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Investigative books of 2010
IRE’s annual list of investigative books can be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet. More than 250 books published in 2010 made the list, which includes title, author and publisher. The annual list is compiled by Steve Weinberg.
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Year published |
| Abraham, Laurie | The Husbands and Wives Club | Touchstone | 2010 |
| Alter, Jonathan | The Promise: Obama, Year One | Simon & Schuster | 2010 |
| Amos, Deborah | Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile and Upheaval in the Middle East | Public Affairs | 2010 |
| Andrews, Colman | Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food | Gotham Books | 2010 |
| Armstrong, Ken, and Jonathan Martin | The Other Side of Mercy: A Killer’s Journey Across the American Divide | Dog Ear Publishing/Seattle Times | 2010 |
| Armstrong, Ken, and Nick Perry | Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity | University of Nebraska Press | 2010 |
| Bartiromo, Maria | The Weekend That Changed Wall Street | Portfolio | 2010 |
| Bechtel, Mark | He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back: The True Story of the Year the King, Jaws, Earnhardt and the Rest of the NASCAR’s Feudin’, Fightin’, Good Ol’ Boys Put Stock Car Racing on the Map | Little, Brown | 2010 |
| Beith, Malcolm | The Last Narco: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World’s Most Wanted Drug Lord | Grove Press | 2010 |
| Berman, Ari | Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2010 |
| Bianco, Anthony | The Big Lie: Spying, Scandal and Ethical Collapse at Hewlett-Packard | Public Affairs Press | 2010 |
| Biggers, Jeff | Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland | Nation Books | 2010 |
| Bissell, Tom | Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter | Pantheon | 2010 |
| Blanding, Michael | The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World’s Favorite Soft Drink | Avery | 2010 |
| Bloom, Jonathan | American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half Its Food and What We Can Do About It | Da Capo/Perseus | 2010 |
| Bowden, Charles | Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields | Nation Books | 2010 |
| Boyd, Gerald | My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times | Lawrence Hill | 2010 |
| Brady, Diane | The Fraternity | Spiegel & Grau | 2010 |
| Braidhill, Kathy | Beauty Killers | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Bryant, Howard | The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron | Pantheon | 2010 |
| Bryce, Robert | Power Hungry: The Myths of ‘Green’ Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future | Public Affairs Press | 2010 |
| Bunch, Will | Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama | Harper | 2010 |
| Callahan, Tom | His Father’s Son: Earl and Tiger Woods | Gotham | 2010 |
| Cambanis, Thanassis | A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah’s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel | Free Press | 2010 |
| Campbell, W. Joseph | Getting It Wrong: The Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism | University of California Press | 2010 |
| Capuzzo, Michael | The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World’s Most Perplexing Cold Cases | Gotham Books | 2010 |
| Carey, David, and John Morris | King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone | Crown Business | 2010 |
| Carr, Nicholas | The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains | Norton | 2010 |
| Carter, Bill | The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy | Viking | 2010 |
| Carter, Zoe Fitzgerald | Imperfect Endings: A Memoir | Simon & Schuster | 2010 |
| Casey, Susan | The Wave: Challenging the Furies of the Ocean | Doubleday | 2010 |
| Chafets, Zev | Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One | Sentinel | 2010 |
| Chivers, C J | The Gun: The AK-47 and the Evolution of War | Simon & Schuster | 2010 |
| Clemens, Paul | Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant | Doubleday | 2010 |
| Cohen, Jon | Almost Chimpanzee: Searching for What Makes Us Human in Rainforests, Labs, Sanctuaries and Zoos | Times Books | 2010 |
| Conover, Ted | The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today | Knopf | 2010 |
| Continetti, Matthew | The Persecution of Sarah Palin and the Liberal War Against Red America | Sentinel Books | 2010 |
| Critser, Greg | Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging | Harmony Books | 2010 |
| Curran, Eddie | The Governor of Goat Hill: Don Siegelman, the Reporter Who Exposed His Crimes, and the Hoax That Suckered Some of the Top Names in Journalism | iUniverse | 2010 |
| Davidson, Peter | Bones on the Beach | Berkley | 2010 |
| Demick, Barbara | Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea | Spiegel & Grau | 2010 |
| Dempsey, Candace | Murder in Italy | Berkley | 2010 |
| Denizet-Lewis, Benoit | American Voyeur: Dispatches From the Far Reaches of Modern Life | Simon & Schuster | 2010 |
| DePalma, Anthony | City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance and 9/11 | FT Press/Pearson | 2010 |
| Dillon, Patrick, and Carl Cannon | Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of America’s Most Feared and Loathed Lawyer | Broadway Books | 2010 |
| Doctor, Ken | Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Dohrmann, George | Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit and the Youth Basketball Machine | Ballantine | 2010 |
| Donaldson, Greg | Zebratown: The True Story of a Black Ex-Con and a White Single Mother in Small Town America | Scribner | 2010 |
| Douglas, Susan | Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism’s Work Is Done | Times Books/Holt | 2010 |
| Eichstaedt, Peter | Pirate State: Inside Somalia’s Terrorism at Sea | Lawrence Hill/Chicago Review | 2010 |
| Eisler, Kim | Masters of the Game: Inside the World’s Most Powerful Law Firm | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Elkind, Peter | Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer | Portfolio Books | 2010 |
| Ellison, Katherine | Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention | Voice/Hyperion | 2010 |
| Ellison, Sarah | War at the Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle to Control an American Business Empire | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2010 |
| Farrell, Greg | Crash of the Titans: How the Decline and Fall of Merrill Lynch Crippled Bank of America and Nearly Destroyed America’s Financial System | Crown Business | 2010 |
| Feldstein, Mark | Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson and the Rise of Media Scandal | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2010 |
| Finkbeiner, Ann | The Grand and Bold Thing: An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering in a New Era of Discovery | Free Press | 2010 |
| Fishkoff, Sue | Kosher Nation: How and Why America’s Going Kosher | Schocken | 2010 |
| Fishman, Ted C | Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World’s Population and How It Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival and Nation Against Nation | Scribner | 2010 |
| Fletcher, Martin | Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Flynn, Kevin, and Rebecca Lavoje | Our Little Secret | Berkley | 2010 |
| Frazier, Ian | Travels in Siberia | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2010 |
| Frederick, Jim | Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Disintegration in the Triangle of Death and the American Ordeal in Iraq | Harmony Books | 2010 |
| Freedman, David H | Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us, and How to Know When Not to Trust Them | Little, Brown | 2010 |
| French, Thomas | Zoo Story: Life and Death in the Garden of Captives | Hyperion | 2010 |
| Gasparino, Charles | Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Obama and Wall Street | Portfolio | 2010 |
| Glatt, John | Playing With Fire | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Goodell, Jeff | How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2010 |
| Goodman, Fred | Fortune’s Fool: Edgar Bronfman Jr., Warner Music and an Industry in Crisis | Simon & Schuster | 2010 |
| Gorant, Jim | The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick’s Pit Bulls and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption | Gotham | 2010 |
| Grann, David | The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession | Doubleday | 2010 |
| Gray, Geoffrey | Skyjack: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper | Crown | 2010 |
| Green, Jonathan | Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape From Tibet | PublicAffairs | 2010 |
| Greenberg, Paul | Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food | Penguin Press | 2010 |
| Griswold, Eliza | The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2010 |
| Hallman, J.C. | In Utopia: Six Kinds of Eden and the Search for a Better Paradise | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Harris, Shane | The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State | Penguin Press | 2010 |
| Hedges, Chris | Death of the Liberal Class | Nation Books | 2010 |
| Heilemann, John, and Mark Halperin | Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime | Harper | 2010 |
| Helling, Steve | Tiger: The Real Story | Da Capo | 2010 |
| Hellwarth, Ben | Sealab | Simon & Schuster | 2010 |
| Helvarg, David | Saved by the Sea: A Love Story With Fish | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Hendricks, Steve | A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial | Little, Brown | 2010 |
| Hendricks, Tyche | The Wind Doesn’t Need a Passport: Stories From the U.S,.-Mexican Borderlands | University of California Press | 2010 |
| Hersh, Burton | Edward Kennedy | Counterpoint | 2010 |
| Higham, Scott, and Horwitz, Sari | Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery | Scribner | 2010 |
| Hodge, Roger D | The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism | HarperCollins | 2010 |
| Holland, Josh | The Fifteen Biggest Lies About the Economy and Everything Else the Right Doesn’t Want You to Know About Taxes, Jobs and Corporate America | Alternet Books | 2010 |
| Holtz, Andrew | The Real Grey’s Anatomy: A Behind-the-Scences Look at the Real Lives of Surgical Residents | Berkley Boulevard | 2010 |
| Howard, David | Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2010 |
| Hudson, Michael W | The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America—and Spawned a Global Crisis | Times Books | 2010 |
| Huffington, Arianna | Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream | Crown | 2010 |
| Ingrassia, Paul | Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road From Glory to Ruin | Random House | 2010 |
| Johnson, Ben | Money Talks, BullshitWalks: Inside the Contrarian Mind of Billionaire Mogul Sam Zell | Penguin Press | 2010 |
| Johnson, Ian | A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2010 |
| Johnson, Tim | Tragedy in Crimson: How the Dalai Lama Conquered the Globe But Lost the Battle With China | Nation Books | 2010 |
| Jones, Ann | War Is Not Over When It’s Over | Metropolitan Books | 2010 |
| Junger, Sebastian | War | Twelve | 2010 |
| Kamenetz, Anya | DIY U: Edupunks, Entrepreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education | Chelsea Green | 2010 |
| Kaplan, Robert D | Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power | Random House | 2010 |
| Kaplan, Sheila | From the People Who Brought You Cancer: How Environmental Toxins Are Poisoning Our Brains, and Why the Government Won’t Protect Us | Nation Books | 2010 |
| Kaye, Jeffrey | Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration | Wiley | 2010 |
| Kelley, Kitty | Oprah | Crown | 2010 |
| Kelly, Kevin | What Technology Wants | Viking | 2010 |
| Kennedy, Kelly | They Fought for Each Other: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Kessler, Lauren | My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, a Daughter, a Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence | Viking | 2010 |
| Kiernan, Stephen P | Authentic Patriotism: Restoring America’s Founding Ideals Through Progressive Action | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Kindred, Dave | Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post—the Fight to Keep a Great Newspaper Alive | Doubleday | 2010 |
| Kinzer, Stephen | Reset: Iran, Turkey and America’s Future | Times Books/Holt | 2010 |
| Kipnis, Laura | How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior | Metropolitan/Holt | 2010 |
| Kirkpatrick, David | The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World | Simon & Schuster | 2010 |
| Klein, Aaron, with Brenda J. Elliott | The Manchurian President | WND Books | 2010 |
| Koch, Kathleen | Rising From Katrina | John F. Blair | 2010 |
| Koller, Frank | Spark: How Old-Fashioned Values Drive a Twenty-First Century Corporation | Public Affairs | 2010 |
| Kornblut, Anne | What Will It Take?: America’s Hang-up With a Woman President | Crown Books | 2010 |
| Kotkin, Joel | The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 | Penguin Press | 2010 |
| Kovach, Bill, and Tom Rosenstiel | Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload | Bloomsbury | 2010 |
| Kupelian, David | How Evil Works: Understanding and Overcoming the Destructive Forces That Are Transforming America | Threshold Editions | 2010 |
| Kurlansky, Mark | The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris | Riverhead Books | 2010 |
| Kuttner, Robert | A Presidency in Peril: The Inside Story of Obama’s Promise, Wall Street’s Power and the Struggle for Control of Our Economic Future | Chelsea Green | 2010 |
| Labash, Matt | Fly Fishing With Darth Vader and Other Adventures With Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen and Jewish Cowboys | Simon & Schuster | 2010 |
| Lamb, Amanda | Evil Next Door | Berkley | 2010 |
| Lambert, Emily | The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World’s Biggest Markets | Basic Books | 2010 |
| Lane, Randall | The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane | Portfolio | 2010 |
| LaPorte, Nicole | The Men Who Would Be Great: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies and a Company Called Dream Works | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2010 |
| Lee, Euna, and Lisa Dickey | The World Is Bigger Now: An American Journalist’s Rescue From Captivity in North Korea | Broadway Books | 2010 |
| Lieber, Dave | Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong | Yankee Cowboy Publishing | 2010 |
| Lovenheim, Peter | In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time | Perigree | 2010 |
| Lowenstein, Roger | The End of Wall Street | Penguin Press | 2010 |
| MacIntosh, Julie | Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon | Wiley | 2010 |
| Madden, Bill | Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball | Harper | 2010 |
| Majd, Hooman | The Ayatollahs’ Democracy: An Iranian Challenge | Norton | 2010 |
| Mallaby, Sebastian | More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite | Penguin Press | 2010 |
| Maraniss, David | The Sweet Long Days: A Writer’s Journey | Simon & Schuster | 2010 |
| McCain, Cilla | Murder in Baker Company: How Four American Soldiers Killed One of Their Own | Chicago Review | 2010 |
| McChesney, Robert W.,, John Nichols | The Death and Life of American Journalism | Nation Books | 2010 |
| McClelland, Edward | Young Mr. Obama: Cyhicago and the Making of a Black President | Blloomsbury | 2010 |
| McDermott, Terry | 101 Theory Drive: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for Memory | Pantheon | 2010 |
| McElheny, Victor K | Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project | Basic Books | 2010 |
| McGee, Suzanne | Chasing Goldman Sachs: How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down | Crown Business | 2010 |
| McKenna, Maryn | Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA | Free Press | 2010 |
| McKibben, Bill | Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet | Times Books | 2010 |
| McLean, Bethany, and Joe Nocera | All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis | Portfolio | 2010 |
| McMurray, Kevin F | One Dark Night | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| McPhee, Michele R | A Date With Death | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Michaels, Jim | A Chance in Hell: The Men Who Triumphed Over Iraq’s Deadliest City and Turned the Tide of War | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Milbank, Dana | Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America | Doubleday | 2010 |
| Milgrom, Melissa | Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2010 |
| Miller, Peter | The Smart Swarm | Avery | 2010 |
| Montaigne, Fen | Fraser’s Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica | Holt | 2010 |
| Moore, Natalie Y, Natalie Hopkinson | The Almighty Black P. Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang | Lawrence Hill/Chicago Review | 2010 |
| Morrison, Dan | The Black Nile: One Man’s Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World’s Longest River | Viking | 2010 |
| Morrisroe, Patricia | Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia | Spiegel & Grau | 2010 |
| Nadeau, Barbie Latza | Angel Face: The True Story of Student Killer Amanda Knox | Beast Books | 2010 |
| Norris, Michele | The Grace of Silence: A Memoir | Pantheon | 2010 |
| O’Meara, Alex | Chasing Medical Miracles: The Promise and Perils of Clinical Trials | Walker | 2010 |
| Otis, John | Law of the Jungle: The Hunt for Colombian Guerrillas, American Hostages and Buried Treasure | Morrow | 2010 |
| Pappano, Laura | Inside School Turnarounds: Urgent Hopes, Unfolding Stories | Harvard Education | 2010 |
| Park, John | The Last Farmer: How One Man Took on Monsanto to Save the Future of Food | Da Capo | 2010 |
| Parker-Pope, Tara | For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage | Dutton | 2010 |
| Pasternak, Judy | Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed | Free Press | 2010 |
| Patterson, Scott | The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It | Crown Business | 2010 |
| Pearce, Fred | The Coming Population Crash and Our Planet’s Surprising Future | Beacon | 2010 |
| Pendergrast, Mark | Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2010 |
| Perry, Mark | Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage With Its Enemies | Basic Books | 2010 |
| Peterson, Scott | Let the Swords Encircle Me: Iran—a Journey Behind the Headlines | Simon & Schuster | 2010 |
| Phillips, David | Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home | Palgrave Macmillan | 2010 |
| Polman, Linda | The Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong With Humanitarian Aid? | Metropolitan Books | 2010 |
| Pooley, Eric | Climate Wars: True Believers, Power Brokers and the Fight to Save the Earth | Hyperion | 2010 |
| Pope, Hugh | Dining With Al-Qaeda: Three Decades Exploring the Many World of the Middle East | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Porter, Eduardo | The Price of Everything and the Hidden Logic of Value | Portfolio | 2010 |
| Poundstone, William | Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value and How to Take Advantage of It | Hill and Wang | 2010 |
| Prakash, Snigdha | All the Justice Money Can Buy: How a Modern-Day David Brought a Big-Pharma Goliath to Its Knees in the Battle Over Vioxx | Kaplan | 2010 |
| Press, Bill | Toxic Talk: How the Radical Rigth Has Poisoned America’s Airwaves | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Prud’homme, Alex | Clean, Clear and Cold: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century | Scribner | 2010 |
| Rapkin, Mickey | Theater Geek: The Real Life Drama of a Summer at Stagedoor Manor, the Famous Performing Arts Camp | Free Press | 2010 |
| Reavis, Dick J | Catching Out: Life in a Day Labor Hall | Simon & Schuster | 2010 |
| Reel, Monte | The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon | Scribner | 2010 |
| Remnick, David | The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama | Knopf | 2010 |
| Rhodes, Richard | The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons | Knopf | 2010 |
| Richards, Sarah Elizabeth | Motherhood, Rescheduled: Five Women, Five Quests to Stop the Biological Clock | Simon & Schuster | 2010 |
| Rivlin, Gary | Broke USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty Inc | Harper Business | 2010 |
| Roach, Mary | Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void | Norton | 2010 |
| Robinson, Eugene | Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America | Doubleday | 2010 |
| Rogers, Heather | Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution | Scribner | 2010 |
| Rohde, David, and Kristen Mulvihill | A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping From Two Sides | Viking | 2010 |
| Rohter, Larry | Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed | Palgrave Macmillan | 2010 |
| Rosen, Nir | Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim World | Nation Books | 2010 |
| Rosenbaum, Ron | World War III: How the End Begins | Simon & Schuster | 2010 |
| Rudacille, Deborah | Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town | Pantheon | 2010 |
| Salisbury, Stephan | Mohamed’s Ghosts: A Story of Love and Fear in the Homeland | Nation Books | 2010 |
| Samuel, Terence | The Upper House: A Journey Behind the Closed Doors of the U.S. Senate | Palgrave | 2010 |
| Schanberg, Sydney | Beyond the Killing Fields: War Writings | Potomac Books | 2010 |
| Scheer, Robert | The Great American Stick-up | Nation Books | 2010 |
| Schlesinger, Henry | The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution | HarperCollins/Smithsonian | 2010 |
| Schrag, Peter | Not Fit for Our Society: Immigration and Nativism in America | University of California Press | 2010 |
| Schultz, Ed | Killer Politics: How Big Money and Bad Politics Are Destroying the Great American Middle Class | Hyperion | 2010 |
| Schulz, Kathryn | Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error | Harper/Ecco | 2010 |
| Schweizer, Rochelle | She’s the Boss: The Disturbing Truth About Nancy Pelosi | Sentinel | 2010 |
| Seife, Charles | Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception | Viking | 2010 |
| Shah, Sonia | The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2010 |
| Sharlet, Jeff | C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy | Little, Brown | 2010 |
| Sharpsteen, Bill | Dirty Water: One Man’s Fight to Clean Up One of the World’s Most Polluted Bays | University of California Press | 2010 |
| Shenk, David | The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Genetics, Talent and IQ Is Wrong | Doubleday | 2010 |
| Skloot, Rebecca | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Crown Books | 2010 |
| Smith, Carlton | In the Arms of Evil | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Smith, Lee | The Strong Horse: Power, Politics and the Clash of Nations | Doubleday | 2010 |
| Smith, Randall | The Prince of Silicon Valley: Frank Quattrone and the Dot-Com Bubble | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Smucker, Philip | My Brother, My Enemy: America and the Battle of Ideas Across the Islamic World | Prometheus | 2010 |
| Stack, Megan K | Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War | Doubleday | 2010 |
| Steil, Jennifer | The Woman Who Fell From the Sky: An American Journalist in Yemen | Broadway Books | 2010 |
| Stipp, David | The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution | Portfolio | 2010 |
| Strauch, Barbara | The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind | Viking | 2010 |
| Strickland, Bill | Tour de Lance: The Extraordinary Story of Lance Armstrong’s Fight to Reclaim the Tour de France | Harmony | 2010 |
| Sullivan, Paul | Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don’t | Penguin/Portfolio | 2010 |
| Sullivan, Randall | Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson | Atlantic Monthly Press | 2010 |
| Syman, Stefanie | The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2010 |
| Tabor, James | Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth | Random House | 2010 |
| Taibbi, Matt | Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids and the Long Con That Is Breaking America | Spiegel & Grau | 2010 |
| Taylor, Alex III | Sixty to Zero: An Intimate, Inside Look at the People and Cars That Led to GM’s collapse | Yale University Press | 2010 |
| Thernstrom, Melanie | The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Remedies, Spells, Prayers, Myths, Misconceptions, Brain Scans and the Science of Suffering | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2010 |
| Thompson, Gabriel | Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won’t Do | Nation Books | 2010 |
| Traister, Rebecca | Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women | Free Press | 2010 |
| Valby, Karen | Welcome to Utopia: Notes From a Small Town | Spiegel & Grau | 2010 |
| Van Dyk, Jere | Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban | Times Books/Holt | 2010 |
| Vedantam, Shankar | The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets,Wage Wars and Save Our Lives | Spiegel & Grau | 2010 |
| Vincent, Isabel | Gilded Lily: Lily Safra, the Making of One of the World’s Wealthiest Widows | Harper | 2010 |
| Vulliamy, Ed | Amexica: Along the Borderline | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2010 |
| Ward, Vicky | The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High-Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers | Wiley | 2010 |
| Warner, Judith | We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication | Riverhead Books | 2010 |
| Webb, Gary, edited by Eric Webb | The Killing Game: The Writings of an Intrepid Investigative Reporter | Seven Stories Press | 2010 |
| Weiner, Eric | The Shadow Market: How Sovereign Wealth Funds and Rogue Nations Threaten America’s Financial Future | Scribner | 2010 |
| Weiner, Jay | This Is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount | University of Minnesota Press | 2010 |
| Weiner, Jonathan | Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality | Ecco | 2010 |
| Weinreb, Michael | Bigger Than the Game: Bo, Boz, the Punky QB and How the ‘80s Created the Modern Athlete | Gotham | 2010 |
| Weintraub, Arlene | Selling the Fountain of Youth: How the Anti-Aging Industry Made a Disease Out of Getting Old, and Made Billions | Basic Books | 2010 |
| Welch, Craig | Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers and the Hunt for Nature’s Bounty | Morrow | 2010 |
| Wetzel, Dan, Josh Peter, Jeff Passan | Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series | Gotham | 2010 |
| Wexler, Sarah Z | Living Large: From SUVs to Double Ds, Why Getting Bigger Isn’t Going Better | St. Martin’s | 2010 |
| Whitaker, Robert | Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America | Crown Books | 2010 |
| Whittle, Richard | The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey | Simon & Schuster | 2010 |
| Whitty, Julia | Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2010 |
| Wildavsky, Ben | The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World | Princeton University Press | 2010 |
| Wilkie, Curtis | The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Powerful Trial Lawyer | Harmony | 2010 |
| Witcover, Jules | Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption | Morrow | 2010 |
| Wojnarowski, Adrian | Jimmy V: The Life and Death of Jim Valvano | Gotham | 2010 |
| Woodward, Bob | Obama’s Wars | Simon & Schister | 2010 |
| Young, Michael | The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: A Memoir of Lebanon Lost and Found | Scribner | 2010 |
| Zaitchik, Alexander | Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance | Wiley | 2010 |
| Zernike, Kate | Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America | Times Books | 2010 |
| Zirin, Dave | Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love | Scribner | 2010 |
| Zitz, Michael | Giving It All Away: The Doris Buffett Story | Permanent Press | 2010 |
| Zuckerman, Gregory | The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Scenario of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History | Broadway Business | 2010 |