Hi everyone, for our final week of reviewing some of the most notable books of 2018 we’re focusing on Non-Fiction titles recommended by the New York Times.
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EBOOK NON-FICTION TITLES:
Bad Blood Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou:
Calypso by David Sedaris:
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt:
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy:
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover:
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis:
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien:
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 by Ramachandra Guha:
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright:
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan:
In Pieces by Sally Field:
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown:
Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs:
PRINT NON-FICTION TITLES:
Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig:
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us by Joseph J. Ellis:
American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer:
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold:
Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault:
Bad Blood Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou:
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding…Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis by Sam Anderson:
Calypso by David Sedaris:
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts:
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt:
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography by Deborah Levy:
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze:
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin:
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams:
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy:
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover:
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker:
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith:
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman:
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis:
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien:
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright:
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon:
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan:
In Pieces by Sally Field:
The Library Book by Susan Orlean:
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry:
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown:
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell L Moore:
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid:
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren Hilgers:
The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum:
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman:
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer:
Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs:
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen:
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir by Casey Gerald:
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore:
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler:
What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha:
Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere by Hillary Chute:
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas:
Have a great day!
Linda, SSL
References:
100 Notable Books of 2018 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/19/books/review/100-notable-books.html
