Non-fiction Book Reviews

A

All That Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black
American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning by Kate Sweeney
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride by Cary Elwes

Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier by Jim Ottaviani
Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil de Grasse Tyson

B

Becoming by Michelle Obama
Big Picture, The: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll
Black and Mormon by Newell G. Bringhurst and Darren T. Smith

Black Heroes of the American Revolution by Burke Davis

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Kimmerer, Robin Wall

C

Container Gardening for Dummies by Bill Marken
Cooking Gene, The: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty

Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going by Trefil, James and Tyson, Neil deGrasse

D

Devil in the White City, The: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

E

Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution by Amber Tamblyn

F

Find Momo: Hide and Seek With an Adventurous Border Collie by Andrew Knapp
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement in Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein and Susan Kim
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby

G

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zones by Richard Lloyd Parry
Glass Castle, The by Jeanette Walls
Great Agnostic, The: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought by Susan Jacoby

Great Courses, The: Life and Works of Jane Austen, The by Devoney Looser

Great Courses, The: Myths, Lies, and Half-truths of Language Usage by John McWhorter

H

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry
Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction by Jarrett J. Kososczka
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals by Sy Montgomery
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne: In One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Blackwell

I

I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. by Michael Eric Dyson
I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriett Jacobs

J

Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Jane Austen for Dummies by Joan Klingel Ray

K

Kid Artists: True Tales of Childhood from Creative Legends by David Stabler

L

M

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable

Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Manual For Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

N

NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman

O

Obama: An Intimate Portrait: The Historic Presidency in Photographs by Pete Souza

On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss

P

Pale Blue Dot, The: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There by Richard Wiseman
Prodigal Tongue, The: The Love-hate Relationship Between American and British English by Lynne Murphy

Q

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

R

Remarkably Jane: Notable Quotations on Jane Austen by Jennifer Adams
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. Vs. Inequality by Jonah Winter

S

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

Self-driven Child, The: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud and Ned Johnson.
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Spidermania: Our Friends on the Web by Alexandra Sly and Dennis Kunkel

Stay Curious! A Brief History of Stephen Hawking by Kathleen Krull
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall
Suburban Legends: True Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Minivans by Sam Stall

T

Tea with Jane Austen by Kim Wilson
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini

U

V

A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phyllis Wheatley, Slave Poet by Kathryn Lanskey

W

We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
Where Am I Now? Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

X

Y

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-billion-year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin

Z

Zombie Nation: From Folklore to Modern Frenzy by E.R. Vernor