/98

Risen, James
Thomas, Judy L.
Wrath of Angels
The 25-year wait, 1/25/98

Robb, Graham
Victor Hugo
The ultimate romanitic, 3/8/98

Safranski, Rudiger
Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil
Great mind, dim idea, 5/3/98

Schiller, Lawrence
Perfect murder, Perfect Town:JonBenet and the City of Boulder
Beauty and a beast-- The baffling Jonbenet Ramsey killing: no answers yet, after more than 2 years , 3/7/99

Schor, Juliet B.
The Overspent American
Want not, want not: A revolutionary idea for Americans: if you don't really need it, don't buy it, 5/31/98

Schoener, Allon
New York: An Illustrated History of the People
Wonderful town, 4/26/98

Schrecker, Ellen
Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
Land of fear and loathing: Ellen Schrecker's account of the McCarthy era, America's longest-running period of repression, 6/7/98

Sebald, W.G.
The Rings of Saturn
A sojourn in English paths of glory, where human effort leads only to ruin, 8/23/98

Shacochis, Bob
The Immaculate Invasion
On the trail of the Americans sent to save Haiti, 2/14/99

Shaw, Fiona
Composing Myself
The birth of pain, 4/26/98

Shesgreen, Sean
Engravings by Hogarth
She love to visit the 18th century, but she wouldn't want to live in it, 2/1/98

Simon, Linda
Genuine Reality
A charming ambassador from the nation of James, 3/15/98

Snow, C. P.
The Two Cultures
The second law of thermodynamics and those who found it, 7/5/98

Sobel, Robert
Calvin Coolidge: An American Enigma
Whence the English Americans came, and what they wrought, 7/5/98

Solzhenitsyn,Aleksandr
November 1916
The Red Wheel: Knot II
Wheel of fate-The epic continues: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's great cycle of the russian revolution , 2/21/99

Staten, Vince
Do Pharmacists Sell Farms: A Trip Inside the Corner Drugstore
On certain sore topics, facts are reassuring -- or revolting, 7/12/98

Stegner, Wallace
Marking the Sparrow's Fall
The explainer of the West, 8/23/98

Suro, Roberto
Strangers Among Us
The promised land: Among America's diverse Latino immigrants, the second generation often faces as big a challenge as the first, 4/19/98

Tannen, Deborah
The Argument Culture
When opposites don't attract but only divide, 3/22/98

Taylor, Quintard
In Search of the Racial Frontier
Home on the range, 2/8/98

Tillyard, Stella
Citizen Lord : The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary
An officer and a revolutionary gentleman, 7/5/98

Thomas, D. M.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life
Doing it his way, 2/22/98

Tobias, Andrew
Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up
Two books assess the question of sexual 'difference': Is social assimilation a fact, or even a possibility?, 8/30/98

Tomalin, Claire
Jane Austen: A Life
She loves to visit the 18th century, but wouldn't want to live in it, 2/1/98

Traxel, David
1898: The Birth of the American Century
America's year of turmoil a century ago, 6/17/98

Tye, Larry
The Father of Spin
The long and influential life of the original spinmeister, 8/23/98

Tynan, Kenneth
Letters
Once a critic: Letters of Britain's Kenneth Tynan, a cheeky outside who longer to get in, 5/10/98

Uglow, Jenny
Hogarth: A Life and a World
She loves to visit the 18th century, but wouldn't want to live in it, 2/1/98

von Frank, Albert J.
The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston
The turning point, 2/15/98

Watts, Steven
The Magic Kingdom
Man of the mouse, 1/4/98

Waugh, Auberon
Will This Do?
Of misspent youth, vituperation and other life's work, 5/24/98

Weinstein, Allen & Vassiliev, Allen
The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America -- The Stalin Era
Spy vs. spy vs. spy-The story of Stalin's spies in America: both worse and better than was feared , 2/14/99

Wilber, Ken
Marriage of Sense and Soul
Bridging the gap between faith and empiricism, 5/24/98

Wilson, Douglas
Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln renewed, 2/1/98

Wilson, Edward
Consilience
Must all that rises converge, 3/29/98

Wilson, Frank
The Hand
The digital age, 7/19/98

Winter,Alison
Mesmerized:Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
You are getting very sleepy- Mind, animal magnetism, and the rise of science: a history of mesmerism in 19th-century britain, 12/20/98

Wynbrandt, James
The Excruciating History of Dentistry: Toothsome Tales and Oral Oddities from Babylon to Braces
On certain sore topics, facts are reassuring -- or revolting, 7/12/98