The Omnivore's Dilemma

AUTHOR: Michael Pollan
PUBLISHER: The Penguin Press
YEAR: 2006
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN: 1-59420-082-3
p. 30: A has should be have.
The plant's unusual sexual arrangements, so amenable to human intervention, has allowed it to adapt ...
p. 54: A represents should be represent.
But though those subsidy checks go to the farmer (and represents nearly half of net farm income today), what the Treasury is really subsidizing are the buyers of all that cheap corn.
p. 86: A comma is missing.
... citric and lactic acid; glucose, fructose, and maltodextrin; ethanol (for alcoholic beverages as well as cars) sorbitol, mannitol, and xantham gum ...
p. 201: An of is missing.
Since it can be accumulated and traded, grain is a form wealth.
p. 210: A feeds should be feed.
The chicken feed not only feeds the broilers, but, transformed into chicken crap, feeds the grass that feeds the cows that, as I was about to see, feeds the pigs and the laying hens.
p. 258: A stick should be sticker.
"Eat your view!" is a bumper stick often seen in Europe these days ...
p. 269: A crill should be krill.
Conventional nutritional wisdom holds that salmon is automatically better for us than beef, but that judgment assumes the beef has been grain-fed and the salmon crill-fed ...
p. 319: A spec should be speck.
It is true that farms like this are but a spec on the monolith of modern animal agriculture ...
p. 323: A Was should be was.
"An animal's blood flowed like human blood, but its species was undying and each lion was Lion, each ox Was Ox."
p. 355: A thought should be though.
The bullet was too smashed up to easily identify its caliber, thought it occurred to me a forensics expert could probably determine whether it had really come from my rifle ...
p. 415: A subject and verb should be a possessive noun and object.
Though he declined to taste the boar, Isaac contributed to this book ... has been more precious than he can know.

Breaking Dawn

AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company
YEAR: 2008
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-10: 978-0-316-06792-8
p. 179: A to is missing.
" ... How could we know that a human was able conceive a child with one of us--"
p. 290: An a is missing.
I took deep breath, trying to calm myself.
p. 316: A blond should be blonde.
That blond vampire you hate so much--I totally get her perspective.
p. 319: A blond should be blonde.
I understand why your blond vampire is so cold --in the figurative sense.

EDITION: 12th printing, first edition hardback
p. 293: A to is missing.
I ignored her, going to sit on the floor next the sofa while she was still telling me what to do.

Among the Thugs

AUTHOR: Bill Buford
PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company
YEAR: 1992
EDITION: first printing, first American edition hardback
ISBN: 0-393-03381-3
p. 304: An as is missing.
Just I was wondering if it would be worth the risk of joining them, I looked back down at the police and saw that they were charging up the hill ...

Kitchen Confidential

AUTHOR: Anthony Bourdain
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury
YEAR: 2000
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN: 1-58234-082-X
p. 73: The hyphen falls in the wrong place in a sentence break.
... these were the dar-
edevils, innovators and desperados.
p.115: A sentence starts with an unnecessary single quote.
'He was kind of charming, totally untrustworthy, conspiratorial, possessing mysterious juice with the ownership, able to operate completely outside the normal chain of command.
p. 137: A sentence is missing a semi-colon.
Bars close at 1 A.M. they start flashing the lights for last call at twelve-thirty.
p. 168: An I is missing.
In a subsequent meeting--and there would be many, as designing the new menu was a painstaking and tortuous affair--was informed that though I would be executive chef ...
p. 169: A though should be thought.
Good at the politics and shifting alliances of a big, essentially Italian business, good at the kind of stuff I though I'd always been good at.
p. 170: A failed should be fail.
He never said he'd do a thing for me and then failed to do it.
p. 261: An a is missing.
And if this isn't rich enough meal for you ...
p. 268: A pouring should be poring.
The bar was packed with monomaniacal wine aficionados, pouring over the 1,400-strong wine list like Talmudic scholars ...
p. 270: A close quote is missing.
'Beef bourguignon, he said right away.
p. 280: A bons most should be bon mots.
I was to cook a meal evocative of my earlier work of fiction for the benefit of the press, provide a few bons most at a press conference ...
p. 286: Possible stylistic decision. The word palates is repeated in an odd manner.
... as if any time now he'd find something too much for our barbarian palates and crude, unsophisticated palates.

The Road

AUTHOR: Cormac McCarthy
PUBLISHER: Vintage International
YEAR: 2006
EDITION: first printing, first edition paperback
ISBN: 978-0-307-38789-9
p. 228: A bench should be beach.
A moment of panic before he saw him walking along the bench downshore with the pistol hanging in his hand, his head down.
p. 250: A space is missing between two sentences.
You have to stay near, he said.You have to be quick.

Eclipse

AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company
YEAR: 2007
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-10: 0-316-16020-2
p. 204: An East and South shouldn't be capitalized.
"The trail went East, then South, and disappeared on a side road. Had a car waiting."
p. 598: A worse should be worst.
"The worse part is knowing what would have been."
p. 599: A sentence is missing a period.
"If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic ..."

World War Z

AUTHOR: Max Brooks
PUBLISHER: Three Rivers Press
YEAR: 2006
EDITION: first printing, first edition paperback
ISBN: 978-0-307-34661-2
p.34 A stike should be strike.
... and if there was even the slightest chance that dead bodies were being reanimated as ravenous killing machines, you dig and dig until you stike the absolute truth.
p. 228: An it's should be its.
It is the "magic hour" for energy-independent buildings like the Malpica, that time of the day when it's photovoltaic windows capture the setting sun with their almost imperceptible magenta hue.
p. 296: A last rights should be last rites.
I had come to the field hospital to give last rights to the infected.