Jax Freestyle Book Club blog: First post

July book list

An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan, follow-up to The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop. The extended title says it all.
Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder. The veteran creative nonfiction writer is a "fly on the wall" in a fifth grade classroom.
Walden by Henry David Thoreau, enduring American classic
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell (short story collection)
Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds by Tim Guest (nonfiction)
Chronicles, Volume 1 by Bob Dylan (autobiography)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (part memoir, part nature writing, seventies classic)
The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Science, essay collection)
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Erentreich (critical look at the
A Free Life by Ha Jin, low key but moving novel about the immigrant experience
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform
E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis (Science and history of
An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan, follow-up to The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop. The extended title says it all.
Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder. The veteran creative nonfiction writer is a "fly on the wall" in a fifth grade classroom.
Walden by Henry David Thoreau, enduring American classic