Nonfiction, general

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• Aboujaoude, Elias. Virtually You
• Ackerley, J.R. My Dog Tulip
• Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education
• Bernstein, Carolyn. The Migraine Brain: Your Breakthrough Guide to Fewer Headaches, Better Health
• Brooks, David. The Social Animal
• Browning, Dominique. Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas, and Found Happiness
• Cain, Susan. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
• Caldwell, Gail. Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
• Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
• Coontz, Stephanie. Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage
• Deresiewicz, William. A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
• Didion, Joan. Blue Nights
• Fermor, Patrick Leigh. A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
• Fish, Stanley. How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
• Flynn, Josephe Marie. Rescuing Regina
• French, Thomas. Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives 
• Geoghegan, Thomas. Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?
• Gilbert, Elizabeth. Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
• Gill, Michael Gates. How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
• Gillinov, Marc, and Steven Nissen. Heart 411: The Only Guide to Heart Health You'll Ever Need
• Goldhill, David. Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father - And How We Can Fix It
• Gordon, Mary. Circling My Mother
• Grandin, Temple. Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
• Homans, John. What's a Dog For?
• Horowitz, Alexandra. Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
• Hammer, Joshua. A Season in Bethlehem: Unholy War in a Sacred Place
• Hitchens, Christopher. Mortality
• Huler, Scott. On the Grid
• Jacoby, Susan. Never Say Die
• James, P.D. Talking About Detective Fiction
• Jones, Judith. The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
• Katz, Jon. The New Work of Dogs
• Karr, Mary. Lit
• Kaye, Jeffrey. Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration. See Christian Century review here.
• Kessler, David. The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite 
• Kirby, David. Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment
• Knapp, Caroline. Pack of Two
• Koyzis, David. Political Visions and Illusions: A Survey and Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies
• Kristof, Nicholas and Sheryl WuDunn. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 
• Kuhl, David. What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life 
• Lamott, Anne, with Sam Lamott. Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son
• Lustig, Robert H. Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
• Maas, Jane. Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the 60s and Beyond
• Maddow, Rachel. Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
• Magliato, Kathy E. Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
• McConnell, Patricia B. The Other End of the Leash
• McCullough, Dennis. My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing "Slow Medicine," the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones
• McKibben, Bill. Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
• McMahon, Darrin M. Happiness: A History 
• McWilliams, James. Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
• Moss, Michael. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
• Mukherjee, Siddhartha. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
• Niman, Nicolette Hahn. Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms
• Orenstein, Peggy. Cinderella Ate My Daughter
• Pearson, Patricia. A Brief History of Anxiety: Yours and Mine
• Pollan, Michael. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
• Reichl, Ruth. For You, Mom. Finally. Original title: Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way
• Reid, T.R. The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
• Safran Foer, Jonathan. Eating Animals
• Sanger, Margaret. An Autobiography
• Schiff, Peter D. and Andrew. How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
• Sheler, Jeffery L. Prophet of Purpose: The Life of Rick Warren
• Shriver, Mark K. A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver
• Soskice, Janet. The Sisters of Sinai
• Sotomayor, Sonia. My Beloved World
• Squire, Susan. I Don't: A Contrarian History of Marriage
• Stark, Rodney. For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery 
• Steves, Rick. Travel As a Political Act
• Taber, George M. A Toast to Bargain Wine: How Innovators, Iconoclasts, and Winemaking Revolutionaries are Changing the Way the World Drinks
• Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall. The Hidden Life of Dogs
• Turnbull, Sarah. Almost French 
• Wallach, Janet. Desert Queen
• Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
• Worth, Jennifer. Call the Midwife