Excellent books I have been reading on the brain, storytelling, conflict, and more

This month, I traveled to California because of a serious health matter of a close family member. One of the benefits of the trip was much time to read. I could not get online except when at Starbuck's so had more than the typical amount of time with nothing distracting or calling to me besides books!

In fact, I have been reading so many good books that I wanted to list them in case some of you may enjoy an item or two from my recently-read list. Here they are (I have included a couple from earlier this year, too):

• Philosophy for Life
• Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence [Note added October 22, 2012: Unfortunately most of the citations in this book are to articles from the popular media and not to the original research]
• Pathological Altruism
• Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
• Reframing
• When Can You Trust the Experts?: How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education
• The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts
• The Antidote
• The Story Template
• Psychobabble and Biobunk
• What Are You Laughing At?: A Comprehensive Guide to the Comedic Event
• Pieces of Light
• How To Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons Click to watch my dad playing the harmonica
• Our Secret Territory: The Essence of Storytelling
• Conflicts : A Better Way to Resolve Them
• Maximum Brainpower: Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom
• Time Warped
• The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

Let me know if you have read any of these and what you thought after the reading. What books have been getting your attention lately?

Comments

[Vicenç]

Thanks for sharing!

[B. Lynn Goodwin]

Thanks for the great list, Stephanie. Unfortunately, I haven't read any, but I'm saving the list.

B. Lynn Goodwin
www.writeradvice.com
Author of You Want Me to Do WHAT? Journaling for Caregivers