Morphy's Mightly Monthly Nonfiction Nominations

This is the list of the "readable" nonfiction I haven't read. I removed the Joy of Cooking and Oxford Dictionary. I'd really like to see What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew on the list on nominations since it's already on my TBR Soon list.

ETA: Touchstones aren't working at the moment. I'll try again later.

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Truss, Lynne
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bryson, Bill
The Elements of Style by Strunk, William and White, E. B.
Cosmos by Sagan, Carl
Collapse by Diamond, Jared
The Origin of the Species by Darwin, Charles
All the President's Men by Woodward, Bob
The Double Helix by Watson, James
The Prince by Machiavelli, Niccolo
The Way Things Work by Macaulay, David
Gorillas in the Mist by Fossey, Dian
In Defense of Food by Pollan, Michael
Krakatoa by Winchester, Simon
Longitude by Sobel, Dava
The Art of War by Tzu, Sun
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Franklin, Benjamin
The Demon-Haunted World by Sagan, Carl
Three Cups of Tea by Mortenson, Greg
An Anthropologist on Mars by Sacks, Oliver
Band of Brothers by Ambrose, Stephen
Galileo's Daughter by Sobel, Dava
Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter, Douglas
The Code Book by Singh, Simon
The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Feynman, Richard P.
The Republic by Plato
The World Without Us by Weisman, Alan
A Crack in the Edge of the World by Winchester, Simon
A Grief Observed by Lewis, C. S.
A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Wollstonecraft, Mary
Confessions by Saint Augustine
Hiroshima by Hersey, John
Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana, Mallanaga
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston's Women's Health Book Collective
Science of Discworld by Pratchett, Terry and Stewart, Ian
Silent Spring by Carson, Rachel
The Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins, Richard
The Histories by Herodotus
The Perfect Storm by Junger, Sebastian
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles
Walden by Thoreau, Henry David
Your Inner Fish by Shubin, Neil
1491 by Mann, Charles
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Brewer, E.
Democracy in America by de Tocqueville, Alexis
In the Shadow of Man by Goodall, Jane
John Adams by McCullough, David
Outliers by Gladwell, Malcolm
Patience & Fortitude by Basbanes, Nicholas A.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Dillard, Annie
The Complete Persepolis by Satrapi, Marjane
The Federalist by Hamilton, Alexander, et al.
The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George
The Guns of August by Tuchman, Barbara
Agatha Christie by Christie, Agatha
All New Square Foot Gardening by Bartholomew, Mel
Bad Science by Goldacre, Ben
Chaos by Gleick, James
Columbine by Cullen, Dave
Fun Home by Bechdal, Alison
Future Shock by Toffler, Alvin
Hackers by Levy, Steven
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Cahill, Thomas
How to Read a Book by Adler, Mortimer J.
My Life in France by Child, Julia
Team of Rivals by Goodwin, Doris Kearns
The Communist Manifesto by Marx, Karl
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Wolfe, Tom
The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer, William
Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Pool, Daniel
Wonderful Life by Gould, Stephen Jay

On my TBR shelf:

Collapse
Krakatoa
Agatha Christie's Autobiography
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
A Grief Observed

I'm planning to re-read:

The World Without Us
An Anthropologist on Mars

Wow--there is some heavy-duty reading on that list. Some books can be really important, but not very readable. I can't remember if anyone in the science, history and religion group managed to finish Darwin's Origin of the Species in the quarterly read.

On Planet TBR:
Team of Rivals by Goodwin, Doris Kearns -this is a chunkster that I started early in 2013 and that I plan to get back to)
Cosmos by Sagan, Carl (I think this is somewhat out of date, however)
Collapse by Diamond, Jared - again not a quick read
The Art of War by Tzu, Sun (not sure how readable this is!?)
Galileo's Daughter by Sobel, Dava
Science of Discworld by Pratchett, Terry and Stewart, Ian (there are several volumes of this, yes?)
Walden by Thoreau, Henry David
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Dillard, Annie

Others I'd definitely be interested in:
Gorillas in the Mist by Fossey, Dian
In Defense of Food by Pollan, Michael
Columbine by Cullen, Dave
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Pool, Daniel

Ones I've read that I would recommend:
The Complete Persepolis by Satrapi, Marjane
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Cahill, Thomas
Hiroshima by Hersey, John

I love the various CS Lewis books, but recognize that they are Christian apologetics and that discussion may devolve.

Agatha Christie and
The Blind Watchmaker

Team of Rivals is also on my shelf, I almost picked it up last week. You have some heavy reading there!

I loved Collapse and Outliers, both are high recommends from me. How the Irish saved civilization is on Mount TBR, but boxed somewhere after the last move.

The Gulag Archipelago
The Complete Persepolis
The Art of War
The Voyage of the Beagle

I have Democracy in America and have wanted to read it for a long time. Also Confessions and Hiroshima.

I have read (and kept) Two Years Before the Mast and Agatha Christie: An Autobiography, both were excellent, and I wouldn't mind reading either one again. The same applies to Mere Christianity, but like streamsong, not sure the discussion would work in this group.

Have read The Elements of Style several times, it is good, but very oriented towards writers.

I'm checking with the clamster on discussing books like Mere Christianity. Whatever she says, I'll stick with.

ETA: Okay, the queen has decided that we will not discuss such books, so other than Mere Christianity which are religious-type books?

I found these books to be amazing:

Chaos by Gleick, James
Fun Home by Bechdel, Alison

Readable, eye-opening, fascinating.

An Anthropologist on Mars was also good. I read Eats, Shoots and Leaves and found it so-so. Galileo's Daughter was pretty good! Godel, Escher, Bach is on my TBR list but I think it may be tough going.

I'd like to read Gödel Escher Bach, Silent spring, Fun home or The gulag archipelago.

I'd like to read Your Inner Fish.

One more day to get your nominations in!

My votes are on:
Wonderful Life on my TBR mountain
anything by Sagan--I've been wanting to read him
The Perfect Storm also on my TBR mountain
Hackers

But there's plenty of excellent stuff here--anything by Simon Winchester, and Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, and The Code Book and An Anthropologist on Mars are all splendid reads.

The top three are:

Agatha Christie by Agatha Christie
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
Collapse by Jared Diamond

Although I hope the Sacks is better than The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat which I thought was awful.

These all sound interesting!

I'll be in for all of those.

True confession - I have never read an Agatha Christie mystery so I guess I'll have to read a few before we get to her autobiography. ;-)