In Alphabetical Order: (slowly being imported from my older blog)

A

Richard Abanes

• One Nation Under Gods

Mary Abbajay

• Managing Up

Daniel Abraham

• Balfour & Meriwether

David Adam

• The Man Who Couldn’t Stop

John Joseph Adams

• The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Bill Adler, Jr.

• Outwitting Squirrels

Elena Aguilar

• The Art of Coaching

Daniel Alarcon

• The King is Always About the People

Nelson Algren

• A Walk on the Wild Side

Bob Altemeyer

• The Authoritarians

Poul Anderson

• Tau Zero
• Brain Wave

Tim Anderson

• Tune in Tokyo

Ilona Andrews

• Fate’s Edge

Anil Ananthaswamy

• The Man Who Wasn’t There

Naked Ape

• Switch

Catherine Asaro

• Primary Inversion

John Austin

• Mini-Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build Implements of Spitball Warfare

B

Robert B Baer

• The Perfect Kill

Joel Bakan

• The Corporation

Kage Baker

• Not Less Than Gods

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo 

• When We Were Birds

Laird Barron

• Man with No Name

Dale E. Basye

• Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go

Toby Barlow

• Babayaga

PT Barnum

• The Art of Money Getting

John M. Barry

• The Great Influenza

Erica Bauermeister

• The School of Essential Ingredients

Elizabeth Bear 

• In the House of Aryaman, a Loney Signal Burns

Karl Bell

• The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures

Chloe Benjamin 

• The Immortalists

Hannah Berry

• Britten and Brulightly

Lloyd Biggle Jr.

• Monument

Holly Black

• White Cat

Benjamin Black

• The Black-Eyed Blonde

Kendare Blake

• Anna Dressed in Blood

Pamela Wharton Blanpied

• Dragons: The Modern Infestation

Alex Bledsoe

• Burn me Deadly

Lawrence Block

• Killing Castro
• O Grifter’s Game

Peter Bogdanovich

• The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten, 1960-1980

David Boop

• Straight Outta Tombstone

M.H. Boroson

• The Girl with Ghost Eyes

Anthony Bourdain

• Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical

Steven R Boyett

• ARIEL

Mark Boyle

• Moneyless Man

Alan Bradley

• A Red Herring without Mustard
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
• The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag

Lynn Bragg

• Washington Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries (Legends of the West)

Duo Brand

• Isle of Forbidden Love

Stewart Brand

• Whole Earth Discipline

Bob Brier

• Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs

David Brin

• Earth

Maurice Broaddeis

• King Maker 

Brene Brown

• Daring Greatly

Ken Bruen

• Killing the Tinkers 

Dave Bruno

• The 100 Thing Challenge

Samantha Bryant

• Going Through the Change
• Change of Life

Lois McMaster Bujold

• Winterfair Gifts
• Shards of Honor
• The Vor Game
• Barravar
• Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
• Cetaganda

Brendon Burchard

• The 6 Habits of Growth

James Burk

• The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made the Carburetor Possible – and Other Journeys

Hodgson Burnett

• That Lass O’ Lowrie’s

Bryan Burrough

• The Demon Next Door

Kerrigan Byrne

• The Business of Blood

C

Sam Cabot

• Blood of the Lamb

Avis Cardella

• Strong

Grant Cardone

• The 10X Mentor

Juan Diaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido

• Blacksad

Bora Chung

• Cursed Bunny

P. Djeli Clark

• The Black God’s Drums

Mike Carey

• The Devil You Know

Howie Carr

• Hitman

Gail Carriger

• Soulless

Jonathan Carroll

• The Crow’s Dinner

Rachel Carson

• The Sense of Wonder

Rae Carson

• The Girl of Fire and Thorns

Jack Chalker

• Midnight at the Well of Souls

Clayton M. Christensen

• The Innovator’s Prescription

Adam Christopher

• Empire State
• Hangwire

Arthur C. Clarke

• Earthlight

Nicholas Goodrick Clarke

• The Occult Roots of Nazism

Andrew Collins

• Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods: The Temple of the Watchers and the Discovery of Eden

Russell H Conwell

• Acres of Diamonds

Kara Cooney

• When Women Rules the World

EJ Copperman

• Ghost in the Wind

Paul Cornell

• London FallingKelly

Larry Correla

• Hard Magic

• Murder on the Orient Elite

Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen

• The Urban Homestead

Susan Crawford

• Captive Audience

John Crowley

• Ka

Yahtzee Croshaw

• Existentially Challenged

Mihaly Csikazentmihalyi

• Flow

Darryl Cunningham

• How to Fake a Moon Landing

Patrick Curry

• Defending Middle-earth, Tolkien: Myth and Modernity 

Peter Cushing

• Peter Cushing: The Complete Memoirs

Joshua Cutchin

• The Brimstone Deceit: An In-Depth Examination of Supernatural Scents, Otherworldly Odors, and Monstrous Miasmas

D

Ellen Datlow

• Christmas and Other Horrors 

Meghan Daum

• Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That House

Ivan P. Day

• Ice Cream: A History

Karen Dawisha

• Putin’s Kleptocracy

Delilah S. Dawson

• Wicked After Midnight

Alain De Botton

• A Week at the Airport

Fabrice De Pierrebourg and Michel Juneau- Katsuya

• Nest of Spies

Kris DeLake

• A Spy to Die For

Samuel R. Delany

• Empire Star
• Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

Don Delino

• White Noise

J. Derrida

• Geneses, Geneologies, Genres, and Genius

Robert S. Desowitz

• New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People 

Stuart Diamond

• Getting More

Charles Dickens

• David Copperfield

William C. Dietz

• Andromeda’s Fall

Phillip K. Dick

• The Cosmic Puppets

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

• The Mistress of Spices

Joseph D’Lacey

• Black Feathers

Cory Doctrow

• Radicalized

Ted Dougherty

• The History of Knott’s Scary Farm

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Captain of the Polestar

Tananarive Due

• The Reformatory

Charles Duhigg

• Smarter Faster Better

Will Durant

• The Story of Philosophy

Will & Ariel Durant

• The Lessons of History

Kevin Dutton

• The Wisdom of Psychopaths

E

Nicholas Eberstadt

• Men Without Work

Roger Ebert

• A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length

Scott Eblin

• Overworked and Overwhelmed

Robert Edgar & Wayne Johnson

• The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror

David Edison

• The Waking Engine

Greg Van Eekhout

• Norse Code

Jesse Eisenberg

• When You Finish Saving the World

John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan

• The Power of Unreasonable People –

Kate Elliot

• Cold Fire

Richard Ellis

• The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World’s Most Elusive Sea Creature

Warren Ellis

• Gun Machine

Alan Elsner

• The Nazi Hunter

James Erwin

• Arcadia

Brian Evenson

• Song for the Unraveling of the World

H. J. Eysenck

• Genius: The Natural History of Creativity

F

Ward Farnsworth

• The Practicing Stoic

Heather Fawcett

• All the Wandering Light

James Fell

• The Holy Shit Moment

Timothy Ferris

• Tools of Titans
• Tribe of Mentors

Joe Fisher

• The Case for Reincarnation
• The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts: A Riveting Investigation Into Channeling and Spirit Guides

Cait Flanders

• The Year of Less

Friends of Florham

• Florham: The Lives of an American Estate

Phil & Kaja Foglio

• Agatha H and the Airship City

Camille Fournier

• The Manager’s Path

Mark Frauenfelder

• Made by Hand
• Made By Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World

Cory Franklin

• Cook County ICU

Paul Freedman

• Ten Restaurants That Changed America

Jacqueline Frost

• Twelve Slays of Christmas

Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap

• The Caesars Palace Coup

Stephen Fry

• Mythos

Masanobu Fukuoka

• The One-Straw Revolution

G

F. Galton

• Hereditary Genius

Eric Garcia

• The Repossession Mambo

Antonio Garrido

• The Corpse Reader

Robert Gates

• A Passion for Leadership

John Taylor Gatto

• Dumbing Us Down

David Gauold

• The Man Who Folded Himself

Moses Gates

• Hidden Cities

Rick Geary

• The Mystery of Mary Rogers

Euell Gibbons

• Stalking the Wild Asparagus

Lamar Giles

• Fake ID

Max Gladstone

• Three Parts Dead

Barry Glassner

• The Culture of Fear

James Gleick

• The Information

Seth Godin

• Poke the Box

Jaymee Goh & Joyce Chng

• Ed. The Sea is Ours

Ben Goldacre

• Bad Science

William Goldman

• The Silent Goldoliers

Barbara Goldsmith

• Obsessive Genius

Yael Goldstein-Love

• The Possibilities

Daniel Goleman 

• Focus

Jon Gordon

• The Power of Positive Leadership

• The No Complaining Rule

Al Gore

• Our Choice

Adam Grant

• Originals

Mira Grant 

• Rolling in the Deep

Richard Grant

• American Nomads

Isabel Greenburg

• The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

Martin Greenberg

• A Girl’s Guide to Guns and Monsters

Tom Greever

• Articulating Design Decisions

Ken Grimwood

• Replay

Stefan Grainski

• Orchard of the Dead

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

• On Killing

Andrew S Grove

• Only the Paranoid Survive

Carol Guess

• Homeschooling

H

Shannon Hale

• Calamity Jack
• Rapunzel’s Revenge

Yuval Noah Harari 

• Homo Dues

Joanne M. Harris

• The Gospel of Loki

Alix E. Harrow

• Starling House

Thomas R. Hart (manga)

• It Takes A Wizard

John Harte

• Tattoo in Japan

Tim Harford

• Messy

Kevin Hearne

• Hexed

Deborah Heiligman

• The Boy Who Loved Math

Grady Hendrix

• Horrorstor
• We Sold Our Souls 

Tachibana Higuchi

• Portrait of M&N Vol. 1
• Portrait of M&N Vol. 2

Susan Hill

• Howard’s End is on the Landing

Russell Hillman

• The Dark of the Forest

Steve Hodel

• Black Dahlia Avenger

Brooke Hodge, Patricia Mears, & Susan Sidlauskas

• Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture

Bryce G. Hoffman

• American Icon

Ruth Hogan

• The Keep of Lost Things

Nathalia Holt

• Rise of the Rocket Girls

William Hope Hodgson

• The Ghost Pirates

Michel Houellebecq

• H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

Michael W. Hudson

• The Monster

Darrell Huff

• How to Lie with Statistics

Aldous Huxley

• The Devils of Loudon

Michael Hyatt

• Free to Focus

I

Ambrose Ibsen

• Dressed in Smoke

Junji Ito

• Lovesickness

Tatiana Ivanyushina

• The Deepest and Oldest Lake on the Planet Pearl of Siberia – BAIKAL

J

Henry James

• The Turn of the Screw

P.D. James

• Talking About Detective Fiction

N. K. Jemisin

• The Kingdom of Gods

Kelly Jones

• Murder, Magic, and What We Wore

Howard Andrew Jones

• The Desert of Souls

Stephen Jones

• Psycho-Mania

William Jones

• The Anthology of Dark Wisdom ed.

K

Richard Kadrey

• The Grand Dark

William Kamkwamba and Byran Mealer

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Brendan Kane

• Hook Point

Stacia Kane

• Unholy Ghosts

Shehan Karunatilaka

• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Toko Kawai (manga)

• In The Walnut

Sophie Keetch

• Morgan is my Name

Scott Kenemore

• The Grand Hotel

Dan S. Kennedy

• No BS Marketing to the Affluent

James Kennedy

• The Order of Odd-Fish

Julie Kenner

• Tainted

Jim Al-Khalili

• Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

YoungBin Kim (manga)

• Laon

Dennis Kimbro

• The Wealth Choice

Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Braiding Sweetgrass

Brian King

• The Are of Taking it Easy

Stephen King

• You Like it Darker

T. Kingfisher

• The Hollow Places

Oren Klaff

• Pitch Anything

Ellen Klages

• White Sands, Red Menace

Phil Knight

• Shoe Dog

JinHo Ko (manga)

• Jack Frost

Gini Koch

• O Touched by an Alien

Kathe Koja

• The Mercury Waltz

Maria Konnikova

• Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

Althea Kontis

• When Tinker Met Bell

Dean Koontz

• The Silent Corner

Rachel Kowert & Thorsten Quandt

• The Video Game Debate

Jonathan Kozol

• The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

Nancy Kress

• Beggars in Spain

Mark Kurlansky

• Birdseye

Hiroki Kusumoto

• Vampire’s Portrait

Natsuhiko Kyogoku

• The Summer of the Ubume

L

Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold

• Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

Mercedes Lackey

• Hunter

Jay Lake

• Kalimpura

AJ Lancaster

• The Lord of Stariel

John Lanchester

• Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay

Marti Olsen Laney

• The Introvert Advantage 

Sharon Lee

• Carousel Tides
• Carousel Sun

Regina Leeds

• One year to an Organized Life

Roger Lederer

• Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs

Patrick Lencioni

• Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Katrina Leno 

• You Must Not Miss

Rebecca Lerner

• Dandelion Hunter

CS Lewis 

• The Problem of Pain
• The Weight of Glory
• Surprised by Joy

Josh Lieb

• I Am A Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

K.A. Linde

• The Wren in the Holly Library

Kelly Link

• Magic for Beginners

Grace Llewellyn

• The Unschooling Handbook

Melinda Lo

• Huntress

Weldon Long

• The Power of Consistency

Karen Lord

• Redemption in Indigo

Benjamin Lorr

• The Secret Life of Groceries

Roger Lowenstein

• Buffet

Saniel Loxton & Donlad R. Prothero

• Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids

Karl W. Luckert

• Stone Age Religion at Goebekli Tepe

M

Helen Macdonald

• H is for Hawk

Robert Macfarlane

• The Old Ways
• Underland

Joas Magueijo

• A Brilliant Darkness

Evan Mandery (Janet Reid)

• FIRST CONTACT: Or, It’s Later Than You Think

George Mann

• Ghosts of Manhattan
• O The Affinity Bridge

Peter Manseau

• Rag and Bone

Becka Mara McKay

• Laundry Trans.

Motoro Mase (manga)

• Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit

Jordan Matter

• Dancers Among Us

Jim McCain & Rodin Esquejo

• Mind the Gap: Intimate Strangers

Ian McDonald

• Brasyl

Seanan McGuire 

• Across the Green Fields

HR McMaster

• Dereliction of Duty

Greg McQueen

• 100 Stories for Haiti

Farah Mendlesohn

• The Intergalactic Playground: Children and Science Fiction

Ed Miller

• A Trucker’s Tale

Debbie Millman

• Why Design Matters

David Mitchell 

• Ghostwritten

Shirow Miwa (manga)

• Dogs: Bullets & Carnage

Sarah Monette

• O The Bone Key

Ben Montgomery

• Grandma Gatewood’s Walk

Brian P Moran and Michael Lennington

• The 12 Week Year

Matt Morris & Wallace Wang

• The Unemployed Millionaire

Thomas Mullen

• The Revisionists

Rob Mundle

• Fatal Storm: The 54th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

Haruki Murakami

• O 1Q84
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running 

N

Adam Nevill

• The Ritual

Celeste Ng

• Little Fires Everywhere

Audrey Niffenegger

• Her Fearful Symmetry

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

• The Mote in God’s Eye

Larry Niven and Steven Barns

• The Barsoom Project

Elizabeth Norton

• The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women

O

Hotaru Odagiri (manga)

• Betrayal Knows My Name Vol. 1

Jenny Odell

• How to Do Nothing

Ben Okri

• The Famished Road

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

• Fra Keeler

Otsuichi

• ZOO

Eiji Otsuka (manga)

• MPD Physcho

Jennifer Ouellette

• Black Bodies and Quantum Cats

Helen Oyeyemi

• Boy, Snow, Bird

P

Jessica Pan

• Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come

Alexei Panshin

• Rite of Passage

Rhacel Salazar Parrenas

• Illicit Flirtations

Raj Patel

• Stuffed and Starved

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, and David Maxfield

• Change Anything

Alexey Pehov

• Shadow Prowler

Eduardo Penalver and Sonia Katyal

• Property Outlaws: How Squatters, Pirates, and Protesters Improve the Law of Ownership

JT Petty & Hilary Florido

• Bloody Chester

Dew Platt

• Legacy: The Beginning

Rachel Pollack

• The Fissure King

Michael Pollan

• This is Your Mind on Plants

Terry Pratchett

• Rising Steam

Steven Pressfield

• The War of Art

David Priess

• The President’s Book of Secrets

Cherie Priest

• Maplecroft

Chris Priestly

• Tales of Terror From The Black Ship
• Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror

Natasha Pulley

• The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

MJ Putney

• Dark Mirror

Nelson Pyles

• Demons, Dolls & Milkshakes

Q

David Quammen

• Spillover

R

Linda Raedisch

• The Old Magic of Christmas: Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year

Derek Raymond

• He Died with His Eyes Open

Mike Rich

• Skavenger’s Hunt

Al Ridenour & Sean Tejaratchi

• The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil-

Madeline E. Robins

• Sold for Endless Rue

Mel Robins

• The High 5 Habit

Rachel Rodgers

• Plan Your Year Like a Millionaire

Rene Rodriguez

• Amplify Your Influence 

Suri Rosen

• Night Magick

Patrick Rothfuss

• The Name of the Wind

 Peter Rothfuss

• The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Christopher Rowe

• Telling the Map

Hallie Rubenhold

• The Five

Gretchen Rubin

• The Four Tendencies

Jeff Ryan

• Super Mario

S

Ryan La Sala

• Reverie

Kevin Sampsell

• Portland Noir

Christopher Sandford

• Masters of Mystery

Luc Sante

• Low Life

Robert J. Sawyer

• Calculating God
• Flashforward

Harold Schechter

• Deviant

Natasha Dow Schull

• Addiction by Design

VE Schwab

• A Darker Shade of Magic

Lisa Schneidau

• Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland

Ekaterina Sedia

• The Alchemy of Stone

Nat Segaloff

• A Lit Fuse

Gino Segré & Bettina Hoerlin

• The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

Ricardo Semler

• Maverick

Shaheed Shabazz

• Inconsolable

Rupert Sheldrake

• The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind

Ellen Ruppel Shell

• Cheap: the High Cost of Discount Culture (January 2020)

D. Shenk

• The Genius in us all

Kairi Shimotsuki

• Madness Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

Ron Sider

• Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger

Shel Silverstein

• Everything on It

Nina Simon

• The Participatory Museum

DK Simonton

• Genius 101

Rebecca Skloot

• O The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

David R Slayton

• White Trash Warlock

Geoff Smart and Randy Street

• Who

E. E. Smith

• Galactic Patrol

Nancy Springer

• The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye

Richard Stark

• Butcher’s Moon
• Deadly Edge
• Plunder Squad
• Slayground
• Backflash

Caitlin Starling

• The Luminous Dead
• The Death of Jane Lawrence

Blema Steinberg

• Women in Power

Paul Strathern

• The Medici 

Charlie Stross

• The Delirium Brief

Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy

• Who Not How

Chelsea G Summers

• A Certain Hunger

Al Sweigart

• Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python

Mitzi Szereto

• The Best New True Crime Stories

T

Wole Talabi 

• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

Nassim Taleb

• Fooled by Randomness

Fances Temple

• A Taste of Salt

Samuel Thayer

• Nature’s Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting and Preparing Edible Wild Plants

Rebecca Thorne

• Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea

Charlie Todd & Alex Scordelis

• Causing a Scene: Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places with Improv Everywhere

Brian Tracy

• Million Dollar Habits

Ian Tregellis

• Bitter Seeds

S.D. Tucker

• Blithe Spirits: An Imaginative History of the Poltergeist

Merlin Tuttle

• The Secret Life of Bats: My Adventures with the World’s Most Misunderstood Mammals

Mark Twain 

• Roughing it 

U

Ed Ugel

• Money for Nothing: One Man’s Journey through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions

V

Catherynne M. Valente

• The Glass Town Game
• A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In a Ship of Her Own Making

Radha Vatsal

• A Front Page Affair

Rachel Vincent

• My Soul to Save

Joan D. Vinge

• The Snow Queen

Nghi Vo

• Siren Queen

W

Erik Wahl

• Unthink

Rufus Wainwright

• Road Trip Elegies: Montreal to New York

Kent Walker & Mark Schone

• Son of a Grifter

David Foster Wallace

• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

David Walton

• The Genius Plague

Catriona Ward

• Looking Glass Sound

Kaaron Warren

• Slights

David Weatherly

• Black Eyed Children

David Weber

• On Basilisk Station

Stephen Webb

• If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens … WHERE IS EVERYBODY?

Helene Wecker

• The Golem and the Jinni

Martha Wells

• Witch King

Chuck Wendig

• Vultures

Scott Westerfield

• Risen Empire

Donald E. Westlake

• The Cutie

Joseph Wheelan

• Mr. Adams’ Last Crusade

Jeff Wheeler

• Dryad-Born

Joss Whedon

• Firefly: Still Flying

Daisy Whitney

• The Mockingbirds

 Skyler White

• Falling, Fly

Fran Wilde

• The Fire Opal Mechanism
• The Jewel and Her Lapidary

David Williams

• Stories in Stone

Bill Willingham

• Peter and Max: A Fables Novel

Robert Anton Wilson

• Prometheus Rising

Robert Charles Wilson

• Spin

Barbara Winter

• Making a Living without a Job

Ben H. Winters

• Inside Jobs

PG Wodehouse

• The Adventures of Sally
• Bachelors Anonymous

Douglas J. Wolf

• Marketing Me

Colin Woodard

• The Republic of Pirates

X

Y

 Ed Yong

• I Contain Multitudes

Hajin Yoo

• Totally Captivated

Z

Taishi Zaou (manga)

• Living For Tomorrow

Zhenjun Zhang

• Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic