A World Made of Blood

Great writers. Great stories. Readable in a single sitting.

Nonfiction

Finding the Devil by William Langewiesche

Falling by Alexandra Fuller

15 Gothic Street, Episode Two: The Human Circus by Joe McGinniss

The Living and the Dead by Brian Mockenhaupt

Rough Beasts by Charles Siebert

Between Heaven and Hell by Bob Shacochis

43* by Jeff Greenfield

Mob Fest ’29 by Bill Tonelli

15 Gothic Street, Episode One: Primitives by Joe McGinniss

The Fire Horse by Elizabeth Mitchell

All My Love, Samples Later by Craig Vetter

How to Get Away with Murder in America by Evan Wright

The Ghost by Paige Williams

After Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger

Farthest North by Todd Balf

Lifeboat No. 8 by Elizabeth Kaye

Sober Is My New Drunk by Paul Carr

One Way Forward by Lawrence Lessig

Death Comes to Happy Valley by Jonathan Mahler

The Secret World of Saints by Bill Donahue

A Killing in Iowa by Rachel Corbett

Joan by Sara Davidson

Lady with a Past by Elizabeth Mitchell

Sleeping with Famous Men by Elizabeth Kaye

The Cartel by Taylor Branch

The Getaway Car by Ann Patchett

Cooking Solves Everything by Mark Bittman

The Fearless Mrs. Goodwin by Elizabeth Mitchell

The Baby Chase by Holly Finn

Planet Killers by Tad Friend

I Hope Like Heck by Michael Solomon

And the War Came by Jamie Malanowski

Into the Forbidden Zone by William T. Vollmann

Three Cups of Deceit by Jon Krakauer

Fiction

Genie by Richard Powers

Shakedown by James Ellroy

Positron, Episode Two: Choke Collar by Margaret Atwood

An Arrangement of Light by Nicole Krauss

The Boy Vanishes by Jennifer Haigh

Everyone’s Reading Bastard by Nick Hornby

Don’t Eat Cat by Jess Walter

Positron, Episode One: I’m Starved for You by Margaret Atwood

Rules for Virgins by Amy Tan