I dunno; what would *you* listen to next?

[justalurkr]

Books on my iPod:
The Art of War for Women
Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius Sylvia Nasar
The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathon Lyons
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain
Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet by Robert M. Hazen
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Thieftaker by D.B.Jackson
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters and What You Can do To Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal

Edited to add What I've been listening to, for context:
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor (did not finish; something shinier came along. Was shaping up to be Diabetic Latina Makes Good, Yay. These sorts of things make me feels like a whiny little bitch.)
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron (did not finish; got a little whiny around Uzbekistan)
Quicksilver: Book One of The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson (barely started; something funnier came along)
The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat by Vali Nasr (intend to finish; left off around Pakistan. Suspect Nasr may be a whiny little bitch.)
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss (finished; freaked me right out, NO LUNCHABLES. EVAR.)
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris (finished; more macabre than funny)
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation Michael Pollan (finished; highly entertaining & makes me want to cook again)
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield Jeremy Scahill (about half-way through; kind of rage-making, but it's got stuff I never knew I never knew, y'know?)
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford (current listen; absolutely fascinating attempt at a more sympathetic or at least more balanced view of a ruthless conqueror with minimal table manners.)

Comments

[vamysteryfan.livejournal.com]

Okaaayyy! I will never read whiny little bitches, so thanks for the heads up.

Michael Pollan on the other hand is completely awesome. And I swore off lunchables a few years ago and have harassed my siblings on that topic :)

ETA: I'd listen to Neil degrasse Tyson or the Art of War for Women but that's just where I'm at myself.

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

The Dispensable Nation landed on my list specifically because it was billed as dishing on the foreign policy disputes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, my motives were not pristine to begin with. :D The book has, however, devolved into "wah wah, President Bush pooped all over diplomacy while President Obama pays the scantiest of lip service to it BAWWWWWL" while at the same time laying out the pressures on any President that make going for the glory of a swiftly won battle (gee, the Shrub couldn't even get that right) over the long, compromising slog that is diplomacy.

Additionally, GMTA. Tyson and the hard to remember lady who wrote Art of War for Women were kind of my finalists. She because it's an Improving Book, and I haven't done one of those since The Power of Habit; (Cooked doesn't count; it wasn't intentionally improving :D) and Tyson because he'd been informative and funny. Since I'm working with a wuss boss and a bitch project manager, Art of War won.