To read: non-fiction

  • Summer World: A Season of Bounty | Bernd Heinrich
  • Shadows: Unlocking their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time | Roberto Casati
  • Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places | John R. Stilgoe
  • The Natural History of the Rich | Richard Conniff
  • The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin
  • Fifty Days of Solitude | Doris Grumbach
  • Hell Creek, Montana: America’s Key to the Prehistoric Past | Lowell Dingus
  • Solitude: A Return to the Self  by Anthony Storr
  • Fat Land | Greg Critser
  • Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich–and Cheat Everybody Else | David Cay Johnston
  • Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense | David Cay Johnston
  • Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life | Adam Gopnik
  • Passing Strange | Martha A. Sandweiss
  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | Jared Diamon
  • Window Seat | Gregory Dicum
  • Suburban Safari | Hannah Holmes
  • Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight | William Langewiesche
  • How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry | Edward Hirsch
  • The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary | Simon Winchester
  • Living to Tell the Tale |Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince | Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
  • Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez | edited by Gene H. Bell-Villada
  • Lincoln | Richard J. Carwardine
  • Mornings on Horseback | David McCullough
  • Rise of Theodore Roosevelt | Edmund Morris
  • The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop | Lewis Buzbee
  • Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil | John Ghazvinian
  • William Least Heat Moon
  • The Happiness Hypothesis: finding modern truth in ancient wisdom | Jonathan Haidt
  • Avoid Boring People : lessons from a life in science | James D. Watson
  • The Good Heart : a Buddhist perspective on the teachings of Jesus | His Holiness the Dalai Lama
  • Den of Thieves | James B. Stewart
  • The Stranger Beside Me | Ann Rule
  • Epidemic: the rot of American culture, absentee and permissive parenting, and the resultant plague of joyless, selfish children | Robert Shaw
  • Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer | A. J. Liebling
  • The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science | Natalie Angier
  • The Winter Vegetarian: A Warm and Versatile Bounty | Darra Goldstein
  • Your Money or Your Life
  • Up in the old hotel : and other stories | Joseph Mitchell
  • Conversation: A History of a Declining Art | Stephen Miller
  • The wrecking crew : how conservatives rule / Thomas Frank
  • Great American Hypocrites : toppling the big myths of Republican politics / Glenn Greenwald
  • Love by the Glass: Tasting Notes from a Marriage | Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher
  • Here is New York | E.B. White
  • From Third World to First: The Singapore Story | Lee Kuan Yew
  • Consider the Lobster | David Foster Wallace
  • Grayson | Lynne Cox
  • The Language of Mathematics | Keith Devlin
  • A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper | John Allen Paulos
  • Innumeracy | John Allen Paulos
  • The Zookeeper’s Wife | Diane Ackerman
  • True Compass | Ted Kennedy
  • Open | Andre Agassi
  • The Writing Life | Annie Dillard
  • Emerson: The Mind on Fire | Robert D. Richardson

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