Genre search:General Nonfiction

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, biography, history of science, ftppl, hb
Call number
500 21

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, biography, medicine, hb, ftpml
Call number
616.02774092

The Wager: A tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

by David Grann
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
history, age of sail, nautical, shipwreck, mutiny, adventure, hb
Call number
910.9164

Caste: The origins of our discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
history, american history, hb, unread
Call number
305.5/122

Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking

by Susan Cain
Ebook, 2012
Tags
unread, nonfiction, sociology, introverts, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
155.2/32

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The fates of human societies

by Jared Diamond
Paperback, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, history, world history, anthropology, pulitzer, pulitzer prize, tpb
Series
Civilizations Rise and Fall (1)
Call number
303.4 22

An Immense World: How animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us

by Ed Yong
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
nonfiction, biology, animals, senses, animal behavior, nature, hb
Call number
591.5

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
memoir, hb, african american
Call number
305.800973

What if?: Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
xkcd, humor, science, hb
Series
What if? (1)
Call number
500

How to be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi
Ebook, 2019
Tags
sociology, american culture, racism, anti-racism, unread
Call number
305.800973

The Devil in the White City: Murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America

by Erik Larson
Paperback, 2003
Tags
unread, narrative nonfiction, tpb
Call number
364.15230977311

Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed

by Jared Diamond
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, ecology, anthropology, human geography, tpb, ftpml
Series
Civilizations Rise and Fall (2)
Call number
304.28

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A natural history of four meals

by Michael Pollan
Paperback, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, food, sustainability, tpb, jane's
Collection
Jane's
Call number
394.12

Hidden Figures: The American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
history, african american history, black women did that, space, space program, history of computing, women's history, wwii, early reviewer, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
510.92/520973

What if? 2: Additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
xkcd, humor, science, hb, unread
Series
What if? (2)
Call number
500

SPQR: A history of ancient Rome

by Mary Beard
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
history, ancient history, ancient rome, hb
Call number
937

The Professor and the Madman: A tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

by Simon Winchester
Paperback, 2005
Tags
nonfiction, history, biography, dictionaries, oed, tpb, ftpml
Call number
423.092

Bossypants

by Tina Fey
Paperback, 2012
Tags
jane's, memoir, humor, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
792.702/8092B

Packing for Mars: The curious science of life in the void

by Mary Roach
Paperback, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, space program, astronauts, space biology, tpb
Call number
571.0919

Entangled Life : How fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures

by Merlin Sheldrake
Paperback, 2020
Tags
biology, natural history, mushrooms, fungi, unread, tpb
Call number
579.5

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 1999
Tags
travel, humor, hiking, appalachian trail, tpb
Call number
917.404/43 21

How To: Absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
xkcd, humor, hb
Call number
502

The Sixth Extinction: An unnatural history

by Elizabeth Kolbert
Paperback, 2014
Tags
early reviewer, ecology, extinction, mass extinction, arc, pulitzer, pulitzer prize
Call number
576.84

1491: New revelations of the Americas before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, americas, native american history, precolumbian, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
970.01/1 22

Three Cups of Tea: One man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations -- one school at a time

by Greg Mortenson
Paperback, 2007
Tags
education, nonfiction, afghanistan, pakistan, tpb
Call number
371.82209549

Gulp: Adventures on the alimentary canal

by Mary Roach
Paperback, 2013
Tags
biology, anatomy, digestive system, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
612.3

The Soul of an Octopus: A surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness

by Sy Montgomery
Ebook, 2015
Tags
natural history, cephalopods, octopuses, invertebrates, animal intelligence, biology, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
594.56

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to black holes

by Stephen Hawking
Paperback, 1990
Tags
nonfiction, physics, popular-level, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
523.1

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A year of food life

by Barbara Kingsolver
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, food, gardening, locavore, hb
Call number
641.0973

The Ghost Map: The story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world

by Steven Johnson
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, medicine, cholera, epidemiology, data visualization, maps, london, tpb
Call number
614.514

Longitude: The true story of a long genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, history, history of science, history of technology, longitude, biography, tpb
Call number
526.6209 20

The Warmth of Other Suns: The epic story of America's great migration

by Isabel Wilkerson
Paperback, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, history, american history, african american history, oral history, great migration, african american, tpb
Call number
304.80973

Prisoners of Geography: Ten maps that explain everything about the world

by Tim Marshall
Paperback, 2015
Tags
geography, history, maps, tpb, unread
Series
Politics of Place (1)
Call number
320.12

Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain

by Oliver Sacks
Paperback, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, music, neurology, tpb
Call number
781.11 22

Salt : a world history

by Mark Kurlansky
Paperback, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, history, microhistory, food, food history, salt, tpb, can't find our copy
Call number
553.63209

The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander
Paperback, 2011
Tags
criminal justice, sociology, racism, african american, prisons, incarceration, tpb
Call number
364.973

Because Internet: Understanding the new rules of language

by Gretchen McCulloch
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
linguistics, english language, internet language, take that prescriptivists, hb
Call number
302.231

Fast Food Nation: The dark side of the all-American meal

by Eric Schlosser
Paperback, 2002
Tags
nonfiction, food, politics, tpb
Call number
394.1/0973 21

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary lives in North Korea

by Barbara Demick
Paperback, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, history, oral history, north korea, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
306.095193/090511

Four Lost Cities: A secret history of the urban age

by Annalee Newitz
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
history, anthropology, archaeology, cities, çatalhöyük, pompeii, angkor, cahokia, hb
Call number
930.1

The Disappearing Spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements

by Sam Kean
Paperback, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, chemistry, elements, tpb
Call number
546

What an Owl Knows: The new science of the world's most enigmatic birds

by Jennifer Ackerman
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
birds, bird behavior, natural history, biology, owls, hb, unread
Collection
Recently Read
Call number
598.9/7

The Signal and the Noise: Why so many predictions fail -- but some don't

by Nate Silver
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, statistics, bayes theorem, big data, prediction, politics, baseball, hb
Call number
519.542

Just Mercy: A story of justice and redemption

by Bryan Stevenson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
criminal justice, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
353.4

H is for Hawk

by Helen Macdonald
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
memoir, falconry, grief, hb
Call number
598.944

I Contain Multitudes: The microbes within us and a grander view of life

by Ed Yong
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
biology, bacteria, symbiosis, microbiome, hb
Call number
579/.17

In a Sunburned Country

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2001
Tags
travel, australia, humor, tpb
Series
Bill Bryson's Travels (5)
Call number
919.404/65 21

Krakatoa: The day the world exploded, August 27, 1883

by Simon Winchester
Paperback, 2003
Tags
history, disasters, volcanos, indonesia, krakatoa, tpb
Call number
551.2108

Other Minds: the octopus, the sea, and the deep origins of consciousness

by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
hb, biology, animal intelligence, cephalopods, invertebrates
Call number
612.8

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark

by Carl Sagan
Paperback, 1997
Tags
nonfiction, science, rationality, tpb
Call number
001.9 20
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