Reading list (nonfiction)

This article is a to-do list of books which interest me, in some cases referencing the Hennepin County Library system.

See also Category:Books (nonfiction), Category:Writers (nonfiction), Snippets.

Charles Williams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Williams_(British_writer)

How Not to Be Wrong

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, written by Jordan Ellenberg, is a New York Times Best Selling book that connects various economic and societal philosophies with basic mathematics and statistical principles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Not_to_Be_Wrong

Men of Mathematics

• Men of Mathematics (nonfiction)

Andri Snær Magnason

Andri Snær Magnason (b. 14 July 1973) is an Icelandic writer. He has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays and CDs. His work has been published or performed in more than 30 countries.

His novel, LoveStar, was chosen “Novel of the year” by Icelandic booksellers 2002, received the DV Literary Award and a nomination to the Icelandic Literary Prize, and was awarded the Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation of Excellence in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andri_Sn%C3%A6r_Magnason

Rudyard Kipling

• With the Night Mail
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_Board_of_Control

Ralph Barton

Bruce Kellner. The Last Dandy: Ralph Barton, American Artist, 1891-1931. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8262-0774-X

E. T. A. Hoffmann's novella

E. T. A. Hoffmann's novella, Mademoiselle de Scudéri. A Tale from the Times of Louis XIV [Das Fräulein von Scuderi. Erzählung aus dem Zeitalter Ludwig des Vierzehnten].

Jay Hosler

Cartooning entomologist Jay Hosler's forthcoming young adult graphic novel Last of the Sandwalkers masterfully combines storytelling with science; in this essay, he explains how beautifully comics play into the public understanding of science -- and why that understanding is a matter of urgency for all of us.

György Konrád

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Konr%C3%A1d

Though Konrád has frequently portrayed his Berettyóúfalu childhood in his novels, and particularly in The Feast in the Garden, he attempted to present this period in a more precise documentary form in two more recent books, Departure and Return (2001) and Up on the Hill During a Solar Eclipse (2003). The first of these books treats a single year – 1944-45 – while the second covers fifty, after beginning with a reflection on the final years of the twentieth century, more precisely the morning solar eclipse of 1999, experienced from the peak of St. György Hill. These books were published separately in Europe, and together in New York as A Guest in My Own Country (2007).

Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz (30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat. His World War II-era sequence The World is a collection of twenty "naïve" poems. Following the war, he served as Polish cultural attaché in Paris and Washington, D.C., then in 1951 defected to the West. His nonfiction book The Captive Mind (1953) became a classic of anti-Stalinism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Mind

Waddington on Art and Science

Behind Appearance; a Study Of The Relations Between Painting And The Natural Sciences In This Century (1960, MIT press)

Conrad Hal Waddington

Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_a_Japanese_Military_Brothel_Manager

Stephen Budiansky

• Code Warriors: Nsa's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union (2017). ISBN 978-080-417-097-0
• Mad Music: Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel (2014). University Press of New England. ISBN 978-1-61168-399-8
• Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare (2013). Knopf. ISBN 978-0307595966, detailing the contributions to the war effort made by Patrick Blackett and his scientific colleagues in the early 1940s.
• Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812–1815 (2011). Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-27069-6
• Murder, By the Book (2008). Black Sheep Press. ISBN 978-1-4348-3767-7
• The Bloody Shirt: Terror After the Civil War (2007). Viking. ISBN 978-0-452-29016-7
• Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage (2005). Viking. ISBN 978-0-452-28747-1
• Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq (2004). Viking. ISBN 0-14-303474-X
• The Character of Cats (2002). Viking. ISBN 0-670-03093-7
• The Truth About Dogs (2000). Viking. ISBN 0-670-89272-6
• The World According to Horses: How They Run, See, and Think (2000). Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-6054-5
• Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (2000). Free Press. ISBN 978-0-7432-1734-7
• If A Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness (1998). Free Press. ISBN 0-684-83710-2
• The Nature of Horses (1997). Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-82768-1
• Nature's Keepers (1995). Free Press. ISBN 0-02-904915-6
• The Covenant of the Wild (1992). Yale University Press (reprint ed, 1999). ISBN 978-0-300-07993-7

Spurs

"Spurs" is a short story by Tod Robbins. The story was published in February 1923 in Munsey's Magazine and included in Robbins' 1926 anthology Who Wants a Green Bottle? and Other Uneasy Tales. In 1932 the story became the basis for the Tod Browning produced film Freaks.

You Can't Win

You Can't Win is an autobiography by burglar and hobo Jack Black, written in the early to mid-1920s and first published in 1926. It describes Black's life on the road, in prison and his various criminal capers in the American and Canadian west from the late 1880s to early 20th century. The book was a major influence upon William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers. It was made into a film in 2015.

Carole Morin

Carole Morin is a Glasgow-born novelist who lives in Soho, London. To date she has had four novels published: Lampshades, Penniless in Park Lane, Dead Glamorous, and Spying On Strange Men.

John Calder

• Pursuit: The Uncensored Memoirs of John Calder

Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld

Trevanian

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevanian
  • The Eiger Sanction (1972)
  • The Loo Sanction (1973)
  • The Main (1976)
  • Shibumi (1979) - meta-spy
  • The Summer of Katya (1983) - psychological horror
  • Incident at Twenty-Mile (1998) - Western
  • Hot Night in the City (2000) - short shorty collection
  • The Crazyladies of Pearl Street (2005) - semi-autobiography

Per Olov Enquist

• The Visit of the Royal Physician
• The Book About Blanche and Marie

Claude Berge

• Who killed the Duke of Densmore? - a murder mystery based on a mathematical theorem

https://jacquerie.github.io/duke/

http://www.cs.kent.edu/~dragan/ST-Spring2016/island-story.pdf

http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf277

Jesse L. Lasky

• I Blow My Own Horn

Zoltán Pál Dienes

• Memoirs of a Maverick Mathematician

Erle Stanley Gardner

• Shills Can't Cash Chips

David Nickle

• Eutopia

Clark R. Mollenhoff

• Washington Cover-Up: How Bureaucratic Secrecy Promotes Corruption and Waste in the Federal Government (1962), Doubleday. ISBN 0548443475 (2007 edition)
• Tentacles of Power: The Story of Jimmy Hoffa (1965), World Publishing
• Despoilers of Democracy: The real story of what Washington propagandists, arrogant bureaucrats, mismanagers, influence peddlers, and outright corrupters are doing to our Federal Government (1965), Doubleday
• The Pentagon: Politics, Profits and Plunder (1967), G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Strike Force: Organized Crime and the Government (1972), Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-852772-5
• The Man Who Pardoned Nixon (1976), The K.S. Giniger Company, Inc., ISBN 978-0-900997-89-1
• Game Plan for Disaster (1976), W.W. Norton & Co., ISBN 0-393-05543-4
• Investigative Reporting: From Courthouse to White House (1981), Macmillan, ISBN 0-02-381870-0
• Atanasoff: Forgotten Father of the Computer (1988), ISBN 0-8138-0032-3

I am a Cat

I am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki.

Once an Eagle

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_An_Eagle

Killer Angels

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killer_Angels

Boris Vian

• Mood Indigo - Minneapolis Central (1st floor General) Adult Fiction Book VIAN
• Blues for A Black Cat & Other Stories - Minneapolis Central (1st floor General) Adult Fiction Book VIAN

As Vernon Sullivan:

• J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (I Shall Spit on Your Graves) (Éditions du Scorpion, 1946)
• Les morts ont tous la même peau (The Dead All Have the Same Skin) (Éditions du Scorpion, 1947)
• Et on tuera tous les affreux (To Hell With the Ugly) (Éditions du Scorpion, 1948)
• Elles se rendent pas compte (They Do Not Realize) (1948–50, published 1950 by Éditions du Scorpion)

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Reading at night (nonfiction)