This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, asks for “Top Ten Best Books I Read In 2015.” I decided to focus this list on the excellent non-fiction books published in 2015 that I loved reading this year. Here’s my list, with very oversimplified descriptions of when I’d recommend reading them. IF YOU WANT… Continue reading Top Ten Non-Fiction Reads of 2015
Tag: non-fiction
Gumption by Nick Offerman
I have very mixed feelings about Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman. I’ll start out by saying that I don’t think I would have gotten through it if I hadn’t been listening to the audiobook. His writing style is a little odd – he mixes humor and a very… Continue reading Gumption by Nick Offerman
Fail Fail Again Fail Better by Pema Chödrön
I enjoy reading the occasional commencement speech, especially from authors I admire. I think my all time favorite is the one George Saunders gave at Syracuse in 2013, on kindness. I don’t usually seek out commencement addresses in print, but I made an exception for Pema Chödrön. She’s an American-born Buddhist nun, she’s incredible and wise, and her… Continue reading Fail Fail Again Fail Better by Pema Chödrön
The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin
I added The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination by Ursula K. Le Guin to my To Be Read list after reading Eva’s post about it on A Striped Armchair. I checked out a copy from the library, but after reading the first essay I knew that… Continue reading The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin
Letters of Note by Shaun Usher
My health insurance incentivizes preventative care – they sent me a $20 Amazon gift card for getting a flu shot. Strange, but ok! I put it towards buying Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience, compiled by Shaun Usher. It had been on my wish list most of the year, and… Continue reading Letters of Note by Shaun Usher
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
In the introduction to Tiny Beautiful Things, Steve Almond says that this book will “endure as a piece of literary art, as will Cheryl’s other books, because they do the essential work of literary art: they make us more human than we were before.” That’s really all you need to know about this book: It will… Continue reading Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed