If you haven’t read Stiff by Mary Roach you’ll like it. Travels in Alaska by John Muir is an all time favorite–good luck!īrendon: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty Keith: Three I’ve loved lately: Tough Trip Through Paradise by Andrew Garcia, Northern Seas, Hardy Sailorsby George Whitely and Journal of a Trapper by Osborne Russell. Breakthroughs in social neuroscience.Ĭhristina: Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn and Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto Here’s the list of suggestions I got from friends (last names removed for privacy):Ĭharly: Social by Matthew Lieberman was accessible but not dumbed down. The question I posed was simple: “Knowing me as you do, what would you recommend I read next? One rule: no fiction, unless it’s life changing or the best thing you’ve ever read.” I got all kinds of great suggestions, so I thought I’d put a semi-permanent post up here to keep track of them all, and to have a place for interested friends from the thread to see all of them in one place. I’ve been on a reading kick lately and I decided to crowdsource some recommendations to some friends on social media earlier this week.
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