2018: the non-fiction

Here's the non-fiction for 2018.  Again, bolding some of my favorites. 

LOTS of memoirs and biographies:

A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: the Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi
Sacred Ground: the Chicago Streets of Timuel Black, by Timuel D. Black, Jr.
The Diary of a Bookseller, by Shaun Bythell
Bookshops: a reader's history, by Jorge Carrion
Fashion Climbing: a memoir with photographs by Bill Cunningham
Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World, by Hasia Diner
My Family and other Animals, and Birds, Beasts, and Relatives, by Gerald Durrell
Escape through the Pyrenees, by Lisa Fittko
By Appointment, by Sidney Berry Hill
Black Tudors: the untold story, by Miranda Kaufman 
Can't Nothing Bring Me Down: Chasing Myself in the Race Against Time, by Ida Keeling
The South Side: a portrait of Chicago and American segregation, by Natalie Y. MooreTwo Schools of Thought: Some Tales of Learning and Romance, by Carolyn See and John Espy
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: the Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, by Colm TóibínThe Girl with the Hat: Esther Mercy vs. Marion Talbot, by Harriet Reynolds Tuve

History, too:

To Sleep with the Angels: the story of a fire, by David Cowan and John Kuenster
Love and Death in Renaissance Italy, by Thomas V. Cohen
Women and the Making of the Modern House: a social and architectural history, by Alice T. Friedman
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888/1889, by Frederic Morton
Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis, by Liesl Olson
Food and Cooking in Roman Britain: History and Recipes, by Jane Renfrew
Shade: a Tale of Two Presidents, by Pete Souza
The World that Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square, by Ned Sublette
Forever Open, Clear, and Free: the Struggle for Chicago's Lakefront, by Lois Wille

And various other things:


New York è una finestra senza tende, by Paolo Cognetti
The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, by Donald Keene 
Maestros and their Music: the Art and Alchemy of Conducting, by John Mauceri
Mutts Shelter Stories, by Patrick McDonnell
Ciao, Carpaccio! an Infatuation, by Jan Morris
Venice on a Plate: but what a Plate!, by Enrica Rocca
Frank Lloyd Wright at Oberlin: the Story of the Weltzheimer/Johnson House, by Athena Tacha
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin, by Calvin Trillin
The Man with the Sawed-Off Leg and other tales of a New York City Block, by Daniel J. Wakin
Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and their Audience, by Colin Watson