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Best Non-Fiction of 2007
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December 2007
Compiled by Melanie Barker,
of the Collegiate School Reed-Gumenick Library, Richmond, VA 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.)
Ackerman, Diane The Zookeeper's Wife
Allison, Jay, ed. This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Men and Women
Anderson, Patrick Triumph of the Thriller
Bageant, Joe Deer Hunting with Jesus
Brokaw, Tom. Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60's and Today
Colbert, Stephen I Am America (and So Can You!)
Coonerty, Ryan Etched in Stone: Enduring Words from Our Nation's Monuments
Cordery, Stacy A. Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
Craughwell, Thomas Stealing Lincoln's Body
Egan, Timothy Worst Hard Time
Fadiman, Anne At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
Faludi, Susan The Terror Dream: Fear & Fantasy in the Post-9/11 America
Gilbert, Daniel Stumbling on Happiness
Gill, Michael Gates How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Priviledge Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
Gore, Al The Assault on Reason
Grisham, John An Innocent Man
Groopman, Jerome How Doctors Think
Gawande, Atul Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Heath, Chip and Dan Heath Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Hecht, Jennifer Michael The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is RightIs Wrong
Holmstedt, Kirsten Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq
Jacobs, A. J. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
Kiernan, Frances Last Mrs. Astor: a New York Story
Kirby, David The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems
Kurson, Robert Crashing Through: a Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
Mackall, Joe Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish
Martin, Steve Born Standing Up: a Comic's Life
Mead, Rebecca One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
Meyerhoff, Marianne Four Girls from Berlin: A True Story of a Friendship that Defied the Holocaust
Michaelis, David Schulz and Peanuts: a Biography
Miles, Sara Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Newman, Stanley Cruciverbalism: A Crossword Fanatic's Guide to Life in the Grid
Perillo, Lucia I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature
Perry, Michael Truck: a Love Story
Preston, Richard The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Robison, John Elder Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
Scott, Peter Dale The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
Smith, Alisa & MacKinnon, J. B. Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
Tammet, Daniel Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant: A Memoir
Thurbon, Colin Shadow of the Silk Road
Weber, Caroline Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
Weinberger, David Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the NewDigital Disorder
Williams, Bunny Bunny Williams' Point of View: Three Decades of Decorating Elegant and Comfortable Houses
Wolf, Maryanne Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
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