000: GENERAL KNOWLEDGEREADING SUGGESTIONS

Oklahoma Outlaws, Spooky Stories and All Around Folklore | Farris, David | 001.9 FAR

Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdon of Earth's Lost Civilization | Hancock, Graham | 001.94 HAN

Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids | Loxton, Daniel | 001.944 LOX

Among the Gently Mad: Perspectives & Strategies for the Book Hunter in the 21st Century Basbanes, Nicholas | 002 BAS

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Probable | Taleb, Nassim | 003 TAL

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe | Dyson, George | 004.09 DYS

The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Isaacson, Walter | 004.092 ISA

The Naked Future: What Happens in a World that Anticipates your Every Move | Tucker, Patrick | 005.7 TUC

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Colelct Your Data and Control Your World | Bruce | 005.8 SCH

Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library | Robbins, Louise | 020 ROB

This Book is Overdue! How Librarians & Cybrarians Can Save Us All | Johnson, Marilyn | 020.92 JOH

The Library at Night | Manguel, Alberto | 027 MAN

When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II | Manning, Guptill | 028 MAN

Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books | Hornby, Nick | 028.9 HOR

Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear | Archibald, Elizabeth P. | 032.01 ARC

Shocking True Story | Scott, Henry | 051 SCO

Hidden Treasures: What Museums Can't or Won't Show You | Baskas, Harriet | 069.5 BAS

Is Journalism Worth Dying For? Final Dispatches | Politkovskaya, Anna | 070.92 POL

Red Blood & Black Ink: A Journalism in the Old West | Dary, David | 071 DAR

Smoking Typewriters: The 60’s Underground Press & the Rise of Alternative Media in America McMillian, John Campbell | 071 MCM

Subjects in the 000’s include: Computers, Internet, Library & Information Sciences, Books of Facts, Journalism & Publishing

100: PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOLOGY

READING SUGGESTIONS

What?  Are These the Twenty Most Important Questions in Human History, or is this a Game of Twenty Questions? Kurlansky, Mark | 100 KUR

The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy | Patton, Michael | 100 PAT

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution | Tyson, Neil deGrasse | 113 TYS

Paranormal Phenomena: Opposing Viewpoints | 133 PAR

Temples on the Other Side: How Knowing About Them Can Truly Help You in Your Life Browne, Sylvia | 133.901 BRO

At the Existentialist Café | Bakewell, Sarah | 142.78 BAK (NEW)

Would you Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us About Right and Wrong   Edmonds, David | 150 EDM

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: The Book of Mnemonic Devices | Evans, Rod | 153.1 EVA

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear | Gilbert, Elizabeth | 153.3 GIL

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Gladwell, Malcolm | 153.4 GLA

The Invisible Gorilla and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us | Chabris, Christopher | 153.7 CHA

The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream | Rock, Andrea | 154.6 ROC

20-Minute Vacations: Quick, A�ordable, and Fun "Getaways" from the Stress of Everyday Life Sachs, Judith | 155.9 SAC

You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader: How Anyone, Anywhere, Can Make a Positive Di�erence Sanborn, Mark | 158 SAN

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Duckworth, Angela | 158.1 DUC (NEW)

Becoming Wise: An Inquiry Into the Mystery and Art of Living | Tippett, Krista | 170.44 TIP (NEW)

Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food | Bauer, Gene | 179 BAU

Siddhartha | Hesse, Herman | 181.043 HES 

How It Is: the Native American Philosophy of V.F. Cordova | Cordova, V.F. | 191.089 COR

Subjects in the 100’s include: Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Astrology & the Occult, Psychology, Logic, & Ethics

200: RELIGIONREADING SUGGESTIONS

Religion for Athiests: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion | De Botton, Alain | 200 DEB

One Nation Under Gods | Manseau, Peter | 200.973 MAN

Reclaiming the Bible | Spong, John | 220.6 SPO

Bad Girls of the Bible and What We Can Learn From Them | Higgs, Liz | 133 PAR

Aleppo Codex | Friedman, Matti | 221.4 FRI

Zealot | Aslan, Reza | 232.9 ASL

Killing History | Price, Robert | 232.96 PRI

With Open Hands | Nouwen, Henri J.M. | 248.3 NOU

Constantine's Sword | Carroll, James | 261 CAR

Mortal Sins | D'Antonio, Michael | 261.8 DAN

Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science McHargue, Mike | 277.3 MCH (NEW)

Accidental Saints | Bolz-Weber, Nadia | 284.1 BOL

Pilgrims in Their Own Land | Marty, Martin | 291.073 MAR

Not Quite Nirvana: A Skeptic's Journey to Mindfulness | Neumann, Rachel | 294.3 NEU

Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies & the Truth About Reality | Warner, Brad | 294.3 WAR

Islam: A Short History | Armstrong, Karen | 297.09 ARM (NEW)

American Islam | Barrett, Paul | 297.097 BAR

Tales of the Dervishes | Shah, Idries | 297.4 SHA

The Te of Piglet | Ho�, Benjamin | 299 HOF

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief | Wright, Lawrence | 299.936 WRI

Subjects in the 200’s include: Religion, Philosophy & Theory of Religion, the Bible, Theology, History of Religion

300: SOCIAL SCIENCEREADING SUGGESTIONS

All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps | 302.3 ALL

Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think | Diamandis, Peter | 303.48 DIA

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now | Rushko�, Douglas | 303.48 RUS

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis | Vance, J.D. | 305.5 VAN

Negroland: A Memoir | Je�erson, Margo | 2305.896 JEF

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East | Shadid, Anthony | 306.095 SHA

The Argonauts | Nelson, Maggie | 306.76 NEL

Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life | Treuer, David | 323.119 TRE

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World | Ferguson, Niall | 330.09 FER

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time | Schulte, Brigid | 331.4 SCH

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street | Brooks, John | 332.0973 BRO

Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong | Bonner, Raymond | 345.757 BON

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War | Roach, Mary | 355.07 ROA

Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story | Bagge, Peter | 363.9 BAG

Midnight in Peking | French, Paul | 364.152 FRE

Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice | Benforado, Adam | 364.3 BEN

What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job of the World | Mali, Taylor | 371.1 MAL

Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture | Goulding, Matt | 394.1 GOU

Miss Manners Minds Your Business | Martin, Judith | 395.5 MAR

Fairytales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version | Pullman, Philip | 398.2 FAI

Subjects in the 300’s include: Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Economics, Law, Education & Testing, Customs, Etiquette, & Folklore

400: LANGUAGESREADING SUGGESTIONS

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Di�erent in Other Languages | Deutscher, Guy | 410 DEU

Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words From Around the World Sanders, Ella Frances | 410 SAN

How Language Works | Crystal, David | 417.7 CRY

Forgotten Scripts: Their Ongoing Discovery and Decipherment | Gordon, Cyrus Herzl | 417.7 GOR

Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It | Wyner, Gabriel | 418.0071 WYN

Signing Illustrated: The Complete Learning Guide | Flodin, Mickey | 419 FLO

Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success | Metcalf, Allan | 420 MET

Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling, and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling | Crystal, David | 421 CRY

I Love It When You Talk Retro | Keyes, Ralph | 422 KEY

Words to Eat by: Five Foods and the Culinary History of the English Language | Lippkowitz, Ina | 422 LIP

Euphemania:  Our Love A�air with Euphemisms | Keyes, Ralph | 423 KEY

The Story of Ain't:  America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary | Skinner, David | 423.09 SKI

Slang:  The People's Poetry | Adams, Michael | 427 ADA

Amglish:  In, Like, Ten Easy Lessons | Rowse, Arthur E. | 427 ROW

Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions: Making Sense of Transatlantic | Hargraves, Orin | 428 HAR

Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming | Florey, Kitty Burns | 428.2 FLO

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen | Norris, Mary | 428.2 NOR

Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation | Shea, Ammon | 428.2 SHE

Read and Think Spanish | 468.642 REA

In the Land of Invented Languages | Okrent, Arika | 499 OKR

Subjects in the 400’s include: Linguistics, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, and more

500: SCIENCEREADING SUGGESTIONS

What If? Serious Scienti�c Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions | Munroe, Randall | 500 MUN

Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body | Shubin | 500 SHU

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World | Ignotofsky, Rachel | 509.22 IGN (NEW)

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in MathematicsDerbyshire, John | 512 DER

Sizing Up the Universe: The Cosmos in Perspective | Gott, Richard | 523 GOT

Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World Carroll, Sean | 539.721 CAR

Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything | Gray, Theodore | 546 GRA

Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches | Fredston, Jill | 551.3 FRE

Into the Storm: Violent Tornadoes, Killer Hurricanes, and Death-Defying Adventures in Extreme Weather Timmer, Reed | 551.55 TIM

A History of Life in 100 Fossils | Taylor, Paul D. | 560 TAY

Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million Year Story of How and Why We Survived | Walter, Chip | 569.9 WAL

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void | Roach, Mary | 571.0919 ROA

Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves | Schilthuizen, Menno | 573.6 SCH

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Kolbert, Elizabeth | 576.8 KOL

Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation | Nye, Bill | 576.8 NYE

Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made | Vince, Gaia | 577.27 VIN

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? | Waal, Frans B.M. | 591.513 WAL

Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds | Weidensaul, Scott | 598.156 WEI

Cuckoo: Cheating By Nature | Davies, N.B. | 598.7 DAV

Voices in the Ocean: A Journey Into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins | Casey, Susan | 599.53 CAS

Subjects in the 500’s include: Science, Math, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, Geology, Fossils, Biology, Plants, & Animals

600: TECHNOLOGYREADING SUGGESTIONS

The Gene: An Intimate History |Mukherjee, Siddhartha | 616.042 MUK (NEW)

The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time| Kozol, Jonathan | 616.8 KOZ

When Breath Becomes Air | Kalanithi, Paul | 616.99 KAL

The Science of Yoga: The Myths and the Rewards | Broad, William | 613.7 BRO

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Parasoxical Tales | Sacks, Oliver | 616.8 SAC

Irritable Hearts: a PTSD Love Story | McClelland, Mac | 616.85 MCC

Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power | Maha�rey, James | 621.48 MAH

Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Space�ight | Dean, Margaret | 629.409 DEA

Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myth of Autonomy | Mindell, David | 629.8 MIN

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life | Kingsolver, Barbara | 641.097 KIN

My Empire of Dirt | Howard, Manny | 630.974 HOW

Sophie: The Incredible True Adventures of the Castaway Dog | Pearse, Emma | 636.7 PEA

How to Cook a Wolf | Fisher, M.F.K. | 641.013 FIS

Provence, 1970 | Barr, Luke | 641.597 BAR

The Storyteller's Secret: From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch on and Others Don't Gallo, Carmine | 658.4 GAL

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead | Sandberg, Sheryl | 658.4 SAN

Gun Guys: A Road Trip | Baum, Dan | 683.4 BAU

The Wright Brothers| McCullough, David | 629.13 MCC

Dewey: A Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World | Myron, Vicki | 636.809 MYR

Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting Druckerman, Pamela | 649.109 DRU

Subjects in the 600’s include: Medicine, Health, Diets, Engineering, Agriculture, Cooking, Sewing, Auto Repair, Building & Construction

700: ARTS & RECREATIONREADING SUGGESTIONS

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone | Laing, Olivia | 700.1 LAI (NEW)

Humans of New York: Stories | Stanton, Brandon | 778 STA

Barbarian Days: A Sur�ng Life | Finnegan, William | 797.3 FIN

Andre the Giant: Life and Legend | Brown, Box | 796.812 BRO

Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything | Armstron, Jennifer Keishin | 791.45 ARM Listen to This | Ross, Alex | 780 ROS

The Colors of Oklahoma Music: From the Blue Devils to Red Dirt | Wooley, John | 780.976 WOO

128 Beats per Minute | Diplo | 782.421 DIP

Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature| Noe, Alva | 700.1 NOE

Creative Block: Discover New Ideas, Advice and Projects from 50 Successful Artists | Krysa, Danielle | 701.15 KRY

What Are You Looking At? The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art Gompertz, Will | 709 GOM

Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art | Barnes, Julian | 709.03 BAR

The Contemporaries: Travels in the 21st Century Art World| White, Roger | 709.05 WHI

The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to Us | Lurie, Alison | 720.1 LUR

The Address Book | Calle, Sophie | 709.04 CAL

The Sculptor | McCloud, Scott | 741.5 MCC

Killing and Dying: Six Stories | Tomine, Adrian | 741.5 TOM

House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival | Ball, Deborah | 746.9 BAL

The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money | Brewer, John | 759.5 BRE

Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream | Bissinger, H.G. | 796.332 BISS

Subjects in the 700’s include: Arts, Landscaping, Architecture, Sculpture, Drawing, Painting, Graphic Novels, Photography, Music, & Sports

800: LITERATUREREADING SUGGESTIONS

Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth | Scott, A.O. | 801.95 SCO (NEW)

Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama | Leith, Sam | 808.5 LEI

The Book of Fabulous Beasts: A Treasure of Writings From Ancient Times to the Present | 808.8 BOO

Superman: The Unauthorized Biography | Weldon, Glen | 809 WEL

Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems | WritersCorps. | 811 PAI

Museum of Accidents | Zucker, Rachel | 811 ZUC

Complete Poems 1904-1962 | Cummings, E.E. | 811.52 CUM (NEW)

Milk and Honey | Kaur, Rupi | 811.6 KAU (NEW)

True Stories, Well Told | Gutkind, Lee, editor. | 812 TRU

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls | Sedaris, David | 814 SED

The Most of Nora Ephron | Ephron, Nora | 814.54 EPH

Old Age: A Beginner's Guide | Kinsley, Michael E. | 814.54 KIN (NEW)

Bad Feminist: Essays | Gay, Roxane | 814.6 GAY

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks | Sontag, Susan | 818 SON

Point to Point Navigation: a Memoir | Vidal, Gore | 818.54 VID

Texts From Jane Eyre | Ortberg, Mallory | 818.6 ORT

The Memory Chalet | Judt, Tony | 824.92 JUD

Mythologies | Barthes, Roland | 844 BAR

Dante's Inferno | Alighieri, Dante | 851 DAN

Chekhov: Four Plays | Chekhov, Anton | 891.72 CHE

Subjects in the 800’s include: Literature, Writing Guides, Poetry, Plays, Short Stories, Essays, Humor, Literary Criticism

900: HISTORY & GEOGRAPHYREADING SUGGESTIONS

Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars | Hawke, Ethan | 741.5973 HAW (NEW)

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders | Foer, Joshua | 910.41 FOE (NEW)

Wrong About Japan: A Father's Journey with his Son | Carey, Peter | 915.204 CAR

Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo to Cape Town | Theroux, Paul | 916.04 THE

Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist Jackson, Buzzy | 929.1 JAC

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning | Snyder, Timothy | 940.5318 SNY

No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII Weintraub, Robert | 940.54 WEI

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States | Vowell, Sarah | 944.04 VOW

Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia | Stewart, Chris | 946 STE

The Bookseller of Kabul | Seierstad, Asne | 958.1 SEI

Algerian Chronicles | Camus, Albert | 965.04 CAM

And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation | Kamara-Umunna, Agnes | 966.62 KAM

The Way to Rainy Mountain | Momaday, N. Scott | 970.3 M73W

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West | Brown, Dee Alexander | 970.5 BRO

Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture | Oakes, Kaya | 973 OAK

A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present | Zinn, Howard | 973 ZIN

Eating the Dinosaur | Klosterman, Chuck | 973.92 KLO

Noodling for Flatheads | Bilger, Burkhard | 975 BIL

The Story of Exciting Payne County | Newsom, D. Earl | 976.634 NEW

The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey | Buck, Rinker | 978 BUC

Subjects in the 900’s include: Maps, Travel Guides & Writing, History, Baby Name Books, Genealogy and Family History Guides

B: BIOGRAPHIESREADING SUGGESTIONS

Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva | Sullivan, Rosemary | B ALL

Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart | Harman, Claire | B BRO (NEW)

The Year of Magical Thinking | Didion, Joan | B DID

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Eggers, Dave | B EGG

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me: A Graphic Memoir | Forney, Ellen | B FOR

All Creatures Great and Small | Herriot, James | B HER

Life Among the Savages | Jackson, Shirley | B JAC

The Liar's Club | Karr, Mary | 818 KAR

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter | Larson, Kate Cli�ord | B KEN

You'll Grow Out of It | Klein, Jessi | B KLE (NEW)

In Other Words | Lahiri, Jhumpa | B LAH

Into the Wild | Krakauer, Jon | B MCC

I'm Just a Person | Notaro, Tig | B NOT (NEW)

Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West | Dennison, Matthew | B SAC

Just Kids | Smith, Patti | B SMI

Maus: A Survivor's Tale | Spiegelman, Art | COMIX 940.53 SPI

Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | Stein, Gertrude | B STE

Updike | Begley, Adam | B UPD

Night | Wiesel, Elie | B WIE

Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth | Wright, Richard | B WRI

Most of our Biographies, Autobiographies, and Memoirs are located in the Biographies section, but they can be found in other dewey areas as well.