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Best Non-Fiction Books of 2009
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December 2009
Compiled by Carol A. Kubala
of the Saxton B. Little Free Library from contributions by the members of Fiction_L
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
Agassi, Andre. Open.
Albom, Mitch. Have a Little Faith.
Ayers, Chris. Death by Leisure.
Bourke, Anthony & John Rendell. A Lion Called Christian.
Burton, Gabrielle. Searching for Tamsen Donner.
Chattman, Lauren. Cakekeeper Cakes.
Cooper, Gwen. Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat.
Cullen, David. Columbine.
Editors of Fine Cooking Magazine. Absolutely Chocolate.
Edsel, Robert M. Monuments Men.
Eggers, Dave. Zeitoun.
Friedman, Andrew. Knives at Dawn: America's Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d'Or Competition.
Grann, David. Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon.
Gulley, Phillip. I Love You, Miss Huddleston: and Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood.
Hazleton, Lesley. After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni split in Islam.
Hedges, Chris. Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.
Karz, Zippora. Sugarless Plum : A Ballarina's Triumph Over Diabetes.
Kennedy, Ted. True Compass.
Kidder, Tracy. Strength in What Remains.
Krakauer, Jon. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman.
Kurlansky, Mark. The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food was Seasonal.
Lindstrom, Martin. Buyology.
Lobdell, William. Losing My Religion.
McClure, Tori. A Pearl in the Ocean.
McDougall, Christopher. Born to Run : A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen.
McGrath, Campbell. Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
McPherson, James M. Abraham Lincoln.
Mezrich, Ben. Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook.
Nelson, Craig. Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon.
Okrent, Arika. In the Land of Invented Languages.
Patterson, James. Against Medical Advice.
Penzler, Otto (editor). The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives.
Plait, Philip. Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End.
Reisen, Harriet. Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women.
Sabbag, Robert. Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival.
Satran, Pamela Redmond. How Not to Act Old: 185 Ways to Pass for Phat, Sick, Hot, Dope, Awesome, or at Least Not Totally Lame.
Sayrafiezadeh, Said. When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood.
Stockton, Shreve. The Daily Coyote: a Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming.
Thornton, Sarah. Seven Days in the Art World.
Uhlberg, Myron. Hands of My Father.
Wendell, Sarah and Candy Tan Beyond Having Bosoms: The Smart Bitche's Guide to Romance Novels.
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