Secular Non-Fiction

Love in the Driest Season by Neely Tucker, a story of his and his wife’s adoption of a zimbabwean girl. This memoir is a story of many things though and is a story about racism, foreign press reporting, and many other things

Social Issues
Nurture Shock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, analysis of what the research says and how that contradicts many theories about parenting that are popular today

Distracted by Maggie Jackson, an analysis of how our attention spans (and relationships) are eroding because of our distractions from the technology in our lives

Cookbooks
The Substitution Bible by David Joachim This book is a very thorough and complete book. It has everything you will ever need to know about what can be substituted for what.
Substituting Ingredients is a smaller book and good if you only want to know the basic substitutions