Book Recommendations

Nonfiction:

 

Biography:

  1. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
  2. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

Botany:

  1. Oak: The Frame of Civilization by William Bryant Logan
  2. The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors by David Haskell

Cooking:

  1. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat

Computers:

  1. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

Economics:

  1. Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky
  2. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
  3. Conspicuous Consumption by Thorstein Veblen
  4. Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts by Alexander Langlands

Geology:

  1. Assembling California by John McPhee

Literary:

  1. How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

Mathematics:

  1. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie

Water Science:

  1. Water is for Fighting Over: and Other Myths about Water in the West by John Fleck
  2. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

Zoology:

  1. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores

 

 

 

 

Fiction:

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson