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  Best Nonfiction Books of 2004

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December 2004
Compiled by Bryn E. Wittmayer, 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.)

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With four votes, the winner is:

Almond, Steve - Candyfreak

3 votes:

Patchett, Ann - Truth and Beauty: A Friendship

2 votes:

Armstrong, Karen - The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darknes

Katz, John - The Dogs of Bedlam Farm

Kuffel, Frances - Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding Myself

Truss, Lynne - Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

1 vote:

Barnett, Thomas - The Pentagon's New Map: War & Peace in the 21st Century

Becker, Suzy - I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?

Bergreen, Laurence - Over the Edge of the World

Boxcar, Ruby Ann - Move Over Santa, Ruby's Doing Christmas

Breslin, Jimmy - The Church That Forgot Christ

Brue, Alexia - Cathedrals of the Flesh: My Search for the Perfect Bath

Cahill, Tim - Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park

Campion, Nardi Reeder - Everyday Matters: A Love Story

Corson, Trevor - The Secret Life of Lobsters

Cox, Lynne - Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long Distance Swimmer

Dirda, Michael - Bound to Please

Dirda, Michael - An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland

Eszterhas, Joe - Hollywood Animal: A Memoir

Flanders, Judith - Inside the Victoria Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England

Gillespie, Hollis - Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales From A Bad Neighborhood

Greenblatt, Stephen - Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Halpin, Brendan - Losing My Faculties: A Teacher's Story

Jacobs, A. J. - The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

Keillor, Garrison - Homegrown Democrat: a Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America

Kennedy, Randy - Subway Land: Adventures in the World Beneath New York

Kurson, Robert - Shadow divers: the true adventure of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the last mysteries of World War II

Nasdijj - Geronimo's Bones: A Memoir of My Brother and Me

Obmascik, Mark - The Big Year

Olney, Buster - Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team and the Cost of Greatness

Paul, Marla - The Friendship Crisis: Finding, Making and Keeping Friends When You're Not a Kid Anymore

Quindlen, Anna - Loud and Clear

Ralston, Aron - Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Robbins, Alexandra - Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities

Roberts, Cokie - Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation

Sedaris, David - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Smith, Martin J. and Patrick J. Kiger - Poplorica : A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions and Lore theat Shaped Modern America

Stewart, Jon - America The Book

Stuever, Hank - Off-Ramps

Swallow, Wendy - Triumph of Love Over Experience

The Writers at Slate Magazine - The Explainer

Wolfson, Penny - Moonrise: One Family, Genetic Identity and Muscular Dystrophy

 
 
      
   
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