Nonfiction

I realized I’ve started to read a lot more nonfiction as of late (this page was created in August of 2015). I wanted to keep a list of those books separate from my generic lists of everything read. I wasn’t sure how to divide the list so went to the standard Dewey Decimal Classification system (Wikipedia link). I’ve created the sub-headings and then dropped the books in order based on their subgroups listed here. I looked them up using the Library of Congress.

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000: Computer Science, Knowledge and Systems

• 002: Sixpence House – Paul Collins

100: Philosophy & Psychology

• 152 – 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy – Luminita D. Saviuc
• 153
  • If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? – Alan Alda
  • Supercommunicators – Charles Duhigg
  • The Willpower Instinct – Kelly McGonigal
  • Crucial Conversations – Patterson, Grenny, McMillan & Switzler
• 155
  • You Are Not Alone – Debbie Augenthaler
  • The Power of Forgiveness – Joan Gattuso
  • Grief Works – Julia Samuel
• 158
  • How to be Happy (Or at Least Less Sad) – Lee Crutchley
  • The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
  • Smarter Faster Better – Charles Duhigg
  • Whose Mind Is It Anyway? – Lisa and Franco Esile
  • Getting to Yes – Roger Fisher, William Ury & Bruce Patton
  • 10% Happier – Dan Harris
  • The Path to Personal Power (The Dynamic Mind Series #1) – Napoleon Hill
  • How to Own Your Own Mind (The Dynamic Mind Series #2) – Napoleon Hill
  • Burn After Writing – Sharon Jones
  • The Self-Love Experiment – Shannon Kaiser
  • Live Life Colorfully – Jason Naylor
  • Difficult Conversations – Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen
  • Win at Losing – Sam Weinman
• 170 – Ordinary Goodness – Edward Viljoen
• 171 – Doing Good Better – William MacAskill
• 175 – Superhero Ethics – Travis Smith
• 177
  • Simple Giving – Jennifer Iacovelli
  • The Power of Kindness – Piero Ferrucci
• 179 – The Generosity Factor – Ken Blanchard and S. Truett Cathy

200: Religion

• 201 – Faitheist – Chris Stedman
• 294
  • Finding the Blue Sky – Joseph Emet
  • The Art of Communicating – Thich Nhat Hanh
• 299
  • The Four Agreements (Toltec Wisdom Collection #1) – Miguel Ruiz
  • The Mastery of Love (Toltec Wisdom Collection #2) – Miguel Ruiz
  • The Voice of Knowledge (Toltec Wisdom Collection #3) – Miguel Ruiz

300: Social Sciences

• 305
  • We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America – Ijeoma Oluo
  • So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
• 306
  • Sorted – Jackson Bird
  • The Deviant’s War – Eric Cervini
  • Boy Erased – Garrard Conley
  • The Velvet Rage – Alan Downs
  • One of These Things First – Steven Gaines
  • From Boys to Men – Ted Gideonse & Rob Williams
  • Male Sex Work and Society – Victor Minichiello & John Scott (eds.)
  • Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight – Loren A. Olson
  • When Brooklyn Was Queer – Hugh Ryan
  • Homo Domesticus – David Valdes Greenwood
  • Not Gay – Jane Ward
• 320 – Don’t Think of an Elephant! – George Lakoff
• 323 – The Children of Harvey Milk – Andrew Reynolds
• 328 – Kill Switch – Adam Jentleson
• 330 – Nudge – Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
• 332
  • The Automatic Millionaire – David Bach
  • Start Late, Finish Rich – David Bach
  • The Book on Rental Property Investing – Brandon Turner
  • Crashed – Adam Tooze
• 335 – The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels
• 338
  • A Truck Full of Money – Tracy Kidder
  • Blowout – Rachel Maddow
• 347 – Sisters in Law – Linda Hirshman
• 361
  • Ray & Joan – Lisa Napoli
  • The Cost-Benefit Revolution – Cass R. Sunstein
• 362
  • Her Best-Kept Secret – Gabrielle Glaser
  • You Will Not Have My Hate -Antoine Leiris (Trans. Sam Taylor)
  • No Blanks, No Pauses – Shelly McNamara
  • The Kid – Dan Savage
  • Voices of LGBTQ+ – Lynda Wolters
• 364 – Crime Dot Com – Geoff White
•  371
  • Outward Bound: Crew Not Passengers – Josh Miner & Joe Boldt
  • The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth – Alexandra Robbins
• 378 – Harvard’s Secret Court – William Wright

400: Language

• 423 – The Professor and the Madman – Simon Winchester

500: Pure Science

• 510 – The Man Who Knew Too Much – David Leavitt
• 551 – Quakeland – Kathryn Miles
• 595 – The Mosquito – Timothy C. Winegard

600: Technology

• 616
  • Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies – Michael Ausiello
  • The Anxiety Toolkit – Alice Boyes
  • Burn Rate – Andy Dunn
  • Let Go of Emotional Overeating and Love Your Food – Arlene Englander
  • An Unquiet Mind – Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
  • Overcoming Passive Aggression – Tim Murphy and Loriann Hoff Oberman
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
• 617 – Dr. Mütter’s Marvels – Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
• 630 – Farm City – Novella Carpenter
• 636 – Comet’s Tale – Steven Wolf
• 641
  • Eat a Peach – David Chang w/ Gabe Ulla
  • Khabaar – Madhushree Ghosh
  • Dessert Can Save the World – Christina Tosi
• 648 – The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up – Marie Kondo
• 649 – That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week – Ana Homayoun
• 650
  • Managing Up – Rosanne Badowski and Roger Gittines
  • What Color is Your Parachute? 2016 – Richard Bolles
  • Your One Word – Evan Carmichael
  • HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across – Harvard Business Review
  • Managing Up (The 20-Minute Manager Series) – Harvard Business Review
  • Thriving Through Uncertainty – Tama Kieves
  • Get It Done – Michael Mackintosh
• 658 – What Millennials Want From Work – Jennifer J. Deal and Alec Levenson

700: Arts & Recreation

• 709 – Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World – Sharon Waxman
• 741
  • Are You My Mother? – Alison Bechdel
  • Fun Home – Alison Bechdel
  • The Secret to Superhuman Strength – Alison Bechdel
  • No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics – Justin Hall (Ed.)
  • Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It – Anne Ishii, Chip Kidd and Graham Kolbeins
  • Drawn Together – Leah Pearlman
  • Sense of Wonder – Bill Schelly
• 782 – Girl In A Band – Kim Gordon
• 791
  • Wishful Drinking – Carrie Fisher
  • Role Models – John Waters
• 793 – Word Nerd – John D. Williams, Jr.
• 796 – Friday Night Lights – H.G. Bissinger

800: Literature

• 812 – The Laramie Project – Moisés Kaufman
• 818
  • Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
• 821
  • I Love You, Call Me Back – Sabrina Benaim
  • Who Murdered Chaucer? – Jones, Yeager, Dolan, Fletcher & Dor
• 823
  • A Jane Austen Education – William Deresiewicz
  • Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre – Glynnis Fawkes
  • Jane Austen, the Secret Radical – Helena Kelly
  • What Matters in Jane Austen? – John Mullan
  • Young Jane Austen: Becoming a Writer – Lisa Pliscou
  • Jane Austen’s Guide to Good Manners – Josephine Ross
  • Camp Austen– Ted Scheinman
  • Jane Austen: A Brief Life – Fiona Stafford
  • Jane Austen: Cover to Cover – Margaret Sullivan
  • In Youth is Pleasure & I Left My Grandfather’s House – Denton Welch
  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson
  • Jane Austen at Home – Lucy Worsley
  • The Mother of the Brontës – Sharon Wright
• 828
  • Abridged Classics – John Atkinson
  • Howards End is on The Landing – Susan Hill
• 848 – Saint Exupéry – Stacy Schiff
• 895 – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami

900: History & Geography

• 910 – The Secret Lives of Codebreakers – Sinclair McKay
• 914 – Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell
• 917
  • Tip of the Iceberg – Mark Adams
  • River Queens – Alexander Watson
• 928 – The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
• 945 – Bella Tuscany – Frances Mayes
• 955
  • Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood – Marjane Satrapi
  • Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return – Marjane Satrapi
• 956 – Israel/Palestine and the Queer International – Sarah Schulman
• 968 – Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller
• 972 – Waiting for Snow in Havana – Carlos Eire
• 977 – Shortest Way Home – Pete Buttigieg
• 994 – Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence – Doris Pilkington Garimara (Nugi Garimara)

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