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10 best books like Sugar: A Bittersweet History (Elizabeth Abbott): Why Evolution Is True, Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Faithful and Virtuous Night, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, Becoming Human, Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt

Why Evolution Is True
AuthorJerry A. Coyne
ISBN0670020532
Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact.

In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design," there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the "evidence," the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection....
Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters
AuthorMallory Ortberg
ISBN1627791833
Hilariously imagined text conversations—the passive aggressive, the clever, and the strange—from classic and modern literary figures, from Scarlett O’Hara to Jessica Wakefield.

Mallory Ortberg, the co-creator of the cult-favorite website The Toast, presents this whimsical...
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
AuthorMalcolm Gladwell
ISBN0316478520
In July 2015, a young black woman named Sandra Bland was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in rural Texas. Minutes later she was arrested and jailed. Three days later, she committed suicide in her cell. What went wrong? Talking to Strangers is all about what happens when we encounter people we...
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
AuthorBill Bryson
ISBN0385539304
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.

Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
AuthorOcean Vuong
The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

To read Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...
Faithful and Virtuous Night
AuthorLouise Glück
ISBN0374152012
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry

A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's...
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
AuthorMichel Foucault
ISBN0679724699
This is a perfect example of the kind of writing characterised by Clive James as prose that ‘scorns the earth for fear of a puncture’. Foucault may be able to think – it's not easy to tell – but he certainly can't write.

Everywhere there is an apparent desire to render a simple thought impenetrable....
Becoming Human
AuthorJean Vanier
ISBN0809139006
Jean Vanier, a man I thoroughly respect, the founder of L'Arch, a community for the intellectually disabled. Such a thought-provoking book. I could not possibly say enough about it.
Some quotes to give you a feel for Vanier's perspective on humanity:

"I also believe that those we most...
Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties
AuthorKaren Ishizuka
ISBN1781688621
The political ferment of the 1960s produced not only the Civil Rights Movement but others in its wake: women’s liberation, gay rights, Chicano power, and the Asian American Movement. Here is a definitive history of the social and cultural movement that knit a hugely disparate and isolated set of...
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
AuthorArthur C. Brooks
ISBN0062883771
Now a National Bestseller.

To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?

Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against...
Chop Wood Carry Water: How to Fall In Love With the Process of Becoming Great
AuthorJoshua Medcalf
Guided by “Akira-sensei,” John comes to realize the greatest adversity on his journey will be the challenge of defeating the man in the mirror.

This powerful story of one boy’s journey to achieve his life long goal of becoming a samurai warrior, brings the Train to be CLUTCH curriculum...
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
AuthorJulie Andrews Edwards
ISBN0306845989
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews shares reflections on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria.

In Home, the number one New York Times international...
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