ICPL Staff Top Picks for 2014: Non-Fiction

What do pies, video games, and rock 'n' roll have in common? These were some of the topics staff read about from the Library's non-fiction collection. With subjects ranging from gardening to travel, our non-fiction section on the second floor has something for everyone! If you're not a regular non-fiction reader, we suggest the following titles to get you started.

ICPL BEST NON-FICTION OF 2014

• Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World by Benny Lewis
• The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms: Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lion's Mane, and Maitake Mushrooms at Home by Stephen Russell
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
• Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation by Blake J. Harris
• The Amazing Thing About the Way It Goes: Stories of Tidiness, Self-Esteem and Other Things I Gave Up On by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
• The Republic of the Imagination: America in Three Books by Azar Nafisi
• Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour and Butter by Kate Lebo
• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
• The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading by Phyllis Rose
• Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade by Walter Kirn
• Body Counts: A Memoir of Activism, Sex, and Survival by Sean Strub
• The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus
• Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? By Roz Chast
• Off the Leash: A Year at the Dog Park by Matthew Gilbert
• The Iowa State Fair by Kent Ullrich