I recently posted the fiction TBR shelves, here's the non-fiction that I'm hanging onto. I show a definite preference for parenting books, books about religious journeys, and stuff about money.
What non-fiction do you lean towards?
- Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott
- The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
- A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
- Through the Narrow Gate, Revised: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery by Karen Armstrong
- Didn't I Feed You Yesterday?: A Mother's Guide to Sanity in Stilettos by Laura Bennett
- Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life by Gail Blanke
- It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons edited by Andrea Buchanan
- Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It by Andrea J Buchanan
- Shakespeare (The Illustrated and Updated Edition) by Bill Bryson
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
- The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
- Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Vintage) by Bill Buford
- Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl by Susan Campbell
- Pornology: Noun--1: A Good Girl's Guide to Porn; 2: The misadventures of the world's first anthroPORNologist; 3: A Hilarious Exploration of Men, Relationships, and Sex by Ayn Carrillo-Galley
- Babyproofing Your Marriage: How to Laugh More and Argue Less As Your Family Grows
- FBI Girl: How I Learned to Crack My Father's Code by Maria Conlon-MvIvor
- What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues by Jessamyn Conrad
- Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead by Tamara Draut
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
- An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
- Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence by Gerard Jones
- The Story of My Life: The Restored Classic, Complete and Unabridged, Centennial Edition by Helen Keller
- Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel by Jean Kilbourne
- Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age by Daniel Kindlon
- Yearnings: EMBRACING THE SACRED MESSINESS OF LIFE by Irwin Kula
- Dharma Punx by Noah Levine
- Gift From the Sea (A Vintage Book) by Anne Morrow Lindberg
- Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy by Martin Lindstrom
- See Jane Write: A Girl's Guide to Writing Chick Lit by Sarah Mlynowski
- Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family by Catherine Newman
- Practically Perfect in Every Way: My Misadventures Through the World of Self-Help--and Back by Jennifer Niesslein
- The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke by Angela Nissel
- The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
- Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own by Doreen Orion
- Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robinson
- Baby B by Michael Ryan
- You're Not The Boss Of Me: Adventures Of A Modern Mom by Erika Schickel
- Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S. by Beppe Severgnini
- Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish by Tom Shachtman
- The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change by Shari MacDonald Strong
- Dixieland Delight: A Football Season on the Road in the Southeastern Conference by Clay Travis
- Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom by Kristin van Ogtrop
- The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
- Take the Cannoli : Stories From the New World by Sarah Vowell
- The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham
- The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal by Victoria Zackheim
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The only book we share on our TBR shelves is The Maternal is Political. I need to get to that soon. When it comes to non-fiction, I lean towards books about parenting, writing, and spirituality. Have a great Sunday!
ReplyDeleteEefinitely memoirs and biographies. Besides the literary crit I have from school.
ReplyDeleteI'm nowhere near as big a reader as you are, but my biggest non fiction collections would be quilting (it's own shelf in the quilt/spare room), books about various games that were hobbies for my husband and I when we still had time to play adult games (backgammon, bridge, Go, etc.), travel (used to love to treat myself to one nice guide wherever we were going), and then random other hobby books that at one time or another I thought I would partake in -- start your own business, become a children's writer, decorating small spaces, birth books, etc. I do enjoy biographies sometimes, but I tend to get them from the library.
ReplyDeleteI read that last book. It was okay. Don't know if you should waste your valuable time on it. LOL!
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of nonfiction. I'm embarrassed to say that most of my nonfiction books are cookbooks and craftbooks. Then a handful of parenting and health books... then maybe one or two memoirs/autobiographies.
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