All reviews are by Daniel B. Clendenin except as noted.
| Michelle Alexander |
The New Jim Crow; Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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| Louise Aronson |
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life
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| Tal Ben-Shahar |
Short Cuts to Happiness: Life-Changing Lessons from My Barber
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| Katherine Boo |
Behind the Beautiful Forevers; Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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| Marcus J. Borg |
Speaking Christian; Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power, and How They Can Be Restored
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| Arthur C. Brooks |
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
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| David Brooks |
On Paradise Drive; How We Live Now (And Always Have) In The Future Tense
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| Jessica Bruder |
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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| Bill Bryson |
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Road to Little Dribbling; Adventures of an American in Britain
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| Akiko Busch |
How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
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| Susan Cain |
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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| John Carreyrou |
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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| Laura L. Carstensen |
A Long Bright Future; An Action Plan for a Lifetime of Happiness, Health, and Financial Security
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| Jeff Chu |
Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America
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| Ta-Nehisi Coates |
Between the World and Me
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| Robin DiAngelo |
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
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| James Dillon |
The Gospel of "It's a Wonderful Life"
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| Caitlin Doughty |
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory
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| David R. Dow |
Things I've Learned From Dying; A Book About Life.
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| Dave Eggers |
The Circle
Zeitoun
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| Will Ellsworth-Jones |
Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall
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| Merve Emre |
The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
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| David Epstein |
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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| David Finkel |
Thank You For Your Service
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| Michael Finkel |
The Stranger in the Woods; The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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| Franklin Foer |
World without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
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| Harry Frankfurt |
On Bullshit
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| George Friedman |
The Next 100 Years; A Forecast for the 21st Century
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| Sarah Frier |
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
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| Paul Froese and Christopher Bader |
America’s Four Gods: What We Say About God — and What That Says About Us
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| Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed |
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
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| Becky Garrison |
Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church; Eyewitness Accounts of How American Churches Are Hijacking Jesus, Bagging the Beatitudes, and Worshipping the Almighty Dollar
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| Atul Gawande |
Being Mortal; Medicine and What Matters in the End
The Checklist Manifesto; How to Get Things Right
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| Peter H. Gleick |
Bottled and Sold; The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
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| Michelle Goldberg |
Kingdom Coming; The Rise of Christian Nationalism
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| Daniel Jonah Goldhagen |
Worse Than War; Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
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| Rebecca Goldstein |
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away
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| Paul Greenberg |
Four Fish; The Future of the Last Wild Food
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| Linda Greenhouse |
Just a Journalist; On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between
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| Yuval Noah Harari |
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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| Lynn Casteel Harper |
On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear
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| Chris Hedges |
Empire of Illusion; The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Losing Moses On The Freeway; The 10 Commandments In America
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| Naoki Higashida |
The Reason I Jump; The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy With Autism
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| Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty |
Eleven Rings; The Soul of Success
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| Jeff Jarvis |
What Would Google Do?
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| Frances E. Jensen |
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
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| Robert O'Harrow, Jr |
No Place to Hide
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| Sebastian Junger |
Tribe; On Homecoming and Belonging
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| Erling Kagge |
Silence in the Age of Noise
Walking: One Step at a Time
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| Jonathan Keates |
Messiah: The Composition and Afterlife of Handel's Masterpiece
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| David A. Kessler |
The End of Overeating; Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
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| Russell King, et al |
People on the Move; An Atlas of Migration
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| Barbara Kingsolver |
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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| Michael Kinsley |
Old Age: A Beginner's Guide
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| Phil Klay |
Redeployment
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| Jonathan Kozol |
Fire in the Ashes; Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
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| Peter Kramer |
Against Depression
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| Jaron Lanier |
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Who Owns the Future?
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
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| Steve Leder |
More Beautiful Than Before; How Suffering Transforms Us
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| Madeline Levine |
The Price of Privilege; How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
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| Alan Lightman |
In Praise of Wasting Time
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| Wendy Lustbader |
Life Gets Better; The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older
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| Gabe Lyons |
The Next Christians; The Good News About the End of Christian America. How a New Generation is Restoring the Faith
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| Gordon Livingston, M.D |
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart – Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
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| Antonia Malchik |
A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom—One Step at a Time
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| Katherine May |
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
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| Christopher McDougall |
Born to Run; A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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| Tracie McMillan |
The American Way of Eating
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| Roger McNamee |
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
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| Evgeny Morozov |
To Save Everything, Click Here; The Folly of Technological Solutionism
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| Toni Morrison |
The Origin of Others
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| Michael Moss |
Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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| Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, . |
The Face on Your Plate; The Truth About Food
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| Cal Newport |
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
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| Meghan O'Gieblyn |
Interior States: Essays
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| Cathy O'Neil |
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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| Jenny Odell |
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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| Parker Palmer |
On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
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| Fred Pearce |
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner; Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
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| Karl Pillemer |
30 Lessons for Living; Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans
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| Mary Pipher |
The Green Boat; Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
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| Sylvia Plath |
Ariel, the Restored Edition; A Facsimilie of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement
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| Michael Pollan |
Food Rules; An Eater's Manual
In Defense of Food; An Eater's Manifesto
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| Neil Postman |
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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| Marilynne Robinson |
When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays
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| Richard Rohr |
Falling Upward; A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
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| Nancy Jo Sales |
American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
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| Robert Scheer |
They Know Everything About You; How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
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| Amartya Sen |
Identity and Violence; The Illusion of Destiny
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| Karen Stabiner |
The Empty Nest; 31 Parents Tell the Truth About Relationships, Love, and Freedom After the Kids Fly the Coop
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| Rebecca Wragg Sykes |
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
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| Julie Tarney |
My Son Wears Heels: One Mom's Journey from Clueless to Kickass
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| Anne Thompson |
The $11 Billion Year; From Sundance to the Oscars, An Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System
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| Krista Tippett |
Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
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| Sherry Turkle |
Reclaiming Conversation; The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
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| Ellen Ullman |
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
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| Miroslav Volf |
A Public Faith; How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good
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| David Foster Wallace |
Both Flesh and Not; Essays
Infinite Jest
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| Amy Webb |
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
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| Karl Weber, editor |
Waiting for Superman; How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools
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| Curtis White |
We, Robots: Staying Human in the Age of Big Data
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| Isabel Wilkerson |
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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| Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani |
Beyond the Impossible
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| Edward O. Wilson |
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
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| Lauren Winner |
Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God
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| Fareed Zakaria |
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
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| Shoshana Zuboff |
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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