The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters by Keith Ammann

An in-depth analysis of how to fight with D&D monsters.

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Afro-American Folktales by Roger D. Abrahams

A collection of folktales, from the West Indies as well as the United States.

A lot of beast tales, including some recognizable variants on fairy tale types-- some fairy tales, not too many. Heavy on trickster tales. Some distinctly bawdy.

The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 4: 1957-1958 by Charles M. Schulz


Peanuts as we all know it, nearly perfectly in form. Snoopy's imagination is only turning him into animals of other kinds -- like vultures -- but Linus with his security blanket, the baseball team getting going (and somehow managing to get within one catch of the championship in spite of never doing anything right on panel), Pig-Pen, the kite albeit without the kite-eating tree, and more

Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman

A study revolving about the English Civil War. I found it particularly interesting in terms of spycraft, and the frequent bumbling incompetence, and the discussions about folding letters (which could make it impossible to open without revealing your tampering), and stenography (all the more important in that owning a cypher key was illegal).

2,000 to 10,000: How to Write Faster, Write Better, and Write More of What You Love by Rachel Aaron

Aaron with potentially useful tips on writing.  How to write faster in particular.  Editing.  Idea development.  And the lack of the writer police.