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
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
