Titles in color are direct links to the reviews. Access other reviews by typing the title into the “Search” block on the home page.Update: More Nonfiction Book Reviews:
- Just Kids (National Book Award)
- Swerve (National Book Award)
- Imagined London
- Chasing the Last Laugh
- The Path
- First Women
- The Language of Food
- The Salem Witch Trials
- Hardwiring Happiness
- Beethoven’s Hair
- Dreamland
2012 Book Reviews:
- Catherine the Great (biography)
- A History of the World in 100 Objects
- I Think I’ll Eat A Cupcake (Miette cookbook)
- Prince Philip (biography)
- Retirement Heist
- That Woman
- Unbroken
- Love Fiercely: Manhattan Romance in the Gilded Age
- Cronkite
- Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?
- Absolute Monarchs
Reviews from 2011 and before:
- Area 51 – An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base
- Avian Architecture – about birds’ nesting habits
- Barefoot Contessa – How Easy Is That? by Ina Garten (cookbook)
- The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson – (travel and humor)
- Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith ( philosophy)
- The Big Burn by Timothy Egan (Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved American forests)
- The Billionaires Vinegar
- Chocolate and Zucchini (cookbook)
- Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff (biography of the Egyptian queen)
- Dancing to the Precipice – How One Woman Witnessed History (life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, eyewitness to an era)
- Eat This, Not That by David Zincenko
- Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky (social organization; economy)
- Gourmet Cookie Recipes from 1941 – Gourmet Magazine cookbook
- The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson
- The Magician’s Book by Laura Miller (skeptic’s adventures in Narnia)
- Nom de Plume by Carmela Ciuraru (pseudonyms of famous writers)
- Our Life in Gardens by Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd (gardening journal and advice)
- Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
- Pilgrimage – Annie Leibovitz
- Plato and Platypus Walk Into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein (philosophy with jokes)
- The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton (pictures and chronicle of work)
- Rin Tin Tin
- Rules for Aging by Roger Rosenblatt ( humorous advice)
- Secrets of the Packing Queen
- Spontaneous Happiness
- A Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Historical account of Lincoln’s presidency)
- She Walks in Beauty by Caroline Kennedy (book of poetry)
- Urban Homesteading – Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living
- The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (exploring countryside of England, Ireland, Wales)
- When Everything Changed by Gail Collins
- Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn (mindfulness meditation)
- Yoga in Bed – Asanas to do in Pyjamas by Edward Vilga
- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers ( surviving hurricane Katrina)
The No Charge Book Bunch 
Added two of these – Breakfast with Socrates and The Magician’s Book. Both sounds like great reads!
You’d probably like Plato and Platypus… too.