Category Notable Nonfiction

Look Out For The Little Guy! Scott Lang Memoir This is the incredible story of an ex-con turned world-saving Super Hero. In Look Out for the Little Guy, Scott Lang shares with the world a bracingly honest account of his…

Liar’s Poker Michael Lewis Business Memoir The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job…

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened Jenny Lawson Memoir When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open…

Larry McMurtry: A Life Tracy Daugherty Memoir In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains’ keenest witness since…

Katy Carol Adams Non Fiction Settlers coming to the Katy area in the mid-1800s found a cane-filled creek on the vast coastal prairie. The area became known as Cane Island. When the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) Railroad laid tracks in the 1890s,…

Greenlights Matthew McConaughey Memoir I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys…

Going Infinite Michael Lewis Business Non Fiction When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted,…

Furiously Happy Jenny Lawson Mental Health “I’ve often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they might be able to experience extreme joy in a way that ‘normal people’ also might…

Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner Business Economics Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like…

Don’t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man Tim Allen Memoir The comic who’s a guy’s guy is now a bookseller’s dream. The star of ABC’s Home Improvement, the #1 show on television, Tim Allen has written the book millions…