Nonfiction Books - Cup of Jo


1	Title	Author	Recommendation	# Other Times Rec'd

2	Braiding Sweetgrass	Robin Wall Kimmerer		27
3	The Warmth of Other Suns	Isabella Wilkerson		11
4	Crying in H Mart	Michelle Zauner		12
5	Say Nothing	Patrick Radden Keefe	The Troubles	13
6	Educated	Tara Westover	Memoir	9
7	A Heart that Works	Rob Delaney	Memoir	8
8	Between Two Kingdoms	Suleika Jaouad	gives the reader such a personal understanding of how long-term illness shapes the flow of one’s life.	9
9	Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City	Andrea Elliott	Mind-blowingly researched book following one child in an unhoused family with parents struggling with addiction	8
10	Just Mercy	Bryan Stevenson	The book details his work providing legal representation to wrongly-convicted death row inmates. It is an eye-opening view into the flaws of our criminal justice system.	7
11	Into Thin Air	Jon Krakauer		7
12	An Immense World	Ed Yong	I learned so much about animals and how they interact with their surroundings. Ed is such a good writer. He makes this subject very approachable	7
13	Why Fish Don't Exist	Lulu Miller	Have you ever really hated the feeling of doubt? That instinct you have to try to look at things from all perspectives? Have you ever, GOSH, just wanted to be SURE just like everyone else seems to be? be convinced somehow that doubt, second guessing, never being a hundred percent sure you’re doing the right thing is the best thing for humanity. Doubt is a superpower. Certainty might be the root of all evil.	6
14	The Art Thief	Michael Finkel	I can’t believe it’s not fiction. (spoken in the Fabio, ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter’ voice)	6
15	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City	Matthew Desmond	this book deeply changed the way I view a number of social issues and, again, I stayed up way too late reading this over several nights despite being a parent of multiple young children who really should sleep when they do. I dare you to read this book and not feel enraged about the system at play here.	8
16	Random Family	Adrian Nicole LeBlanc	fascinating narrative non-fiction account of families in the Bronx in the 1990s written by a journalist who embedded herself in the community for years.	6
17	In the Heart of the Sea	Nathaniel Phillbrick		5
18	Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea	Barbara Demick	She profiles six North Koreans–teens carrying on a romance by darkness, a radically resourceful housewife, a doctor, a street urchin–over fifteen years, through the deprivation of famine and revelation of political disillusionment. You know they all escape eventually, but each person’s journey away from their country’s lies and cruelty is as gripping as any thriller.	5
19	The Boys in the Boat	Daniel Brown	To make you cheer!	6
20	Everything is Tuberculosis	John Green	I loved this book! How can he write about anything and make me CARE? I cried every chapter for the last half of the novel	5
21	Far from the Tree	Andrew Sullivan	beautiful book exploring parental love in the face of differences. It is a TOME but he writes in such an engaging way and the book is organized so well that it feels like a much quicker read!	6
22	Maybe You Should Talk to Someone	Lori Gottlieb		5
23	Animal Vegetable Miracle	Barbara Kingsolver		5
24	Caste	Isabella Wilkerson		6
25	Run Towards the Danger	Sarah Polley		4
26	What My Bones Know	Stephanie Foo	The audiobook was amazing! Beautifully-told, powerful and hopeful read. Hearing Stephanie talk about the physical and verbal abuse she experienced at the hands of her parents broke my heart.	5
27	The Anthropeocene Reviewed	John Green		4
28	Being Mortal	Atul Gawande		4
29	Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals	Oliver Burkeman		4
30	Bossy Pants	Tina Fey		4
31	Wild	Cheryl Strayed		4
32	Killers of the Flower Moon	David Grann		4
33	Don’t Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight	Alexandra Fuller		4
34	Sapiens	Yuval Noah Harari	overview	4
35	The Library Book	Susan Orleans		4
36	Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty	Patrick Radden Keefe		6
37	Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Dsigned for Men	Caroline Criado-Perez		3
38	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand		3
39	Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage	Alfred Lansing	one of the best nonfiction adventures in existence	4
40	The Wager	David Grann	The story of an English sea voyage in the 17th century that sets out to counter Imperial Spain in what is now South America	3
41	Under the Banner of Heaven	Jon Krakauer		4
42	Devil in the White City	Erik Larsen		3
43	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot		3
44	What I Ate in a Year	Stanley Tucci		3
45	The Salt Path	Raynor Winn	Within a week of reading The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, I got a backpack and a hammock and hiked into the forest with my daughter where we slept underneath the stars. Read at your own risk!	3
46	The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion	Memoir	3
47	Tender at the Bone	Ruth Reichl		3
48	The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down	Anne Fadiman		3
49	A Walk in the Park	Kevin Fedarko	his story of walking the length of the Grand Canyon	3
50	Man's Search for Meaning	Viktor Frankl		3
51	Joyful	Ingrid Fetel Lee		3
52	When Breath Becomes Air	Paul Kalanithi		3
53	Longitude	Dava Sobel		3
54	All the Beauty in the World	Patrick Bringley		3
55	Big Magic	Elizabeth Gilbert	Everyone has read Eat Pray Love, but Big Magic is the most beautiful and profound book on living a creative life (even if you don’t call yourself a creative!) I pick it up to re read all the time and have recommended it to so many friends.	3
56	Five Days at Memorial	Sheri Fink		3
57	Behind the Beautiful Forevers	Katherine Boo	she lives in the slums of India and writes about the lives of people there. It’s heartbreaking and beautifully written. I read it about ten years ago and still think about it all the time.	3
58	Easy Beauty	Chloe Cooper Jones	on disability, beauty, art, philosophy	3
59	West with the Night	Beryl Markham	about her childhood in Kenya and becoming a bush pilot	3
60	Tiny Beautiful Things	Cheryl Strayed	about her childhood in Kenya and becoming a bush pilot	3
61	Personal History	Katherine Graham	portraits of women navigating power and identity on their own terms.	3
62	The Tell	Amy Griffin	unputdownable, I read it in one sitting. prepare for sobbing	4
63	Notes on a Small Island	Bill Bryson		3
64	Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood	Lucy Jones	a mind-blowing book on the physical and emotional changes that occur during pregnancy	3
65	Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers	Mary Roach		3
66	Truth and Beauty	Amy Patchett		3
67	Feather Thief	Kirk Wallace Johnson		3
68	Bad Blood	John Carreyrou		4
69	Wintering	Katherine May	I read this in the Winter just gone and it made me feel so cosy and embracing of the season	2
70	Insomniac City	Bill Hayes	A love letter to both his husband (Oliver Sachs! and to New York, his adopted city	2
71	How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Seen	David Brooks		2
72	Nobody Will Tell You This But Me	Bess Kalb		3
73	Hidden Valley Road	Robert Kolker	such an incredible portrayal of a family where 9 (I think) out of 12 of their kids developed schizophrenia and other severe mental health problems	4
74	Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution	Cat Bohannon	if I had to choose just one it would be Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon. A tour-de-force!	2
75	The Diving Bell & The Butterfly	Jean-Dominique Bauby	He experienced a stroke which left him with locked-in syndrome. I was terrified to read it and convinced I couldn’t handle it but reading about the experience of others cracks something open in us and like others have said in their comments, I’m so glad I read it.	2
76	Nickel and Dimed	Barbara Ehrenreich		2
77	Untamed	Glennon Doyle	feminist memoir	2
78	Girl From Yamhill	Beverly Cleary		2
79	Finding Me	Viola Davis	Memoir	2
80	This is Going to Hurt	Adam Kay		2
81	Careless People	Sara Wynn-Williams	Social media & Meta	2
82	A Walk in the Woods	Bill Bryson		2
83	Just Kids	Patti Smith		2
84	The Light Eaters	Zoe Schlanger	Plant intelligence	2
85	The Worst Hard Time	Timothy Egan		2
86	Be Ready When the Luck Happens	Ina Garten		2
87	Born a Crime	Trevor Noah		2
88	When Breath Becomes Air	Paul Kalanithi		2
89	You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir	Maggie Smith		4
90	My Life in France	Julia Child		2
91	Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder	Caroline Fraser		2
92	Blood Bones and Butter	Gabrielle Hamilton		2
93	Quiet	Susan Cain		2
94	I Am, I Am, I Am	Maggie O'Farrell		2
95	Seabiscuit	Laura Hillenbrand	Racehorse bio	2
96	1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus	Charles C. Mann	Americas before Columbus	2
97	The Indifferent Stars Above	Daniel James Brown	Ok, I don’t want to say I love this book given the subject matter, but there hasn’t been a book in my memory that has blown me away quite like “The Indifferent Stars Above.” It’s historical non-fiction (read: can be dry) about the Donner Party. Yes, that Donner Party. Again, it’s dark, and don’t read it before bed. But if you grew up learning about them like I did, or played the Oregon Trail, this book really makes those very, very brave people seem very, very relatable. It was the only book I could talk about for months, which meant that I was always the life of the party. Not the Donner Party. Too soon.	2
98	The Body: A Guide for Occupants	Bill Bryson		2
99	Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law	Mary Roach		2
100	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft	Stephen King		2
101	Wave	Sonali Deraniyagala	devastating, about the loss of her family in a tsunami	2
102	Emperor of All Maladies	Siddhartha Mukherjee		2
103	I’ll be Gone in the Dark	Michelle McNamara	this one is about the Golden State Killer, so if true crime is not your thing, this may not be for you. Michelle McNamara actually died before she finished the book, but two other journalists and her husband, I believe, all worked to finish it for her.	2
104	Raising Girls Who Like Themselves	Christopher Scanlon and Kasey Edwards		2
105	One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This	Omar El-Akkad		3
106	Yes Please	Amy Poehler		2
107	Inheritance	Dani Shapiro	phenomenal memoir about doing a DNA test and discovering some things you never imagined	2
108	The 57 Bus	Dashka Slater		1
109	Wild Child	Patrick Barkham	studies tell us that we are raising a generation who are so alienated from nature that they can’t identify the commonest birds or plants, they don’t know where their food comes from, they are shuttled between home, school and the shops and spend very little time in green spaces – let alone roaming free. In this timely and personal book, celebrated nature writer Patrick Barkham draws on his own experience as a parent and a forest school volunteer to explore the relationship between children and nature. Unfolding over the course of a year of snowsuits, muddy wellies, and sunhats	1
110	The Hare with the Amber Eyes	Edmund de Waal	He tells his incredible family history using the collection of netsuke as a literary device.	1
111	In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz	Michaela Wrong	the rise of Mobuto Sese Seko in Zaire (now the DRC	1
112	Banquet	Fuschia Dunlop	cultural history of China through the lens of food	1
113	Devil at His Elbow	Valerie Baulerin	about the Murdaugh murders and all the decades of corruption leading up to them.	1
114	Flowers of the Killer Moon	David Grann		1
115	The Serviceberry	Robin Wall Kimmerer		1
116	Entangled Life	Merlin Sheldrake	About fungi hidden life	1
117	Into the Wild	Jon Krakauer		1
118	Atomic Habits	James Clear		1
119	Lion	Sonya Walger		1
120	The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying	Genevieve Kingston		1
121	Solito	Javier Zamora	I’m a middle-aged white lady who cares for immigrant adolescents in a community health center and have been doing so for nearly 20 years. I don’t share in the stories of my patients, but I do look for ways to elevate them. This story of a young unaccompanied minor, written by a poet, is the nonfiction book I recommend most to friends and family. In a time of unprecedented violence and animosity towards immigrants, understanding the complexities and strength in stories of migration from Central and South America couldn’t be more important.	1
122	Did Ye Hear Mammy Died	Seamas O'Reilly	Memoir	1
123	Redeeming Justice	Jarrett Adams	This is my top read this year! I’ve been recommending it to everyone. When Jarrett was seventeen, he was wrongfully convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to 28 years in prison. I was so blown away by Jarrett’s writing. Absolutely stunning. A must-read!	1
124	Home	Bill Bryson		1
125	How to Do Nothing	Jenny Odell		1
126	The Ghost Map	Steven Johnson		1
127	How the Word is Passed	Clint Smith	SO engaging thought-provoking and page-turning and important!	1
128	We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families	Philip Gourevitch	It’s about the Rwandan genocide but told in both macro (the social and cultural systems that contributed and micro (stories of ordinary Rwandans affected and the peacekeepers who witnessed. I read this as an impressionable journalism student and was astonished at the author’s ability to weave so many complex experiences in a compelling, cinematic way.	1
129	These Precious Days	Ann Patchett	Essays	1
130	The Country of the Blind	Andrew Leland		1
131	We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland	Fintan O'Toole		1
132	On Immunity: An Inoculation	Eula Biss	history and philosophy of vaccination and how we belong to each other	1
133	The Small and the Mighty	Sharon McMahon	If you’re feeling hopeless in this political climate, I’d recommend “the small and the mighty” by Sharon McMahon. It was a delight on how doing the right thing can make a big difference.	1
134	An Exact Replica of a Figment of my Imagination	Elizabeth McCracken	a beautiful and heartbreaking book chronicling a loss	1
135	Women Who Run With the Wolves	Clarissa Pinkola Esté	She dissects fairy tales from around the world and shares the ancestral knowledge that so many of us are disconnected from.	1
136	A Fever in the Heartland	Timothy Egan		1
137	Nine Pints	Rose George	About blood	1
138	90% of Everything	Rose George	About shipping	1
139	The Big Necessity	Rose George	About human waste systems	1
140	American Sirens	Kevin Hazzard	about the first paramedics in the country who were all Black and in my hometown of Pittsburgh	1
141	Meditations for Mortals	Oliver Burkeman	a daily read that is philosophical, eye-opening and humorous. Also life-changing :)	1
142	Ejaculate Responsibly	Gabrielle Blaire		1
143	Cod	Mark Kurlansky		1
144	Brunelleschi's Dome	Ross King		1
145	The Psychology of Money	Morgan Hausel	It sounds boring but I promise it’s fascinating! Short little chapters with intriguing real stories of money pitfalls and successes. Bonus you walk away with a few bits of money wisdom for the future.	2
146	Desert Solitaire	Edward Abbey	To mmake you move to the desert	2
147	H is for Hawk	Helen Macdonald		1
148	Great with Child	Beth Ann Fennelly		1
149	Columbine	Dave Cullen		2
150	The Autobiography of MalcolmX	Malcolm X		1
151	Me Talk Pretty One Day	David Sedaris		1
152	A Year in Provence	Peter Mayle		1
153	Shit, Actually	Lindy West		1
154	Shrill	Lindy West		1
155	Born to Run	Christopher McDougall		1
156	The Coddling of the American Mind	Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt		1
157	Pilgrim at Tinker Creek	Annie Dillard	no better rapturous observer of the natural world	1
158	Operating Instructions	Ann Lamott	Hilarious and soulful single parenting	1
159	Hunger	Roxane Gay	living in a body	1
160	Dear Girls	Ali Wong		1
161	New Jim Crow	Michelle Alexander		1
162	The Golden Mole	Katherine Rundell	everyone should read it (you can also read each chapter for free on the London Review of Books (https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n09/katherine-rundell/consider-the-greenland-shark). Honestly, the writing amazing and the call to arms never more important. If you buy it in hard copy the pages are tipped in gold, it is divine.	1
163	A Stranger in the Woods	Michael Finkel	a book about a man who lived in the woods in Maine without speaking to another person for 27 years. It gets into the weird history of hermits and leaves you pondering this particular hermits moral and philosophical beliefs.	1
164	The Unwomanly Face of War	Svetlana Alexievich		1
165	How to Stay Married	Harrison Scott Key	such an honest and hopeful book about marriage	1
166	The Yellow House	Sarah Broom	her family history about growing up in New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina. Beautiful and informative	1
167	A People's History of the United States	Howard Zinn		1
168	The Good War	Studs Terkel		1
169	American Prometheus: The triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer	Kai Bird and Martin Sherman		1
170	The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You	Neko Case	I never knew such an incredible singer had such a bare choldhood	1
171	Cue the Sun!	Emily Nussbaum	all about how reality TV came to be and grew into what it is now	1
172	Bite by Bite	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	Each chapter is a love letter to a different food. It was beautiful and opened my eyes to how many varieties of fruit exist in the world beyond what is available in my local supermarket chain.	1
173	What if We Get it Right?	Ayana Elizabeth Johnson		1
174	I'm Glad My Mom Died	Jeannette McCurdy	about Jeanette’s relationship with her mother	2
175	The Choice	Dr. Edith Eger		1
176	The Whole Brain Child	Dan Seigel and Tina Bryson Payne		1
177	Astrophysics for (Young) People in a Hurry	Neil DeGrasse Tyson		1
178	Bird by Bird	Ann Lamott	one of my favorite books, I’m rereading it now and forgot how much I love it. It is about writing, but it also just applicable to life.	1
179	Nomadland	Jessica Bruden		1
180	How to Say Babylon	Safiya Sinclair		1
181	Sociopath: A Memoir	Patric Gagne		1
182	People Love Dead Jews	Dara Horn	Incendiary title for sure, but she’s a fantastic writer and the idea behind this particular book really got into my head, and I quote from it all the time.	1
183	Broken Horses	Brandi Carlisle		1
184	The Invention of Nature	Andrea Wulf	It’s a beautiful and engaging biography of explorer Alexander von Humboldt. I find it outstanding & it makes me want to live and know and explore everything!	1
185	Maid	Stephanie Land		1
186	The Deepest Well	Nadine Burke Harris	this one is about her work as a physician and the connection between adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s) and physical illness	1
187	Friday Afternoon Club	Griffin Dune	you think your family is crazy?	1
188	Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World	Jessica Slice		1
189	The Secret Lives of Colour	Kassia St. Clai	a book about the history of well-known shades, from cerulean blue to fuchsia. Great writing and chock-full of really interesting facts!	1
190	Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family	Robert Kolker		1
191	Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands	Kate Beaton		1
192	The Disappearing Spoon	Sam Kean	about history through tales related to each element in the periodic table. Absolutely captivating.	1
193	Hold Still	Sally Mann		1
194	Consent	Jill Ciment		1
195	The Book of Delights	Ross Gay	I’m not a big audiobook gal, but listening to him read it is special	1
196	Stay True	Hua Hsu		1
197	A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from the Christian Patriarchy	Tia Levings	powerful and fascinating and eye-opening.	1
198	The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control	Katherine Morgan Schafle		1
199	Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America	Jill Leovy	such impressive long-form journalism. This books is honest, thoughtful, a little unconventional, and very human.	1
200	The Hiding Place	Corrie Ten Boom	it blew.my.mind.	1
201	The Return	Hisham Matar	a story told by the son of the opposition to Libyan dictator Qaddafi	1
202	Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	Caitlin Doughty	she’ll make you want to love your loved ones harder, be kinder to yourself as you think about eternity, and never, EVER get embalmed	2
203	Priestdaddy	Tricia Lockwood	I fell down a flight of stairs in a casita in the Dominican Republic because I was thinking so hard about PRIESTDADDY, which I was then in the middle of reading, and I sent Tricia a picture of my toe in a fan letter (we do not know each other, though we’ve met at a few of her readings). When people in my life have extreme views I cut them off; she finds a way to resee the world around them, and the crass, riveting, cry-laughing, heartbreaking stories she tells about her own singular existence are like no others I know. The world is just a wilder and more wondrous place with Patricia Lockwood in it.	1
204	There is No Place for Us	Brian Coldstone		1
205	No Cure for Being Human	Kate Bowler		1
206	Undaunted Courage	Stephen E. Ambrose	It’s about the Lewis and Clark expedition and the way he wrote was so captivating and enthralling!	1
207	River of Doubt	Candice Millard	one of my favorite books of all time	1
208	Destiny of the Republic	Candice Millard	It’s so fascinating and well written! History that will leave you spellbound!	1
209	The Sinners All Bow	Kate Winkler Dawson
210	Hidden Nature	Alys Fowler	Fowler’s moving memoir charts her experience of coming out as a gay woman, alongside her journey through Birmingham’s canal networks, mapping both the waterways and the travails of her heart
211	Children of Radium	Joe Dunthorne	Joe Dunthorne’s jaw-dropping account of his Jewish grandfather who invented radio-active toothpaste
212	A Radiant Earth		Create and restore balanced ecosystems and develop an intimate relationship with the earth
213	Hot Box	Matt & Ted Lee	Inside the catering world
214	End of Night	Paul Bogard	Influence of dark skies, light polution
215	The Fact of a Body		Part memoir, part true crime
216	Let's Pretend this Never Happened	Jenny Lawson
217	Furiously Happy	Jenny Lawson
218	The Garden Against Time	Olivia Laing	a gardening memoir and an interrogation of the idea of gardens, who and what they’re for	1
219	No Visible Bruises	Rachel Louise Snyder	I read this years ago and still think about it at least once a week. Should be required reading	1
220	An American Summer	Alex Kotlowitz
221	There Are No Children Here	Alex Kotlowitz
222	You'll Grow Out of It	Jessi Klein
223	I'll Show Myself Out	Jessi Klein		1
224	Textbook and Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life	Amy Krouse Rosenthal
225	L'Appart The Delights & Disasters of Making my Paris Home	David Lebovitz
226	Omnivores Dilemma	Michael Pollan	The intersection between food / agriculture/ ecology is super interesting to me	1
227	The Golden Spruce	John Vaillant
228	The Wide, Wide Sea	Hampton Sides	reconstructed story of James Cook’s 3rd and final voyage to the South Pacific
229	Air-borne	Carl Zimmer
230	Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World	Emma Southon	The first history book that I ever liked. It reads like the best telenovela ever, has amazing humour and feminist ideas, and is simply bonkers
231	The Postcard	Anne Berest	French history about a family deported to Auschwitz concentration camps, but also about what it took for the far-right to gain ground in Europe in the 30s-40s
232	The Power of Us	Jay Van Bavel and Dominic Packer	a social psychology book of how we can build our societies back together
233	The Psycopath Test	Jon Ronson
234	The Wager	David Gann
235	Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs	Chuck Klosterman
236	Nina Simone's Gum	Warren Ellis
237	A cheesemonger’s history of the British Isles	Ned Palmer
238	One more croissant for the road	Felicity Cloake
239	The Land Where the Lemons Grow	Helena Atlee
240	Moss	Robin Wall Kimmerer
241	Wildwood	Roger Deakin	taking you to ancient walnut woods in Central Asia
242	Pour Me	A.A. Gill	Memoir
243	Why We Swim	Bonnie Tsai	Nature/memoir
244	Stasiland	Anna Funder	how people survived the inhumanity of the Stasi in East Germany.
245	The Street with No Name	Kapka Kassabova	growing up in communist & post-communist Bulgaria through several generations
246	Howard's End Is on teh Landing	Susan HIll	tells us of her amazing book collection and how she spent a year just reading what she had at home and reconnecting with her books and past
247	The Christmas Chronicles	Nigel Slater	part cookery book and part memoir of how he spends the win of each year
248	Calm Christmas	Beth Kempton	helps us to feel grounded and choose the parts of Christmas which mean much to us and let go of other parts which just cause stress
249	Between the Stops	Sandi Toksvig	part biography and part history of London
250	84 Charing Cross Road	Helene Hanff	collection of letters between a writer in America and a bookshop in London
251	What I Talk About When I Talk About Running	Haruki Murakami
252	Cadiillac Desert: The American Desert and its Disappearing Water	Mark Reiser
253	The Art of Japanese Listening	Haru Yamada
254	Daring Greatly	Brene Brown
255	Plan B	Sheryl Sandberg
256	Emotional Agility	Susan David
257	Atlas of the Heart	Brene Brown
258	Dare to Lead	Brene Brown
259	From here to the great unknown	Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keogh	It’s a beautiful, honest memoir. Lisa Marie died while writing it so Riley finished it based on her notes and experiences.
260	Dreaming in hindi	Katherine Russel Rich	part memoir, part musing on how language makes us who we are
261	Mirrors of the Unseen	Jason Elliot	travels in Iran
262	Skyfaring	Mark Vanhoenacker	Essays about travel and flying from a pilot
263	Mediocre	Ijeoma Oluo	A fascinating, exhaustive and stunning read on how and why the American electorate felt a mediocre white man was more qualified to lead our country than an incredibly well educatoed, expereinced and articulate female
264	Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist	Judy Heumann
265	My Own Two Feet	Beverly Cleary
266	Conversations on Love	Natasha Lunn
267	Memorial Days	Geraldine Brooks	Gorgeous memoir about the death of her husband
268	Shattered	Hanif Kureishi
269	Calypso	David Sedaris
270	A Knock at Midnight: A Story fo Hope, Justice and Freedom	Brittany K. Barnett	Learned so much about the War on Drugs, outdated Federal drug laws, life in prison, Obama’s Clemency Initiative.
271	Diary of a Bookseller	Shaun Blythell
272	Bright Earth	Philip Ball	science non fiction on colour, pigments and dye. A bit of science, a bit of history and art, super enjoyable read
273	Fun Home	Alison Bechdel
274	Long Quiet HIghway	Natalie Godlberg
275	The Making of a Chef	Michael Ruhlman
276	Home Cooking and More Home Cooking	Laurie Colwin
277	Miriam's Kitchen	Elizabeth Erlich
278	Can't Even	Anne Helen Peterson	Millenial & work culture
279	Monoculture	FS Michaels
280	The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating	Elizabeth Tova Bailey	She becomes a snail expert in a most unlikely way.	1
281	A Wolf Called Romeo	Nick Jans	A cute animal story and so much more, about a lone wild wolf who befriends an Alaskan town.
282	Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story	Ann Kirschner
283	In Harm's Way	Dough Stanton	The full story of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis (as told by Quint in Jaws
284	No Time for Romance	Lucilla Andrews	she became a nurse in London during WWII; her story is the basis for the nurse character in Atonement by Ian McEwan.
285	Russian Tattoo	Elena Gorokhova	Russian immigrant struggles to adapt in the US after a failed marriage to an American man.
286	Dogland	Tommy Tomlinson	behind the scenes at Westminster Dog Show
287	The Ride of Her LIfe	Elizabeth Letts	tory of a road trip from Maine to California – on horseback!
288	Astoria	Peter Stark	an attempt to colonize the Pacific Northwest and drama ensues
289	As Nature Made HIm: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl	John Colapinto
290	My Lobotomy	Howard Dully
291	A Rip in Heaven	Jeanine CUmmins	True crime story from the family's point of view
292	Conflict is Not Abuse	Sarah Shulman
293	She Said	Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
294	Period Power	Maisie HIll
295	Care Of	Ivan Coyote
296	Barbarian Days	William Finnegan
297	Making Space for Indigenous Feminism	Gina Starblanket
298	In Waves	AJ Dungo
299	The Chronology of Water	Lida Yuknavitch
300	Amity and Prosperity	Eliza Griswold
301	Finding Freedom	Erin Frech
302	Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest	Melissa Arnot Reid
303	Wolfpack	Abby Wambach	Great graduation gift
304	Strapless	about John Singer Sargent and the woman who appears in one of his most famous (and scandalous! portraits Madame X. It is FASCINATING. I can’t stop talking about it.
305	Molly's Game	Molly Bloom
306	The Sum of Us	Heather McGhee	What racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together.” Being in a 15+ bi-racial marriage, this book was still very eye-opening for me.
307	Greenlights	Matthew McConaughey	So entertaining to listen to Matthew’s narration. I snort laughed frequently.
308	Travels with Myself and Another	Martha Gellhorn	Amazing stories of her travels as journalist with her husband Ernest Hemingway
309	Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden	Camille Dungy	I took my time with it because it was so beautiful and subsequently racked up some library charges… worth it. (And I’ll probably buy it
310	King Leopold's Ghost	Adam Hoschchild
311	Yellow Bird	Sienna Crane Murdoch
312	Stolen Focus	Johann Hari
313	Narcotopia	Patrick Winn
314	How to Hide an Empire	Daniel Immerwahr
315	Everyone Who Is Here Is Gone	Jonathan Blitzer
316	My Promised Land	Ari Shavit
317	Blood in the Machine	Brian Merchant
318	On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice	Adam Kirsch
319	JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century	Logevall
320	Ghost Wars or The Bin Ladens	Steve Coll
321	King: A Life	Eig
322	Mating in Captivity, The State of Affairs	Esther Perel
323	Watergate, The Threat Matrix	Graff
324	Bomb Shelter	Philpott
325	Jesus & John Wayne	Du Mez
326	There’s Always This Year	Hanif Abdurraqib
327	King Richard	Dobbs
328	Population 485	Michael Perry	If you read for the writing (rather than the topic), I recommend his wry and poetic voice. It doesn’t even matter what the book is about – I will read anything he writes. The way he combines words always astonishes me.
329	Babies are Not Pizzas	Rebecca Dekker	IF you’re pregnant or thinking about getting pregnant or want a different experience than the first time you were pregnant – a great book with a dumb title
330	Vanishing Treasures	Katherine Randall
331	Factfulness	Hans Rosling
332	Democracy Awakening	Heather Cox Richardson
333	Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park	Andy Mulvihill and Jake Rossen
334	Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories	Mike Birbiglia
335	Stay Sexy and Don't Get murdered	Heorgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgraff
336	The Tatooist of Auschwitz
337	Miracle in the Andes	Nando Parrado	He wrote a paragraph describing getting to the top of the peak that I think is one of the best pieces of writing I’ve ever read.
338	An Interrupted Life	Etty Hillesum
339	Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention	Johann Hari
340	Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World	David Epstein
341	A Mother’s Reckoning	Sue Klebold	the mom of Dylan Klebold. I TORE through it and sobbed for her. I am Dylan’s age, and, as I became a parent, I wondered about Dylan and Eric’s parents. I’m glad she shared her story and wish her many good things.
342	Irreparable: Three Lives. Two Deaths. One Story that Has to be Told	Mark Garadot	I remember when this story was in the news, and the book is quite well-written. I sped through it knowing the end but still on the edge of my seat.
343	The Ex-vangelicals	Sarah McCammon	Sarah is an NPR journalist who grew up in the same weird religion that I did, and she so thoughtfully and eloquently writes about her experience.
344	The Great Sex Rescue	Sheila Wray Gregoire	If you grew up in Christian purity culture, this book will help you unlearn all the nonsense.
345	Sand Talk How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World	Tyson Yunkaporta	Aboriginal experiences in Australia that are subtly mindblowing.
346	The Last Resort	Douglas Rogers	Changed my perception of violence and fear in the great wide world.
347	Unschooled — Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom	Kerry MacDonald
348	A Bright Shining Lie	Neil Sheehan	War detailed in all its great stupidity.
349	Spare	Prince Harry
350	Bicycling with Butterflies	Sara Dykman	she follows the monarch migration from Mexico to Canada and BACK by bike. Great story.
351	The Comfort Crisis	Michael Easter	about getting comfortable being uncomfortable, told through the lens of an Alaskan backcountry adventure.
352	Untangled	Lisa Damour	a MUST for parents of young/tween/teen girls
353	A Woman Among Wolves	Diane K. Boyd	she’s a wolf field biologist and these are her stories.
354	Pageboy	Elliot Page
355	I Don't	Clementine Ford
356	Women Don't Owe You Pretty	Florence Given
357	Rants in the Dark	Emily Writes
358	Becoming	Michelle Obama
359	Girt	David Hunt
360	Birth	Tina Cassidy
361	Scars Across Humanity	Elaine Storkey
362	Nonviolent Communication	Marshall B Rosenberg
363	Year of Yes	Shonda Rhimes
364	Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me	Mindy Kaling
365	Boy	Roald Dahl
366	Going Solo	Roald Dahl
367	The Swerve	Stephen Greenblatt
368	Mayflower	Nathaniel Philbrick
369	Painter to the King	Amy Sackville
370	SPQR	Mary Beard
371	Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents	Lindsay Gibson
372	The Highly Sensitive Person	Elaine Aron
373	Breath	James Nestor
374	Deep	James Nestor
375	Leslie F*cking Jones	Leslie Jones
376	Sure, I'll Join Your Cult	Maria Bamford
377	My Life as a Goddess	Guy Branum
378	Minor Feelings	Cathy Park Hong	I owe such a big thank you to Cathy Park Hong this book literally saved me during the pandemic and changed my life. The way she writes is indescribable.
379	Is It Hot In Here	Zack Zimmerman	Do you have religious trauma and love to laugh. This book is for you.
380	Start Without Me	Gary Janetti
381	Do You Mind If I Cancel?	Gary Janetti
382	Let The Record Show	Sarah Schulman
383	The Liar's Club	Mary Karr
384	All Over But the Shoutin'	Rick Bragg
385	How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final Chapter	Sherwin Nuland
386	Men Explain Things to Me	Rebecca Solnit	Feminist essays
387	A Field Guide to Getting Lost	Rebecca Solnit	Meditations on place and identity
388	Saving Time	Jenny Odell	Rethinking productivity and time
389	In Defense of Witches	Mona Chollet	Feminist history and empowerment
390	In Praise of Shadows	Jun'ichirō Tanizaki	aesthetic meditation on light and Japanese culture
391	Swimming in Antarctica	Lynne Cox
392	Forget Me Not	Jennifer Lowe-Anker
393	32 Yolks	Eric Ripert
394	The Last Black Unicorn	Tiffany Hadish
395	Little Weirds	Jenny Slate
396	Good Talk	Mira Jacob
397	Dead Wake	Erik Larson
398	We’re Going to Need More Wine	Gabrielle Union
399	Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness	Alexandra Fuller
400	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand
401	The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down* by Anne Fadiman
402	Nicholas and Alexandra	Robert K. Massie
403	Sex and the Citadel	Shereen el Feki
404	Catherine the Great	Robert K. Massie
405	Destiny of the Republic	Candice Millard
406	Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes	Tamim Ansary
407	Permanent Astonishment	Tomson Highway	beautiful writing about the tough subject of Residential Schools
408	Leave Only Footprints	Conor Knighton	him visiting all of the National Parks. A nice light read while also educational and interesting!
409	Soveitistan	Erika Fatland	about her travels to the different “Stans” in central Asia. Full of fascinating history and places you don’t often hear much about.
410	The Secret to Superhuman Strength	Alison Bechdel
411	The Life of Frederick Douglas: A Graphic Novel	David F. Walker
412	The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel	David F. Walker
413	All Creatures Great and Small	James Herriot
414	I Feel Bad About My Neck	Nora Ephron	To make you feel like you’re hanging out with friends	1
415	Essays After Eighty	Donald Hall
416	Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters	Anne Boyd Rioux
417	Women & Power: A Manifesto	Mary Beard
418	The Little Book of Hygge	Meik Wiking
419	The Living Great Lakes & Up North in Michigan	Jerry Dennis
420	Kings of the Yukon	Adam Weymouth	an exploration of the role of the King Salmon for the peoples along the Yukon River
421	If I Understood You Would I Have This Look On My Face?	Alan Alda	an exploration of communication and the art of connection
422	Eloquence of the Sardine	Bill Francois
423	Burnout	Emily & Amelia Nagoski
424	Before My Time, A Memoir of Love and Fate	Ami McKay	A true story that explores the genetic disorder passed down in the author family, how a member of a family contributed to its discovery, weaved with the history of eugenic studies and how it influences life decisions such as falling and love and having children. Very well written, informative and very touching
425	The Emotional Lives of Teenagers	Lisa Damour
426	The Garden Against Time	Rebecca Solnit
427	Working	Studs Terkel
428	Consider the Lobster	David Foster Wallace
429	The Odd Woman and the City	Vivan Gornick
430	Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl	Carrie Brownstein
431	All the Young Men	Ruth Burks Coker
432	Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal	Jeanette Winterson
433	Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less	Greg McKeown	I read it years ago when I had too much on my plate and couldn’t say no to anyone. It helped me identify my priorities and adjust my behaviors to align with what I really cared about. I recommend it to anyone who feels like they are giving a little bit of themselves to everyone/everything but never feeling like it’s good enough.
434	Dreaming of Ramada in Detroit	Aisha Sabatini Sloan	Especially for visual art lovers
435	The Faraway Nearby	Rebecca Solnit
436	Swimming Studies	Leanne Shapton	For recovering seriouathletes and visual artists alike
437	Ongoingness	Sarah Manguso	On motherhood and time
438	The Folded Clock	Heidi Julavitz	each entry starts “Today I” and her ruminations always surprise
439	Heavy	Kiese Laymon	on weight, race, family, and wounds
440	The Undertaking	Thomas Lynch	written by a funeral director who has seen it all, beautiful prose
441	Enchantment	Katherine May
442	The Electricity of Every Living Thing	Katherine May
443	Raising Hare	Chloe Dalton
444	The Wild Year	Kristyna Baczynski
445	The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House.	Kate Anderson Brower	t is all about the many non-political people who work in the White House who make it run. The housekeepers, ushers, doormen, cooks, florists. It is fascinating and funny at times and sometimes even quite gossipy.
446	Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global	Laura Spinney
447	The Genius Myth	Helen Lewis
448	Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe	Nancy Goldstone
449	The Mother Tongue - English and How It Got That Way	Bill Bryson
450	A Short History of Nearly Everything	Bill Bryson
451	The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors	Dan Jones
452	Stuck In The Middle With You	Jennifer Finney Boylan	Trans parent
453	Waiting for Birdy	Catherine Newman	Love her writing
454	Grass Beyond the Mountains	Richmond Hobson	Ranching in Canada
455	Four Seasons in Rome	Anthony Doerr	with young kids
456	The Long Walk	Slawomir Rawicz	Escape on foot over the Gobi desert
457	Travels with Charley	John Steinbeck	American roadtrip with dog
458	Never Cry Wolf	Farley Mowat	Love his writing
459	Touching the Void	Joe Simpson	Mountaineering accident
460	Last Places	Lawrence Millman	Northern
461	A Cook's Tour	Anthony Bourdain	Opinionated chef
462	Death on the Ice	Cassie Brown and Harold Horwood	Sealing leadership fail
463	Caught Inside	Daniel Duane	Surfing
464	Kon TIki Expedition	Thor Heyerdahl	Raft across Pacific
465	Surfcaster's Quest	Roy Rowan
466	Rites of Autumn	David Paige	Falconry
467	City of Djinns	William Dalrymple	Delhi
468	Paris to the Moon	Adam Gopnik	With young kids
469	Dirty Life	Kristin Kimball	Farming
470	Monk of Mkha	Dave Eggers	Coffee and Yemen
471	A Kim Jong-Il Production	Paul Fischer	North Korean propaganda
472	The Body Keeps the Score	Bessel van der Kolk	Trauma physiology
473	Brain on Fire	Susannah Cahalan	journalist investigates her own story
474	Hyperbole and a Half	Allie Brosh	depression graphic novel
475	Wishful Drinking	Carrie Fisher and Joshua Ravetch
476	Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea	Chelsea Handler
477	Tender Bar	J. R. Moehringer	boyhood in Long Island
478	Garlic and Sapphire	Ruth Reichl	cooking
479	Eat, Pray Love	Elizabeth Gilbert	search for self
480	Savage Inequalities	Jonathan Kozol	education
481	By The Lake of the Sleeping Children	Luis Alberto Urrea	border
482	Tattoos on the Heart	Greg Boyle	ministry working with gangs
483	Tree Cups of Tea	David Oliver Relin and Greg Mortenson	Pakistani rural life
484	A Problem from Hell	Samantha Power	genocide
485	Killer Angels	Michael Shaara	Gettysberg
486	Fatal Shore	Robert Hughes	Australia
487	Ominvore's Dilemma	Michael Pollan	food
488	Guardians of the Trees	Kinari Webb	health in Borneo
489	Field Notes from a Catastrophe	Elizabeth Kolbert	climate change
490	Song of the Dodo	David Quammen	island biography
491	In the Shadow of Man	Jane Goodall	primate field work
492	It's Raining Frogs and Fishes	Jerry Dennis	natural wonders
493	Chalice and the Blade	Riane Eisler	historical feminism
494	Legends of the American Desert	Alex Shoumatoff
495	Coming into the Country	John McPhee	Alaska stories
496	Reading Lolita in Tehran	Azar Nafisi
497	Maurice and Marilyn	Sophie Elmhirst
498	The Spy Who Couldn't Spell	Yudhichit Bhattacharjee
499	Moscow Rules	Jonna Mendez
500	The Family That Couldn't Sleep	D.T. Max
501	The Poincare Conjecture	Donal O'Shea
502	A Woman of No Importance	Sonia Purnell
503	Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates
504	The Postcard	Anne Berest	I think this is technically historical fiction, but it is based on the author’s research into her family’s experience of the holocaust.
505	Poet	Ada Calhoun	memoirs of daughters exploring their relationships with their fathers, writing, and NYC.
506	Negative Space	Lilly Dancyger	memoirs of daughters exploring their relationships with their fathers, writing, and NYC.
507	It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower	Michaela Wrong	fascinating account of politics, corruption, ethnicity and aid in Kenya
508	Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad	Michaela Wrong	must-read on Rwandan politics
509	I Didn’t Do It For You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation	Michaela Wrong	tells the story of little-known Eritrea and the role that foreign nations played in its wars
510	Catholic Discordance	Massimo Borghesi
511	Humankind: A Hopeful History	Rutger Bregman	especially now when the world seems to have gone mean and it just takes your breath away to consume any media.
512	Star Crossed	Heather Dune Malcolm and Simon Worrall
513	Farewell to Manzanar	Jonathan Haidt	not a particularly cozy read but important!
514	Big Chief Elizabeth	Giles Milton	It is about Lost Colony and so haunting.
515	The Undoing Project	Michael Lewis	dives into the fascinating friendship —Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky — that rewired our understanding of how we think, decide, and err
516	Science: A Pocketbook Guide the Universe	Neil DeGrasse Tyson	concise, mind-expanding journey through the cosmos— for those moments when your curiosity stretches beyond the everyday.
517	The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs	Steve Brusatte
518	Death by Black Hole	Neil DeGrasse Tyson
519	Like a Mother	Angela Garbes
520	Essential Labor	Angela Garbes
521	Wow - No Thank You	Samantha Irby	maybe it’s because we’re the same age, but I found so many of her stories to be absolutely hilarious
522	Bonk	Mary Roach	she investigates the science of sex and it’s completely fascinating
523	Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference	Rutger Bregman
524	Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language	Daneil Tammet
525	The Making of the British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present	Nicholas Crane
526	Hard Times	Studs Terkel
527	Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill	Sonia Purnell
528	Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill	Gretchen Rubin
529	The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World	Charles C. Mann
530	Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior	Leonard Mlodinow
531	Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less	Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
532	Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process	John McPhee
533	The Creative Act: A Way of Being	Rick Rubin
534	"What do you care what other people think?"	Rihard Feynman
535	The End is Always Near	Dan Carlin
536	The Coming Plague	Laurie Garrett
537	What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us: Who we become after tragedy and trauma	Mike Mariani
538	Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees	Lawrence Weschler	Weschler writing about artist Robert Irwin.
539	Money for Change	Kara Perez	how to think about, work with, and invest your money in ethical and green ways
540	At Large and At Small	Anne Fadiman
541	Sidewalk	Mitch Duneier
542	When the Heat Turns Rock Solid	Timothy Black
543	Rough Magic	Lara Prior-Palmer
544	The Story of San Michele	Axel Munthe
545	Diaries of Anais Nin	Anais Nin
546	The Book of Revenge	Dragan Todorovic
547	South	Ernest Hemingway
548	Down and Out in Paris and London	George Orwell
549	The 48 Laws of Power	Robert Greene
550	Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident	Donnie Eichar
551	Travel as a Political Act	Rick Steves
552	The Nineties	Chuck Klostermann
553	The Lost Language of Plants	Stephan Buhner
554	OAK: The Frame of Civilization	WB Logan
555	The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Powe	Shoshana Zuboff
556	The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI	Ray Kurzweil
557	Pure Human	Gregg Braden
558	A Beautiful Terrible Thing	Jen Waite	It is “light” enough for a beach read, but totally gripping and one I couldn’t put down!
559	A Promised Land	Barack Obama
560	Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives	Chris Bruntlett and Melissa Bruntlett
561	Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America	Laura Shapiro	It details how the modern convenience food industry shaped American culinary culture (and our conceptions of “housewives”) and it was FASCINATING.
562	Don’t Get Too Comfortable	David Rakoff	essay collections by the excellent writer and humorist
563	Half Empty	David Rakoff	essay collections by the excellent writer and humorist
564	Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of our Planet	Ben Goldfarb
565	Whole Again	Jackson McKenzie	If you feel like some parts of you need/could use some care and direction
566	The Dark Side of the Light Chaser	Debbie Ford	if you want to get a better idea about what you’re doing
567	Power of Habits	Charles Duhigg	If you want to get a grip on your habits
568	Awareness	Anthony De Mello	if you want to develop awareness, start here for simple ways to do so
569	Between a Rock and a Hard Place	Aron Ralston	about the guy who was trapped in a slot canyon alone for days and had to cut his own arm off… I read the whole book with my hand over my wide open mouth!
570	Shadow Divers	Richard Kurson	about scuba divers finding a German U-Boat off the coast of New York. So well written and exciting.
571	Crashing Through	Richard Kurson	about a man blind since age 3 getting an experimental surgery to see again. So so so interesting and thought provoking about SIGHT.
572	The Trapp Family Singers	Maria Von Trapp	Story of the family behind The Sound of Music. Just an absolutely wonderfully delightful book, from the very first page.
573	The Editor	Sara B. Franklin
574	Winnie and Nelson	Johnny Steinberg
575	Man of Good Hope	Johnny Steinberg
576	All We Can Save	Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
577	It's Not That Radical	Mikaela Loach
578	This Changes Everything	Naomi Klein
579	An Indigenous People's History of the United States	Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
580	Stamped from the Beginning	Ibram X Kendi
581	The Hundred Years' War on Palestine	Rashid Khalidi
582	The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine	Ilan Pappe
583	Perfect Victims	Mohammed El-Kurd
584	Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus	Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy	Such a fascinating, scary and exhilarating read! The chapters about Louis Pasteur’s development of the vaccine left me breathless with suspense (even though we all know how it all ends haha!).
585	The Man Who Caught the Storm	Brantley Hargrove	about the life of a storm chaser who dedicated his life to studying tornados. It is fascinating and compelling!
586	Walk with Me	Susan Kaufman	a really cool walking tour of NYC
587	Sitting Pretty	Rebekah Taussig	essential, about Taussig’s experience as a disabled woman
588	We were once a family	Roxanna Asgarian	devastating, describes events leading to Hart family murder-suicide
589	Finding the Mother Tree	Suzanne Simard
590	Barking to the Choir	Father Thomas Boyle
591	The Gift	Dr. Edith Eger
592	No Drama Discipline	Dan Seigel and Tina Bryson Payne
593	A Short History of Nearly Everything	Bill Bryson
594	In Love	Amy Bloom	a beautiful love story, very well told. It is her memoir as her husband gets diagnosed with Alzheimers and prepares for assisted suicide.
595	Quit Like a Woman	Holly Whitaker
596	This Naked Mind	Annie Grace
597	Financial Feminist	Tori Dunlap	set off a change in my financial mindset and the approachability and necessity of trying to care about finances and financial security
598	Uncanny Valley	Anna Wiener	made me appreciate that the foundation of the internet was built by/for bro culture, and how wild this invention has been in our lifetimes.
599	Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It	Ethan Kross
600	Shift: Managing Your Emotions So They Don’t Manage You	Ethan Kross
601	Unwinding Anxiety	Judson Brewer
602	There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America	Brian Goldstone
603	Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing as We Age	Mary Phipher
604	Tidy Up Your Life: Rethinking how to organize, declutter, and make space for what matters most	Tyler Moore
605	The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s most Endangered Resource	Chris Hayes
606	Ugliness	Moshtari Hilal
607	On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to be Good	Elise Loehnen
608	Paddle to the Amazon	Don Starkell	fantastic book about the adventures of a father and his 2 sons who canoed from Winnipeg, MB, Canada (my home city!) all the way TO THE AMAZON. They were chased by pirates, kidnapped, eaten by fire ants, stuck in a hurricane and much more.. highly recommend!
609	On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service	Anthony Fauci
610	The Splendid and the Vile	Erik Larson
611	Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir	Marie Yovanovitch
612	Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity	Lee Goldberg
613	A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America and the Woman that Stopped Them	Christopher C. Gorham
614	The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America	Daniel James Brown
615	Facing the Mountain: The True Story of Japanese American Heroes in WWII	Daniel James Brown
616	Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee	Casey Cep
617	Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love	Bruce Henderson
618	Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler
619	In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin	Erik Larson
620	The Wright Brothers	David McCullough
621	Madame Secretary	Madeline Albright
622	The Klansman's Son	R. Derek Black
623	Monsters	Claire Dederer
624	Here All Along	Sarah Hurtwitz
625	Brief Flashings of a Phenomenal World	Katie Arnold
626	Red Memory	Tania Brannigan
627	Strong Female Character	Fern Brady	She writes about her experiences as a late-diagnosed autistic woman and it’s both funny and perspective shifting.
628	Deep Creek	Pam Houston
629	The Journal Keeper	Phyllis Theroux
630	What Comes Next and How to Like It	Abigail Thomas
631	Liar's Club	Mary Kerr
632	Lit	Mary Kerr
633	Good Morning Monster	Catherine Gildiner		1
634	More Myself	Alicia Keys
635	Love Warrior	Glennon Doyle
636	I am Malala	Malala Yousafzai
637	Let Your Mind Run	Deena Kastor
638	The In-Between	Hadley Vlahos	It’s a memoir by a young hospice nurse. So good.
639	Brothers	Alex van Halen	life with Eddie, growing up thru going on the road. A sincere, tender memoir.
640	My Effin' Life	Geddy Lee	completely unexpected insider story, family and friendship
641	When the Good Gets Going	Graydon Carter	fascinating personal backstory and stylish career.
642	Lovely One: A Memoir	Ketanji Brown Jackson
643	The Risk of Sorrow: Intimate Conversations with a Holocaust Survivor	Valerie Foster	it’s about the friendship between a high school English teacher who was raised Catholic and a Holocaust survivor who comes to talk to her class. It’s such a beautiful story of interfaith exchange and resilience and friendship between very different kinds of women
644	Trick Mirror	Jia Tolentino	writing is really unmatched, very articulate and spot on about everything.	1
645	Happens Every Day	Isabel Gillies
646	Paula	Isabel Allende
647	What We Have	Anne Boesky
648	This Isn’t the Story You Think It Is	Laura Munson
649	The Quickening	Elizabeth Rush	on a ship to Antarctica, becoming a mum, and climate crisis
650	Rising	Elizabeth Rush	on floods and American cities
651	Counter-Texts: Language in Contemporary Art	Kim Dhillon	Oh, hey, I wrote one too! (I’m a terrible marketer). On language and whether it can be neutral and contemporary art
652	Rabbit	Pat Williams
653	The Hiltons: The True Story of an American Dynasty	J. Randy Taraborrelli
654	The Dark Queens	Shelley Puhak	It follows two adjacent queens in two 7th-century empires in modern-day France. The author does a really great job of describing the environment/politics at the time and decoding the behaviours and actions of the queens. Super interesting as it was such a patriarchal environment, but these two queens held power for decades, and our conceptions of women in power were influenced by these women as much as they were formed by the understandings of the time.
655	Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith	Barbara Brown Taylor
656	A Book of Angels	Sophy Burnham	I reread these every holiday season, or when I need to be reminded of magic and grace
657	Angel Letters	Sophy Burnham	I reread these every holiday season, or when I need to be reminded of magic and grace
658	The Crying Book	Heather Christle	a funny hybrid of science (the science behind tears/crying) and a fragmented memoir of sorts. I don’t know what to call a book like this, other than poetic. Christle is a poet, too, so no surprise! Plus, the cover art is so gorgeous (painted eyes shedding big, galaxy-sparkle tears) that the book looks wonderful on my coffee table. Highly recommend!
659	Running in the Family	Michael Ondaatje	the author has a magnificent speaking voice so I would highly recommend the audiobook
660	Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History	Paul Farmer	Dr Paul Farmer died just a year or two ago, what an incredible human he was
661	Miracle and Wonder	Bruce Headlam and Malcom Gladwell
662	Why Peacocks?	Sean Flynn	so funny
663	Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools	Dan C. Jones	Very thoughtful and nuanced look at the boarding schools.
664	A Greater Goal: The Epic Battle for Equal Pay in Women’s Soccer–and Beyond	Elizabeth Rusch	I couldn't put it down!
665	Dangerous Economies	Serena Zabin	feminist economic history of early empire in NYC
666	The Story of Helen Jewett	Patricia Cline Cohen	women’s history, rude of the popular press, early true crime reporting
667	The Kidnapping Club	Jonathan Wells	how nyc police supported southern slavery after fugitive slave act, political history
668	Taming Manhattan	Catherine McNeur	riveting environmental history, pig wars!
669	City of Ambition	Mason Williams	political history of nyc during new deal- inspiring about possibilities of public goods
670	Fear City	Kim Phillips-Fein	1970s economic crisis, political and economic history but very readable
671	Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City	Emily Brooks	And I’m going to shamelessly plug my own book because I worked so hard on it and I think it’s pretty good (women's history, history of policing, political history)
672	Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption, and the Privilege of American Motherhood	Gretchen Sisson	about mothers who give up their babies for adoption and the forces driving their decisions	1
673	Free	Amanda Knox	An incredibly beautiful memoir about reclaiming identity with kindness, philosophy and alot of acceptance
674	Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life	Jason Roberts
675	The Pillow Book	Sei Shonagon
676	We Tell Ourselves Stories	Alissa Wilkinson
677	Syme's Letter Writer	Rachel Syme	a recent book about the joys of correspondence! Looking for penpals now
678	My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants they Love	Jamaica Kincaid
679	Memories of a Dutiful Daughter	Simone de Beauvoir
680	A Very Easy Death	Simone de Beauvoir
681	Ways of Seeing	John Berger
682	A Short History of Progress	Ronald Wright
683	Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation	Andrew Stobo Sniderman
684	The Order of Time	Carlo Rovelli
685	A House in the Sky	Amanda Lindhout
686	In the Kingdom of Ice	Hampton Sides	about an ill-fated trip to discover the North Pole with lots of history about exploration and innovation at that time of human history.
687	Once Upon A Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen	Bob Greene	The story of the troop trains that all came through North Platte, Nebraska and the love that was shown them even with a smile, a cup of coffee, a donut, a slice of angel food cake, etc. Women all over the area saved their rations to use for baking to donate food to the troops. Men still return to visit and reminisce.
688	Love People, Use Things	Joshua Fields
689	Public Enemies	Bryan Burrough
690	A Girl Named Zippy	Gabrielle Hamilton
691	Sting-Ray Afternoon	Steve Rushin
692	I'll Drink to That	Betty Hallbreich
693	Rewire	Nicole Vignola	real, practical strategies that can actually change your life
694	Birding to Change the World	Trish O'Kane
695	Heartland	Sarah Smarsh
696	The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen	Jacques Pepin
697	The French Ingredient	Jane Bertch
698	The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning	Ben Raines		1
699	Traitor King	Andrew Lownie	about Duke of Windsor
700	Riverman	Ben McGrath
701	Women’s Work: the first 20,000 years	Elizabeth Wayland Barber	a book about the history of female labor, social influence, and textiles in ancient societies
702	Four Lost Cities	Annalee Newitz	a book about four ancient cities in different parts of the world and their success but also what led to their downfalls
703	The Fixed Stars	Molly Wizenberg
704	Max Perkins: Editor of Genius	A. Scott Berg
705	How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone	Cameron Russell	coming of age as a young successful model & very reflective of negatives of fashion industry
706	Splinters	Leslie Jamison	divorce and new motherhood / balancing motherhood with career
707	Boys of My Youth	Jo Ann Beard
708	The Men in My Country	Marilyn Abildskov
709	The Crane Wife	CJ Hauser
710	How to Write an Autobiographical Novel	Alexander Chee
711	A Dangerous Threshold for Pain	Imani Perry
712	Homecooking	Laurie Colwin
713	Abandon Me	Melissa Febos
714	I Came All This Way to Meet You	Jami Attenberg
715	Reading the Waves	Lidia Yuknavitch
716	Care and Feeding	Laurie Woolever
717	The Other Significant Others	Rhaina Cohen
718	The Upstairs Delicatessan	Dwight Garner
719	Manjhi Moves a Mountain	Nancy Churnin	A man in India spent 20 YEARS chiseling through a mountain to give his village better access to medical care after his wife died without it.
720	Word Freak	Stefan Fatsis	about competitive Scrabble
721	The Universe in 100 Colors	Terry Mudge and Tyler Thrasher
722	American Bulk: Essays on Excess	Emily Mester
723	How to Tell When We Will Die	Johanna Hedva
724	No Self No Problem	Chris Niebauer
725	Daughterhood	Emily Adrian	a mix of memoir, biography of her mother, and autofiction. It was SO moving and thoughtfully written. A love letter to the American West as well. Highly recommend!
726	We All Want Impossible Things	Catherine Newman	about caring for her dying best friend, which was amazing and wonderful and you should totally read it! She’s written many others but that one is … perfection.
727	The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods	Greg King	about the discovery and exploitation of the redwoods and the activists that fought to protect them
728	His Excellency	Joseph Ellis	Washington biography it doesn’t paint him in purely heroic light, but rather as someone flawed but incredibly determined. I’ve loved that positioning. This is a piece of history that I thought I knew fairly well, but I’m learning so much.
729	The Parrot Who Owns Me	Joanna Burger	about a woman’s relationship with her parrot Tiko. I loved it.
730	The Demon of Unrest	Erik Larson	Erik Larson’s Civil War book, The Demon of Unrest, was also EXCELLENT! Full grandpa mode over here, when paired with a nice bourbon.
731	Boom Town	Sam Anderson	A truly wild ride through Oklahoma City’s history as a place full of schemers. I did not care about OKC or their basketball team or their weather before reading this book, but I DEVOURED every delicious sentence.
732	Cry of the Kalahari	Mark and Delia Owens	It is an old favorite-I first read it when I was in grad school with no money, living in squalor, and suffering to expand my mind! I felt great kinship with the Owen’s travails in the Kalahari! If you are living a cashless, dogged existence this book is an inspiration to keep struggling because perseverance can lead to great results!
733	It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful	Jack Lowery	it’s about the role of art and artists in Act Up. Really interesting if you are into art, activism, public health, social change, queer history, or any of the above!
734	The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper	Roland Allen
735	Explorers’ Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery and Adventure	Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert
736	Syllabus	Lynda Barry
737	Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide	Isabel Quintero
738	Shackleton’s Journey	William Grill
739	Radioactive	Lauren Redniss
740	The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling	John Muir Laws
741	Belonging	Nora Krug
742	Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster at the Edge of Space	Adam Higginbotham	meticulously researched and hugely engaging, even when you know tragedy lies ahead. It absolutely changed the way I thought about the Challenger disaster, but also changed the way I thought about my own work and how organizations can learn and evolve.
743	Knife	Salman Rushdie
744	Between the Mountain and the Sky	Maggie Doyne
745	The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers	Maxwell King
746	A History of the World in 100 Objects	Neil MacGregor
747	Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature	Linda Lear
748	The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World	Virgina postrel
749	As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto	Julia Child
750	The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo	Tom Reiss
751	You're Not the Problem	Helen Villiers and Katie McKenna	I know “narcissist” is thrown around a lot these days, but it’s really helpful if you have toxic family members with narcissistic behaviors
752	River Town	Peter Hessler
753	Flags of Our Fathers	James Bradley and Ron Powers
754	The Smartest Kids in the World	Amanda Ripley
755	On Living	Kerry Egan
756	Down the Drain	Julia Fox	She really is so Julia
757	The Design of Everyday Things	Don Norman	one of my favorite books about design and humans and how we work with things.
758	Small Is Beautiful	E.F. Schumacher	completely re-wrote my understanding of economics.
759	The Dawn of Everything	David Graeber	wonderful and full of deep thoughts
760	Debt: The FIrst 5000 Years	David Graeber	wonderful and full of deep thoughts
761	White Mughals	William Darymple
762	On Tyranny	Timothy Snyder
763	Rest is Resistance	Tricia Hersey
764	Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers During WWII	Liza Mundy
765	What Happened to You?	Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey
766	Bullshit Jobs	David Graeber
767	The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University	Kevin Roose
768	The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle	Anna Shectman
769	Signs of Survival	Joshua Greene and Renee Hartman	if anyone is looking for a great book to recommend for middle-grade readers
770	Dead in The Water	Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel	introduced me to an entire world I had never even considered (the high-stakes world of international shipping and the insurance industry…? Who knew?)
771	Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet	Hannah Ritchie	his book helped me understand the planet today in the context of our history and unlearn many incorrect assumptions about pollution, deforestation, nuclear energy and what to eat. Highly recommend. I particularly admire the author’s balanced and thoroughly researched approach!
772	Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy	Carolyn Burke
773	Slow Days, Fast Company	Eve Babitz
774	City of Quartz	Mike Davis	Essential Los Angeles reading!
775	Begetting: What Does It Mean to Create A Child?	Mara van der Lugt
776	The View From Breast Pocket Mountain	Karen Hill Hanton
777	Beautiful Boy	David Sheff
778	Glass Castle	Jeannette Walls
779	An Unquiet Mind	Kay Redfield Jamison
780	Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child	Bob Spits
781	All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake	Tiya Miles
782	They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us	Hanif Abdurraquib	should be required reading for all Americans–I gift it all the time. A must read, especially if you are a music lover.
783	The Girl Who Smiled Beads	Clementine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
784	Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation	Jon Ward
785	Fair Play	Eve Rodsky
786	Asperger's Children	Edith Sheffer
787	Red Scarf Girl	Ji-Li Jiang
788	The Still Point of the Turning World	Emily Rapp Black	her type of witnessing and bearing its complications, the zooming out and zooming in, has ultimately taught me deep, ongoing lessons about grief (witnessing my own, witnessing others), action (in the sense of rilke’s “you must change your life” and also just as reflection), how we are story creatures, the life of language, a willingness to look at being alive
789	Sanctuary	Emily Rapp Black	they have vastly altered and improved how I love, via lessons on empathy, how we witness our own hardships and others’ suffering, and just the composition of her attention
790	Poster Child: A Memoir	Emily Rapp Black	they have vastly altered and improved how I love, via lessons on empathy, how we witness our own hardships and others’ suffering, and just the composition of her attention
791	Trans Girl Suicide Museum	Hannah Baer
792	How to Live Rich	Ramit Sethi
793	Non-Violent Communication	Marshall Rosenberg
794	Girls that Invest	Simran Kaur
795	ROAR	Dr. Stacy Sims	Game changing info on how to exercise in all times in a women’s life. I’m mid-30s but wish I had this information when I was pregnant and happy to have it before going into peri-menopause. I feel so much more empowered to age and age well with strength!
796	Boarn a Crime	Trevor Noah	I was standing on line at a pharmacy once and a random person walked up to me and said, “You know what’s a great book? Born a Crime by Trevor Noah.” I was like, oooohhhkaaaay… but now I get it, haha.
797	Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919	Stephen Puleo
798	The American Way of Death	Jessica Mitford	she’ll make you want to love your loved ones harder, be kinder to yourself as you think about eternity, and never, EVER get embalmed
799	Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death	Caitlin Doughty	excellent (and excellent for the morbid young people in your life)
800	From Here to Eternity	Caitlin Doughty	about different countries’ rituals around death. It brought me a lot of peace and made me think about dying differently!!
801	Connie	Connie Chung
802	Entrances and Exits	Michael Richards	some slow parts, but the behind-the-scenes of Seinfeld parts were fascinating
803	Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum	Antonia Hylton
804	Prequel	Rachel Maddow
805	Buried in the Sky	Amanda Padoan and Peter Zuckerman	mountain climbing disaster books are a niche I get into it at least once a year
806	Botany of Desire	Michael Pollan
807	Jesus and John Wayne	Kristin Kobes Du Mez
808	The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther	Jeffrey Haas
809	Thick: And Other Essays	Tressie McMillan Cottom
810	Astoria: Astor and Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Tale of Ambition and Survival on the Early American Frontier	Peter Stark
811	Rediscovery of America Native Peoples & the Unmaking of U.S. History	Ned Blackhawk
812	This is Your Brain on Birth Control: How the Pill Changes Everything	Sarah Hill
813	Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments	Saidiya Hartman	super recommend if you work in humanities/archives/etc
814	A Moveable Feast	Ernest Hemingway
815	Did I Ever Tell You?	Genevieve Kingston	I have a soft spot for memoirs about losing a mom
816	Floreana	Margrit Wittmer	ASTONISHED at her first-hand account of settling an island in the Galapagos. Read it and be amazed at what humans can do!
817	Comfort of Crows	Margaret Renkl	It’s divided by seasons and has one essay about nature for each week of the year. I started it December 21 with Winter, week 1, and have been reading one essay per week. Highly recommend!
818	Street Gang	Michael Davis	It’s about the origins of Sesame Street
819	A Brief History of Everyone Woho Ever LIved	Adam Rutherford	This is a fascinating and even fun book about genetics, which debunks a few commonly held beliefs.
820	The Book of Eels	Patrik Svensson	yes, you want to read a book about eels, trust me!
821	Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness	Peter Godfrey-Smith
822	The Living Medicine	Lina Zeldovich
823	I'm Afraid of Men	Vivek Shraya
824	One Day We’ll All Be Dead And None of This Will Matter	Scaachi Koul
825	The Skin We’re In	Desmond Cole
826	Underland	Robert Macfarlane
827	The Trees in My Forest	Bernd Heinrich	the Trees in my Forest changed how I see the woods, even as an avid nature bather.
828	TRAVELS IN SIBERIA	Ian Frazier	a travelogue (he literally crosses Siberia) that is also humor, history, politics, a survey of Russian literature, the story of mysterious wedding-watermelon-givers and not one but two misdirected flamingos that fell out of the sky over Siberia (and survived)! – it is absolutely fantastic
829	GREAT PLAINS	Ian Frazier	similar treatment of America, also wonderful
830	PARADISE BRONX	Ian Frazier	similar treatment of America, also wonderful
831	THE POSSESSED: ADVENTURES WITH RUSSIAN BOOKS AND THE PEOPLE WHO READ THEM	Elif Batuman	dishy and hilarious and profound in equal measure. Batuman also writes novel that will hit especially fiercely if you or someone you love or hate (or both!) spent time around Harvard in the late ’90s and early aughts, but her take on scholars and lit nerds (and authors themselves) is like Gossip Girl in book club form, if GG had been Jane Austen and not Dan, a loser. I am a sucker for brilliant AND hilarious people, and oh my word, that’s Elif Batuman.
832	The Hidden Life of Trees	Peter Wohlleben
833	Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: the Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women	Hetta Howes
834	Color: A Natural History of the Palette	Victoria Finlay
835	No Bad Parts	Richard Schwartz
836	Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook & Eat	Bee Wilson
837	The Long-Legged House	Wendell Berry
838	Traveling Mercies	Anne Lamott
839	Seven Brief Lessons on Physics	Carlo Rovelli
840	Determined	Robert Sapolsky	dense but absolutely mind blowing
841	Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger	Lisa Donovan
842	The Nature of Oaks	Doug Tallamy	It’s fascinating how much life can come from one tree!
843	You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey	Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar	SO good, I bought my own copy
844	Queens of Animation	Nathalia Holt
845	Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History		Richard Thompson Ford
846	Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America’s Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt	Daniel Barbarisi
847	Moonwalking with Einstein	Joshua Foerr
848	What You Have Heard Is True	Carolyn Forche	true account of a poet from San Diego being drawn into the civil war in El Salvador.
849	Make It Scream, Make It Burn	Leslie Jamison
850	Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism	Amanda Montell	Cultish is great – I went around for a while pointing out that EVERYTHING is a cult! ;)
851	Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life	William Finnegan	Loved loved loved. Adventure, world travel, contemplative insights, a road less traveled. An all time favorite.
852	Leaving Before the Rains Come	Alexandra Fuller	outstanding divorce memoir
853	SEX SLEEP EAT DRINK DREAM: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF YOUR BODY	Jennifer Ackerman	Almost like you are on Miss Frizzle’s magic schoolbus, but for adults!
854	The Underground Girls of Kabul	Jenny Nordberg
855	Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences	Matthew J. C. Clark	one of the best books I’ve read in years. I’d recommend it for anyone pondering love, friendship, loneliness, home renovation, separation, and beyond!
856	Joy Enough	Sarah McColl	Beautiful writing about loss and divorce
857	Tightrope	Nichola Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn
858	In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin	Lindsey Hilsum	brilliant and devastating
859	The Meaning of Mary Magdalene	Cynthia Bourgeault
860	Radical Candour	Kim Scott
861	The WIld Trees	Richard Preston
862	The Falcon Thief	Joshua Hammer
863	Running with Sherman	Christopher McDougall
864	The Orchid Thief	Susan Orlean
865	American Poison	Daniel Stone	easy to read dive into how heroic women can be forgotten by the history we learn in schools
866	The Looming Tower	Lawrence Wright	I was fascinated by the contrast btw my understanding of Al Qaeda and “sharia law” from the news with the actual history of the organization. I learned so much about organizational dysfunction (the CIA/FBI at the time!), the psychology of fundamentalists, and more.
867	The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates	Wes Moore
868	It’s What I Do: A Photographers Life of Love and War	Lynsey Addario
869	See No Stranger	Valerie Kaur
870	Ace	Angela Chen	SO eye-opening, highly recommend for anyone interested in a cultural look at sexuality, society, and relationships, including different styles of friendship
871	You Don't Belong Here	Elizabeth Becker	a wonderful look at some of the female photojournalists who were on the ground during the vietnam war
872	What the Dead Know	Barbara Butcher	absolutely fascinating memoir of a death investigator in NYC & one of the first women to hold that role
873	The Chiffon Trenches	Andre Leon Talley
874	Here If You Need	Kate Braestrup	after losing her husband and becoming an Unitarian minister for the Maine Game Wardens. I’d love to make it into an HBO series—it has everything, suspense and deep questions and humor!
875	The Universe and the Teacup	K. C. Cole	a marvelous survey of the types of mathematics that are explored beyond your mandated credits. It’s poetic and silly.
876	Grunt	Mary Roach	my personal favorite because I learned so much about how the US military has touched every corner of society. (Plus, a chicken cannon?!?)
877	The Real Thing	Ellen McCarthy	by the Washington Post's former weddings reporter – sort of part memoir, part collection of essays about love and relationships and life
878	Love You Hard	Abby Maslin
879	The Light of the World	Elizabeth Alexander	read it nearly a decade ago and I still think about it frequently.
880	The Honey Bus	Meredith May	uses backyard beekeeping as a metaphor for her difficult childhood
881	Somebody's Duaghter	Ashley Ford		1
882	Dirtbag Queen	Andy Corren	When his mother passed away in 2021, he wrote an incredibly funny and honest obituary that went viral, unwittingly planting the seed for this hilarious and heartwarming tale of his upbringing and discovering his own identity in a nontraditional way. Plus, the author himself does the audio version and it’s incredible!
883	Paper Love	Sarah Wildman
884	Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss	Margaret Renkl	short stories that weave into a beautiful memoir about the author’s love of nature, her mother, and her experiences with loss. Tragic and stunning. It’s a book I’ll return to when I need a reminder to hold tight to what means the most.
885	WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE	Becky Cooper	Becky returns to Harvard to research the murder of an anthropology student who was rumored to have been killed by a professor
886	A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST	Rebecca Solnit
887	Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America’s Second Slavery	Earl Swift
888	The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice	Dan Slepian
889	The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers	Jim Morris
890	The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance	Rebecca Clarren
891	The Lightmaker’s Manifesto	Karen Walrond
892	Getting Along	Amy Gallo
893	Likeable Badass	Alison Fragale
894	Noah’s garden: restoring the ecology of our own backyards	Sara Stein	It’s a personal narrative as well as scientific and I found it very inspiring
895	The World Without Us	Alan Wiseman	sobering but also beautiful imagining of what would happen to the earth if we all just disappeared
896	The One Hundred Mile Diet	Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon
897	Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman	Richard Feynman	great memoir by Richard Feynman, which I randomly first read at age 10 or so. The physics went over my head and still do but it’s a great read
898	The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry	John Mark Comer
899	The Inner Game of Tennis	Timothy Gallwey
900	If You See Them: Young, Unhoused and Alone in America	Vicki Sokolik
901	You Don’t Belong Here	Elizabeth Becker	about female war correspondents covering the Vietnam War…after reading The Women I wanted to know more…this was a different take and sooo good.
902	The Observologist	Giselle Clarkson	This book will change the way you look at the world!
903	The 1619 Project	Nikole Hannah-Jones
904	We Were Eight Years in Power	Ta-Nehisi Coates
905	A Day in the Life of Abed Salama	Nathan Thrall
906	The Fire Next Time	James Baldwin
907	Fat Talk	Virginia Sole-Smith
908	Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against the Apocalypse	Emily Raboteau	Both about parenthood/motherhood but both about so so much more (identity, race, love, climate change, etc.).
909	Book and Dagger	Elyse Graham	WW2 about academics, librarians, and artists who helped fight against the axis of evil. Great chapters on those who had to flee the N@zis and who helped fight back using their cultural and institutional knowledge.It truly gave me a sense of hope for our current political climate
910	Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty	Dorothy Roberts	on medical racism
911	Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World	Dorothy Roberts	on the child welfare system
912	The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion	Diane Foster Green
913	Dissolving Pain	Jim Robbins and Les Fehmi	for sufferers of chronic pain
914	The Way Out	Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv	for sufferers of chronic pain
915	Catch & Kill	Ronan Farrow		1
916	In My Time of Dying	Sebastian Junger
917	Dryer's English	Benjamin Dryer	that one’s a wild card – a grammar and style guide by the copy chief at , I think, Random House
918	Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs	Beth Ann Fennelly
919	Save me the Plums	Ruth Reichl	Food memoir	1
920	Eat a Peach	David Chang	Food memoir
921	The Vanity Fair Diaries	Tina Brown	about the heyday of magazine publishing
922	Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears	Michael Shulman	a must for anyone who nerds out on the award show
923	The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center	Rhaina Cohen	fascinating and moving
924	Stories from Jonestown	Leigh Fondakowski	(who also did The Laramie Project if you’re familiar with Matthew Shepherd’s story). This is narrative nonfiction and has stuck with me for a decade–I still cringe whenever I hear someone say “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid.”
925	Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves	Alison Wood Brook	Truly wonderful!!
926	We Took to the Woods	Louise Dickenson Rich	to make you feel like you're hanging out with friends
927	Surprised by Oxford	Carolyn Weber	I lived in Oxford ages ago, and she depicts it so beautifully and vividly. That combined with her poetic memoir of a soul was captivating. Her life and experiences were, in many ways, very different from mine, but her writing was so beautiful that I felt like I was living the story with her.
928	The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million	Daniel Mendelsohn	the best nonfiction book I've ever read
929	Midnight in Chernobyl	Adam Higgenbottom
930	Poverty, by America	Matthew Desmond
931	Into the Raging Sea	Rachel Slade
932	Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets	David Simon
933	Door to Door	Edward Humes
934	All the Living and the Dead	Hayley Campbell
935	So Sorry for Your Loss	Dina Gachman
936	Strangers to Ourselves	Rachel Aviv
937	Acne	Laura Chinn
938	Kitchen Confidential	Anthony Bourdain
939	The Girls of Atomic City	Denise Kiernan