Non-Fiction Reviews

  • Monday, January 12, 2009

Foodie Reads

Barnes, Darlene: Hungry
Bourdain, Anthony: A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal
Guiliano, Mireille: French Women Don't Get Fat
Lawson, Nigella: How to Eat
Moriyama, Naomi: Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen
Powell, Julie: Julie and Julia
Reinhart, Peter: The Breadbaker's Apprentice [Friday 56 quote]
Robertson, Laurel: Laurel's Kitchen
Schlosser, Eric: Fast Food Nation
Shapiro, Laura: Julia Child: A Life


Business, Economics

Gladwell, Malcolm: Outliers
LaMagna, Dal: Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets it Right
Levitt, Steven and Stephen Dubner: Freakonomics [Friday 56 quote]
Lindstrom, Martin: Buyology: Truth and Lies About What We Buy
Lowenstein, Roger: Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Neuwirth, Robert: Stealth of Nations


Philosophy

Freese, Mathias: This Mobius Strip of Ifs
Hoff, Benjamin: The Tao of Pooh
Sherman, Zander: The Curiosity of School

Biographies, Memoirs

Arrington, Aminta: Home is a Roof Over a Pig
Baker Hyde, Phoebe: The Beauty Experiment
Britt, Donna: Brothers (& Me): A Memoir of Loving and Giving
Calcaterra, Regina: Etched in Sand
Gilbert, Elizabeth: Eat Pray Love
Gilbert, Jennifer: I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag
Keltner, Kim Wong: Tiger Babies Strike Back
Kline, Victor: The House at Anzac Parade
Lee Sethi, Meera: Mountainfit
Molloy, Aimee: However Long the Night
Patchett, Ann: This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Powell, Julie: Julie and Julia 
Thrope, Jan: Inner Visions: Grassroots Stories of Truth and Hope
Wiesel, Elie: Night

Self-Help

Brackett, Mark: Keeping Score
Brown, Liz Fletcher: Full Wattage!
Covey, Steven: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People [Friday 56 quote]
Rubin, Gretchen: The Happiness Project
Woodall, Trinny and Susannah Constantine: What Not to Wear [Friday 56 quote]

Misc. Non-Fiction

Bantock, Nick: The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity
Laslocky, Meghan: The Little Book of Heartbreak 
Redman, Jess:
 Softies Only a Mother Could Love 

Rybczynski, Witold: One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and Screw
Sullivan, Margaret C.: Jane Austen Cover to Cover
Sullivan, Robert: Rats
Truss, Lynne: Eats, Shoots and Leaves

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