February is African American History Month, and to celebrate, I thought we’d choose a selection of great books on featuring African American history for nonfiction picks this week. I also wanted to point out the amazing website that the Library of Congress (along with other national agencies) has put together for African American History Month. [...]
For the past week or two, the media has been talking about a new book, called Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua. (Read the NY Times review here.) This got me thinking about other nonfiction books that have sparked debate in the past. Here are a couple of controversial nonfiction titles (and [...]
Oliver Sacks is one of our most popular nonfiction authors. (Here’s a link to his books in our catalog.) Lists of read-alikes are really popular and quite well-developed for fiction, but nonfiction is more of a challenge. After writing my last post about various online sites to help you find new books to read, I [...]
Looking back on the top memoirs and biographies is always interesting, as we see the lives and the themes that captured our attention. If you’re interested, compare it to 2009′s top biographies. But let’s get to the books you voted as the most popular by checking them out with your library cards! Here they are…
I always find it interesting to see what issues captured people’s attention this year, and so here’s a list of the top 10 current affairs and social issues books. From the economic crisis to the environment to managing change, it’s clear this year hasn’t been an easy one. Here’s hoping for better news in 2011!
Yikes! I just realized the last nonfiction picks post I did was almost 2 months ago. What happened to November? It seems that lately I’ve come across various good nonfiction reads that are centered around the Amazon. So, in honor of that serendipity, and to warm us up in this dreary December, here is a [...]
I came across this list of the American bestsellers in the 20th Century. I spent a few minutes scanning the bestseller lists by decade. Especially in the later half of the 20th C., a few (obvious) trends emerge in the nonfiction bestseller lists – money/success, sex, and food. So for this week, I thought I’d [...]
The 2010 Nobel Prize winners are being announced this week and next – check out our quickie post about the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. We’ve selected a few books related to history of the Prize itself, and the controversies surrounding it. These have all been well-reviewed: we hope you enjoy them!
Stephen Hawking’s new book called The Grand Design comes out next week, and today I finished putting together some science reading lists for physics, astronomy, and mathematics. So in honor of these two (admittedly unrelated) events, this week’s list of nonfiction picks are all about science.
It seems that along with these cooler days, I’m hearing the leaves crunching under my feet more often, and seeing little kids playing football with those huge marshmallow-y helmets. I’m thinking that fall is coming and it’s not going to be stopped, even though hardly any of my tomatoes have ripened. I do love fall [...]
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