Book suggestions

Our local campus, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, has a learning in retirement organization called Learning is Forever and goes by "L.I.F.E."  Life sent out an email asking for book suggestions for group discussions.  I submitted the following titles:

Incognito by David Eagleman

She Has Her Mother's Laugh by Carl Zimmer

The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, MD

Dead Water by Victoria Houston

The first three titles are non-fiction.  I don't know the tastes of the people who participate but I am strongly biased toward non-fiction.  I have read enough who-dunits and heart-throbs and I would rather read helpful books about your brain and mine.  

Eagleman focuses on the parts of us that influence or govern us but are not conscious.  Zimmer's book is about what we get into us from our parents and the long line of ancestors.  Brizendine focuses on hormones and the facts of life for a female human body.  

Victoria Houston has a large group of novels about the woman sheriff of a Wisconsin town and the work she and her boyfriend, a retired widowed dentist, do to solve crimes.