- The nineties, a book, Chuck Klosterman
- Okashi na Amerika, fushigi na Nihon, NY no media o tōshite mietekita atarashii sekai kankaku, Nagano Tomoko
- Final draft, the collected work of David Carr, foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates ; edited by Jill Rooney Carr
- Kids in America, a Gen X reckoning, Liz Prato
- Dark ages America, the final phase of empire, Morris Berman
- Return of the artisan, how America went from the industrial to the hand made and you can too, Grant McCracken
- Utopia is creepy, and other provocations, Nicholas Carr
- Building a bridge to the 18th century, how the past can improve our future, Neil Postman
- The flag, the cross, and the station wagon, a graying American looks back at his suburban boyhood and wonders what the hell happened, Bill McKibben
- After nationalism, being American in an age of division, Samuel Goldman
- Nihonjin to Amerikajin, Nihon wa naze, yabure tsuzukeru no ka, Yamamoto Shichihei
- Dispatches from the Gilded Age, a few more thoughts on interesting people, far-flung places, and the joys of Southern comforts, Julia Reed ; edited by Everett Bexley
- Chuck Klosterman X, a highly specific, defiantly incomplete history of the early 21st century, Chuck Klosterman
- Bill Moyers journal, the conversation continues
- How we got here, the 70's, the decade that brought you modern life (for better or worse), David Frum
- The America syndrome, apocalypse, war, and our call to greatness, Betsy Hartmann
- We the people, the modern-day figures who have reshaped and affirmed the Founding Fathers' vision of America, Juan Williams
- Visions from San Francisco Bay, Czeslaw Milosz ; translated by Riczard Lourie
- Always in pursuit, fresh American perspectives, 1995-1997, Stanley Crouch
- Nanʼya, kore? Amerika to Nihon, Kometani Fumiko
- Sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs, a low culture manifesto, Chuck Klosterman
- Affluenza, how overconsumption is killing us-- and how we can fight back, John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor
- Back to our future, how the 1980s explain the world we live in now--our culture, our politics, our everything, David Sirota
- Amerika ga kirai desu ka, Agawa Naoyuki
- The call of the weird, travels in American subcultures, Louis Theroux
- Eating the dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman
- Japanamerica, how Japanese pop culture has invaded the U.S., Roland Kelts