Research Guides: Librarians Recommend: Non-Fiction

Cathy Outten

Cathy Outten is the Children's Literature librarian at CSULB. She sometimes reads books for grown-ups too.

The Family Romanov by Candace Fleming
Call Number: DK258 .F5725 2014
At Home by Bill Bryson
Call Number: 2nd Floor Stacks GT165.5 .B79 2010
Bryson has done it again, an excellent history of the home with plenty of side trips. You would do well to read anything by this man.
Symphony for the City of the Dead by M. T. Anderson
Call Number: Children's Nonfiction - 2nd Floor Room 204 ML3930.S4995 A53 2015

Rock Me on the Water by Ronald Brownstein
ISBN: 9780062899217
Publication Date: 2021-03-23
The Man Who Ran Washington by Peter Baker; Susan Glasser
ISBN: 9780385540551
Publication Date: 2020-09-29
Grant by Ron Chernow
ISBN: 9781594204876
Publication Date: 2017
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
ISBN: 9780385507967
Publication Date: 2005
Happy Go Lucky by David Sedaris
ISBN: 9780316392457
Publication Date: 2022

Curbing Traffic by Chris Bruntlett; Melissa Bruntlett
ISBN: 1642831654
Publication Date: 2021-06-29
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
ISBN: 1400032806
Publication Date: 2004-06-08
The Urban Sketching Handbook 101 Sketching Tips by Stephanie Bower
ISBN: 1631597655
Publication Date: 2019-11-05
Just Ride by Grant Petersen
ISBN: 0761155589
Publication Date: 2012-05-08
The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore
ISBN: 0307266524
Publication Date: 2016-05-03

Logic of Liberty by Michael Polanyi
Call Number: HM271 .P6
ISBN: 9780865971837
Publication Date: 1998-07-30
The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
ISBN: 9780735217553
Publication Date: 2021-04-13
Free Speech by Jacob Mchangama
ISBN: 9781541600492
Publication Date: 2022-02-08