A list of great nonfiction reads not on the Best Sellers list from Fall 2015
October - December 2015 Issue
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See also:
- Featured Review: The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader
- Fiction Recommendations
- Previous Issues
Adler, Renata. After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction.
Andalibian, Rahimeh. The Rose Hotel: A Memoir of Secrets, Loss, and Love from Iran to America.
Apatow, Judd. Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy.
Armantrout, Rae. Itself. (Poetry)
Battles, Matthew. Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word.
Beck, Richard. We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s.
Berman, Ari. Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.
Brooks, Arthur C. The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America.
Burns, Eric. 1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar.
Canales, Jimena. The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me.
Crawford, Robert. Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land.
Daugherty, Tracy. The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion.
DuVal, Kathleen. Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution.
Edin, Kathryn J. $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.
Eltahawy, Mona. Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution.
Faderman, Lillian. The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle.
Finnegan, William. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.
Flanders, Judith. The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes.
Glass, Philip. Words Without Music: A Memoir.
Goldberg, Michelle. The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West.
Goldstone, Nancy. The Rival Queens: Catherine de’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom.
Gooch, Brad. Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the ‘70s & the ‘80s.
Gornick, Vivian. The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir.
Graham, Jorie. From the New World: Poems 1976-2014.
Green, Kristen. Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle.
Grimsley, Jim. How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Lessons of a Racist Childhood.
Hammer, Langdon. James Merrill: Life and Art.
Hiltzik, Michael. Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex.
Hirschfeld, Al. The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age.
Hirshman, Linda. Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World.
Hodgman, George. Bettyville: A Memoir.
Hoffman, Bruce. Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947.
Hoffman, David E. The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal.
Hofmann, Michael. Where Have You Been?: Selected Essays.
Hoke, Mateo and Cate Malek. Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation.
Jacobs, Charlotte DeCroes. Jonas Salk: A Life.
James, Clive. Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language.
Jarausch, Konrad H. Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century.
Jobb, Dean. Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation.
Keret, Etgar. The Seven Good Years: A Memoir.
Kershaw, Alex. Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family’s Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied France.
Kittelstrom, Amy. The Religion of Democracy: Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition.
Kurson, Robert. Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship.
Lane, Nick. The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life.
Lee, Erika. The Making of Asian America: A History.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story. .
Lehr, Dick. The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Director and a Crusading Editor Reignited America’s Civil War.
Leonard, Max. Lanterne Rouge: The Last Man in the Tour de France.
Lightman, Alan. Screening Room: Family Pictures.
MacLaughlin, Nina. Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter.
Martin, Wednesday. Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir.
Meyers, Robin. Spiritual Defiance: Building a Beloved Community of Resistance.
Montgomery, Sy. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness.
Moore, Susanna. Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii.
Moore, Tim. Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy.
Morris, Bob. Bobby Wonderful: An Imperfect Son Buries His Parents.
Morris, David J. The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Neiman, Susan. Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts For an Infantile Age.
Oller, John. American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War “Belle of the North” and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal.
Palfrey, John. Bibliotech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google.
Parks, Tim. Where I’m Reading From: The Changing World of Books.
Pessah, Jon. The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball’s Power Brokers.
Prizant, Barry M. Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism.
Roberts, Siobhan. Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway.
Saviano, Roberto. ZeroZeroZero. (Cocaine Industry)
Schatzker, Mark. The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth about Food and Flavor.
Schickel, Richard. Keepers: The Greatest Films - and Personal Favorites - of a Moviegoing Lifetime.
Schneier, Bruce. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World.
Seek, Amy. God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother.
Snyder, Timothy. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning.
Southard, Susan. Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War.
Steavenson, Wendell. Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution.
Strathern, Paul. Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City.
Styron, William. My Generation: Collected Nonfiction.
Sullivan, Rosemary. Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva.
Tweedy, Damon. Black Man In a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine.
Urschel, Joe. The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt that Changed the Nation.
Van Doren, Adam. The House Tells the Story: Homes of the American Presidents.
Vanhoenacker, Mark. Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot.
Wagner, Tony. Most Likely to Succeed: A New Vision for Education To Prepare Our Kids for Today’s Innovation Economy.
Weinberg, Steven. To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science.
Weiner, Tim. One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon.