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Best Non-Fiction of 2003
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January 2004
Compiled by Robin Beerbower,
of Salem (OR) Public 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.)
The most popular titles of 2003:
Aiello, Josh - A Field Guide to the Urban Hipster
Anderson, Walter - Meant to Be
Armstrong, Lance - Every Second Counts
Bowker, Michael - Fatal Deception
Boylan, Jennifer Finney - She's Not There
Bryson, Bill - A Short History of Nearly Everything
Burr, Chandler - Emperor of Scent
Burroughs, Augusten - Dry
Calishain, Tara - Google Hacks
Collins, Billy, ed - Poetry 180
Collins, Gail - America's Woman
Collins, Paul - Sixpence House
Coyne, Susan - In the Kingdom of the Fairies
Dirda, Michael - An Open Book
Dobie, Kathie - The Only Girl in the Car
Ellis, Gary - Wild Orphans
Fenton, James - An Introduction to English Poetry
Fishkoff, Sue - Rabee's Army
Frey, James - A Million Little Pieces
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Living to Tell the Tale
Gregory, Julie - Sickened
Halpern, Jake - Braving Home
Juska, Jane - A Round Heeled Woman
Krakauer, Jon - Under the Banner of Heaven
Larson, Erik - Devil in the White City
Lipsky, David - Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point
Manchester, William - Beloved: The Glory and the Dream
McManus, James - Positively Fifth Street
Menocal, Maria Rosa - The Ornament of the World
Middlebrook, Diane - Her Husband: Plath and Hughes: A Marriage
Nafisi, Azor - Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nasadijj - The Boy and the Dog are Sleeping
Nelson, Sara - So Many Books, So Little Time
Nuland, Sherwin - Lost in America
Ollivier, Debra - Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl
Palin, Michael - Sahara
Paul, Jim - Elsewhere in the Land of Parrots
Pearl, Nancy - Book Lust
Quammen, David - Monster of God
Ravitch, Diane - Language Police
Roach, Mary - Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers
Robilant, Di - Venetian Affair
Rothenberg, Laura - Breathing for a Living
Salzman, Mark - True Notebooks
Schott, Ben - Schott's Original Miscellany
Schultz, Patricia - 1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Seaman, Barbara - The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women
Sis, Peter - Tree of Life: Charles Darwin
Stern, Jane - Ambulance Girl
Summer, Lauralee - Learning Joy from Dogs Without Collars
Trillin, Calvin - Feeding a Yen
Turow, Scott - Ultimate Punishment
Tyler, Nancy - The Friendly Jane Austen
Von Drehle, David - Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
Wicker, Christine - Lily Dale
Winchester, Simon - Meaning of Everything
Winchester, Simon - Krakatoa
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