Dewey Who? New Popular Non-Fic

This month’s picks are as much a potluck as ever, taking us from the Cold War era to an emergency room in Aotearoa, onwards into the lives of American jazz musicians, then through the biome of a rubbish dump and down the slopes of a deadly mountain – everywhere and anywhere, basically. Is there any common thread to link them? Probably not! We have total disregard for such pesky categories as Dewey and genre on this popular non-fiction blog, so take your pick of the spread or read them all if you dare – perhaps you’ll uncover some unexpected commonalities along the way.

• The picnic : an escape to freedom and the collapse of the iron curtain / Longo, Matthew
• On call / Meredith, Ineke
• 3 shades of blue : Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the lost empire of cool / Kaplan, James
• The revolutionary temper : Paris, 1748-1789 / Darnton, Robert
• Forms of enchantment : writings on art & artists / Warner, Marina
• Year of no garbage : recycling lies, plastic problems, and one woman’s trashy journey to zero waste : a memoir / Schaub, Eve O
• The darkest white : a mountain legend and the avalanche that took him / Blehm, Eric
• Clay and bones: my life as an FBI forensic artist / Bailey, Lisa
• Smoke and ashes : opium’s hidden histories / Ghosh, Amitav