
Nonfiction
Art + Crafts and Cooking
Historical Kitchens
The Cookbook Library by Anne Willan and Mark Cherniavsky

A Hastiness of Cooks by Cynthia D. Bertelsen

A Particularly Useful Cookbook
Betty Crocker Cookbook by General Mills, Betty Crocker Test Kitchen

Culture
Beauty School Dropout
The classic ten: The true story of the little black dress and nine other fashion favorites by Nancy MacDonell Smith

Color stories: Behind the scenes of America’s billion-dollar beauty industry by Mary Lisa Gavenas

Flower Power
100 flowers and how they got their names by Diana Wells

The meaning of flowers: Myth, language, and lore by Gretchen Scoble and Ann Field

Princess Charming
Better than beauty: A guide to charm by Helen Valentine and Alice Thompson

Popular: Vintage wisdom for a modern geek by Maya Van Wagenen

Health and Human Biology
Let’s Talk About S-E-X
Bonk: The curious coupling of science and sex by March Roach

Sperm wars: Infidelity, sexual conflict, and other bedroom battles by Robin Baker

Two Books About Genetics
The double helix: A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA by James D. Watson

The seven daughters of Eve: The science that reveals our genetic ancestry by Bryan Sykes

History
Crimes Against Chastity
The girls who went away by Ann Fessler

Science and Nature
Two Books About Evolution
The greatest show on Earth: The evidence for evolution by Richard Dawkins

Your inner fish: A journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body by Neil Shubin

Fiction
Mystery and Thriller
Two Preston and Child Novels
Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Riptide by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Relationships and Personalities
Cats and Dogs
The personality of the cat + The personality of the dog ed. by Brandt Aymar


A Novel About a Blogger in Texas
Lone star legend by Gwendolyn Zepeda

Speculative Fiction
Fantasy
Two Brandon Sanderson Novels
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

Sci-Fi and Dystopia
Serious Sci-Fi
The handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood

Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut

Not-So-Serious Sci-Fi
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
