Citizen Reader

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. Text in bold is commentary; sorry for the lack of commentary this week, but the weekend kind of got away from me.

Aldrin, Buzz – No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon
Cooper, Anderson – The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
Darling, Ron – Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life [Baseball memoir, by New York Mets pitcher Darling.]
Diaz, Cameron and Sandra Bark – The Longevity Book: The Biology of Resilience, the Privilege of Time, and the New Science of Aging [350,000 first printing.]
Draut, Tamara – Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America [Draut is also the author of the book Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-somethings Can't Get Ahead.]
Ericsson, Anders & Robert Pool – Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise [From Amazon: "From the world’s reigning expert on expertise comes a powerful new approach to mastering almost any skill." Brother. Just reading the phrase "expert on expertise" makes me want to become an expert on punching experts on expertise.]
Fuhrman, Joel – The End of Heart Disease
Guillebeau, Chris – Born for This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do
Harrison, Kathryn – True Crimes: A Family Album [Harrison's a big name in memoirs--known particularly for The Kiss, a "true story about a woman who slept with her father."]
Holt, Nathalia – Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Huffington, Arianna – The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
Jahren, Hope – Lab Girl
Jayne, Samantha – Quarter Life Poetry: Poems for the Young, Broke and Hangry [This one's getting a lot of press. Here's the sort of thing you can expect.]
Lillien, Lisa – Hungry Girl Clean & Hungry: Healthy Recipes for Clean Eating in the Real World
Lyons, Dan – Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
McBride, James – Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown [McBride is also the author of the fantastic memoir The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.]
Passan, Jeff – The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of Baseball’s Most Valuable Commodity
Pezzullo, Ralph – Left of Boom: How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
Raeburn, Paul & Kevin Zollman – The Game Theorist’s Guide to Parenting: How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal with the Toughest Negotiators You Know—Your Kids
Rickards, James – The New Case for Gold
Scott, Jonathan & Drew – Dream Home: The Property Brothers’ Ultimate Guide to Finding & Fixing Your Perfect House
Siegel, Kate – Mother, Can You Not? [From Amazon: "Based on the wildly popular Instagram account @CrazyJewishMom."]
Soukup, Ruth – Unstuffed: Decluttering Your Home, Mind, and Soul [Expect to see a lot of uncluttering books in the wake of Marie Kondo's bestseller.]
Stahl, Lesley – Becoming Grandma [250,000 first printing.]
Tassler, Nina – What I Told My Daughter: Lessons from Leaders on Raising the Next Generation of Empowered Women
Tuteur, Amy, M.D. – Push Back: Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting
Wheelan, Charles – Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters
Williams-Paisley, Kimberly – Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again
Wilson, Katherine – Only in Naples: Lessons in Food and Famiglia from My Italian Mother-in-Law
Ying, Chris – The Wurst of Lucky Peach: A Treasury of Encased Meat [A cookbook/scrapbook about sausages.]

So, what do you think? Anything look good there?

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. Text in bold is commentary.

Ashe, Josh – Eat Dirt: Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It [100,000 printing.]
Behar, Howard – The Magic Cup: A Business Parable About a Leader, a Team, and the Power of Putting People and Values First
Blanning, Tim – Frederick the Great: King of Prussia [I've not heard of him before, but if you look him up on Amazon, he's written quite a few histories. I'd like to check this one out, actually, but wow, 688 pages.]
Bryson, Francine – Country Cooking from a Redneck [I'd never heard of Bryson either--here's her ad copy: "Few people know that national pie champion Francine Bryson got her start on the cooking contest circuit at age sixteen with a savory stuffed pork loin—that won first place."]
Budig, Kathryn – Aim True: Love Your Body, Eat Without Fear, Nourish Your Spirit, Discover True Balance!
Burroughs, Augusten – Lust & Wonder [You know, just the other day I wondered what Augusten Burroughs was up to. I read a novel by an author named Rainbow Rowell, and the credit on her author photo is Augusten Burroughs. Is he taking photos and writing new books? This one by the popular memoirist is about "the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York."]
Conrad, Lauren – Lauren Conrad Celebrate [Wow, 200,000 first printing.]
Donofrio, Jeanine – The Love & Lemons Cookbook: An Apple-to-Zucchini Celebration of Impromptu Cooking
Hochschild, Adam – Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 [This one's been getting a lot of attention.]
Hollwich, Matthias and Bruce Mau Design – New Aging: Live Smarter Now to Live Better Forever
Kearney, Kirsten – Block Wonders: How to Build Super Structures in Minecraft
Kienzle, Rich – The Grand Tour: The Life and Music of George Jones
Mitchell, Andie – A Mostly Wholesome Cookbook
Orenstein, Peggy – Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape [This one's getting a lot of press too. I liked her book Cinderella Ate My Daughter; I'd like to get this one too.]
Smith, Keri – The Wander Society [Evidently this one is about Walt Whitman--and his Wander Society?--or something. I am too tired tonight to try and figure it out, and even this author's blurb confuses me: "Keri Smith is a bestselling author, illustrator, and thinker. Her books include Wreck This Journal, This is Not a Book, How to Be an Explorer of the World, Mess, Finish This Book, The Pocket Scavenger, Wreck This Journal Everywhere, Everything Is Connected, The Imaginary World of... as well as Wreck This App, This is Not an App, and the Pocket Scavenger app." Somebody must know her stuff, though--this one got a 200,000 first printing. That's huge.]
Trentmann, Frank – Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First [This one sounds interesting. Anyone heard of this Frank Trentmann?]
Williams, Steve – Out of the Rough: Inside the Ropes with the World’s Greatest Golfers
Wittman, Robert K. & David Kinney – The Devil’s Diary : Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

So, what do you think? Anything look good there?

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. Text in bold is commentary.

Beller, Rachel – Power Souping: 3-Day Detox, 3-Week Weight-Loss Plan
Bouchard, Loren – The Bob’s Burgers Burger Book [Ever seen "Bob's Burgers"? It's weirdly hilarious. This is a book of burger recipes, based on one of the show's running gags: the creatively named daily burger specials.]
Griffin, Brooke – Skinny Suppers [Does this recipe book have casseroles in it? Because the CRjrs are giving me serious pushback on casseroles. Which is unfortunate, because all I want to cook is casseroles. 75,000 first printing. Oh--just looked it up. Evidently the author runs a blog called Skinny Mom. And is skinny. Yeah, I hate her.]
King, Mervyn – The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy [Good old Merv, also known as The Baron King of Lothbury, was governor of the Bank of England for a decade.]
Lynch Michael P. – The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data [I have been reading so many depressing books about technology and the Internet that Mr. CR has begged me to stop bringing them home. I'm going to have to get this one though, too. Although Lynch is an author and a professor of philosophy, and I never do very well with philosophy books.]
MacLeod, D. Peter – Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution [A history of a battle in the "Seven Years’ War (1754–1763) to win control of the trans-Appalachian region of North America"--which I had literally never heard of. You?]
Monro, Alexander – The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention [Microhistory of paper.]
Morris, George H. – Unrelenting: The Real Story: Horses, Bright Lights and My Pursuit of Excellence [Autobiography of George Morris, "an American trainer and judge of horses and riders in the hunter and jumper disciplines."]
Purvis, Bill – Make a Break for It: Unleashing the Power of Personal and Spiritual Growth [Author copy: "Bill Purvis became pastor at Cascade Hills Church with no salary and only 32 people in the pews on Easter Sunday. He now ministers to over 8,000 people locally and has an international television audience through Trinity Broadcasting Network."]
Reid, David – The Brazen Age: New York City and the American Empire: Politics, Art, and Bohemia [A look at NYC between the years of 1945 and 1950.]
Robison, John Elder & Alvaro Pascual-Leon – Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening [Robison is Augusten Burroughs's brother, and wrote a memoir about his life with Asperger's, titled Look Me in the Eye. This evidently is a memoir about a treatment he received afterwards, called "transcranial magnetic stimulation." Could be interesting. 50,000 first printing.]
Singular, Stephen – Shadow on the Mountain: Nancy Pfister, Dr. William Styler, and the Murder of Aspen’s Golden Girl [True crime.]
Smith, Lee – Dimestore: A Writer’s Life [I've never read any of Smith's novels, but I do love a good literary autobiography.]
Walton, Bill – Back from the Dead [Sports memoir from NBA player Walton, perfectly timed for March Madness.]

So, what do you think? Anything look good there?

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. Text in bold is commentary.

Abrams, Jonathan – Boys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution [Oh, good lord, March. Not a great month for people who are bored by both basketball and brackets.]
Biancaniello, Matthew – Eat Your Drink: Culinary Cocktails
Blizzard Entertainment – World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 1
Brinkley, Douglas – Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America [I'm no huge fan of historian Douglas Brinkley--although he is a popular history author--but I do find FDR interesting. A jerk for cheating on Eleanor, but still interesting. 200,000 first printing.]
Broder, Melissa – So Sad Today: Personal Essaysi [Don't know if I'm up for this--"Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings..." But I do love essays.]
Brogan, Kelly – A Mind of Your Own: The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives [100,000 first printing.]
Coleman, David & others – The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy Volumes IV–VI: The Winds of Change: October 29, 1962
Dillard, Annie – The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New [I've never been real enthusiastic about Annie Dillard, but she's a well-known essayist and novelist. I should check this out.]
Garrels, Anne – Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia [Gotta get this one, although I rather fear it might be scary.]
Hagerty, Barbara Bradley – Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife [Opportunity, my ass. So far midlife seems to be a horrifying spiral into niggling little health annoyances.]
Heisz, Deborah K. -Live Happy: Ten Practices for Choosing Joy [Oh, my God, another "be joyful" book. Nothing makes me feel more cantankerous.]
Kennedy, Caroline – She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems
Kerpen, Dave – The Art of People: 11 Simple People Skills That Will Get You Everything You Want [I don't buy that people skills will get me everything I want, but I might have to check this out anyway.]
Paris, Wendy – Splitopia: Dispatches from Today’s Good Divorce and How to Part Well
Roy, Rachel – Design Your Life: Creating Success Through Fashion and Style [Wow, 200,000 first printing.]

So, what do you think? Anything look good there?

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. Text in bold is commentary.

Andersen, Sarah – Adulthood Is a Myth: A “Sarah Scribbles” Collection
Anderson, William - The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder [I love letters like I love diaries, so I'll have to get this one. 50,000 first printing.]
Anner, Zach – If at Birth You Don’t Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny
Bell, Rob - How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living [Self-help from a pastor and the author of What We Talk About When We Talk About God, 50,000 first printing.]
Blackmon, Jimmy - Pale Horse: Hunting Terrorists and Commanding Heroes with the 101st Airborne Division
Duhigg, Charles - Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business [Duhigg had a big hit a few years back with the title The Power of Habit, which I thought was super-boring.]
Himmler, Katrin - The Private Heinrich Himmler: Letters of a Mass Murderer [On the other hand, here is a collection of letters that I might not have the stomach for.]
Lakshmi, Padma - Love, Loss, and What We Ate [You know, I always wondered, why am I seeing this name Padma Lakshmi everywhere? And yet still I had no idea who she is. Evidently she is a model, actress, and cookbook author. No wonder her name is everywhere! She was also married to Salman Rushdie (they divorced in 2007); and she has a child by Adam Dell, brother to computer magnate Michael Dell. This memoir is being called "a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn." 150,000 first printing.]
Menounos, Maria - The EveryGirl’s Guide to Cooking [Menounos is an "American actress, journalist, television host, and occasional professional wrestler."]
Pasricha, Neil - The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything [All these positive-thinking self-help books just sound exhausting to me. Can't I just want a few things, do some stuff, and have most everything? Oh wait, that's what I already do. Good.]
Sadik-Khan, Janette & Seth Solomonow - Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution [Sadik-Khan is New York City's transportation commissioner, and this is a book about making cities more livable. I love reading about cities* and will totally be looking into this one. 100,000 first printing.]
Senghor, Shaka - Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison ["In 1991, Shaka Senghor was sent to prison for second-degree murder. Today, he is a lecturer at universities, a leading voice on criminal justice reform, and an inspiration to thousands. 65,000 first printing.]
Showalter, Elaine - The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography [The first full biography of Julia Ward Howe, by Elaine Showalter, one of the "founders of feminist literary criticism," according to Wikipedia.]
Thomas, Gillian - Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work
Vaynerchuk, Gary - #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur’s Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness [Vaynerchuk's an inspirational/entrepreneurship author, and a very popular one at that. 150,000 first printing.]

*I like living in the city too. Whenever CRjr and LilCR and I get back from visiting family on the farm, whenever we turn back on our home road I yell, "Boys, we're back in town!"

So, what do you think? Anything look good there?

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. Text in bold is commentary.

Amundsen, Lucie - Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-changing Egg Farm–from Scratch [50,000 first printing, but I just don't think I can do any more of these back to the land, sustainable living, let's all grow our own food books.]
Bakewell, Sara – At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
Blackmon, Jimmy - Pale Horse: Hunting Terrorists and Commanding Heroes with the 101st Airborne Division [50,000 first printing.]
Canessa, Roberto - I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives [100,000 first printing. By one of the survivors of the plane crash in the Andes that was the subject of Piers Paul Read's bestselling book Alive. I thought Alive was one of the most fascinating books I've ever read, and I also read another survivor, Nando Parrado's, book Miracle in the Andes, so I'll be getting this one too.]
Cooper, Alex - Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began [50,000 first printing. Cooper recounts the story of telling her parents she was gay, and her experiences in a religious "re-education" facility for eight months.]
Desmond, Matthew - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City [Investigative nonfiction set in some of the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I just don't know if I have the strength to read it.]
Egan, Timothy - The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero [75,000 first printing. Egan's a popular nonfiction author, perhaps best known for his book The Worst Hard Time, about the Dust Bowl.]
Feinstein, John - The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano and the Story of an Epic College Basketball Rivalry [Feinstein's a hugely popular sports nonfiction author--hence, the 150,000 first printing.]
Furtick, Steven – (Un)Qualified: How God Uses Broken People to Do Big Things
Maclaine, Shirley - Above the Line: My Wild Oats Adventure [Maclaine's memoir of filming "Wild Oats" in the Canary Islands. 125,000 first printing.]
Meyer, Joyce - Overload: How to Unplug, Unwind, and Unleash Yourself from the Pressure of Stress [Wow, Joyce Meyer really pumps out books. She's a popular religious and self-help author.]
O'Keeffe, Stuart - Quick Six Fix: 100 No-Fuss, Full-Flavor Recipes - Six Ingredients, Six Minutes Prep, Six Minutes Cleanup
Rovelli, Carlo – Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Slater, Fanny - Orange, Lavender & Figs: Deliciously Different Recipes from a Passionate Eater
Wachob, Jason - Wellth: How I Learned to Build a Life, Not a Résumé [I didn't even bother looking this title up, because the title alone makes me want to punch the author. Or perhaps that indicates I really need this book.]
Walton, Bill - Back from the Dead [Evidently I don't pay enough attention to sports--evidently Walton is an "icon"? Here's the ad copy: "This inspiring memoir from sports and cultural icon Bill Walton recounts his devastating injuries and amazing recoveries, set in the context of his UCLA triumphs under John Wooden, his storied NBA career, and his affinity for music and the Grateful Dead."]
Yang, Jingduan - Facing East: Time-Honored Health and Beauty Secrets for the Modern Age

So, what do you think? Anything look good there?

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. Text in bold is commentary.

Frank, Thomas - Listen, Liberal: Or, Whatever Happened to the Party of the People? [Frank is perhaps best known for his political book What's the Matter with Kansas? I like him, and will probably look into this book. I like how the ad copy pulls no punches: "Frank points out that the Democrats have done little to advance traditional liberal goals: expanding opportunity, fighting for social justice, and ensuring that workers get a fair deal." Exactly.]
Fury, Shawn - Rise and Fire: The Origins, Evolution, and Science of the Jump Shot--and How It Transformed Basketball Forever [Wow, 35,000 first printing. Sports books of any kind must really sell.]
Gallo, Carmine - The Storyteller's Secret: From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch On and Others Don't [75,000 first printing. This could be a good book, in the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and other sociology/"big idea" books like that.]
Gleiberman, Owen - Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies [Gleiberman is a long-time movie critic for Entertainment Weekly.]
Gramm, Jeff - Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism
Hayden, Michael V. - Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Hyman, Mark, MD - Eat Fat, Get Thin: The Surprising Truth about the Fat We Eat--The Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health
Lindstrom, Martin - Small Data: The Tiny Clues that Uncover Big Trends [Another book that might appeal to fans of books like those written by Malcolm Gladwell. Might be good, but I am rather tired of all things "data." 50,000 first printing.]
Phelps, Isela - Loom Knitting Primer, Second Edition: A Beginner’s Guide to Knitting on a Loom with Over 30 Fun Projects [Ugh, knitting. I group it with all things sewing. I am NOT INTERESTED.*]
Pomroy, Haylie - Fast Metabolism Food Rx: 7 Powerful Prescriptions to Feed Your Body Back to Health [150,000 first printing.]
Rioux, Anne Boyd - Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist [Huh. Evidently she was a contemporary of Henry James and a popular novelist in the nineteenth century. Could be a good read to try or suggest for March, which is Women's History Month.]
Sernovitz, Gary - The Green and the Black [About fracking and oil.]
Shah, Sonia - Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond [Oh God, I'm a worrier and a total germophobe, so I should really leave this one alone, but I can't. I love these sorts of books.]
Teigen, Chrissy - Cravings: Recipes for What You Want to Eat [By the supermodel and wife of John Legend.]
Waldman, Michael - The Fight to Vote
Whittington, Hillary - Raising Ryland: Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child with No Strings Attached [75,000 first printing.]

*My mother gave me a sewing machine for Christmas in eighth grade, and I'm still working on forgiving her.

So, what do you think? Anything look good there?

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. Text in bold is commentary.

Bell-Scott, Patricia - The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship; Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice [From Amazon: "how a brilliant writer-turned-activist, granddaughter of a mulatto slave, and the first lady of the United States...forged an enduring friendship." Looks interesting, and I've always found Eleanor a sympathetic character, but 480 pages? Now may not be the time.]
Booker, Cory - United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good [150,000 first printing. On the author: "Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford University on a football scholarship, accepted a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, then studied at Yale Law School."]
Coleman, David & others - The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy Volumes IV–VI: The Winds of Change: October 29, 1962 [I've kind of gone off the Kennedys lately, for whatever reason, although at one point I did find books about them interesting.]
Denton, Sally - The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World [OOOhhh..."the inside story of the Bechtel family and the empire they’ve controlled since the construction of the Hoover Dam." I must have it.]
Fang Lizhi - The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State [From Amazon: "The long-awaited memoir by Fang Lizhi, the celebrated physicist whose clashes with the Chinese regime helped inspire the Tiananmen Square protests." 30,000 first printing.]
Frankopan, Peter - The Silk Roads: A New History of the World [This sounds good, I think. Although, oof, 672 pages.]
Goyal, Nikhil - Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice
Grey, Joel - Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir ["Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story." 75,000 first printing.]
Hudson, Kate - Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body [I find actress Kate Hudson very dull.]
Jacoby, Susan - Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion [Jacoby got a lot of press in 2009 for her book The Age of American Unreason.]
Klebold, Sue - A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy [By the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the Columbine shooters. 200,000 first printing.]
Martinez, Juan - Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars [100,000 first printing.]
Monro, Alexander - The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention
Nocera, Joe & Ben Strauss - Indentured: The Epic Scandal of the NCAA [Ugh. Sounds interesting, but I can't do it. To be honest, I haven't looked at college sports the same way since indexing/reading Scoreboard, Baby. 150,000 first printing.]
Seidel, Frederick - Widening Income Inequality: Poems
Stiglitz, Joseph - The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe [Stiglitz is a well-known economist. I'd almost forgotten about it, but I did try to read his book The Three Trillion Dollar War, but I just couldn't do it.]
Walsh, James D. - Playing Against the House : The Undercover Life of a Union Organizer in America’s Service Economy [I'm absolutely addicted to work memoirs of any kind. I'll have to get this one.]

So, what do you think? Anything look good there?

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. Text in bold is commentary.

Also: Sorry for the lack of posting this month. Turns out when you have a cold that never goes away it might actually be pneumonia. Good to know. Now, onward!

Brooks, John – The Girl Behind the Door: A Father’s Quest To Understand His Daughter’s Suicide
Damour, Lisa – Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood [It seems to be fate that these top two titles are right next to each other.]
Dillon, Roxy – Bio-Young: Get Younger at a Cellular and Hormonal Level [You got anything easier? And more easily apparent? Like being younger at the completely superficial level? No more post-40-year-old-lady neck?]
Engel, Richard – And Then All Hell Broke Loose: A Reporter’s Two Decades in Arabia
Glenny, Misha – Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio [I don't know why I know the name Misha Glenny; I've never read any of his books. But they all look interesting. This one is about Rio's criminal underworld. Yikes.]
Giudice, Teresa – Turning the Tables: From Housewife to Inmate and Back Again [You've got to go check out that cover. Honestly. I can't find one single pair of basic sneakers that fits me without bugging some part of my foot--how does this woman or any woman wear those shoes? Giudice is of course the former star of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," who just served prison time for being convicted on federal fraud charges.]
Hardt, Marah J. – Sex in the Sea:  Our Intimate Connection with Kinky Crustaceans, Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep [40,000 first printing. I'm always wary of science titles that try to make their books sound too, well, sexy, but I'll admit I'm intrigued by this one.]
Lahiri, Jhumpa – In Other Words [The novelist's account of moving to Rome and learning to live and work in Italian.]
Light, Alan – What Happened, Miss Simone? The Nina Simone Diaries
Mason, Paul – Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future [Sounds kind of intriguing.]
Ratliff, Ben – Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways To Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty
Ribacoff. Daniel – I, Spy: How to Be Your Own Private Investigator [60,000 first printing. For some reason I am addicted to books like this. I don't know why. What little I can investigate about people without trying very hard already pretty much horrifies me. Here's a tip: if you work anywhere in public service, never look anyone up in court databases. What you find won't make you happier.]
Scott, A. O. – Better Living Through Criticism: How To Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth [I love books on criticism, for the most part, although sometimes they are too intellectual too me. And I like the title of this one. I'll be looking into it.]
Stein, Jean – West of Eden: An American Place [An oral history of Los Angeles.]

So, what do you think? Anything look good there?

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. It's a new year--look at all the new books! Sorry for the lack of commentary today; CRjr and I are struggling with a cold that never gets better and NEVER GOES AWAY. How is that possible? Text in bold is commentary.

Aronne, Louis J – The Change Your Biology Diet
Beavan, Colin – How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World
Bowden, Mark – The Three Battles of Wanat and Other Stories
Branan, Karen – The Family Tree: A Kinship Lynching in Jim Crow Georgia
Carrillo-Bucaram, Kristina – The Fully Raw Diet
Carson, Candy – A Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson Political spouse memoir. Do we really have to wait all the way until November for this election to be over?
Chaudhary, Kulreet – The Prime: Prepare and Repair Your Body for Spontaneous Weight Loss
Dagher, Emmanuel – Easy Breezy Prosperity: The Five Foundations for a More Joyful, Abundant Life
Davidson, Liz – What Your Financial Advisor Isn't Telling You : The 10 Essential Truths You Need to Know About Your Money
Diabetic Living Editors – Eat to Beat Diabetes
Duffy, James P. – War at the End of the World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea, 1942-1945. I don't have any predictions for the publishing industry, except for this one: somehow, in 100 years, they will still be publishing WWII nonfiction, and somehow, it will still be selling.
Hazzard, Kevin – A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back. I LOVE work memoirs. I will get this one.
Kondo, Marie – Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up. Brother, Kondo, I don't know that tidying up is life-changing enough to warrant its coverage in this many books.
Krieger, Ellie – You Have It Made: Delicious, Healthy, Do-Ahead Meals
Leonard, Sarah and Bhaskar Sunkara – The Future We Want: Radical Ideas for the New Century
Lofgren, Mike – The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government
Loridan-Ivens, Marceline – But You Did Not Come Back. Holocaust memoir.
Ludwig, David, MD, PhD – Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently – 100,000
Luzzatto, Sergio – Primo Levi’s Resistance: Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy
Meyer, Joyce – God’s Greatest Gifts
Miller, Kelsey – Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life
Moore, Charles – Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow
Newport, Cal – Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Nichols, Lisa – Abundance Now: Amplify Your Life & Achieve Prosperity Today
Passarlay, Gulwali – The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee’s Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey…
Prothero, Stephen – Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)
Quinn, Jane Bryant – How to Make Your Money Last : The Indispensable Retirement Guide
Rawlence, Ben – City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Roker, Al – Been There, Done That: Family Wisdom For Modern Times
Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner – Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
Smith, Michael Acton – Calm
Thompson, Juan F. – Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson
Wariner, Ruth – The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir. Memoir by a woman who grew up in a religious sect in Mexico--the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children.
Weiner, Eric – The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Weisberg, Jacob – Ronald Reagan: The American Presidents Series: The 40th President, 1981–1989
Wills, David – The Cinematic Legacy of Frank Sinatra

So, what do you think? Anything look good there?

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. Sorry there's no commentary this week; I was too busy replacing batteries in remote control cars and trying to convince two little boys hopped up on Christmas sweets that it was indeed bedtime.

Better Homes and Gardens - Better Homes and Gardens I Didn't Know My Slow Cooker Could Do That: 150 Delicious, Surprising Recipes
Cordain, Loren - The Real Paleo Fast & Easy
DiSpirito, Rocco - The Negative Calorie Diet: Lose Up to 10 Pounds in 10 Days with 10 All You Can Eat Foods 150,000
Kondo, Marie - Life-Changing Magic: A Journal: Spark Joy Every Day
MacNeil, Natalie - The Conquer Kit: A Creative Business Planner for Women Entrepreneurs
Osteen, Joel - Fresh Start: The New You Begins Today
Rankin, Lissa - The Anatomy of a Calling: A Doctor's Journey from the Head to the Heart and a Prescription for Finding Your Life's Purpose
Smith, Ian K. - The Shred Power Cleanse: Eat Clean. Get Lean. Burn Fat.

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Carter, Dan – Dan Carter: My Autobiography
Cuddy, Amy – Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Dickerman, Sara – The Bon Appetit Food Lover’s Cleanse: Fresh, Whole-Food Eating with a Two-Week Plan for Every Season, Including 140 Recipes. 100,000 first printing.
Elkaim, Yuri – The All-Day Fat-Burning Diet: The 5-Day Food-Cycling Formula That Resets Your Metabolism To Lose Up to 5 Pounds a Week
Powell, Chris – Extreme Transformation: Lifelong Weight Loss in 21 Days
Sin, R.H. – Whiskey, Words, and A Shovel (Poetry.)
Vaccariello, Liz – Stop & Drop Diet: Lose up to 5 lbs in 5 days

No commentary this week except to say, oh sigh, here come all the diet books for the new year. A terribly boring time for nonfiction publishing, the new year. Have a good week, all.

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Berry, Jo – PewDiePie: The Ultimate Unofficial Fan Guide to The World’s Biggest YouTuber. Okay, I keep seeing this name "PewDiePie," so I went and watched a couple of his YouTube videos. This guy has the most subscribed-to YouTube channel? Here's something I've just been waiting to get old enough to say: those crazy kids these days. I don't get it.
Hidalgo, Pablo – Star Wars: The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary. If you're a big Star Wars fan you're probably having a great week. If you liked Star Wars okay but largely lost interest once a. Han Solo ceased to be a major part of the story line, and b. Han Solo got old, you probably won't by this week's bumper crop of Star Wars books.
Maxwell, John -JumpStart Your Thinking. Maxwell is an inspirational and leadership writer whose endorsements include blurbs from Ben Carson and Elizabeth Dole.
Szostak, Phil – The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

So. Short list this week--everything's slowing down for the holidays. Anything look good there?

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. Text in bold is commentary.

Barr, Niall - Eisenhower's Armies: The American-British Alliance during World War II. More World War II nonfiction I will most likely not be reading. Barr's written several books of military history.
Blumenthal, Brett - 52 Small Changes for the Mind: Improve Memory * Minimize Stress * Increase Productivity * Boost Happiness. Even one small change a week seems beyond me at this point.
Greger, Dr. Michael, with Gene Stone - How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Present and Reverse Disease. 150,000 first printing. I am not interested in this title. This is the title I want: How Not to Feel a Million Stupid Niggling Little Aches and Pains after Forty, Never Be Frustrated by Your Spouse, Children, and Other Family, and Oh Yeah, Stop Worrying about Every Stupid Little Thing. If I had a life like that, I'd be more than happy to die at the end of a decent interval of it.
Forbes, Steve - Reviving America: How Repealing Obamacare, Replacing the Tax Code and Reforming The Fed will Restore Hope and Prosperity. Ah, Steve Forbes. Still publishing, but evidently too tired to run for president lately?
Furedi, Frank - The Power of Reading: From Socrates to Twitter. I don't know. Of course I love books on reading. But does this ad copy make it sound as dull to you as it does to me? "It is a fascinating insight into understanding the post-Gutenberg debates about literacy in a multimedia environment with such a strong emphasis on the absorption of information."
Hawksley, Lucinda - Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise. I would guess all Anglophiles will be interested in this one.
Loosli, Linda - Prepare Your Family for Survival.30,000 first printing. I'm totally addicted to these. I never follow the instructions, and am completely unprepared for survival when everything is going well, but I read them anyway.
Wootton, David - The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. I really should read more science. But this one is 784 pages long!

So. What do you think? Anything look good there?

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. Text in bold is commentary.

Coppins, McKay – The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party’s Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House. I don't want to go deep inside the Republican Party's anything.
Crabapple, Molly – Drawing Blood. Here's the ad copy at Amazon: "From a young age, Molly Crabapple had the eye of an artist and the spirit of a radical. After a restless childhood on New York’s Long Island, she left America to see Europe and the Near East, a young artist plunging into unfamiliar cultures, notebook always in hand, drawing what she observed." I have no idea who she is, and that description didn't really turn me on, but she also has a blurb from Matt Taibbi, who I love. I suppose I should check it out.
David, Saul – Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
Eicher, David J. – The New Cosmos: Answering Astronomy’s Big Questions
Hall, Donald – The Selected Poems of Donald Hall
Martha Stewart Wedding editors – Martha Stewart Weddings: Ideas and Inspiration. My favorite thing about being married is knowing I'll never have to plan another wedding.
Meyer, Joyce – Power Words: What You Say Can Change Your Life. I already know this, since I swore in front of CRjr last month and he has spent most of this month screaming the word (in context and with perfect inflection, mind you, even when used differently) I let slip out. But really: Joyce Meyer is a popular inspirational writer so this will probably be a big title.
Southern Living editors: Southern Living 2015 Annual Recipes
Von Teese, Dita – Your Beauty Mark: The Ultimate Guide to Eccentric Glamour. Celebrity beauty guide. Here's her Wikipedia bio: "Dita Von Teese (born Heather Renée Sweet; September 28, 1972) is an American burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, entrepreneur and occasional actress She is thought to have helped repopularize burlesque performance, and was formerly married to Marilyn Manson."

So. What do you think? Anything look good there?

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. Text in bold is commentary.

Hamsley, David – To Disco, with Love: The Records that Defined an Era
Jones, Tom – Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography – 100,000 first printing.
McNally, Dennis – Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews. I'm totally uninterested in Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.
Munroe, Randall – Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words. Someone just recommended this to me! (Thanks, Lynne.) Wasn't a huge fan of Munroe's book What If?, but might still try this one.
Palin, Michael – Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998. I have yet to read a Michael Palin (yes, the Michael Palin who was part of Monty Python) travel book, which is ridiculous, as I claim to be an Anglophile. Maybe I'll get to this one.
Pogue, David – Pogue’s Basics: Life: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying Your Day. David Pogue is a hugely prolific "technology writer and science presenter" - he launched the "Missing Manual" series. Huh. Glad I looked that guy up. I had this idea he was a member of the band The Pogues.
Rove, Karl – The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters. Just seeing the name "Karl Rove" makes me throw up in my mouth a little. Or, a lot, actually.
Sacks, Oliver – Gratitude. Oliver Sacks was a hugely popular science/medicine author (and practicing neurologist) who died at the end of August. This is a collection of essays he wrote on the subjects of gratitude for life and impending death.
Simon, Carly - Boys in the Trees: A Memoir. From the ad copy: "Simon's memoir reveals her remarkable life, beginning with her storied childhood as the third daughter of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster, her musical debut as half of The Simon Sisters performing folk songs with her sister Lucy in Greenwich Village, to a meteoric solo career that would result in 13 top 40 hits, including the #1 song "You're So Vain." She was the first artist in history to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, for her song "Let the River Run" from the movie Working Girl." Huh. I didn't know any of that about Carly Simon. And that "Working Girl" song? It's awesome. Just hearing it makes me want to watch the movie again. The 80s! Big Hair! Young Harrison Ford!
Theoharis, Jeanne – The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Various – Catwoman: A Celebration of 75 Years (graphic novel)

So. What do you think? Anything look good there?

Time to get back on the horse, huh?*

A weekly series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during that week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online.

• Alther, Lisa & Françoise Gilot – About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter An American and a French women talk about making a living doing creative work, while making lives doing everything else. I'd like to get this one; I love nonfiction written as the result of conversations.
• Browder, Bill – Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice Business saga, set in Russia.
• D’Souza, Dinesh – Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me about Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party – 200,000 print run. Check out that title. Conservative commentator D'Souza will clearly stop at nothing to sell books. The story in brief: D'Souza was convicted in 2014 of one felony count of making illegal campaign contributions. He was sentenced to probation and eight months in a facility, referred to in his Amazon blurb as a "state-run confinement center," and at Wikipedia as a "halfway house."
• Franklin, Jonathan – 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
• Galaxy, Jackson and Kate Benjamin – Catify to Satisfy: Simple Solutions for Creating a Cat-Friendly Home
• Horne, Alistair – Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
• Kershaw, Ian – To Hell and Back: Europe 1914–1949 Kershaw is an extremely popular writer on all things WWII and Hitler
• McGilligan, Patrick – Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane
• Metcalf, Gabriel – Democratic by Design: How Carsharing, Co-ops and Community Land Trusts Are Reinventing America
• Reynolds, Burt – But Enough About Me – 250,000 print run. Actually, I kind of like Burt Reynolds, but instead of reading this, I might just watch "Smokey and the Bandit," which I don't think I've ever actually seen all the way through.
• Seibert, Brian – What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing - A while back I lived my dream and took some tap lessons. Boy, was I bad. That'll show me for trying to do physical activity voluntarily.
• Stein, Lorin, ed. – The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from the Paris Review
• Strand, Ginger – The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic About Kurt and his older brother Bernard. I must have it.
• Timbaland – The Emperor of Sound: A Memoir – 50,000 first printing. Even if you think you don't know Timbaland, he's probably worked on music you've heard of. He's worked with Justin Timberlake, Jay Z, Brandy, LL Cool J, Nelly Furtado, Madonna, and a ton of others.
• Vecchione, Michael – Crooked Brooklyn: Taking Down Corrupt Judges, Dirty Politicians, Killers and Body Snatchers Ah, a nice light read. This will fit my current mood well.

So. What do you think? Anything look good there?

*Incidentally, thank you to everyone who checked in in the comments or on email. Not sure how regular posting will be right now but I did miss writing here, and chatting with you.

A new series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online.

Sorry for lack of commentary this week--the weekend got away from me.

Bolz-Weber, Nadia -Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
Deen, Paula – Paula Deen Cuts the Fat: 250 Recipes Lightened Up
Faderman, Lillian – The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Flanders, Judith – Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes
Gabis, Rita – A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet: My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family, a Search for the Truth
Hynde, Chrissie – Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
Jefferson, Margo – Negroland
Kellow, Brian – Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s First Superagent
Kelly, Ray – Vigilance
Kubicek, Jeremie – 5 Gears: How to Be Present and Productive When There Is Never Enough Time
Oates, Joyce Carol – Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age
Perkins, Tony – No Fear: Real Stories of a Courageous New Generation Standing for Truth
Pierce, Wendell – Wind in the Reeds
Reid, Joy-Ann – Fracture: Obama, the Clintons, and the Democratic Divide
Russakoff, Dale – The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools
Simon, Marie Jalowicz – Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany
Suskind, Dana – Thirty Million Words: How To Build Your Child’s Brain
Thaler, Linda Kaplan – Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary
Tweedy, Damon – Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine
Winik, Jay – 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History

So. What do you think? Anything look good there?

A new series, published each Monday, sharing a selected list of new nonfiction titles to be published during the week. List originally published at The Reader's Advisor Online. Text in bold is commentary.

Bacon, John U. – Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football [Oh snore, more football, I'm not from Michigan, etc. But still: 100,000 first printing.]
Brown, Nancy Marie – Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them ["In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world." I think I'll be checking this one out.]
Cheney, Dick & Liz – Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America [Good lord, is Dick Cheney still alive? Modern medicine has a lot to answer for.]
Edin, Kathryn J. & H. Lu – $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America [For some reason these types of books are candy to me. I'll have to look at it.]
Editors of the Old Farmers Almanac – The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2016
Guinness World Records 2016
Hirshman, Linda – Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World [Hirshman's a prolific investigative writer; best known perhaps for her book exhorting women to embrace outside childcare and go back to work, titled Get to Work.]
Kushner, Harold – Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned About Life [Self-help/inspirational from the rabbi author of When Bad Things Happen to GoodPeople.]
Le Guin, Ursula – Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story [Nonfiction on writing from the prolific and outspoken fantasy/SF novelist Le Guin.]
Meyer, Joyce – The Mind Connection; How the Thoughts You Choose Affect Your Mood, Behavior, and Decisions [Meyer's author info proclaims her to be "one of the world's leading practical Bible teachers."]
Moore, Susanna – Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii [A new history of Hawaii from novelist and memoirist Moore.]
Naylor, Sean – Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command – [125,000 first printing.]
Smith, Jeff – Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: : What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America’s Prison Crisis [I read a lot of True Crime, but I cannot read prison narratives. I just can't. It's a deal-breaker subject for me.]
Tett, Gillian – The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers [Are we still talking about silos? The author says that "this organizational structure results in both limited information and restricted thinking."]
Wilson, Andrew – Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin ["The first definitive biography of the iconic, notoriously private British fashion designer Alexander McQueen."]

So. What do you think? Anything look good there?

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Brown, Brené – Rising Strong - [Self-help: "Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness. It’s the process, Brown writes, that teaches us the most about who we are." 200,000 first printing.]
Daugherty, Tracy – Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion - [Oh,my God, Joan Didion. I MUST HAVE IT. 50,000 first printing.]
Gaul, Gilbert M. – Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football [I just don't have the heart for this one. Been doing too much reading like this.]
Grandin, Greg – Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman – [I should read this one, I don't know anything about Kissinger, but I probably wont. 60,000 first printing.]
Johnson, Beverly – The Face That Changed It All: A Memoir – [Memoir from the "the first black supermodel to grace the cover of Vogue." 75,000 first printing.]
Klobuchar, Amy – The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland – [Political memoir from a Minnesota senator. 60,000 first printing.]
Markoff, John – Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots – [Actually, I heard this guy on the radio and he was kind of interesting. Might be worth checking out. 50,000 first printing.]
Shaheen, Stefany – Elle & Coach: Diabetes, the Fight for My Daughter’s Life, and the Dog Who Changed Everything [As a non-dog person, this title will not be for me.]
Silberman, Steve – Neuro Tribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity [Books on any and every aspect of neurology continue to be hot.]
Vine, David - Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (American Empire Project) – [The American Empire Project is, in my non-political-party-affiliation, non-voting opinion, the best current affairs series running. Go look at some of the titles in this series. I will get this one eventually. 35,000 first printing.]

So. What do you think? Anything look good there?