* denotes a title I read or saw live with my kids
Biography and Autobiography
All You Can Ever Know Nicole Chung
The Background…Erasmus Hendrik van Loon
The Backwoods of Everywhere R. E. Burrillo
Barracoon* Zora Neale Hurston
Bear in the Back Seat Kim DeLozier & Carolyn Jourdan
Becoming Dr. Seuss Brian Jay Jones
Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo
Black Boy (American Hunger) Richard Wright
Bold Spirit Linda Laurence Hunt
The Bonanza King Gregory Crouch
Born a Crime Trevor Noah
Born Standing Up Steve Martin
The Boys In The Boat Daniel James Brown
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer
Brown Girl Dreaming* Jacqueline Woodson
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup Susan Orlean
The Burgermeister’s Daughter Steven Ozment
Calypso David Sedaris
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice* Phillip Hoose
A Clearing in the Distance Witold Rybczynski
Cultural Amnesia Clive James
Dad is Fat Jim Gaffigan
The Dangerous Animals Club Stephen Tobolowsky
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life Yiyun Li
A Dream Called Home Reyna Grande
Educated Tara Westover
Escape from Camp 14 Blaine Harden
George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm Miranda Carter
The Girl Explorers Jayne Zanglein
The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls
The Happiness Philosophers Bart Schultz
The High Sierra Kim Stanley Robinson
House of Gucci Sara Gay Forden
House of Wits Paul Fisher
How to Create the Perfect Wife Wendy Moore
Ill Met By Moonlight W. Stanley Moss
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
The Irregulars Jennet Conant
Irving Berlin: American Troubadour Edward Jablonski
Jim Henson: The Biography Brian Jay Jones
Lab Girl Hope Jahren
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey Lady Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon
Love Thy Neighbor Ayaz Virji & Alan Eisenstock
The Map that Changed the World Simon Winchester
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon Joseph Mitchell
Me Talk Pretty One Day* David Sedaris
A Mighty Long Way Carlotta Walls Lanier & Lisa Frazier Page
My First Summer in the Sierra John Muir
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers Tamara Thornton
Nothing Daunted Dorothy Wickenden
Of Monkey Bridges and Bahn Mi Sandwiches Oanh Ngo Usadi
Oh My America Sara Wheeler
On Gold Mountain Lisa See
100 Things Dodger Fans Should Know… Jon Weisman
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
Philip Larkin James Booth
The Possessed Elif Batuman
The Professor and the Madman Simon Winchester
Reinventing the Enemy’s Language (Part 1) Various
The River of Doubt Candice Millard
The River War Winston Churchill
Running Away to Home Jennifer Wilson
St. Francis of Assisi G. K. Chesterton
Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold
Somebody’s Daughter Ashley Ford
Such A Strange Lady Janet Hitchman
Thy Hand, Great Anarch Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man Frank Bergon
The Ungrateful Refugee Dina Nayeri
Vacationland John Hodgman
The Voice is All Joyce Johnson
We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing James Whittaker
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang
Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz Barbara Babcock
A Woman’s Story Annie Ernaux
The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston
The World That Was Ours Hilda Bernstein
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion
Science and Math
After the Grizzly Peter Alagona
The Age of Wonder Richard Holmes
All About Electricity* Ira M. Freeman
American Eclipse David Baron
Anesthesia Kate Cole-Adams
Bad Astronomy Phillip Plait
Basin and Range John McPhee
The Better Angels of Our Nature Steven Pinker
Between Hope and Fear Michael Kinch
The Big, Bad Book of Botany Michael Largo
The Big Thirst Charles Fishman
Biophilia E. O. Wilson
Blink Malcolm Gladwell
Broad Band Claire Evans
Caesar’s Last Breath Sam Kean
Conifers of California Ronald Lanner
A Crack at the Edge of the World Simon Winchester
Darwin’s Ghosts Rebecca Stott
Death From The Skies Phillip Plait
The Demon-Haunted World Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
The Disappearing Spoon Sam Kean
An Economist Gets Lunch Tyler Cowen
Elephants on Acid Alex Boese
Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake
Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence Joseph Mazur
Full Spectrum Adam Rogers
Fuzz Mary Roach
The Gap Thomas Suddendorf
The Ghost Map Steven Johnson
Grunt Mary Roach
Gulp Mary Roach
Hallucinations Oliver Sacks
Herding Hemingway’s Cats Kat Arney
The History of Pi Petr Beckmann
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms Richard Fortey
How Old Is The Universe? David Weintraub
How To Randall Munroe
How We Got to Now Steven Johnson
The Hunt for Vulcan Thomas Levenson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
The Island of the Colorblind Oliver Sacks
Lab Girl Hope Jahren
Last Chance to See Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars Lixing Sun
The Little Book of Black Holes Steven Gruber & Frans Pretorious
The Logic of Life Tim Harford
Love and Math Edward Frenkel
The Map that Changed the World Simon Winchester
Music, Sound, and Sensation Fritz Winckel
Musicophilia Oliver Sacks
My Beloved Brontosaurus Riley Black (Brian Switek)
The Nothing That Is Robert Kaplan
Outliers Malcolm Gladwell
Packing for Mars Mary Roach
Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies Agustin Fuentes
Range David Epstein
Reading the Rocks Marcia Bjornerud
The Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt
Science at the Edge John Brockman, ed.
Scurvy Stephen Bown
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Carlo Rovelli
Sex on Six Legs Marlene Zuk
Single Digits Marc Chamberland
Spook Mary Roach
Stiff Mary Roach
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn
Stuff Matters Mark Miodownik
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons Sam Kean
A Taste for the Beautiful Michael J. Ryan
Underbug Lisa Margonelli
Under the Sea Wind Rachel Carson
The Vagina Bible Dr. Jen Gunter
The Violinist’s Thumb Sam Kean
What If? Randall Munroe
Where Good Ideas Come From Steven Johnson
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Caitlin Doughty
Words and Rules Steven Pinker
The World in a Grain Vince Beiser
History
100 Year History of the Tule River Mountain Country Jeff Edwards
The Age of Wonder Richard Holmes
Allensworth The Freedom Colony Alice Royal
American Amnesia Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson
An American Plague* Jim Murphy
Atlantic Simon Winchester
Behemoth Joshua Freeman
Behind the Bears Ears R. E. Burrillo
The Better Angels of Our Nature Steven Pinker
Between Hope and Fear Michael Kinch
Bomb* Steve Sheinken
The Bonanza King Gregory Crouch
The Boys In The Boat Daniel James Brown
Broad Band Claire Evans
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis Mark Noll
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice* Phillip Hoose
The Color of Law Richard Rothstein
A Crack at the Edge of the World Simon Winchester
Cultural Amnesia Clive James
Darwin’s Ghosts Rebecca Stott
Destiny of the Republic Candice Millard
Devil in the Grove Gilbert King
Divine Vintage Joel Butler & Randall Heskett
Dying of Whiteness Jonathan Metzl
England Under the Stuarts G. M. Trevelyan
Falling Garrett Soden
A Fever in the Heartland Timothy Egan
Full Spectrum Adam Rogers
George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm Miranda Carter
The Ghost Map Steven Johnson
Ghost Ship Brian Hicks
Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams Jill Jonne
A History of the World in 6 Glasses Tom Standage
Ill Met By Moonlight W. Stanley Moss
Iron Curtain Anne Applebaum
The Irregulars Jennet Conant
Jesus and John Wayne Kristin Kobes Du Mez
The Lost Gutenberg Margaret Davis
The Mechanical Horse Margaret Guroff
A Mighty Long Way Carlotta Walls Lanier & Lisa Frazier Page
The Mosquito Timothy Winegard
On Gold Mountain Lisa See
Opium John Halpern & David Blistein
The Other Slavery Andrés Reséndez
Overthrow Stephen Kinzer
Palimpsest Matthew Battles
A Paradise Built in Hell Rebecca Solnit
Part of Our Time Murray Kempton
Pathogenesis Jonathan Kennedy
A Peace to End All Peace David Fromkin
Play it Loud Brad Tolinsiki & Alan DiPerna
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh Daina Ramey Berry
The Pseudoscience Wars Michael Gordin
The Pursuit of Glory Tim Blanning
The Radium Girls Kate Moore
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals Richard White
Red Tails, Black Wings John B. Holway
Remembering Jim Crow Various (oral history)
Republic of Detours Scott Borchert
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve Stephen Greenblatt
The River of Doubt Candice Millard
The River War Winston Churchill
Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe
Scurvy Stephen Bown
Sex and the Constitution Geoffrey Stone
The Slaves’ War Andrew Ward
The Stonewall Reader Various Authors
Sweetness and Power Sidney W. Mintz
Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World William Alexander
The Swerve Stephen Greenblatt
The Taste of War Lizzie Collingham
They Thought They Were Free Milton Meyer
Trafalgar Tom Pocock, ed.
Turn Right at Machu Picchu Mark Adams
Underground Haruki Murakami
Uppity Women of Medieval Times Vicki León
The Wager David Grann
The Way We Never Were Stephanie Koontz
Whatever Happened to the Metric System? John Bemelmans Marciano
When Books Went to War Molly Manning
White Rage Carol Anderson
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang
Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz Barbara Babcock
Philosophy, Religion, & Politics
American Amnesia Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson
The American Way of Eating Tracie McMillan
Areopagitica John Milton
Are Women Human? Dorothy Sayers
The Art of War Sun Tzu
Because of Sex Gillian Thomas
The Better Angels of Our Nature Steven Pinker
Beyond Opinion Ravi Zacharias, ed.
The Bible Tells Me So Peter Enns
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis Mark Noll
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas Cass Sunstein
Constitutional Personae Cass Sunstein
Cultural Amnesia Clive James
Denial: The Unspeakable Truth Keith Kahn-Harris
Dying of Whiteness Jonathan Metzl
The End of Policing Alex Vitale
Essays: First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feline Philosophy John Gray
The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan
The Fire This Time Jesmyn Ward, ed.
Gift From the Sea Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Happiness Philosophers Bart Schultz
Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams Jill Jonnes
The Hero With A Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell
Heretics G. K. Chesterton
The Honor Code Kwame Anthony Appiah
How Pleasure Works Paul Bloom
How to be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi
In Defense of Witches Mona Chollet
In Praise of Folly Erasmus
In Search of Ancient Roots Kenneth J. Stewart
Jesus and John Wayne Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Love Thy Neighbor Ayaz Virji & Alan Eisenstock
A Nation of Nations Tom Gjelten
Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich
Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin
Nudge Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler
The Omni-Americans Albert Murray
The Opium of the Intellectuals Raymond Aron
Orthodoxy G. K. Chesterton
The Paranoid Style in American Politics Richard Hofstadter
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein
A Pluralistic Universe William James
The Purity Myth Jessica Valenti
Reconstructing the Gospel Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death Albert Camus
The Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt
The Rise of Adam and Eve Stephen Greenblatt
The Sacred and the Profane Mircea Eliade
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind Mark Noll
The Second Sex (Part 1) Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex (Part 2) Simone de Beauvoir
Sex and the Constitution Geoffrey Stone
Simon, Who is Called Peter Mackenzie Mulligan
The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois
The Stonewall Reader Various Authors
The Swerve Stephen Greenblatt
Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu
A Tear and a Smile Kahlil Gibran
They Thought They Were Free Milton Meyer
Twelve Ordinary Men John MacArthur
The Ungrateful Refugee Dina Nayeri
Unprotected Texts Jennifer Knust
A Vindication of the Rights of Women Mary Wollstonecraft
Walden Two B. F. Skinner
The Way We Never Were Stephanie Koontz
We Need New Stories Nesrine Malik
We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
White Evangelical Racism Anthea Butler
Why Does the World Exist? Jim Holt
Why Society Needs Dissent Cass Sunstein
Music and the Arts
Everything Bad is Good For You Steven Johnson
The Hermitage Cats Nicolai Gol & Maria Haltunen
How to Read Now Elaine Castillo
Listen to This Alex Ross
Music, Sound, and Sensation Fritz Winckel
Musicophilia Oliver Sacks
Pandora’s Jar Natalie Haynes
The Perfect Wagnerite George Bernard Shaw
Play it Loud Brad Tolinski & Alan DiPerna
Schumann on Music Robert Schumann
The Shakespeare Wars Ron Rosenbaum
Testimony Dmitri Shostakovich & Solomon Volkov
This Thing We Call Literature Arthur Krystal
Wagnerism Alex Ross
What Are You Looking At? Will Gompertz
The White Man’s Guide Dana Schwartz
Why Mahler? Norman Lebrecht
Other Non-Fiction
Alarms and Diversions James Thurber
All the Single Ladies Rebecca Traister
America Eats! Pat Willard
American Capitalism John Kenneth Galbraith
Areopagitica John Milton
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The Backwoods of Everywhere R. E. Burrillo
The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations Charles Harrington Elster
The Book of Difficult Fruit Kate Lebo
Changing My Mind Zadie Smith
City Life Witold Rybczynski
Cultural Amnesia Clive James
Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Don’t Make Me Pull Over Richard Ratay
Eldorado Bayard Taylor
Essays Francis Bacon
The Grasshopper Trap* Patrick McManus
Grounded Seth Stevenson
Happy City Charles Montgomery
Home Economics Wendell Berry
How To Be Alone Jonathan Franzen
How to Invent Everything Ryan North
How to Write a Sentence Stanley Fish
Impossible Journeys Matthew Lyons
It’s All Relative A. J. Jacobs
Just My Type Simon Garfield
Languages of Truth Salman Rushdie
The Library Stuart Kells
A Man Without A Country Kurt Vonnegut
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon Joseph Mitchell
The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze James Thurber
Mules and Men Zora Neale Hurston
Ninety Percent of Everything Rose George
Noodling for Flatheads Burkhard Bilger
On Bullshit Harry Frankfurt
On the Map Simon Garfield
Our Common Wealth Jonathan Rowe
The Patch John McPhee
Poetry Notebook Clive James
The Romantic Economist William Nicholson
A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold
The Sense of an Ending Frank Kermode
A Sense of Life Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Sketches and Poems E. B. White
Sketches and Satires S. J. Perelman
Skyfaring Mark Vanhoenacker
Studies in Words C. S. Lewis
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace
Talking to Strangers Malcolm Gladwell
Timekeepers Simon Garfield
Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man Frank Bergon
Underground Haruki Murakami
The Unexpected Universe Loren Eiseley
Walden Henry David Thoreau
The Well Educated Mind Susan Wise Bauer
A Will Rogers Treasury Will Rogers, Bryan Sterling, Frances Sterling
Within the Context of No Context George W. S. Trow
The Zen of Fish Trevor Corson
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