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Have you forgotten that author or book you heard on Whad'Ya Know? and it's driving you crazy? Find it here:
| Date Aired on Whad'Ya Know? | Author | Book |
| May 10, 2008 | Judy Davids | |
| May 3, 2008 | George Johnson |
 The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments |
| April 19, 2008 | Pope Brock |
 Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam |
| April 12, 2008 | Michael Pollan |
 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals |
| March 29, 2008 | Dan Kennedy |
 Rock On: An Office Power Ballad |
| March 8, 2008 | John Mitchinson |
 The Book of General Ignorance |
| March 1, 2008 | Max Apple |
The
Jew of Home Depot |
| February 23, 2008 | Michael Gates Gill |
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| January 26, 2008 | Matthew Diffee |
 The Rejection Collection Number Two: The Cream of the Crap |
| December 15, 2007 | Amy Sedaris |
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| December 8, 2007 | Alan Alda |
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| December 1, 2007 | Jessica Dorfman Jones |
The Art of Cheating: A Nasty Little Book for th Tricky Little Schemers and Their Hapless Victims |
| November 10, 2007 | A.J. Jacobs |
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| October 6, 2007 | Steven Pinker |
The Stuff of Thougth: Language as a Window into Human Nature |
| September 8, 2007 | Michael Erard |
Um........ Slips, Stumbles and Verbal Blunders and What They Mean |
| July 28, 2007 | Bill Geist |
Way off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America |
| July 21, 2007 | Ian Jackman |
1001 Things to Eat Before You Diet |
| July 14, 2007 | David Steinberg |
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| June 30, 2007 | Natalie Angier |
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science |
| May 19, 2007 | Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein |
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy through Jokes |
| May 12, 2007 | Michael Chabon |
The Yiddish Policemen's Union |
| April 21, 2007 | David Shipley |
Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home |
| March 3, 2007 | Calvin Trillin |
 About Alice |
| February 24, 2007 | Matthew Polly |
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| February 3, 2007 | David Rees |
Get Your War On |
| January 27, 2007 | Harry Shearer |
Not Enough Indians |
| January 6, 2007 | Roger Osborne |
 Civilization: A New History of the WesternWorld |
| December 16, 2006 | Michael Perry |
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| December 2, 2006 | Thomas Friedman |
 The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century |
| November 11, 2006 | David Greenberg |
 Presidential Doodles |
| September 30, 2006 | Frank Rich |
 The Greatest Story Ever Sold : The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina |
| September 9, 2006 | David Frew |
Midnight Herring |
| August 5, 2006 | Robert Sullivan |
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| July 29, 2006 | T.C. Boyle |
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| July 22, 2006 | Calvin Trillin |
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| June 24, 2006 | Tom Lutz |
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| June 17, 2006 | W. Hodding Carter |
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| May 13, 2006 | Eric Hansen |
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| April 29, 2006 | Michael Pollan |
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| April 8, 2006 | John Grogan | |
| March 4, 2006 | Bernard Henri-Levey | |
| February 18, 2006 | Joe Ellis |
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| January 28, 2006 | Kevin O'Keefe |
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| January 14, 2006 | Tom D'Antoni |
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| December 10, 2005 | Alan Alda |
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| December 3, 2005 | Richard Porter |
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| November 12, 2005 | Ken Salwey |
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| October 29, 2005 | Ron Powers |
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| October 15, 2005 | Susan Neville | Fabrication |
| October 1, 2005 | Studs Terkel | And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey |
| August 6, 2005 | Stephen Dubner | Freakonomics |
| July 30, 2005 | Chuck Klosterman | Killing Yourself To Live: 85% of a True Story |
| June 25, 2005 | Janet Evanovich | Eleven on Top |
| June 25, 2005 | Mark Mappen | Encyclopedia of New Jersey |
| June 18, 2005 | A. Roger Ekirch | At Days Close: Night in Times Past |
| May 21, 2005 | Michael Perry | Off Main Street |
| May 14, 2005 | Tom Hodgkinson | How to Be Idle |
| April 16, 2005 | Meg Wolitzer | The Position |
| March 12, 2005 | David Bodanis | Electric Universe: Shocking True Story of Electricity |
| January 15, 2005 | Harvey Pekar | My Movie Year |
| December 11, 2004 | Penn Jillette | Sock |
| December 4, 2004 | Daniel Handler | Lemony Snicket (several titles in the series) |
| November 13, 2004 | Joe Queenan | Queenan Country |
| October 23, 2004 | Michael Feldman | Something I Said: Innuendo and Out the Other |
| September 11, 2004 | Bryan Sykes | Adam's Curse |
| August 14, 2004 | John Gurda | The Making of Milwaukee |
| July 24, 2004 | Dan Hill | Body of Truth |
| July 10, 2004 | Larry Brown | Coyotes and Canaries |
| June 12, 2004 | Harvey Molotch | Where Stuff Comes from: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other Things Come to Be as They Are |
| June 5, 2004 | Calvin Trillin | Obliviously on He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme |
| May 8, 2004 | Tom Tomorrow | The Great Big Book of Tomorrow: A Treasury of Cartoons |
| May 1, 2004 | Lynne Truss | Eats, Shoots & Leaves, A Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation |
| April 24, 2004 | Mark Jacobson | 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time, A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe |
| March 20, 2004 | David Sacks | Language Visible |
| February 21, 2004 | Sam Kashner | When I Was Cool: My Life At The Jack Kerouac School |
| February 7, 2004 | Thomas Cahill | Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter |
| January 6, 2004 | James Carville | Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back |
| December 6, 2003 | Studs Terkel | Hope Dies Last |
| November 22, 2003 | David Maraniss | They Marched in the Sunlight: War and Peace in Vietnam and America, October 1967 |
| September 27, 2003 | Harvey Pekar | American Splendor |
| September 20, 2003 | Al Franken | Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them...A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right |
| August 9, 2003 | Joel Siegel | Lessons For Dylan |
| June 14, 2003 | Joe Queenan | True Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans |
| May 31, 2003 | Calvin Trillin | Feeding a Yen: Local Specialties from Kansas City to Cuzco |
| May 10, 2003 | Louis Sachar | Holes
and Stanley Yelnats's Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake |
| April 26, 2003 | Ben Sidran | Ben Sidran: A Life In The Music |
| April 19, 2003 | John D. Spalding | A Pilgrim's Digress:My Perilous, Fumbling Quest for the Celestial City |
| April 12, 2003 | Stanley Coren | The Pawprints of History: Dogs and the Course of Human Events |
| April 5, 2003 | Gary Gladstone | Passing Gas:And Other Towns Along the American Highway |
| April 5, 2003 | Wayne Slater & James Moore |
Bush's Brain:How
Karl Rove Made |
| March 15, 2003 | Greg Critser | Fat Land: How Americans Became The Fattest People in the World. |
| February 15, 2003 | David Frum | The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush |
| February 1, 2003 | Sophia Dembling | Yankee Chick's Survival Guide to Texas |
| January 25, 2003 | John Freyer | All My Life For Sale |
| January 18, 2003 | Susan Orlean | The Orchid Thief |
| December 7, 2002 | Michael Perry | |
| November 23, 2002 | Davy Rothbart | Found Magazine |
| November 16, 2002 | Anne Lamott | Blue Shoe |
| August 10, 2002 | Stephen Fry | Revenge |
| July 27, 2002 | Erin Ergenbright and Thisbe Nissen | The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook |
| July 13, 2002 | Jayni Carey | The Kansas Cookbook |
| July 13, 2002 | Rex Buchanan | Roadside Kansas: A Traveler's Guide to Geology and Landmarks |
| July 6, 2002 | Frank Conroy | Dogs Bark But The Caravan Rolls On: Observations Then and Now |
| June 22, 2002 | James Ellroy | The Cold Six Thousand |
| June 15 , 2002 | Tim Samuelson |
Unexpected Chicagoland But Wait There's More: The Irresistible Appeal and Speil of Ronco and Popeil |
| June 15 , 2002 | Neil Steinberg | Don't Give Up The Ship |
| June 8 , 2002 | Neal Pollack | The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature |
| May 11 , 2002 | Kinky Friedman | Kinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette |
| April 6 , 2002 | Mike Magnuson | Lummox: The Evolution of a Man |
| March 9, 2002 | Doug Marlette | The Bridge |
| February 23, 2002 | Thomas Cahill | How The Irish Saved Civilization |
| February 2, 2002 | Anders Henriksson | Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students |
| January 26, 2002 | Calvin Trillin | Tepper Isn't Going Out |
| January 19, 2002 | Adam Hanft, Faith Popcorn | Dictionary of The Future: The Words, Terms and Trends That Define the Way We'll Live, Work, and Talk |
| December 29, 2001 | Justin Isherwood | Book of Plough (out of print) |
| November 10, 2001 | Studs Terkel | Will The Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth and Hunger for a Faith. |
| November 3, 2001 | Ruben Bolling | Tom The Dancing Bug: Everything I Ever Needed To Know I Learned from My Golf Playing Cats |
| October 20, 2001 | Kinky Friedman | Road Kill |
| October 20, 2001 | Jim Crotty | How To Talk American |
| October 6, 2001 | T.C. Boyle | After the Plauge: And Other Stories also T.C. Boyle Stories |
| September 8, 2001 | Ruth Reichl | Comfort Me With Apples |
| August 11, 2001 | Sarah Boxer | In the Floyd Archives: A Psychobestiary |
| July 14, 2001 | Barbara Ehrenreich | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America |
| July 7, 2001 | Steven Reiss, PhD | Who Am I?: The 16 Basic Desires That Motivate our Actions and Define Our Personalities |
| June 9, 2001 | Joe Queenan | Balsamic Dreams: A Short But Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation |
| June 2, 2001 | Willie Morris | Taps |
| May 19, 2001 | Rebel Lowry Covan | I Know Why The Manatee Swims Naked: I've Shopped for Bathing Suits, Too |
| May 19, 2001 | Ray Oldenburg | The Great Good Place:Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community |
| May 12, 2001 | Tony Earley | Jim the Boy |
| April 21, 2001 | Terry Ryan | The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio |
| April 7, 2001 | Tom Tiede | Self-Help Nation |
| March 24, 2001 |
Robert Gordon |
It Came From Memphis |
| March 17, 2001 | Susan Orlean | The Bullfighter Checks her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People |
| February 24, 2001 | Bill Bryson | Notes from a Small Island |
| December 23, 2000 | Richard Klein | Eat Fat |
| December 9, 2000 | The Lady Chablis | Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah |
| December 9, 2000 | Paula Deen | The Lady and Sons Savannah Country Cookbook |
| November 18, 2000 | Bruce Jay Friedman | Even the Rhinos were Nymphos |
| October 14, 2000 | Candace Bushnell | Four Blondes |
| October 14, 2000 | Paul Begala |
Is Our Children Learning?: The Case Against George W. Bush |
| September 30, 2000 | Anne Soukhanov | Word Watch |
| September 23, 2000 | Evelyn Birkby | Neighboring
on the Air Up A Country Lane |
| September 23, 2000 | Marvin Bell | Ardor: The Book of the Dead Man |
| September 23, 2000 | Frank Conroy | Stop-Time |
| August 26, 2000 | Kyoko Mori | One Bird |
| August 12, 2000 | Bill Bryson | In A Sunburned Country |
| August 5, 2000 | Joe Eszterhas | American Rhapsody |
| July 29, 2000 | Bob Blumer | Off the Eaten Path |
| July 22, 2000 | Scott Simon | Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan |
| July 8, 2000 | Stefan Kanfer | Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx |
| June 17, 2000 | Dan Savage | The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant. |
| June 10, 2000 | Lyall Watson | Jacobson's Organ |
| May 20, 2000 | Jane Smiley | Horse Heaven |
| May 13, 2000 | John Lanchester | Mr. Phillips |
| April 29, 2000 | William O'Rourke | Campaign American '96: The View From the Couch |
| March 22, 2000 | Margo Kaufman | This Damn House: My Subcontract with America |
| March 11, 2000 | Studs Terkel | The Spectator: Talk About Movies And Plays with Those Who Made Them |
| February 12, 2000 | Jeff Greenwald | The Size of the World |
| February 5, 2000 | Joe Queenan | My
Goodness: A Cynic's Shortlived Search for Sainthood Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's America |
| January 29, 2000 | Ronni Lundy | Butter Beans to Blackberries: Harvest of the South |
| January 29, 2000 | Ed McClanahan | Famous
People I Have Known A Congress of Wonders |
| January 22, 2000 | Ken Smith | Mental Hygiene |
| January 1, 2000 | Paul Boyer | When Time Shall Be No More |
| December 25, 1999 | Willie Morris | My Dog Skip |
| December 4, 1999 | Bob Emmos | The Book of Tequila: A Complete Guide |
| December 4, 1999 | Quincy Troupe | Choruses |
| November 20, 1999 | Lisa Grunwald | Letters of the Century: America, 1900 - 1999 |
| November 13, 1999 | Tom Conner and Jim Downey | Is Martha Stuart Living? |
| October 16, 1999 | Andrew Barr | Drink: A Social History of America |
| October 9, 1999 | Eugene Linden | The Parrot's Lament |
| October 2, 1999 | Jacqueline Tresl | Whoever Heard of a Horse in the House |
| October 2, 1999 | Kurt Vonnegut | Bagombo Snuff Box |
| September 18, 1999 | James Kelman | The Good Times: Stories |
| September 11, 1999 | Sally Kirby Hartman | Insiders' Guide to Virginia's Chesapeake Bay |
| September 11, 1999 | Mike D'Orso | Fast Takes and Pumping Granite |
| September 4, 1999 | Jules Feiffer | The
Man in the Ceiling and I Lost My Bear |
| August 28, 1999 | Kinky Friedman | God Bless John Wayne |
| August 7, 1999 | Robert O. Williams | Hometown Diners |
| July 31, 1999 | Richard Conniff | Every Creeping Thing: True Tales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife |
| July 17, 1999 | Mark Caldwell | A Short History of Rudeness |
| July 3, 1999 | Studs Terkel | Coming of Age |
| June 19, 1999 | Natalie Angier | Woman: An Intimate Geography |
| May 29, 1999 | Jamie Schweser | Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing |
| May 22, 1999 | Frank Stephanson | Great American Chitlin Cookbook |
| May 22, 1999 | Lee Smith | News of the Spirit |
| May 15, 1999 | Bill Bryson | I'm A Stranger Here Myself |
| April 17, 1999 | Susan Orlean | The Orchid Thief |
| March 27, 1999 | Neil Gabler | Life The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality |
| March 20, 1999 | Tim Flannery | Throwim Way Leg |
| March 13, 1999 | Robert Lacey | The Year 1000 |
| February 27, 1999 | Jane Smiley | Moo |
| February 20, 1999 | David Levy | The Quest for Comets |
| February 6, 1999 | Anne Lamott | Traveling Mercies |
| January 16, 1999 | Chip Brown | Afterwards You're a Genius |
| December 26, 1998 | David Kirk | Miss Spider's Tea Party |
| December 5, 1998 | Christopher Cerf | The Experts Speak |
| November 21, 1998 | Mary Lee Settle | Addie: A Memoir |
| October 31, 1998 | David Obst | Too Good to be Forgotten |
| October 24, 1998 | Dan Perkins | Penguin Soup for the Soul |
| October 10, 1998 | Louise Rafkin | Other People's Dirt |
| August 29, 1998 | Anne Lamott | Bird by Bird |
| August 29, 1998 | Anne Lamott | Operating Instructions |
| August 29, 1998 | Anne Lamott | Crooked Little Heart |
| August 8, 1998 | Joe Queenan | Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's America |
| August 1, 1998 | Roy Blount Jr. | Be Sweet |
| July 18, 1998 | Calvin Trillin | Family Man |
| July 11, 1998 | Deborah Tannen | The Argument Culture |
| June 27, 1998 | Bill Geist | Monster Trucks and Hair in a Can |
| June 13, 1998 | Harvey Pekar | American Splendor Presents : Bob & Harv's Comics |
| June 13, 1998 | Laura Taxel | Cleveland Ethnic Eats |
| May 23, 1998 | Libby Gelman-Waxner | If You Ask Me |
| May 16, 1998 | Ruth Reichl | Tender At The Bone |
| May 9, 1998 | Justin Isherwood | Book of Plough |
| April 18, 1998 | Alan Gurganis | White People |
| April 18, 1998 | Doug Marlette | Even White Boys Get the Blues |
| April 4, 1998 | Matthew Parris | Couldn't Possibly Comment |
| March 14, 1998 | Thomas Cahill | How the Irish Saved Civilization |
| March 7, 1998 | Brad Blanton | Radical Honesty |
| February 28, 1998 | T. C. Boyle | Riven Rock |
| February 21, 1998 | Mordecai Richler | Barney's Version |
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