You Are What You Read Recommended Reads

You Are What You Read

Summer Reads for Adults 2012

Fitness

Where to Bike. Chicago
By Greg Borzo

The Women’s Health Big Book of Exercises: Four Weeks to A Leaner, Sexier, Healthier You!
By Adam Campbell

The Complete Guide to Walking for Health, Weight Loss and Fitness
By Mark Fenton

I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down
By Jennifer Hudson

Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities
By Jeff Mapes

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
By Christopher McDougall
eAudiobook | eBook

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
By Haruki Murakami
eAudiobook | eBook

Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude
By Neal Pollack

Healthy Eating for Everyone

Healthy Choices, Healthy Children: A Guide to Raising Fit, Healthy Kids
By Lori S. Brizee and Sue Schumann Warner

Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution
By Jennifer Cockrall-King

Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind our Obsession with Bottled Water
By Peter H. Gleick

The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
By David A. Kessler

703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life
By Nancy Makin

Allergic Girl: Adventures in Living Well with Food Allergies
By Sloane Miller

Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life
By Thich Nhat Hanh

Urban Pantry: Tips and Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable and Seasonal Kitchen
By Amy Pemington

Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual
By Michael Pollan and Maira Kalman

Wellness for the Mind and Body

One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage and the Language of Healing
By Diane Ackerman

The End of Illness
By David B. Agus

The Memory Palace
By Mira Bartók

The Middle Place
By Kelly Corrigan
eAudiobook

Toxic Free: How to Protect Your Health and Home from the Chemicals That Are Making You Sick
By Debra Lynn Dadd

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
By Charles Duhigg

Next Stop: A Memoir
By Glen Finland

Reclaiming Our Health: A Guide to African American Wellness
By Michelle A. Gourdine

Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What is Right for You
By Jerome E. Groopman

Thoughts Without Cigarettes
By Oscar Hijuelos

Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank
By Randi Hutter

What’s Gotten Into Us: How to Live a Healthy Life in an Increasingly Toxic World
By McKay Jenkins

Moments of Clarity: Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery
By Christopher Kennedy Lawford

Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret
By Steve Luxenberg

Healing Companions: Ordinary Dogs and Their Extraordinary Power to Transform Lives
By Jane Miller

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By Siddhartha Mukherjee

Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor’s Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out
By Peter J. Pronovost

The Mind’s Eye
By Oliver Sacks

Every Patient Tells A Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
By Lisa Sanders

Being Gay, Staying Healthy
By Jaime Seba

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By Rebecca Skloot
eAudiobook | eBook

The Rules of Inheritance
By Claire Bidwell Smith

Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
By Mark Vonnegut

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
By Ethan Watters

Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future
By Andrew Weil
eAudiobook | eBook

The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family from Hidden Household Dangers
By Myron Wentz and Dave Wentz

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
By Robert Whitaker

A Sense of Well-Being

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
By Brené C. Brown

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
By Susan Cain

The Chemistry of Calm: A Powerful, Drug-Free Plan to Quiet Your Fears and Overcome Your Anxiety
By Henry Emmons

Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs
By Ellen Galinsky

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
By Winifred Gallagher

Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness
By Ariel Gore

One Square Inch of Silence: One Man’s Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World
By Gordon Hempton

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
By Austin Kleon

Imagine: How Creativity Works
By Jonah Lehrer

Live a Little! Breaking the Rules Won’t Break Your Health
By Susan M. Love

The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder
By Richard Louv

The Happiness Project or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle and Generally Have More Fun
By Gretchen Craft Rubin

With Age Comes Wisdom

Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat
By David Dosa
eAudiobook

Prime Time
By Jane Fonda

The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight Decade Study
By Howard S. Friedman

20 Years Younger: Look Younger, Feel Younger, Be Younger!
By Bob Greene

It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman
By Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson

Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever
By Ray Kurzweil

The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50
By Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Aging with HIV: A Gay Man’s Guide
By James Masten

What’s Age Got to Do with It? Living Your Healthiest and Happiest Life
By Robin McGraw

30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans
By Karl A. Pillemer

The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind
By Barbara Strauch

General Fiction

Joy for Beginners
By Erica Bauermeister
eBook

The Summer Without Men
By Siri Hustvedt

The Birth of Love
By Joanna Kavenna

Irreplaceable
By Stephen Lovely

Wicked Craving
By G.A. McKevitt

Anna In-Between
By Elizabeth Nunez

So Much for That
By Lionel Shriver
eAudiobook | eBook

The Taste of Salt
By Martha Southgate

Olive Kitteridge
By Elizabeth Strout
eAudiobook | eBook

40 Love
By Madeleine Wickham

Flowers for Algernon
By Daniel Keyes

Science Fiction & Mystery

I, Robot
By Isaac Asimov
eAudiobook | eBook

The Andromeda Strain
By Michael Crichton

Micro
By Michael Crichton

Bodily Harm
By Robert Dugoni

As Husbands Go
By Susan Isaacs

Pampered to Death
By Laura Levine

A Trick of the Light
By Louise Penny

The Years of Rice and Salt
By Kim Stanley Robinson

Doc
By Mary Doria Russell
eBook

The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse
By Steven C. Schlozman

Frankenstein
By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
eAudiobook | eBook

Romance

The Sea of Aaron
By Kymberly Hunt

In the Doctor’s Bed
By Brenda Jackson

Hot Number
By Carly Phillips

I’ll Catch You
By Farrah Rochon
eBook

The Summer Hideaway
By Susan Wiggs
eBook

Graphic Novels

Epileptic
By David B.

Mom’s Cancer
By Brian Fies

Mother Come Home
By Paul Hornschemeier

Real
By Takehiko Inoue

The Ride Together: A Brother and Sister’s Memoir of Autism in the Family
By Judy Karasik

Cancer Vixen: A True Story
By Marisa Acocella Marchetto

Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story
By Frederick Peeters

Stitches: A Memoir
By David Small

How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story
By Tracy White

Crimson Hero
By Mitsuba Takanashi

Smile
By Raina Telgemeier

Feature Films

2001, A Space Odyssey
(1968)

A Beautiful Mind
(2001)

Best Years of Our Lives
(1946)

Black Swan
(2010)

The Blind Side
(2009)

Bend It Like Beckham
(2003)

Chariots of Fire
(1981)

Contagion
(2011)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
(2008)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(2007)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(2004)

Field of Dreams
(1989)

The Fighter
(2010)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(1956)

Juno
(2007)

Little Miss Sunshine
(2006)

The Miracle Worker
(1962)

Million Dollar Baby
(2004)

Moneyball
(2011)

Philadelphia
(1993)

Rocky
(1976)

Singin’ in the Rain
(1952)

The Third Man
(1949)

The Wrestler
(2008)

Young Frankenstein
(1974)

Documentaries

Cry for Help
(2009)

Food, Inc.
(2008)

The Foods of Chicago
(2007)

Forgotten Ellis Island: The Extraordinary Story of America’s Immigrant Hospital
(2009)

Forks Over Knives
(2011)

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise
(2011)

More Than a Game
(2008)

Sicko
(2007)

Something the Lord Made
(2004)

Super Size Me
(2004)

This Emotional Life: In Search of Ourselves—And Happiness
(2010)

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Summer Reads for Adults 2012

Recommended Reads

Fitness

Healthy Eating for Everyone

Wellness for the Mind and Body

A Sense of Well-Being

With Age Comes Wisdom

General Fiction

Science Fiction & Mystery

Romance

Graphic Novels

Feature Films

Documentaries

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