Favorites: NON-FICTION
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I can’t think of anything I like to do more than to sit on my porch swing on my deck with a good book in hand. And what a great resource we have in the Los Angeles Public Library system (LAPL). I can go online and search for any book and have it delivered to the library of my choice.
The following is by no means a complete list of my favorite non-fiction books. Please feel free to recommend books YOU rate highly! |
| Click on any category below to go directly to the corresponding list of NON-FICTION books. |
| Aging . Art & Architecture . Asian . Autobiographical/Memoirs . Bartending/Waitressing . Biographical . Biographical Fiction . Birds . Books . Business/Finance . Cookbooks . Death . Diaries . Disasters . Environmental . Essays . Fashion . Food/Drink/Drugs . Food/Marketing . Gambling . Gardening . The Good Life . Health/Diet/Exercise . Horses . How-To’s . Humor . Inventions . Letters . Los Angeles . Marketing . Medical . Movies . Myths/Folklore . Philosophy . Photography . Publishing . Reference . Relationships . Romantic . Self-Help . Sleep & Insomnia . Social Issues . Travel . Trivia . True Crime . Walking . Women . War Books . Words/Language . Writing |
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| Books on Aging |
How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People – Henry Alford The Coming of Age – Simone de Beauvoir Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying – Ram Dass Sister Age – M.F.K. Fisher Writers and Age: Essays on and Interviews with Five Authors – Esther Harriott |
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| Books on Art & Architecture |
| The Poetics of Space – Gaston Bachelard Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa – R.A. Scotti |
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| Asian-Related Books |
| Chrysanthemum and the Sword – Ruth Benedict Learning to Bow – Bruce Feiler |
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| Autobiographical & Memoirs |
| Catch Me If You Can – Frank W. Abagnale Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age – Amani Al-Khatahtbeh Cop to Call Girl – Norma Jean Almodovar It Sucked And Then I Cried: How I Had A Baby, A Breakdown, And A Much Needed Margarita – Heather B. Armstrong Intermission – Anne Baxter Delights and Prejudices – James Beard Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl – Linda Brent (pseudonym of Harriet Brent Jacobs) The Devil Drives – Fran Brodie The Memoirs of Chateaubriand – François-René de Chateaubriand Memoirs of an Erotic Bookseller – Armand Coppens A Reporter’s Life – Walter Cronkite Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer’s – Thomas DeBaggio Eating: A Memoir – Jason Epstein The Gastronomical Me – M.F.K. Fisher Kitchen Wars – Betty Fussell Being Mortal – Atul Gawande Where the Peacocks Sing – Alison singh Gee C’est La Vie – Suzy Gershman Here at the New Yorker – Brendan Gill Shot in the Dark – Mikal Gilmore Girl in a Band – Kim Gordon Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir – Nikki Grimes A Drinking Life – Pete Hamill Blood, Bones & Butter – Gabrielle Hamilton The Truths We Hold – Kamala Harris The Kiss – Kathryn Harrison Child of the Dark – Carolina Maria de Jesus You Might As Well Live – John Keats A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy – Sue Klebold Annie Leibovitz At Work – Annie Leibovitz A Wondering Man – Louie L’Amour Bitter is the New Black – Jen Lancaster Even This I Get to Experience – Norman Lear Will – Gordon Liddy The Long Goodbye – Meghan O’Rourke Falling Leaves – Adeline yen Mah Hold Still – Sally Mann West With The Night – Beryl Markham Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir – Paul Monette My Story – Marilyn Monroe, with Ben Hecht Cake Walk – Kate Moses Vera: Portrait of a Marriage – Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov Memoirs – Pablo Neruda Becoming – Michelle Obama The Apprentice – Jacques Pepin It’s Always Something – Gilda Radnor Garlic & Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disquise – Ruth Reichl Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir – Leni Rieffenstahl Epilogue – Anne Rolphe The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time – Phyllis Rose Toast – Nigel Slater My Beloved World – Sonia Sotomayer Passionate Nomad – Freya Stark Wild – Cheryl Strayed Boxcar Bertha – Bertha Thompson Memorial Drive – Natasha Trethewey Autobiography of Anthony Trollope – Anthony Trollope Once Upon A Time – Gloria Vanderbilt V – Diana Vreeland Shakey – Neil Young The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls Portrait of Myself – Margaret Bourke-White Generation Kill – Evan Wright |
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| Bartending/Waitressing Books |
| Ablutions – Patrick deWitt Behind Bars – Ty Wenzel Waiting – Debra Ginsberg |
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| Biographical Books |
| Alexandra: The Last Tsarina – Connolly Erickson All The Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader – ed., Yona Zeldis McDonough Andre Gide – Van Meter Ames Balzac – Stefan Zweig The Diana Chronicles – Tina Brown Diane Arbus – Patricia Bosworth Dorothy & Red – Vincent Sheean Frida & Diego: Art, Love, Life – Catherine Reef Frida Kahlo In Mexico – Robin Richmond Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. – Lili Anolik I, Fellini – Charlotte Chandler Life of Samuel Johnson – James Boswell The Long Goodbye – Meghan O’Rourke Mary Cassatt – Nancy Hale Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret – Craig Brown Passionate Minds (Voltaire & Emilie du Châtelet) – David Bodanis Pepys: The Life and Character – John Drinkwater Picasso – Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington Picasso, My Grandfather – Martina Picasso Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man – Norman Mailer The Real Lolita (Sally Horner) – Sarah Weinman Revelations: Diane Arbus – Doon Arbus Shakespeare the Man – A.L. Rowse The Silent Women: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes – Janet Malcolm Vivian Maier – Pamela Bannos William Mulholland – Catherine Mulholland |
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| Biographical Books (Fictionalized) |
| Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates (Marilyn Monroe) Defining The World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary – Henry Hitchins Lucy – Ellen Feldman (Lucy Mercer and FDR) Madame Picasso – Anne Girald (Picasso and Eva Gouel) Marrying Mozart – Stephanie Cowell (Mozart and the Weber Sisters) Poe & Fanny – John May (Edgar Allen Poe & Francis Sargent Osgood) Season of Migration – Nellie Hermann (Vincent Van Gogh) Wintering – Kate Moses (Sylvia Plath) |
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| Books on Birds |
| The Thing with Feathers – Noah Strycker |
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| Books about Books |
| 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die – Peter Boxall (ed) Amenities of Book Collecting – A. Edward Newton A Passion For Books – Brander Mathews A Passion For Books – Lawrence Clark Powell At Home With Books – Ellis, Seebohm, Sykes Ballads of Books – Brander Mathews The Books that Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People – Bethanne Patrick (ed) Classics for Pleasure – Michael Dirda The Clothing of Books – Jhumpa Lahiri Every Book Its Reader – Nicholas Basbanes Ex Libris – Anne Fadiman For the Love of Books – Donald Schwartz Great Books – David Denby Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading – Maureen Corrigan The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac – Eugene Field Shelf Life – Suzanne S. Shea So Many Books, So Little Time – Sara Nelson The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop – Lewis Buzbee |
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| Business/Finance Books |
| Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich The Real Thing [Coke] – Constance Hays The Maybelline Story – Sharrie Williams |
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| Cookbooks |
| Jane Brody’s Good Food Gourmet – Brody Bäco – Josef Centeno The Way to Cook – Julia Child Paula Deen’s The Deen Family Cookbook – Paula Deen Fifty Shades of Chicken – FL Fowler Back Pocket Pasta – Colu Henry Picasso, Bon Vivant – Ermine Herscher Chefs & Company: 75 Top Chefs – ed, Maria Isabella Art of Cuisine – Lautrec & Joyant How to Eat – Nigella Lawson Simply Shrimp, Salmon, and Fish Steaks – Leslie Glover Pendleton The Fish Book – Kelly McCune A Twist of the Wrist – Nancy Silverton Kitchen Diaries – Nigel Slater Notes from the Larder – Nigel Slater Real Fast Food – Nigel Slater The Art of Simple Food – Alice Waters The Great American Cookbook – Wells Good & Plenty – Wise/Hoffman |
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| Death |
| Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt – ed. by Kenneth McKenzie and Todd Harra |
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| Diaries & Journals |
| Amiel’s Journal – Henri-Frédéric Amiel Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl – Anonymous Diary Without Dates – Enid Bagnold Journal of a Disappointed Man – W.N. P. Barbellion The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff – Marie Bashkirteff Fred Bason’s Diaries (1-4) – Fred Bason Diary of “Helena Morley” (pseud. of Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant) – ed. by Elizabeth Bishop The Vanity Fair Diaries – Tina Brown The Richard Burton Diaries – Richard Burton Laker Girl – Jeanie Buss The Diary of a Bookseller – Shaun Bythell White House Diary – Jimmy Carter With Child: A Diary of Motherhood – Phyllis Chesler Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year – Esmé Raji Codell World Cinema: Diary of a Day – Peter Cowie (ed) EIMI – e.e. cummings Diary of a Genius – Salvador Dali A Stolen Life – Jaycee Dugard The Adderall Diaries – Stephen Elliott The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank The Journals of André Gide (vol 1-4) – André Gide Diary of an Art Dealer – Rene Gimpel Carte Blanche: A Quarter Century of Wine Tasting Diaries – Albert Givton The Journal of the de Goncourt Brothers – Edmond & Jules de Goncourt The Journals of Spalding Gray – Spalding Gray Julian Green Diary: 1928-1957 – Julian Green Diary of a Fat Housewife – Rosemary Green Making of a Writer (vol. 1& 2) – Gail Godwin My Friend Degas – Daniel Halévy Antaeus #61: Journals, Notebooks & Diaries – Daniel Halpern (ed) The Autobiography and Journals – Benjamin Robert Haydon Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks (1941-1995) – Anna Von Planta (ed) The Year of Living Biblically – A.J. Jacobs Diary of Ivy Jacquier – Ivy Jacquier Child of the Dark – Carolina Maria de Jesus Windblown World – Jack Kerouac (47-54) Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries & Letters, 1542-2018 – David Kipen (ed) The Journal of Madam Knight – Sarah Kemble Knight Ariadne’s Thread: A Collection of Contemporary Women’s Journals – Lyn Lifshin (ed) Ongoingness: The End of a Diary – Sarah Manguso Will Work for Food or Money – Bruce Moody Diaries of Anais Nin (vol 1-7) – Anais Nin North Korea Journal – Michael Palin Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (ed. le Gallienne) – Samuel Pepys The Journals of Sylvia Plath (Unabridged) – Sylvia Plath My Blue Notebooks – Liane de Pougy Diaries of Dawn Powell – Dawn Powell The Reagan Diaries – Ronald Reagan The Journal of Jules Renard – Jules Renard Diary of a Mad Diva – Joan Rivers Rebel Without a Crew – Robert Rodriguez The Great Depression: A Diary – Benjamin Roth Miss American Pie – Margaret Sartor Diary – Richard Selzer Inside Vogue – Alexandra Shulman Love Works Like This: Travels Through A Pregnant Year – Lauren Slater Salt In My Soul: An Unfinished Life – Mallory Smith I to Myself – Henry D. Thoreau Daybook: The Journal of an Artist – Anne Truitt Dear Me – Agnes Sligh Turnbull The Girl with Nine Wigs – Sophie Van Der Stap Andy Warhol Diaries – Andy Warhol Diary of an Ad Man – James Webb Notebooks: Tennessee Williams – Tennessee Williams A Writer’s Diary – Virginia Woolf The Diary of Virginia Woolf (5 vols) – Virginia Woolf Love Lessons – Joan Wyndham |
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| Books on Disasters |
| Alive – Piers Paul Read America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 [2nd edition, 2003] – Alfred W. Crosby A Night to Remember – Walter Lord (Titanic) The Loss of the Titanic – L. Beesley Report From Ground Zero – Dennis Smith (911) St. Francis Dam Disaster Revisited – Nunis & Johnson (eds) Titanic: Voices From The Disaster – Deborah Hopkinson |
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| Books on the Environment |
| Big & Green – David Gissen The Idiots Guide to Green Building and Remodeling (2009) |
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| Books of Essays |
| I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman – Nora Ephron Intimations: Six Essays – Zadie Smith Voices of Caregiving – ed. by The Healing Project Writers on the Edge: 22 Writers Speak About Addiction and Dependency – ed by Raab & Brown Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion |
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| Books on Fashion |
| Gio_Graphy: Fun in the Wild World of Fashion – Giovanna Battaglia Hair: Fashion and Fantasy – Laurent Philippon Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore – Terry Newman The Power of Glamour: The Women Who Defined the Magic of Stardom – Annette Tapert The Power of Style: The Women Who Defined the Art of Living Well – Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins |
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| Books on Food & Drink & Drugs |
| A Book of Food – Morton Shand American Taste – James Villas Aphrodite – Allende Apprentice – Jacques Pepin At Home with Madame Chic: Becoming a Connoisseur of Daily Life – Jennifer L. Scott Auberge of the Flowering Hearth – Roy Andries de Groot Between Meals – A.J. Liebling The Booze Reader – George Bishop C’est La Vie – Suzy Gershman Clementine in the Kitchen – Phineas Beck Food & Friends – Simone Beck Cleora’s Kitchen – C. Butler Delights and Prejudices – James Beard Food and Friends – Simone Simca Beck A Farmhouse in Provence – Mary Roblee Henry French Toast – Harriet Welty Rochefort French Women Don’t Get Fat – Mireille Guillano French Women For All Seasons – Mireille Guillano A Goose in Toulouse – Mort Rosenblum Happiness is a Dry Martini – Johnny Carson Hotel Splendide – Bemelmans In Praise of Wine – Alec Waugh In Search of the Perfect Meal – Roy Andries de Groot The Joy of Drinking – Barbara Holland Katish: Our Russian Cook – Wanda Frolov Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Boudain Kitchen Wars – Betty Fussell La Cucina – Lily Prior L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food – Roy Choi Life is Meals – James and Kay Salter Like Water For Chocolate – Laura Esquire The Literary Gourmet – Linda Wolfe Martini Straight Up – Lowell Edmunds The Martini – Barnaby Conrad II A Moveable Thirst – Rick Kushman and Hank Beal A Moveable Feast: Life-Changing Food Adventures Around the World (ed. Don George) The New American Cheese Book – Laura Werlin Of All The Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History – Mark Bailey The Olive Season – Carol Drinkwater The Olive Farm – Carol Drinkwater On Mexican Time – Tony Cohan On Rue Tatin – Susan Herrman Loomis Paul Krassner’s Pot Stories for the Soul (High Times) The Quotable Stoner – Holden Blunts Reckless Appetites – Jacqueline Aval Remiscence & Ravioli – Nika Standen The Reporter’s Kitchen – Jane Kramer Rosemary and Bitter Oranges: Growing Up in a Tuscan Kitchen – Patrizia Chen Schott’s Food & Drink Miscellany – Ben Schott Traveler’s Tales: Food – Various Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto – Victoria Abbott Riccardi Vineyard Tales: Reflections on Wine – Gerald Asher When Frenchwomen Cook – Madeline Kalman Wine on Tuesdays: Be a Serious Wine Drinker Without Taking Wine too Seriously – Debra & Keith Gordon |
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| Books on Food & Marketing |
| Can You Trust a Tomato in January – Vince Staten Offbeat Food – Alan Richenour |
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| Books on Gambling |
| Bringing Down The House – Ben Mezrich |
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| Books on Gardening |
| Beautiful Madness – James Dodson Cultivating Delight – Diane Ackerman French Dirt – Richard Goodman Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll – Richard Bisgrove Gardening with a Wild Heart – Judith Larner Lowry Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden – Eleanor Perenyi On Flowers – Kathryn Kleinman & Sara Slavin The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delaney [Begins her Life’s Work] at 72 – Molly Peacock Paths of Desire: The Passions of a Suburban Gardener – Dominique Browning The Writer in the Garden – Jane Garmey |
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| Books on the Good Life |
| A Memoir of the Senses – Isabel Allende Consuming Passions – Michael Lee West Debt to Pleasure – John Lancaster Endangered Pleasures – Barbara Holland Harem: The World Behind the Veil – Alev Lytle Croutier How Pleasure Works – Paul Bloom The Making of Personality – Bliss Carman On Gratitude – Todd Aaron Jensen Personal Pleasures – Rose Macaulay Taste: Acquiring What Money Can’t Buy – Letitia Baldrige |
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| Books on Health & Diet & Exercise |
| Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat – Naomi Moriyama Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology – Donna Jarrell & Ira Sukrungruang |
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| Books on Horses |
| Horse of a Different Color – Jim Squires (Monarchos) Seabiscuit – Laura Hilenbrand |
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| How-To’s |
Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry – Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux The Art of Conversation – Catherine Blyth Poetry Handbook – Babette Deutsch Teach Yourself Electricity & Electronics – Stan Gibilisco |
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| Humorous Books |
| Go Ask Ali – Ali Wentworth I feel bad about my neck… – Norah Ephron I Suck at Girls – Justin Halpern Osborn on Leisure – Robert Osborn Thank you Notes – Jimmy Fallon Titters: The First Collection of Humor by Women, ed. by Stillman & Beatts |
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| Books on Inventions |
| American Firsts – Stephen Spignesi The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science – Alan Lightman Fleet Fire – L.J. Davis (electricity) |
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| Books of Letters |
| Love & Kisses & A Halo of Truffles – James Beard to Helen Evans Brum Selected Letters of Phillip Larkin Letters Home: 1950-1963 – Sylvia Plath, ed. by Aurelia Schober Plath Letters to a Young Poet (Norton) – Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Xaver Kappus |
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| Books on Los Angeles |
| Beverly Hills is My Beat – Clinton H. Anderson City at the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Reimagined – Peter Lunenfeld Fabulous Boulevard – Ralph Hancock L.A. – Jack Smith Los Angeles Murders – Craig Rice (ed.) |
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| Marketing Books |
| Contagious – Jonah Berger Made to Stick – Chip and Dan Heath |
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| Medical Books |
| Being Mortal – Atul Gawande Complications – Atul Gawande The Dead Beat – Marilyn Johnson (Obits) In Stitches – Dr. Anthony Youn Stiff – Mary Roach The Soul of a Doctor – Susan Pories & Sachin H. Jain (ed.) Working Stiff – Judy Melinek |
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| Books on Movies |
| Movie Speak – Tony Bill |
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| Books on Myths/Folklore |
| Gods, Heroes and Monsters – Helen Switzer Mythology of Plants – Annette Giesecke The Soup Stone: The Magic of Familiar Things– Maria Leach Top Ten Greek Legends – Terry Deary Who’s Who in Greek and Roman Mythology |
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| Books on Philosophy |
| Breakfast with Socrates – Robert Rowland Smith Cicero: A Sketch of his Life and Works – Hannis Taylor Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes – Cathcart & Klein |
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| Books on Photography |
| 50 Contemporary Photographers You Should Know – Florian Heine 50 Photographers You Should Know – Peter Stepan 100 Great Street Photographs – David Gibson Body: The Photography Book – Nathalie Herschdorfer Bystander: A History of Street Photography (2017) – Colin Westerbeck & Joel Meyerowitz Classic Essays on Photography – Alan Trachtenberg (editor) Compositional Techniques – Ernst Wildi Diary Of A Century – Jacques Henri Lartigue Fundamentals of Photo Composition – Paul Comon Henri Cartier-Bresson – Aperture (publisher) Hot Mirror – Viviane Sassen How to Read a Photograph – Ian Jeffrey Humans Of New York – Brandon Stanton Light Matters: Writings on Photography – Vicki Goldberg Looking at Photographs – John Szarkowski Magnum – Russell Miller The Mind’s Eye – Henri Cartier–Bresson The Ongoing Moment – Geoff Dyer On Photography – Susan Sontag Photography After Photography – Abigail Solomon-Godeau Photography and the Art of Chance – Robin Kelsey Photography Visionaries – Mary Warner Marien Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs – Henry Carroll Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs Of People – Henry Carroll Seen Behind The Scene / Forty Years Of Photographing On Set – Mary Ellen Mark Women Photographers – Boris Friedewald |
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| Books on Publishing |
| Book Business – Jason Epstein Stet – Diana Athill |
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| Reference Books |
| Bernstein’s Reverse Dictionary Woman and Wits – G.F. Monkshood |
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| Books on Relationships |
| The Bitch in the House – Cathi Hanauer (ed.) The Bitch is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier – Cathi Hanauer (ed.) The Other Woman – Victoria Zackheim (ed.) The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money and Relationships – Hilary Black (ed.) |
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| Romantic Books |
| Harem: Woman Behind The Veil – Alev Lytle Croutier Palace of Tears – Alev Lytle Croutier |
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| Self-Help Books |
| Lightly: How To Live A Simple, Serene & Stress-Free Life – Francine Jay The Moral Maxims And Reflections of the Duke De La Rochefoucauld |
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Books about Sleep & Insomnia |
| Awake: A Reader for the Sleepless – ed. by Steven Lee Beeber Restful Sleep: the Complete Mind/Body Program for Overcoming Insomnia – Deepak Chopra, M.D. |
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Books about Social Issues |
| Coyotes: A Journey through the Secret World of America’s Illegal Aliens – Ted Conover |
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| Books on Travel |
| A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light – Eleanor Brown (ed.) Sirens of Chrome: The Ensuring Allure of Auto Show Models – Margery Krevsky Drinking Mare’s Milk On The Roof Of The World – Tom Lutz Nine Pounds of Luggage – Maude Parrish Iron & Silk – Mark Salzman From Heaven Lake – Vikram Seth Without Reservations – Alice Steinbach American Places – William Zinsser |
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| Books on Trivia |
| The Know-It-All – A.J. Jacobs A Book of Days for 1931: Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure by Christopher Morley & made into a Calendar for sundry Paramours of Print – Christopher Morley |
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| Books on True Crimes |
| A Burglar’s Guide to the City – Geoff Manaugh The Devil & Sherlock Holmes – David Grann Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer (Gary Gilmore) Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI – David Grann Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt |
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| Books on Walking |
| The Lost Art of Walking – Geoff Nicolson Wanderlust – Rebecca Solnit The Walker’s Literary Companion |
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| Books on War |
| Americans In Paris: Life & Death Under Nazi Occupation – Charles Glass The Armies of the Night – Norman Mailer War Letters – Andrew Carroll War Stories – Elizabeth Mullener Killer Angels – Michael Shaara Richmond Burning – Nelson Lankford |
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| Books on Women |
| Bachelor Girl – Betsy Israel Women War Correspondents – Virginia Akers-Elwood |
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| Books on Words & Language |
| An Essay on Metaphor in Poetry – J.G. Jennings Away with Words: An Irreverent Tour Through the World of Pun Competitions – Joe Berkowitz Defining the World – Henry Hitchings (Johnson’s Dictionary) On Metaphor – ed. by Sheldon Sacks The Pun Also Rises: How the humble pun revolutionized language, changed history, and made wordplay more than some antics – John Pollack Puns – Walter Redfern The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism – James Geary Word-A-Day – Mickey Bach |
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| Books on Writing |
| Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir – Sue William Silverman Inventing the Truth – William Zinsser Plotting For Every Kind Of Writing – Jack Woodford Rules for the Dance – Mary Oliver Spunk and Bite – Arthur Plotnik Telling True Stories – Mark Kramer and Wendy Call To Show and To Tell – Phillip Lopate Wired for Story – Lisa Cron Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively – Rebecca McClanahan Words Fail Me – Patricia T. O’Connor Writing For Story – Jon Franklin Writing Hard Stories – Melanie Brooks Writing Tools – Roy Peter Clark |
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