Poll

Best Nonfiction

Columbine
 
  615 votes 18.3%

Half Broke Horses
 
  454 votes 13.5%

Pretty in Plaid
 
  408 votes 12.2%

Eating Animals
 
  356 votes 10.6%

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
 
  351 votes 10.5%

Stitches
 
  299 votes 8.9%

The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
 
  263 votes 7.8%

Zeitoun
 
  258 votes 7.7%

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
 
  196 votes 5.8%

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
 
  152 votes 4.5%

3352 total votes

Poll added by: Jessica



This Poll is About

Authors:
Jeannette Walls, Christopher McDougall, David Grann, Kevin Roose, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, David Small, Dave Cullen, Jen Lancaster, Jeffrey Zaslow

Books:
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University Pretty in Plaid Columbine The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Half Broke Horses Stitches: A Memoir Zeitoun Eating Animals Columbine Zeitoun The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Half Broke Horses Pretty in Plaid The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Eating Animals The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University Stitches: A Memoir

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message 1: by Sharon (last edited Dec 03, 2009 04:52PM) (new)

Sharon Columbine is a well-paced, well-written and thorough examination of the Columbine shootings and the reasons behind it.

Highly recommend this to everyone.


message 2: by Paul (new)

Paul Bennett How were these lists compiled?


message 3: by Clea (new)

Clea Simon Am I the only one out there who found The Deliverance Dane book totally predictable, formulaic, and boring. Oh ... she's a witch! She's from a family of witches! Couldn't you tell from about page 20?

Loved the Goolrick and the Sara Waters, but where's Hilary Mantel? Glen David GOld? Valerie Martin?


message 4: by Sue (new)

Sue My favorite non-fiction book of the year is When Skateboards Will Be Free by Said Sayrafiezadeh. I liked it enough to learn to spell his name.


message 5: by Richard (new)

Richard I echo Paul's question: Who compiled this list? My vote goes to Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck.


message 6: by Jason (new)

Jason Haven't read any of those books. My vote for non-fiction book of the year goes to The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins.


message 7: by Kim (new)

Kim Half Broke Horses is a fiction book


message 8: by Dillon (new)

Dillon I read three books on the list (eating animals, Columbine and Born to Run). I liked them all, loved two of 'em, but thought Born to Run was the best book I read all year!


message 9: by Jacob (new)

Jacob Ferrington I would like to echo Paul: "How were these lists compiled?" I believe Ehrenreich's book Bright-Sided should be in the running.



message 10: by AquaMoon (new)

AquaMoon I want to do a write-in for "Homer's Odyssey" by Gwen Cooper


message 11: by Anastasia (new)

Anastasia I haven't read any of these either, but several are on my to-read list. My faves this year include: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle, Abortion & Life by Jennifer Baumgardner, and The Big Necessity: the Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters (can't remember the author).


message 12: by Herman (new)

Herman Tok David Chacko's GONE OVER is hands down the best historical and easily one of the best of any kind published this year. You might want to expand your reading list.


message 13: by Anastasia (new)

Anastasia Who should expand her/his reading list?


message 14: by Richard (new)

Richard FYI, folks: Food Politics was first published in 2002. Abortion & Life and The Big Necessity (the latter by Rose George) were published in 2008. Gone Over is an historical novel, and so doesn't belong in this list.


♫♥Selena♥♫ ummm, I haven't even HEARD of these books... I'm not voting!!


message 16: by LynnB (new)

LynnB How can Pretty in Plaid A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomanical, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase be listed both for non-fiction and chick lit voting?? Someone needs to review the lists before they are posted.


message 17: by Dave (new)

Dave Cullen Wow, I am blown away. I am really grateful to all 659 people who voted for my little book.

However cornball it sounds, I felt great to be nominated in that company and assumed I would have to be satisfied with that. This makes me so happy. Thank you.

And thank you to Goodreads members for supporting this book from the beginning, when I truly wondered whether anyone would get the word that it existed. You have been great to me. Thanks.


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