Gulp, Mary Roach (informative and funny study of taste, digestion, and elimination)
Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer, J. Michael Straczynski (not only writing, but publishing and afterward)
The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston (sweet romantic as well as a family love story)
Bryant & May: London Bridge is Falling Down, Christopher Fowler (the last of the series, although not the last of the Bryant and May books)
Twelve Moons of the Year, Hal Borland, edited by Barbara Dodge Borland (daybook containing the best of Borland's nature columns)
Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent, Michael M. McGowan and Ralph Pezzullo (title's self-explanatory)
Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz (history of "the lost cause" and how it still clings in the southeastern US)
Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies, Robert Sklar (how society affected the movies and vice versa)
Notes from the Underwire, Quinn Cummings (the former child star talks Hollywood and adulthood and raising a child)
Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language, Mark Forsyth (linguistics fun)
The Love Hypothesis, Ali Hazelwood (fun romcom taking place in a STEM environment)
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi (bravura study of racism through classism from Greek civilization to the present)
Wintering, Katherine May (beautifully written memoir of May's season of quiet after a series of disasters)
Honorable Mentions:
Distilled Genius: Quotations, Susan Branch (regular quotations, but illustrated with Branch's beautiful watercolor art)
How Y'All Doing?, Leslie Jordan (the late actor/comedian's humorous memoir; just his chapter on Ronnie Claire Edwards is worth the price of the book)
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