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Current & Popular Non-Fiction

The first two lists below show the most in-demand non-fiction titles this week at my county library.  The third list shows some titles that caught my fancy, even if those library people don’t agree.

NON-FICTION BIOGRAPHY
  • No easy day : the autobiography of a Navy SEAL : the firsthand account of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen
  • The amateur : Barack Obama in the White House by Edward Klein
  • The price of politics by Bob Woodward
  • The homemade pantry : 101 foods you can stop buying & start making by Alana Chernila
  • The blood sugar solution : the ultrahealthy program for losing weight, preventing disease, and feeling great now! by Mark Hyman
  • Paleo comfort foods : homestyle cooking for a gluten-free kitchenby Julie Mayfield
  • Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
  • Let’s pretend this never happened : (a mostly true memoir) by Jenny Lawson
  • My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall
  • Yes, chef : a memoir by Marcus Samuelsson
  • Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz
  • Kicking and Dreaming by Ann and Nancy Wilson
  • Paris : a love story : a memoir by Kati Marton
BOOKS THAT LOOK INTERESTING; I MIGHT READ
  • Kicking and Dreaming by Ann and Nancy Wilson
  • Too Big to Know by David Weinberger
  • How Music Works by David Byrne
  • Gifts of the Crow : how perception, emotion, and thought allow smart birds to behave like humans by John Marzluff and Tony Angell
  • Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
  • The Enlightened Cyclist by Bike Snob
  • Benjamin Franklin’s Humor by Paul Zall

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