Nonfiction

Alaska Wilderness by Robert Marshall was recommended to me by a Gates of the Arctic National Park ranger while researching…

How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk is a classic parenting book written by…

This Land is a comprehensive field guide that provides detailed information about the natural features, wildernesses, scenic drives, campgrounds, and…

The Narrow Road is a brief guide to getting money written by one of Britain’s wealthiest self-made entrepreneurs, Felix Dennis….

Awareness by Anthony De Mello is a book that explores the concept of spiritual awakening. Written by Anthony de Mello,…

The City of God by Augustine is a classic work of Western culture written in response to pagan claims that…

Gates of the Arctic National Park: Twelve Years of Wilderness Exploration is a special and unique coffee-table style reference book….

The MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival is a practical guide for anyone planning to spend time outside. It…

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami is a postmodern, surrealist novel that follows the lives of two characters, Aomame and Tengo, as…

A Child Through Time is a history book by DK publishing for kids ages 8 to 12 (though both my…

A Promised Land by Barack Obama is a 768-page memoir that documents the former president’s life from his early years…

Florida is a collection of short stories that explores the physical and emotional landscape of Florida. The stories are centered…

An Hour Before Daylight is a memoir by former US President Jimmy Carter, in which he recounts his childhood growing…

The Middle Ages: Everyday Life in Medieval Europe is an excellent book about the daily lives of people from every segment of medieval European society.

North Georgia’s Dixie Highway by Images of America is a book that traces the development of the tourism route, the…

Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks by Andrea Lankford is a compelling account of the life…

The Devil’s Financial Dictionary is an interesting, browse-able book of satire. Great for anyone with a passing interest in finance or investing.

Windfall is a gripping account of how banks, energy companies, engineers, and entrepreneurs have turned a global crisis into a…

Amazing resource for any hiker.

Trick Mirror is a collection of nine original essays that explore the river of self-delusion that runs beneath the surface…

William Bartram was a famous naturalist in the 18th century. He traveled in the southeastern region of the United States…

A very well-written description of the current path we are on with the climate crisis.

Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life by John Bogle is a must-read for anyone in business or in…

Best Tent Camping Georgia is a straightforward, excellent reference book by Johnny Molloy. Even if you just flip through the…

Farsighted is a nonfiction book by American journalist Steven Johnson. The book is concerned with the complexity of decision-making and…

Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg is a concise, fast-paced book that you should…

The Fish That Ate The Whale is a biography of Sam Zemurray, the banana magnate of the 20th Century. You…

Happy City by Charles Montgomery is another great addition to that genre of non-fiction books written by journalists who weave…

Sand County Almanac is one of those books like Walden and Silent Spring that has had an enormous impact on…

I’ve been a huge fan of Ryan Holiday for quite a while. I started reading his work right when I…

Astoria: Astor & Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire is what more history books should aspire to be. It is technically an…

This Is Where You Belong explores the concept of what makes us fall in love with the towns and cities…

In Smarter Faster Better, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg explores the science of productivity and how managing how we think…

Hillbilly Elegy was deservedly named one of the best books of the year by The Economist, The New York Times,…

Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant is a travel book and memoir about his move from New York City to…

Impossible To Ignore by Carmen Simon is a groundbreaking approach to creating memorable messages that are easy to process, hard…

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created is a nonfiction book written by Charles C. Mann and published in 2011….

Paul Theroux is one of my 3 favorite travel writers. I read this book in 2014 almost as soon as…

At Home in The World is a book about a family’s adventure around the world, as they travel to different…

What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula is a reliable introduction to Buddhism. The book provides a solid foundation into…

Sapiens is a multi-disciplinary book that covers 2.5 million years of human history, from the advent of agriculture to the…

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth is a historical account of the life of Jesus, written by…

God Is Back is a book that argues against the secularization thesis and claims that there is a global revival…

Confessions of an Economic Hitman is a semi-autobiographical book written by John Perkins, first published in 2004. The book provides…

I read Mohsin Hamid’s novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist during my flurry of post-college book reading. It was a powerful novel that…

I picked up You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice by Tom Vanderbilt solely because of his…

Bill Bryson has been one of my (and my wife’s) favorite authors for years. He’s one of the few authors…

Jane McGonigal is a psychologist and researcher into the science of games. She has widely viewed TED Talks and is…

India has been around for a long time. Like more than 5,000 years – back to the earliest establishments of…

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a 1957 novel that explores the themes of individualism, reason, and capitalism. The book…

Linchpin is the 3rd book by Seth Godin that I’ve read (previously Poke The Box and Purple Cow). The book…

In 1927, there was no major war. There was no major election. There was no major economic upheaval. And yet,…

There’s a long tradition of modern travel writers retracing the steps of famous travel routes – whether it’s retracing George…

I originally read Tom Standage in The Economist where he’s an editor & columnist and writes the best Holiday Issue…

I read A Long Walk To Freedom as part of a college history class, but ended up keeping it and…

The Orthodox Church by Timothy Ware is an introductory book on the history, beliefs, and practices of the Orthodox Church….

80/20 Sales & Marketing is a book that provides unique tools to help readers maximize their marketing efforts and increase…

I’ve tried to read books from a diverse range of settings and countries, but aside from the outstanding Sea of…

India has been around for a long time. Like more than 5,000 years – back to the earliest establishments of…

Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich is a book that explores the negative effects of positive thinking and its reach into every…

Made In America by Bill Bryson is a book that explores the history of the English language in the United…

Do The Work by Steven Pressfield is not a book based on any kind of science of motivation, psychology, or…

A couple years ago, I read Travels In Siberia by Ian Frazier – which was one of the top 5 travel…

In the past ten years, there’s been a really fun genre of books that take normally boring academic research in…

“Vagabond” is a word with lots of negative connotations – laziness, narcissism, dependency, aimlessness – someone avoiding commitment to home…

Josh Waitzkin was called a chess prodigy at a very young age, and was actually the subject of a film…

For me, the best travel books are more than just narratives that just tell how the author did A, then…

When you’re trying to learn something new or excel at something you’re familiar with, there’s a predictable process that we…

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg is a book in…

Let’s see where to start…you’ll only be interested in this book if your are interested in History, Economics, and American…

First off – it’s absurdly hard to find a business book that’s not too fluffy on anecdotes of one-off successes…

When I publish this post, the content will zip out of the back of my computer over my head to…

As a spectator, watching a running race mainly involves standing around for a while, then watching for a few seconds…

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages…

With the move to Atlanta, new job, and new routines, it took me an embarrassingly long time to read Bill…

I’ve never thought of memory as skill until I read Moonwalking With Einstein. The book is Joshua Foer’s exploration into…

Our Dumb World is a satirical desk atlas that was published by Little, Brown and Company on October 30, 2007….

The God Delusion is a book by Richard Dawkins, a British evolutionary biologist and professorial fellow at New College, Oxford….

Non-Violence by Mark Kurlansky is a sweeping yet concise history that moves from ancient Hindu times to present-day conflicts raging…

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson is a memoir that takes readers on a journey…

The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson is an exploration of the history, evolution, and current state of the English language….