A list of great nonfiction reads not on the Best Sellers list from Summer 2015
July - September 2015 Issue
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See also:
- Featured Review: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- Fiction Recommendations
- Previous Issues
Alexander, Elizabeth. The Light of the World: A Memoir.
Barnett, Cynthia. Rain: A Natural and Cultural History.
Bellow, Saul. There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction.
Bissonnette, Zac. The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute.
Bolick, Kate. Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own.
Browder, Bill. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice.
Bruni, Frank. Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania.
Cheng, Eugenia. How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics.
Close, Frank. Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy.
Cohen-Solal, Annie. Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel.
Conway, Ed. The Summit: Bretton Woods, 1944: J.M. Keynes and the Reshaping of the Global Economy.
Crane, David. Went the Day Well?: Witnessing Waterloo.
Crawford, Matthew B. The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction.
Dreger, Alice. Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science.
Frank, Barney. Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage.
Gazzaniga, Michael S. Tales From Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience.
Gibson, Carrie. Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day.
Givhan, Robin. The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled Into the Spotlight and Made History.
Gordon, Charlotte. Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley.
Harden, Blaine. The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom.
Hay, Daisy. Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli: A Strange Romance.
Helm, Sarah. Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World.
Holliday, Graham. Eating Viet Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table.
Holmes, Rachel. Eleanor Marx: A Life.
Impey, Chris. Beyond: Our Future in Space.
Jackson, Angela. It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time. (Poetry)
Jensen, Frances E. The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults.
Julavits, Heidi. The Folded Clock: A Diary.
Kozol, Jonathan. The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time.
Kruse, Kevin M. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America.
Kunkel, Thomas. Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker.
Leader, Zachary. The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964.
Lieberman, Jeffrey A. Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry.
Longerich, Peter. Goebbels: A Biography.
McCullough, David. The Wright Brothers.
Mann, Sally. Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs.
Marsh, Henry. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery.
Mays, Andrea E. The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio.
Nafisi, Azar. The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books.
Nelson, Maggie. The Argonauts. (Memoir)
Nimura, Janice P. Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back.
Nordhaus, Hannah. American Ghost: The True Story of a Family’s Haunted Past.
Norris, Mary. Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen.
O’Donnell, James J. Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity.
Offit, Paul A. Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine.
Osborne, Steve. The Job: True Tales From the Life of a New York City Cop.
Packer, Tina. Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare’s Plays.
Paul, Richard. We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program.
Perry, Grayson. Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle To Be Understood.
Pilon, Mary. The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite Board Game.
Pinckney, Darryl. Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy.
Posner, Gerald. God’s Bankers: A History of Money & Power at the Vatican.
Price, Catherine. Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection.
Putnam, Robert D. Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis.
Reeves, Richard. Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II.
Ronson, Jon. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed.
Sacks, Oliver. On the Move: A Life.
Schultz, Howard. For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice.
Schwartz, A. Brad. Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News.
Shapiro, Beth. How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction.
Simic, Charles. The Lunatic. (Poetry)
Slevin, Peter. Michelle Obama: A Life.
Smith, Tracy K. Ordinary Light: A Memoir.
Steele, Shelby. Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country.
Strauss, Barry. The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination.
Szymborska, Wislawa. Map: Collected and Last Poems.
Teege, Jennifer. My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past.
Tolan, Sandy. Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land.
Vance, Ashlee. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.
Wolf, Hubert. The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal.
Yoshino, Kenji. Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial: The Story of Hollingsworth v. Perry.
Zaleski, Philip. The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings; J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.
Zantovsky, Michael. Havel: A Life.
Zinovieff, Sofka. The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me: An Aristocratic Family, a High-Society Scandal and an Extraordinary Legacy.