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Best New Nonfiction of 2010
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January 2011
Compiled by Carol 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.)
Bin Laden, Najwa Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
Blum, Deborah The Poisoner's Handbook: murder and the birth of forensic medicine in Jazz Age New York
Bryson, Bill At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Buffett, Peter Life is What You Make It
Carp, Benjamin Defiance of the Patriots: the Boston Tea Party & the Making of America
Carr, Nicholas The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Coleman, Isobel Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
Conroy, Pat My Reading Life
Douglas, Susan Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism's Work Is Done
Edmundson, Mark The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll: A Memoir
Fisk, Molly The More Difficult Beauty
Friedman, Andrew Knives at Dawn: America's Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse D'Or Competition
Gallagher, Matt Kaboom: Embracing the suck in a savage little war
Gawande, Atul The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Greenwood, David Valdes The Rhinestone Sisterhood: A Journey Through Small Town America, One Tiara at a Time.
Griswold, Eliza 10th Parallel Dispatches from the fault line of Christianity and Islam
Guidry, Jeff An Eagle named freedom: my true story of a remarkable friendship
Hazleton, Lesley After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Sunni-Shia Split in Islam
Heilemann, John and Mark Halperin Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Hillenbrand, Laura Unbroken: a World War II Airman's Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Iyengar, Sheena The Art of Choosing
Johnson, Marilyn This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
Kaplan, James Frank: The Voice
Kasekamp, Andres A History of the Baltic States
Kerman, Piper Orange is the New Black: My Year In a Woman's Prison
Kimball, Kristin The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
Knight, Louise Jane Addams: Spirit in Action
Krasny, Michael Spiritual envy : an agnostic's quest
Kuipers, Keetje Beautiful in the Mouth
Levinson, David T. Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins: How Absolutely Anyone Can Pitch In, Help Out, Give Back, and Make the World a Better Place
Lewis, Michael The big short: Inside the doomsday machine
Meltzer, Brad Heroes formy son
Metaxas, Eric Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Okrent, Daniel Last Call: The rise and fall of prohibition
Olsen, Gregg A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church
Owen, David Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability (2009)
Pipher, Mary Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World
Richards, Keith Life
Roach, Mary Packing for Mars: The curious science of life in the void
Shawn, Wallace Essays
Shesol, Jeff Supreme Power : Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
Sides, Hampton Hellhound on His Trail
Skloot, Rebecca The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Smith, Patti Just Kids
St. John, Warren Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference
Taibbi, Matt Griftopia: Bubble machines, vampire squids and the long con that is breaking America
Tougias, Mike Overboard! : a true bluewater odyssey of disaster and survival
Wangerin, Walter Letters from the Land of Cancer
Whitaker, Kate Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France
Whitelock, Anna Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen
Wilkerson, Isabel The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Woodward, Robert B. Ansel Adams in the National Parks: Photographs from America's Wild Places
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