Nina’s Reading Blog

Comments on books I am reading/listening to

My To Read List: Nonfiction

  • Murphy, Michael Brian with Gail R. Shapiro, NLD from the Inside Out
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman (rec. by Helen)
  • Yunus, Mohammad, Banker to the Poor

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