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Best Nonfiction
Columbine
Half Broke Horses
Pretty in Plaid
Eating Animals
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Stitches
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
Zeitoun
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
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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?
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.
I echo Paul's question: Who compiled this list? My vote goes to Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck.
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.
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!
I would like to echo Paul: "How were these lists compiled?" I believe Ehrenreich's book Bright-Sided should be in the running.
I want to do a write-in for "Homer's Odyssey" by Gwen Cooper
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).
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.
Who should expand her/his reading list?
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.
ummm, I haven't even HEARD of these books... I'm not voting!!
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.
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.
Highly recommend this to everyone.