Nina's Reading Blog

Comments on books I am reading/listening to

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

2 Responses to “My To Read List: Nonfiction”

  1. joan davidson said

    Well, I’ve read only two of the books on your unfathomable list
    l)Obama’s beautiful book—and it’s hard to believe youve not read it yet It is well-written, open, frank and extremely moving.
    2)Sue Orlean’s book, which is quite UNlike the film. Fortunately, I read the book before I saw the absurd movie. You will enjoy the book, though sometimes the “thief” is …dare I say “larger than lfe?” a bit unbelievable.

  2. Nina Liakos said

    Why unfathomable?

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