I’m hoping to make the first six months of 2015 a time of focusing on nonfiction reading. I am in the mood to read lots of nonfiction, as a contrast to my Cybils middle grade fantasy feast, and I have lots of nonfiction books on my TBR list. These are twelve that I already have on hand, or I’ve already requested at the library.

Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: fifty years of mysteries in the making by John Curran.

Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris.

Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende.

Escape from Camp 14: one man’s remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West by Blaine Harden. READ, January 2015.

The First Clash: the miraculous Greek victory at Marathon and its impact on Western civilization by James Lacey.

Fooling Houdini: magicians, mentalists, math geeks, and the hidden powers of the mind by Alex Stone. READ, January 2015.

Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France by Karen Espinasse.

Nothing to Envy: ordinary lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. READ, January 2015.

Talking Hands: what sign language reveals about the mind by Margalit Fox.

Five Days at Memorial: life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital by Sheri Fink. READ, January 2015.

Empty Mansions: the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr. READ, January 2015.

Becoming Dickens: the invention of a novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.

These books all feed into my fascinations with languages, other cultures, history, mystery, magic, and technology’s effect on our lives and thoughts. I’m looking forward to reading them.

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