contemplative"Brothers Of The Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street" by Norma Clarke
"Mislaid" a novel by Nell Zink
"The Children's Blizzard" American History by David Larkin
"A Common Life: Four Generations of American Literary Friendship and Influence" by David Laskin
"The God Who Is There: Finding Your Place in God's Story" Biblical Theology by D. A. Carson
"Morality Play" historical fiction by Barry Unsworth
"The Harmony Silk Factory" a novel by Tash Aw
"The Mirror Of Art: Critical Studies" by Baudelaire
"The Country Of The Pointed Firs and Other Stories" by Sarah Orne Jewett
"Libra" a novel by Don Delillo
"Pleasures Of A Tangled Life" memoir by Jan Morris
"Destinations: Essays From Rolling Stone" by Jan Morris
"How It All Began" a novel by Penelope Lively
"Crooked River Burning" a novel by Mark Winegardner
"Notorious Victoria: The Life Of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored" biography by Mary Gabriel
"Other Powers: The Age Of Suffrage, Spiritualism, And The Scandalous Victoria Woodhull" by Barbara Goldsmith
"The Natural Mind: A New Way of Looking at Drugs and the Higher Consciousness" by Andrew Weil
"The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America" by Don Lattin
LSD entry in my online diary Crookedfingers-
http://crookedfingers.livejournal.com/tag/lsd
"Foucault's Pendulum" a novel by Umberto Eco