Top 12 Nonfiction Books – 2018

Collected via:

• Our 10 Best Books of 2018: From ‘Boom Town’ to ‘Douglass’ to ‘Overstory,’ seeing the big in everything – Chicago Tribune
• More Books We Loved in 2018 | The New Yorker
• The Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2018 – WSJ
• Amazon Book Review
• Favourite Nonfiction of 2018 | Five Books Editors’ Recommendations
• The Best Books of 2018 | The New Yorker

1. “Feel Free” by Zadie Smith (Penguin, 464 pages, $28)
2. “This Land: America, Lost and Found” by Dan Barry (Black Dog & Leventhal, 400 pages, $29.95)
3. Just the Funny Parts … And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys’ Club by Nell Scovell
4. “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World,” by Anand Giridharadas
5. “Essayism,” by Brian Dillon
6. “Small Fry,” by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
7. Why Art? by Eleanor Davis
8. Darwin Comes To Town: How The Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen
9. Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism, And Progress by Steven Pinker
10. Impossible Owls: Essays by Brian Phillips
11. She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer
12. Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom, by Erica Benner

Top 12 Fiction Books – 2018

• “Asymmetry,” by Lisa Halliday
• “Heads of the Colored People” by Nafissa Thompson-Spires (37 INK/Atria, 224 pages, $23)
• “Severance,” by Ling Ma
• “Kudos,” by Rachel Cusk
• “Immigrant, Montana,” by Amitava Kumar
• A Place for Us: by Fatima Farheen Mirza

• If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi: Stories By Neel Patel
• The Writer’s Map: An Atlas Of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones
• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
• Insurrecto by Gina Apostol
• The Day the Sun Died by Yan Lianke, trans. from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas
• Ummath by Sharmila Seyyid; translated from Tamil by Gita Subramanian

Reference:

• Our 10 Best Books of 2018: From ‘Boom Town’ to ‘Douglass’ to ‘Overstory,’ seeing the big in everything – Chicago Tribune
• The Best Books of 2018 | The New Yorker
• Best Books of 2018 : NPR
• The 12 Best Translated Books Of 2018 | HuffPost India
• Best Books 2018 – Fiction : Publishers Weekly

6 Scary Book Selections to Read from Library for September 2015

1. Robert Spencer’s The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS

2. The Demographic Cliff: How To Survive And Prosper During The Great Deflation Of 2014-2019

Chapter 1	The Demographic Cliff Around the World
Chapter 2	Following Japan into a Coma Economy
Chapter 3	Why Real Estate Will Never Be the Same
Chapter 4	A Look at Public and Private Debt
Chapter 5	A Brief History of Financial Bubbles
Chapter 6	Commodity Prices: The Achilles’ Heel of Emerging Countries
Chapter 7	Investment Strategies for the Financial Crisis Ahead
Chapter 8	Business Strategies for the Winter Season
Chapter 9	Government Strategies for Facilitating Free Markets
Epilogue:	A Major Revolution Brews Every 250 Years

3. Humans Are Underrated by Geoff Colvin

• The Cleveland Clinic, which emphasizes empathy training of doctors and all employees to improve patient outcomes and lower medical costs.
• The U.S. Army, which has revolutionized its training to focus on human interaction, leading to stronger teams and greater success in real-world missions.
• Stanford Business School, which has overhauled its curriculum to teach interpersonal skills through human-to-human experiences.

4. The State We’re In: Maine Stories by Ann Beattie

• NY Times
• SF Gate
• Boston Globe
• Vogue

5. A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design by Frank Wilczek: History of mathematics

• Guardian
• FT
• PBS Nova Next “How Physics Will Change—and Change the World—in 100 Years”
• Slate

6. Let’s Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties by Patricia Marx

 

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5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) – J.K. Rowling
6. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
7. Twilight (Twilight, #1) – Stephenie Meyer
8. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
9. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen

Reading the Red Carpet: The books behind this Year’s Oscar Nominated Films

1. The Descendants | Kaui Hart Hemmings
2. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer
3. Moneyball by Michael Lewis
4. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo and Nick Stafford
5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: A George Smiley Novel by John Le Carré
6. Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy Bundle: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
7. The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer’s Daughter to Prime Minister by John Campbell
8. My Week with Marilyn by Colin Clark
9. The Adventures of Tintin: A Novel by Alexander Irvine
10. We Need to Talk About Kevin tie-in: A Novel by Lionel Shriver
11. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
12.  The Help by Kathryn Stockett