Arts/Culture
Peter Asher, The Beatles from A to Zed: An Alphabetical Mystery Tour.
James Barron, Piano: The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand.
Dick Cavett, Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks.
Dick Cavett, Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets.
Susan J. Douglas, The Rise of Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild.
Susan J. Douglas, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media.
Dave Itzkoff, Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies.
Dave Itzkoff, Robin.
John McWhorter, Words on the Move: Why English Won’t—and Can’t—Stand Still (Like, Literally).
Pamela Paul, ed., By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review.
Todd S. Purdum, Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television.
Todd S. Purdum, Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution.
Elaine Sciolino, Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum.
Richard F. Shepard, The Paper’s Papers: A Reporter’s Journey Through the Archives of The New York Times.
Sharon Waxman, Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World.