I’m hoping to make the first six months of 2015 a time of focusing on nonfiction reading. I am in the mood to read lots of nonfiction, as a contrast to my Cybils middle grade fantasy feast, and I have lots of nonfiction books on my TBR list. These are twelve that I already have on hand, or I’ve already requested at the library.
Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: fifty years of mysteries in the making by John Curran.
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris.
Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende.
Escape from Camp 14: one man’s remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West by Blaine Harden. READ, January 2015.
Fooling Houdini: magicians, mentalists, math geeks, and the hidden powers of the mind by Alex Stone. READ, January 2015.
Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France by Karen Espinasse.
Nothing to Envy: ordinary lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. READ, January 2015.
Talking Hands: what sign language reveals about the mind by Margalit Fox.
Five Days at Memorial: life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital by Sheri Fink. READ, January 2015.
Becoming Dickens: the invention of a novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.
These books all feed into my fascinations with languages, other cultures, history, mystery, magic, and technology’s effect on our lives and thoughts. I’m looking forward to reading them.
Ooooo….thank you! I need more non-fiction in my life. 😉
I have enjoyed Kathleen Norris’s Amazing Grace ~
I’m anticipating reading your reviews. I have Amazing Grace on my shelf. I’m not familiar with Talking Hands or Words in a French Life, but they are now on my TBR list. Thanks!