My To Read List: Nonfiction

• Fasnan, Ladyfingers and Nun’s Tummies
• Righter, The Battle over Hetch Hetchy
• Alain de Botton, Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy (rec by Kathy K)
• Tobar, Translation Nation
• Nomani, Standing Alone in Mecca
• Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (rec. by Mary N.)
• Blakeslee, The Body Has a Mind of its Own
• Christine Montrose, Body of Work (memoir of a med student)
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel
• Florey, Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
• Weiner, Eric, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World
• Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
• Maggie Mamen, Nonverbal Learning Disabilities and Their Clinical Subtypes: a Handbook for Parents and Professionals, 2006 Edition, revised and expanded.
• Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World
• Mark J. Penn, Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes(recommended by Hiromi S.)
• Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace
• Thomas Friedman: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution
• Joseph Shapiro, No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
• Tammet, Daniel, Embracing the Wide Sky
• Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper’s Wife (rec. by Helen)
• Yunus, Mohammad, Banker to the Poor
• Crystal, David, The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left
• Orlean, Susan, The Orchid Thief (recommended by Diego H.)
• Shirky, Clay, Here Comes Everybody (rec. by Claire)
• Schilain, The Alphabet vs the Goddess or vice versa (rec by Beth)
• Murphy, Michael Brian, NLD from the Inside Out: Talking to Parents, Teachers, and Teens About Growing up with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities
• Shulman, Beth, The Betrayal of Work (recommended by Jean Choi)
• Ian Ford and Stephanie Hamilton, A Field Guide to Earthlings: An Autistic/Asperger View of Neurotypical Behavior  http://www.afieldguidetoearthlings.com/
• Isabelle Maynard, China Dreams: Growing Up Jewish in Tientsin, 1996, the story of a Russian Jewish girl growing up in 1920s-1940s China
• Jean-Francois Revel and Matthieu Ricard, The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
• Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
• Susan Schaller, A Man Without Words
• Bruce S. Feiler, Learning to Bow: An American Teacher in a Japanese School (I think I read this already)
• Harry Wu, Troublemaker HV8964.C5W85 1996 (McKeldin)
• Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Unweaving the Rainbow
• Tim Cahill, Pecked to Death by Ducks (travel stories)
• Holger Kersten, Jesus Lived in India: His Unknown Life Before and After the Crucifixion
• Barry Parker, Search for a Super Theory: From Atoms to Superstrings (Plenum 1987)
• Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
• Linda Lear, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
• Lydia Bird, Sonnet: One Woman’s Voyage from Maryland to Greece
• Susan Brind Morrow, The Names of Things: A Passage in the Egyptian Desert
• Barbara Victor, The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Laureate and Burma’s Prisoner
• Terence Ward, Searching for Hassan: An American Family’s Journey Home to Iran
• Pete Egocscu with Roger Gittines, Pain-Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain 
• Malcolm Gladwell, Blink (rec by Sumanth): about intuitiveness and human behavior
• Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, on human behavior and psychology