- Seattle Prohibition: Bootleggers, Rumrunners & Graft in the Queen City - Brad Holden
- Marvel Comics: The Untold Story - Sean Howe
- Latah County - Julie R. Monroe
- A Proper Drink - The Untold Story of How a Band of Bartenders Saved the Civilized Drinking World - Robert Simonson
- The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier - Elliot WestElmer Ogawa: After Hours with Seattle's Forgotten Photographer - Todd Matthews
- Stranger In Town: A Guide to Taverns in Oregon and Southwest Washington - Philip and Barbara Ree Thompson
- Seattle Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Police Payoff System in Seattle - Christopher Bayley
- Post Office - Charles Bukowski
- Once Upon a Time in Seattle - Emmett Watson
- The Guns at Last Light - The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 - Rick Atkinson
- The Barringtons: White Water Skippers of the North - Nancy Warren Ferrell
- One Hundred Years of the "Waterland" Community - A History of Des Moines, Washington - Ed. Richard T. Kennedy and Gretchen F.Schmidt
- Taverns West - An enjoyable look at the finest watering holes to be found along the West Coast - Michael H. Caldwell
- The Dry Years: Prohibition & Social Change in Washington - Norman H. Clark
- America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns, Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops - Christine Sismondo
- Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging - Gary L. Atkins
- Pioneer Square - Seattle's Oldest Neighborhood - ed. Mildred Tanner Andrews
- Gold Creeks and Ghost Towns of Northeastern Washington - N.L. Barlee
- A Billion Wicked Thoughts - What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships - Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam
- Scoundrels and Saloons: Whisky Wars of the Pacific Northwest, 1840-1917 - Rich Mole
- Fugitives and Regugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon - Chuck Palahniuk
- Coal Towns in the Cascades - John C. Shideler
- Boom Towns & Relic Hunters of Northeastern Washington - Jerry Smith
- Before Seattle Rocked: A City and its Music - Kurt E. Armbruster
- Calabash: A Guide to the History, Culture & Art of African Americans in Seattle and King County, Washington - Esther Hall Mumford
- McCall's Historic Shore Lodge - Darcy Williamson and Marlee Wilcomb
- Early Ballard - Julie D. Pheasant-Albright
- Among The Truthers: A Journey through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground - Jonathan Kay
- Early Seattle Profiles - Henry Broderick
- Doc Maynard - Bill Speidel
- Watering Holes of the Northwest - Michael Caldwell
- The Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge - Stephen Tow
- In the Garden of Beasts - Eric Larson (very good)
- Jackson Street After Hours - The Roots of Jazz in Seattle (very good)
- Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street - Michael Lewis(good)
- Losers - The Road to Everyplace but the White House - Michael Lewis (good)
- Heavier Than Heaven - A Biography of Kurt Cobain - Charles R. Cross (good)
- The Big Short - Michael Lewis (very good)
- Hedonists in pursuit of pleasure and happiness - a 1970 guide to Seattle bars and restaurants - Ed. Wm. L. Hailey
- Just Kids - Patti Smith
- 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior - Scott O. Lilienfeld et. al.
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime - John Heilemann, Mark Halperin (very good)
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Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (good)
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson (good)
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Kafka - Robert Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz
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Sarah from Alaska - Scott Conroy, Sushannah Walshe
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Storm of Steel - Ernst Junger (very good)
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Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy (very good)
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On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not - Robert A. Burton
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The Wine Trials - Robin Goldstein (excellent)
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (okay)
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Devil in the White City - Erik Larson (very good)
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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America - Steven Johnson (good)
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet - Neil deGrasse Tyson (good)
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) - Tom Vanderbilt (very good)
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The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 - Thomas Ricks (excellent)
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America - David Hajdu (good)
- The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati (very good)
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions -- Dan Ariely (excellent)
- Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris (okay)
- What Americans Really Believe - Rodney Stark (good)
- Chance - A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market & Just About Everything Else (very good)
- I am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter (okay)
- Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created The Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built and American Kingdom - John Gorenfeld (good)
- Worlds of Their Own: A Brief History of Misguided Ideas: Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair Robert J. Schadewald (good)
- Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture Daniel Radosh (very good)
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (okay)
- The Drunken Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow (excellent)
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama (very good)
- Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire - Matt Taibi (very good)
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomenon - Daniel Dennett (very good)
- The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki (very good)
- Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays - Frederick Crews (excellent)
- Blind Side - Michael Lewis (very good)
- What Is Intelligence? - James R. Flynn (good)
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (disappointing)
- A Tragic Legacy: How A Good VS Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency - Glenn Greenwald (a good summary, but little new info for people paying attention at the time)
- A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Imposter Poodles to Purple Numbers V.S. Ramachandran (very good)
- Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans - Garvey and Widmer
- Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What it Means to be Human - Ed. Susan Blackmore (excellent)
- Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us about Human Behavior - Nancy L. Segal (very good)
- Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong - Marc D. Hauser
- Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction - David Kuo (very good; should be read by every religious conservative)
- State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III - Bob Woodward (overrated, considerably inferior to Hubris or Fiasco)
- Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War - Michael Isikoff and David Corn (very good)
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq - Thomas E. Ricks (excellent)
- A World Without Time - The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein (good)
- Foundations of Vision (very good)