Below are a few books I have indexed in the past few years, some with links to Amazon listings where you can use the “Look Inside” feature to view the index.
2025
1001 Magical Plants by Cassandra Eason (Sterling Ethos, 2025)
Align Your Mind by Britt Frank (TarcherPerigee, 2025)
Anatomy of a Con Artist: The 14 Red Flags to Spot Scammers, Grifters, and Thieves by Johnathan Walton (Rodale, 2025)
Beyond: A Living Person's Guide to the Dead by Tiffany Hopkins (Sterling Ethos, 2025)
Beyond Yourself: Teachings on the Zen Way of Life by Shunryu Suzuki (Tarcher, 2025)
Black Capitalists by Rachel Laryea (Crown, 2025)
The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature by Charlie English (Random House, 2025)
Confidence By Choice: The Three Small Decisions That Build Everyday Courage by Juan Bendana (Ballantine Books, 2025)
Farming is Female: Twenty Women Shaking Up the Field by Rachel Sarah (Yellow Jacket, 2025)
Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind For Extraordinary Performance & The Best Possible Life by Jim Murphy (Grand Central, 2025)
The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century by Tim Weiner (Mariner Books, 2025)
The Periodic Table of Broadway Musicals: An Illustrated Catalog of 118 Essential Shows by Andrew Gerle & Joseph Zellnik (Union Square & Co, 2025)
The Year of the Tiger: The Major Run That Made Tiger Woods by Brody Miller (Harper, 2025)
2024
The Captive Imagination: Addiction, Reality, and Our Search for Meaning by Elias Dakwar (Harper, 2024)
Effective Writing for Healthcare Professionals: A Pocket Guide to Getting Published, 2nd Edition by Megan-Jane Johnstone (Routledge, 2024)
Fatherhood Scenarios: Development, Culture, Psychotherapy, and Treatment by Rama Rao Gogineni, editor (Routledge, 2024)
A History of Baitcasting in America by Emmett J. Babler (Big Papa’s Bass Books, 2024)
The Joy of Slow: Restoring Balance and Wonder to Homeschool Learning by Leslie M. Martino (TarcherPerigee, 2024)
Lessons in Liberty: Thirty Rules for Living from Ten Extraordinary Americans by Jeremy S. Adams (Broadside Books, 2024)
The Making of a Leader: The Formative Years of George C. Marshall by Josiah Bunting III (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024)
Patton’s Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II by Alex Kershaw (Dutton, 2024)
Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe by Sean Carroll (Dutton, 2024)
Temporal Urban Design: Temporality, Rhythm and Place by Filipa Matos Wunderlich (Routledge, 2024)
Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers (Dey Street, 2024)
Un-Addiction: 6 Mind-Changing Conversations That Could Save a Life by Nzinga Harrison with Lynya Floyd (Union Square & Co., 2024)
The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains by Clayton Page Aldern (Dutton, 2024)
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI by Anil Ananthaswamy (Dutton, 2024)
2023
Archaeology of Religion: Cultures and Their Beliefs in Worldwide Context, 2nd Edition by Sharon R. Steadman (Routledge, 2023)
Baby Making for Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents by Rachel Rachlin and Marea Goodman (Balance, 2023)
The Biden Malaise: How America Bounces Back From Joe Biden’s Dismal Repeat of the Jimmy Carter Years by Kimberley Strassel (Twelve, 2023)
Cicada Madness: Timing, Fishing Techniques, and Patterns for Cracking the Code of Epic Cicada Emergences by Dave Zielinski (Stackpole Books, 2023)
The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised by James Pethokoukis (Center Street, 2023)
DLR Book: How David Lee Roth Changed the World by Darren Paltrowitz (Backbeat Books, 2023)
Finding China’s Lost Generation: The Beijing Fifty-five by John Israel (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Fly Fishing Guide to the Battenkill: Complete Guide to Locations, Hatches, and History by Doug Lyons (Stackpole Books, 2023)
Ira Hayes: The Akimel O’odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism by Tom Holm (Twelve, 2023)
Maps of Consciousness: The Classic Text on Exploring the Mind and Expanding Awareness by Ralph Metzner (Park Street Press, 2023)
Pandora’s Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk by Alison Young (Center Street, 2023)
The Performance Paradox: Turning the Power of Mindset into Action by Eduardo Briceño (Ballentine Books, 2023)
Psychedelic Cults and Outlaw Churches: LSD, Cannabis, and Spiritual Sacraments in Underground America by Mike Marinacci (Park Street Press, 2023)
Secrets of Giants: A Journey to Uncover the True Meaning of Strength by Alyssa Ages (Avery, 2023)
Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM by Brandon R. Brown (the MIT Press, 2023)
Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy by Stephen M. Silverman (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2023)
Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder: A 4-Step Plan for You and Your Loved Ones to Manage the Illness and Create Lasting Stability by Julie A. Fast and John Preston (Balance, 2023)
Touching Beauty: The Poetics of Kim Thúy by Miléna Santoro and Jack A. Yeager (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023)
Toxic Relationship Recovery by Jaime Mahler (Adams Media, 2023)
When the Game was War: The NBA’s Greatest Season by Rich Cohen (Random House, 2023)
2022
Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II by Alex Kershaw (Caliber, 2022)
Boundless: The Rise, Fall and Escape of Carlos Ghosn by Nick Kostov and Sean McLain (Harper Business, 2022)
Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music by Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2022)
Deficit Politics in the United States: Taxes, Spending, and Fiscal Disconnect by Dennis S. Ippolito (Routledge, 2022)
Future Tense: Why Anxiety is Good for You by Tracy Dennis-Tiwary (Harper Wave, 2022)
Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child by Betsy DeVos (Center Street, 2022)
Ira Gruber’s Atlantic Salmon Flies by Ira D. Gruber (Stackpole Books, 2022)
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff (Twelve, 2022)
Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six by Maya Payne Smart (Avery, 2022)
A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times by Mark T. Esper (William Morrow, 2022)
The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward by Britt Frank (TarcherPerigee, 2022)
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman (Ecco, 2022)
Split the Pie: A Radical New Way to Negotiate by Barry Nalebuff (Harper Business, 2022)
The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny by Bradley Sherman (Harper Business, 2022)
The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation by Scott Carney and Jason Miklian (Ecco, 2020)
The War on the West by Douglas Murray (Broadside, 2022)
2021
American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery by Craig Unger (Dutton, 2021)
Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier by Ted Reinstein (Lyons Press, 2021)
Betrayal: The Final Act of The Trump Show by Jonathan Karl (Dutton, 2021)
Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life by Ray Richmond (becker&mayer!, 2021)
Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria’s Missing Schoolgirls by Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw (Harper, 2021)
Broken Windows, Broken Business: The Revolutionary Broken Windows Theory by Michael Levine (Grand Central Publishing, 2021)
The Chief’s Chief by Mark Meadows (All Seasons Press, 2021)
The Circadian Diabetes Book by Satchin Panda (Rodale, 2021)
Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues by David Bradford and Carole Robin (Currency, 2021)
Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer by Dary Matera (Sterling, 2021)
First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents by Gary Ginsberg (Twelve, 2021)
The Forgotten First: Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the Breaking of the NFL Color Barrier by Keyshawn Johnson and Bob Glauber (Grand Central Publishing, 2021)
Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole by Tiffany Aliche (Rodale Books, 2021)
In Trump Time: My Journal of America’s Plague Year by Peter Navarro (All Seasons Press, 2021)
Making of Paris: The Story of How Paris Evolved from a Fishing Village into the World’s Most Beautiful City by Russell Kelley (Lyons Press, 2021)
Maximize Your Metabolism: Lifelong Solutions to Lose Weight, Restore Energy, and Prevent Disease by Noel Maclaren and Sunita Singh Maclaren (Grand Central Publishing, 2021)
Music Is History by Questlove (Abrams Image, 2021)
So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets, The Best Worst Team in Sports by Devin Gordon (Harper, 2021)
Taking Paris: The Epic Battle for the City of Lights by Martin Dugard (Caliber, 2021)
You Are Looking Live! How The NFL Today Revolutionized Sports Broadcasting by Rich Podolsky (Lyons Press, 2021)
2020
And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School by Judith Warner (Crown, 2020)
Defend the Border and Save Lives: Solving Our Most Important Humanitarian and Security Crisis by Tom Homan (Center Street, 2020)
Drawing on the Dominant Eye: Decoding the Way We Perceive, Create, and Learn by Betty Edwards (TarcherPerigee Book, 2020)
EMF*D: 5G, Wi-Fi & Cell Phones: Hidden Harms and How to Protect Yourself Joseph Mercola (Hay House, Inc., 2020)
Family Experience of Brain Injury by Jo Clark-Wilson and Mark Holloway (Routledge, 2020)
Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon: Game of Thrones and the Official Untold Story of the Epic Series by James Hibbard (Dutton, 2020)
Fourteen (Talks) by (Age) Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start Hight School—and How (Best) to Have Them by Michelle Icard (Harmony Books, 2020)
Front Row at the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl (Dutton, 2020)
Grounded: A Senator’s Lessons on Winning Back Rural America by Jon Tester (Ecco, 2020)
Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry by Joan Ryan (Little, Brown and Company, 2020)
Literature and Social Media by Bronwen Thomas (Routledge, 2020)
The Madman Theory: Trump Take the World by Jim Sciutto (Harper, 2020)
The New Chardonnay: The Unlikely Story of How Marijuana Went Mainstream by Heather Cabot (Currency, 2020)
OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? A Non-Boring Breakdown of How Our Democracy Works by Ben Sheehan (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2020)
Saving Freedom: Truman, The Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization by Joe Scarborough (Harper, 2020)
Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road by Matthew B. Crawford (William Morrow, 2020)
2019
America’s Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.by Steven M. Gillon (Dutton, 2019)
The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions by Brandon Brown (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Citizen Outlaw: One Man’s Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper by Charles Barber (Ecco, 2019)
Dangerous Masculinity: Fatherhood, Race, and Security Inside America’s Prisons by Anna Curtis (Rutgers University Press, 2019)
D-Day Girls: The Untold Story of the Female Spies Who Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose (Crown, 2019)
Geek Girls Don’t Cry: Real-Life Lessons from Fictional Female Characters by Andrea Towers (Sterling, 2019)
Generals in the Making: How Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Their Peers Became the Commanders Who Won World War II by Benjamin Runkle (Stackpole Books, 2019)
Grit and Grace by Tim McGraw (Harper Wave, 2019)
Inside Trump’s White House: The Real Story of His Presidency by Doug Wead (Center Street, 2019)
LeBron, Inc.: The Making of a Billion-Dollar Athlete by Brian Windhorst (Grand Central Publishing, 2019)
Mantle: The Best There Ever Was by Tony Castro (Rowan & Littlefield, 2019)
Michelle Obama by Elizabeth Lightfoot (Lyons Press, 2019)
Moon: An Illustrated History by David Warmflash (Sterling, 2019)
Operation Swallow: American Soldiers’ Remarkable Escape from Berga Concentration Camp by Mark Felton (Center Street, 2019)
The Passion Paradox: A Guide to Going All In, Finding Success, and Discovering The Benefits of an Unbalanced Life by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness (Rodale, 2019)
The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman David Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in US History by Lee Smith (Center Street, 2019)
Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life by Diane Tavenner (Currency, 2019)
Rebuild Your Bones: The 12-Week Osteoporosis Protocol by Mira Calton and Jayson Calton (Rodale, 2019)
Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters are Breaking America by Kimberley Strassel (Twelve, 2019)
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll (Dutton, 2019)
2018
American Mom: A Celebration of Motherhood in Pop Culture by Meredith Hale (Sterling, 2018)
And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails by Wayne Curtis (Broadway Books, 2018)
Astroball: The New Way to Win It All by Ben Reiter (Crown, 2018)
Edible Insects and Human Evolution by Julie J. Lesnik (University Press of Florida, 2018)
Go Together: How the Concept of Ubuntu Will Change How You Live, Work, and Lead by Shola Richards (Sterling Ethos, 2018)
Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth by Michael Engel (Sterling, 2018)
New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England’s Merchant Adventures by John Butman and Simon Targett (Little, Brown and Company, 2018)
Patton’s Last Gamble: The Disastrous Raid on POW Camp Hammelburg by Duane Schultz (Stackpole Books, 2018)
The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece by Jay Scarfone and William Stillman (Lyons Press, 2018)
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump by Michael Isikoff and David Corn (Twelve, 2018)
Senate Procedure and Practice by Martin B. Gold (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)
Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense by Mona Charen (Crown Forum, 2018)
Stop Mass Hysteria: America’s Insanity from the Salem Witch Trials to the Trump Witch Hunt, from the Red Scare to Russian Collusion by Michael Savage (Center Street, 2018)
The Story of the Band: From Big Pink to the Last Waltz by Harvey Kubernik and Kenneth Kubernik (Sterling, 2018)
Westworld Psychology by Travis Langley and Wind Goodfriend, editors (Sterling, 2018)
2017
Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago by William Elliott Hazelgrove (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017)
Ancient Complex Societies by Jennifer C. Ross and Sharon R. Steadman (Routledge, 2017)
Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Transformed America by Jonathan Chait (Custom House, 2017)
A Billion to One: The Story of Herzog, Heine, Geduld, Inc. by John E. Herzog (Museum of American Finance, 2017)
Bowing Toward Babylon: The Nationalistic Subversion of Christian Worship in America by Craig M. Watts (Cascade Books, 2017)
Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Grand Central Publishing, 2017)
Core Light Healing: My Personal Journey and Advanced Healing Concepts for Creating the Life You Long to Live by Barbara Ann Brennan (Hay House, Inc., 2017)
Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir by Halifu Osumare (University Press of Florida, 2017)
A History of Baitcasting in America by Emmett J. Babler (Emmett J. Babler, 2017)
Intimate Partner Violence in the Black Church: Bridging the Gap between Awareness and Policy Development by Carlos Jermaine Richard (Wipf & Stock, 2017)
Juvenile Delinquency by Donald J. Shoemaker (Roman & Littlefield, 2017)
Leading Financial Sustainability in Theological Institutions, The African Perspective by Emmanuel O. Bellon (Pickwick Publications, 2017)
Multiethnicity and Migration at Teopancazco by Linda R. Manzanilla (University Press of Florida, 2017)
New Barbarians: Outlaws, Gunslingers, and Guitars by Rob Chapman (Voyageur Press, 2017)
The 1997 Masters: My Story by Tiger Woods (Grand Central Publishing, 2017)
The Physics of Star Wars: The Science Behind a Galaxy Far, Far Away by Patrick Johnson (Adams Media, 2017)
Return of the King: LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Greatest Comeback in NBA History by Brian Windhorst and Davie McMenamin (Grand Central Publishing, 2017)
South Africans versus Rommel: The Untold Story of the Desert War in World War II by David Brock Katz (Stackpole Books, 2017)
Why We Ride: A Psychologist Explains the Motorcyclist’s Mind and the Love Affair between Rider, Bike, and Road by Mark Barnes (CompanionHouse Books, 2017)
Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth by Travis Langley and Mara Wood (Sterling, 2017)
2016
Conversations on Human Nature by Agustín Fuentes and Aku Visala (Left Coast Press, 2016)
Doctor Who Psychology: A Madman with a Box by Travis Langley (Sterling, 2016)
Engaging in Narrative Inquiries with Children and Youth by D. Jean Clandinin, Sean Lessard, and Janice Huber (Left Coast Press, 2016)
My Brother’s Keeper: Christians Who Risked All to Protect Jewish Targets of the Holocaust by Rod Gragg (Center Street, 2016)
The National Historic Preservation Act: Past, Present and Future by Kimball M. Banks and Ann M. Scott, editors (Left Coast Press, 2016)
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today: Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher by Judith A. Hayn, Jeffrey S. Kaplan, and Karina R. Clemmons (Rowan & Littlefield, 2016)
Women Officeholders and the Role Models Who Pioneered the Way by Karen Owen (Lexington Books, 2016)
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