All reviews are by Daniel B. Clendenin except as noted.

Culture

Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow; Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Louise Aronson Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life
Tal Ben-Shahar Short Cuts to Happiness: Life-Changing Lessons from My Barber
Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers; Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Marcus J. Borg Speaking Christian; Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power, and How They Can Be Restored
Arthur C. Brooks Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
David Brooks On Paradise Drive; How We Live Now (And Always Have) In The Future Tense
Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Road to Little Dribbling; Adventures of an American in Britain
Akiko Busch How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
Susan Cain Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
John Carreyrou Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Laura L. Carstensen A Long Bright Future; An Action Plan for a Lifetime of Happiness, Health, and Financial Security
Jeff Chu Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America
Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me
Robin DiAngelo White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Caitlin Doughty Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory
David R. Dow Things I've Learned From Dying; A Book About Life.
Dave Eggers The Circle
Zeitoun
Will Ellsworth-Jones Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall
Merve Emre The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
David Finkel Thank You For Your Service
Michael Finkel The Stranger in the Woods; The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Franklin Foer World without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
Harry Frankfurt On Bullshit
George Friedman The Next 100 Years; A Forecast for the 21st Century
Sarah Frier No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
Paul Froese and Christopher Bader America’s Four Gods: What We Say About God — and What That Says About Us
Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Becky Garrison Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church; Eyewitness Accounts of How American Churches Are Hijacking Jesus, Bagging the Beatitudes, and Worshipping the Almighty Dollar
Atul Gawande Being Mortal; Medicine and What Matters in the End
The Checklist Manifesto; How to Get Things Right
Peter H. Gleick Bottled and Sold; The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
Michelle Goldberg Kingdom Coming; The Rise of Christian Nationalism
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Worse Than War; Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
Rebecca Goldstein Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away
Paul Greenberg Four Fish; The Future of the Last Wild Food
Linda Greenhouse Just a Journalist; On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between
Yuval Noah Harari 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Chris Hedges Empire of Illusion; The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Losing Moses On The Freeway; The 10 Commandments In America
Naoki Higashida The Reason I Jump; The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy With Autism
Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty Eleven Rings; The Soul of Success
Jeff Jarvis What Would Google Do?
Frances E. Jensen The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
Robert O'Harrow, Jr No Place to Hide
Sebastian Junger Tribe; On Homecoming and Belonging
Erling Kagge Silence in the Age of Noise
Walking: One Step at a Time
Jonathan Keates Messiah: The Composition and Afterlife of Handel's Masterpiece
David A. Kessler The End of Overeating; Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
Russell King, et al People on the Move; An Atlas of Migration
Barbara Kingsolver Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Michael Kinsley Old Age: A Beginner's Guide
Phil Klay Redeployment
Jonathan Kozol Fire in the Ashes; Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Peter Kramer Against Depression
Jaron Lanier Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Who Owns the Future?
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
Steve Leder More Beautiful Than Before; How Suffering Transforms Us
Madeline Levine The Price of Privilege; How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
Alan Lightman In Praise of Wasting Time
Wendy Lustbader Life Gets Better; The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older
Gabe Lyons The Next Christians; The Good News About the End of Christian America. How a New Generation is Restoring the Faith
Gordon Livingston, M.D Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart – Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
Antonia Malchik A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom—One Step at a Time
Christopher McDougall Born to Run; A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Tracie McMillan The American Way of Eating
Roger McNamee Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Evgeny Morozov To Save Everything, Click Here; The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Toni Morrison The Origin of Others
Michael Moss Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, .  The Face on Your Plate; The Truth About Food
Cal Newport Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Meghan O'Gieblyn Interior States: Essays
Jenny Odell How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Parker Palmer On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
Fred Pearce Confessions of an Eco-Sinner; Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Karl Pillemer 30 Lessons for Living; Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans
Mary Pipher The Green Boat; Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
Sylvia Plath Ariel, the Restored Edition; A Facsimilie of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement
Michael Pollan Food Rules; An Eater's Manual
In Defense of Food; An Eater's Manifesto
Neil Postman Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Marilynne Robinson When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays
Richard Rohr Falling Upward; A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Nancy Jo Sales American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
Robert Scheer They Know Everything About You; How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
Amartya Sen Identity and Violence; The Illusion of Destiny
Karen Stabiner The Empty Nest; 31 Parents Tell the Truth About Relationships, Love, and Freedom After the Kids Fly the Coop
Julie Tarney My Son Wears Heels: One Mom's Journey from Clueless to Kickass
Anne Thompson The Billion Year; From Sundance to the Oscars, An Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System
Krista Tippett Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Sherry Turkle Reclaiming Conversation; The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Ellen Ullman Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
Miroslav Volf A Public Faith; How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good
David Foster Wallace Both Flesh and Not; Essays
Infinite Jest
Karl Weber, editor Waiting for Superman; How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools
Curtis White We, Robots: Staying Human in the Age of Big Data
Isabel Wilkerson Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani Beyond the Impossible
Edward O. Wilson Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
Lauren Winner Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God
Fareed Zakaria Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

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