A survey of interesting titles, must-reads and best sellers from Subterranean Books, University’s City’s only neighborhood bookstore. ArguablyBy Christopher HitchensThe recently departed Hitchens never held back from controversy in speaking his mind. His pen was often times a glib instrument of anger, rage, irony and common sense. Yet as he observed the world around him, Hitchens never held back. He often was sensible and infuriating, intense but carefree. His range of topics covered history, popular culture, politics and the literary world. Whatever caught his fancy was subject to close …

A survey of interesting titles, must-reads and best-sellers from Subterranean Books, University’s City’s only neighborhood bookstore.   Steve Jobs by Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson has penned award-winning biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin. Steve Jobs founded Apple and changed how our culture interacts with society. Jobs asked Isaacson to write his biography. A reluctant Isaacson eventually came around and penned this provocative look at a contemporary pioneer who stands next to Thomas Edison and Henry Ford in creating revolutionary things for everyday people. As Isaacson …

A survey of interesting titles, must reads and best sellers from Subterranean Books, University’s City’s only neighborhood bookstore. Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper By Geoffrey Gray One of America’s most interesting unsolved cases is back in the spotlight thanks to Geoffrey Gray’s carefully researched read. Gray’s work of nonfiction is so enjoyable because it reads like a contemporary spy thriller. D.B. Cooper literally vanished from thin air in 1971 after jumping out of a hijacked plane with $200,000. Since parachuting from that plane he has not been seen or heard from again, setting into…

A survey of interesting titles, must reads and best sellers from Subterranean Books, University’s City’s only neighborhood bookstore.   Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base-Annie Jacobsen Area 51 remains one of the most fascinating and perplexing phenomena of the last six decades. Ever since the Roswell incident of 1947, Area 51 has become both a mysterious and isolated military complex of the utmost secrecy and scrutiny and the birthplace of modern UFO conspiracy culture. Its very name conjures up images of little green men, armed soldiers and shadowy …

A survey of interesting titles, must reads and best sellers from Subterranean Books, University’s City’s only neighborhood bookstore.    The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn By Nathaniel Philbrick The Battle of The Little Big Horn has become the stuff of legend in the collective American psyche, yet few people actually know the intricate details involved in the battle. Thankfully, award-winning scholar Nathaniel Philbrick fills in the gaps in this stunningly fast paced and brutal account of Custer’s worst day. As Philbrick notes, the battle didn’t just …

A survey of interesting titles, must reads and best sellers from Subterranean Books, University’s City’s only neighborhood bookstore.   The Greater Journey-David McCullough Pulitzer winner David McCullough examines the creative flux of Americans who worked, visited and studied in Paris between 1830 and 1900. Amongst those who were allured by the City of Lights was Samuel Morse, Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mary Cassatt and Harriet Beecher Stowe. McCullough examines how Parisian society influenced American writers, artists, doctors and intellectuals of the period, …

A survey of interesting titles, must reads and best sellers from Subterranean Books, University’s City’s only neighborhood bookstore.  Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention by Manning Marable Marable’s biography of Malcolm X may be the most controversial read of the spring book season. While this book has shed new light on the life and legacy of Malcolm X, it also casts doubts on almost every part of his life. This, of course, does not sit well with his family, who is upset with how Marable, who died just three days before the book hit bookshelves, depicts Malcolm. Marable spent the large part of …

A survey of interesting titles, must reads and best sellers from Subterranean Books, University’s City’s only neighborhood bookstore.  The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement - David Brooks: In The Social Animal, David Brooks has written a user-friendly practical guide to forming bonds and relationships and dressed it up with all the trimmings of modern fiction. Combining the attributes of a novel with modern science and sociology, Brooks takes us through a journey of unconscious mind and how it affects our lives from how we sleep, live and eat to how we love…

A survey of interesting titles, must reads and best sellers from Subterranean Books, University’s City’s only neighborhood bookstore.  A Widow's Story-Joyce Carol Oates: This is a riveting memoir from one of today's most treasured writers. As the title suggests the story's theme is pretty dark and Oates spares no detail in discussing the anguish, sadness and utter ruin of life without her husband who passed away suddenly in 2008. Readers follow her as she recounts her story of dealing with survival, grief and loneliness. She tackles these issues head on with humor and grace and details her …