Illustration/Graphic-y Things

What It Is
Author: Lynda Barry
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, 2008

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Author: Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Mariner Books, 2007
Other Media: Video

The Complete Persepolis
Author: Marjane Satrapi
Publisher: Pantheon Books, 2004

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Author: Scott McCloud
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 1994
Other Media: TED Talk

The Way the World Works

Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Author: Jonah Lehrer
Publisher: Mariner Books, 2007

My Stroke of Insight
Author: Jill Bolte Taylor
Publisher: Viking, 2007 (Hardcover); Plume, 2009 (Paperback)
Other Media: TED Talk

Homo Aestheticus
Author: Ellen Dissayanake
Publisher: University of Washington Press, 1995

The Nonfiction Literati

Notes from No Man’s Land
Author: Eula Biss
Publisher: Graywolf Press, 2009

About a Mountain
Author: John D’Agata
Publisher: Norton, 2010

At Large and At Small
Author: Anne Fadiman
Publisher: FSG, 2008

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Author: Nick Flynn
Publisher: W. W. Norton, 2005

Safekeeping
Author: Abigail Thomas
Publisher: Anchor, 2001

Design

Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories.
Authors: Jonathan Chapman & Nick Gant
Publisher: Earthscan, 2007