bone tired

[miss_bronte]

I am so freakishly tired I can't stand it, but before I slump face-down on my bed, cursing the inevitable arrival of tomorrow's alarm clock bleating in my ear, a question:

Non-fiction recommendations?  I've been reading Bill Bryson with great avidity recently, and Malcolm Gladwell.  A colleague recommended some titles but I've already forgotten them

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[heyyjude]

I have an intellectual crush on Paul Krugman and Fareed Zakaria.

[fishtroop24]

Affluenza--John De Graaf
What is the What?--Dave Eggers (I think you've read this, though)
Under the Banner of Heaven--Jon Krakauer (note: possibly biased, not a happy book, but will make you think about belief systems)

[daffodelias]

I went through a nonfiction spree earlier in the summer (now I'm onto YAF). If you want more travely stuff, I really liked Kiwis Might Fly by Polly Evans. I haven't read On a Hoof and a Prayer or her other books, but they're probably worth it too. I need to read more Bill Bryson...

Have you read The Meaning of Everything: The Story Of The Oxford English Dictionary? It's by the same authors as The Professor and the Madman, which I've got in my GoodReads queue, I think. Both would definitely fit the broadening of intellectual horizons. Ooh, and anything by Oliver Sacks. The bookshop had The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat on display for a while.

And of course I have to recommend library books. Dewey is adorable. Kitties! In the library! And it's, funnily enough, set in the library in Iowa that sent a woman to jail for not returning Freedom Writers. Quiet Please is pretty funny, I think that's the one written by a McSweeneys writer, but I liked Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library a lot more

[cheminole]

Chuck Klosterman makes me happy.

[miss_bronte]

Wow, guys--great suggestions, all! Thank you so much!

I've read some of the aforementioned titles already, but these are great suggestions and again I thank you. :-)