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Best Nonfiction of 2008
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December 2008
Compiled by Perry Missner
Librarian, IAP Worldwide Services; USGS National Wetlands Research Center from contributions by the members of Fiction_L
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The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up Rich Blake
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, Movie-making, and the Crime of the Century Howard Blum
I Was Told There'd Be Cake : Essays Sloane Crosley
Inheriting the Trade: a Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History Thomas Norman DeWolf
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century Edward Dolnick
Waiter Rant (AKA The Waiter) Steve Dublanica
Split Suzanne Finnamore
Outlier: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell
Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo Kate Jackson
The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Noami Klein
Alfred and Emily Doris Lessing
Buy*ology Martin Lindstrom
The Uses and Abuses of History Margaret MacMillan
Rome 1960 David Maraniss
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World Vicki Myron
Lopsided Meredith Norton
Wesley the Owl Stacey O'Brein
Against Medical Advice James Patterson
Touch Me, I'm Sick: The 52 Creepiest Love Songs You've Ever Heard Tom Reynolds
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why Amanda Ripley
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex Mary Roach
When You Are Engulfed in Flames David Sedaris
Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain Martha Sherrill
The Suspicions of Mr. Whichler Kate Summerscale
Well Enough Alone: A Cultural of My Hypochondria Jennifer Traig
Lost on Planet China Martin Troost
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets Sudir Vankatesh
The Man Who Loved China Simon Winchester
The Geography of Bliss Eric Weiner
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East Robin Wright
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