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Best Books of 2010 - Nonfiction Compilation
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson Amazon Editor Top 100 #5 Publisher’s Weekly Top 10 Books of 2010 New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010 Janet Maslin’s Top 10 Books of 2010 Library Journal Top 10 Books of 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Winner New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites of 2010 Barnes and Nobles Best Books of 2010 Economist Books of the Year Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Books of 2010 Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Nonfiction Books Top 25 Booklist Editors’ Choice 2010 ALA Notable Books - Nonfiction The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Amazon Editor Top 100 #1 Publisher’s Weekly Top 10 Books of 2010 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 Library Journal Top 10 Books of 2010 Booklist Top of the List 2010 New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites of 2010 Barnes and Nobles Best Books of 2010 Washington Post Top 10 Books of 2010 Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Books of 2010 Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Nonfiction Books Top 25 Booklist Editors’ Choice 2010 ALA Notable Books - Nonfiction LA Times Book Prize Finalist - Science The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee Amazon Editor Top 100 #62 Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010 TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2010 #2 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites of 2010 Hudson Booksellers Best Nonfiction of 2010 Barnes and Nobles Best Books of 2010 Economist Books of the Year Booklist Editors’ Choice 2010 LA Times Book Prize Finalist - Science Amazon Editor Top 100 #9 Publisher’s Weekly Top 10 Books of 2010 Janet Maslin’s Top 10 Books of 2010 Library Journal Best Nonfiction Books of 2010 National Book Award for Nonfiction Winner Washington Post Top 10 Books of 2010 Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Books of 2010 Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Nonfiction Books Top 25 ALA Notable Books - Nonfiction LA Times Book Prize Finalist - Current Interest Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand Amazon Editor Top 100 #4 Publisher’s Weekly Top 10 Books of 2010 TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2010 #1 Hudson Booksellers Best Nonfiction of 2010 Barnes and Nobles Best Books of 2010 Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Books of 2010 LA Times Book Prize Finalist - Biography Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010 Michiko Kakutani’s Top 10 Books of 2010 TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2010 #9 New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites of 2010 Barnes and Nobles Best Books of 2010 Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Books of 2010 Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Nonfiction Books Top 25 Amazon Editor Top 100 #44 Michiko Kakutani’s Top 10 Books of 2010 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2010 #7 New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites of 2010 Barnes and Nobles Best Books of 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier Amazon Editor Top 100 #42 Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Books of 2010 Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Nonfiction Books Top 25 ALA Notable Books - Nonfiction The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Amazon Editor Top 100 #10 Publisher’s Weekly Top 10 Books of 2010 Barnes and Nobles Best Books of 2010 Economist Books of the Year Washington Post Top 10 Books of 2010 Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Books of 2010 LA Times Book Prize Finalist - Current Interest Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach Amazon Editor Top 100 #41 Library Journal Best Nonfiction Books of 2010 Barnes and Noble Best Books of 2010 Hudson Booksellers Best Nonfiction of 2010 Barnes and Nobles Best Books of 2010 Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring Amazon Editor Top 100 #67 National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant Amazon Editor Top 100 #34 Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 Library Journal Top 10 Books of 2010 Washington Post Top 10 Books of 2010 ALA Notable Books - Nonfiction Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell Amazon Editor Top 100 #18 Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2010 #3 Hudson Booksellers Best Nonfiction of 2010 The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2010 #4 Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 by Mark Twain Amazon Editor Top 100 #65 Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 Barnes and Nobles Best Books of 2010 Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist YOU ARE NOT A GADGET: A MANIFESTO by Jaron Lanier Michiko Kakutani’s Top 10 Books of 2010 TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2010 #10 Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist ALA Notable Books - Nonfiction --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre Amazon Editor Top 100 #14 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites of 2010 The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt Amazon Editor Top 100 #15 WAR by Sebastian Junger Amazon Editor Top 100 #20 Barnes and Nobles Best Books of 2010 TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2010 #6 LA Times Book Prize Finalist - Current Interest Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler Amazon Editor Top 100 #24 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 Economist Books of the Year Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Books of 2010 At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson Amazon Editor Top 100 #26 Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine by George Dohrmann Amazon Editor Top 100 #28 Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Nonfiction Books Top 25 The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession by David Grann Amazon Editor Top 100 #31 Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson Amazon Editor Top 100 #50 ALA Notable Books - Nonfiction Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Hampton Sides Amazon Editor Top 100 #52 TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2010 #8 Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Nonfiction Books Top 25 Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth by James M. Tabor Amazon Editor Top 100 #55 Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg Amazon Editor Top 100 #56 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites of 2010 Half a Life by Darin Strauss Amazon Editor Top 100 #60 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography Winner Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben Amazon Editor Top 100 #61 Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches by S. C. Gwynne Amazon Editor Top 100 #63 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 Barnes and Nobles Best Books of 2010 Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann Amazon Editor Top 100 #66 Economist Books of the Year Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell Amazon Editor Top 100 #76 How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks by Dave Tompkins Amazon Editor Top 100 #77 Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline by Daniel Rosenberg Amazon Editor Top 100 #81 The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum Amazon Editor Top 100 #84 Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins Amazon Editor Top 100 #85 How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell Amazon Editor Top 100 #86 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Winner Library Journal Top 10 Books of 2010 Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Books of 2010 Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Gail Steketee Amazon Editor Top 100 #90 The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball Amazon Editor Top 100 #96 Decoded by Jay-Z Amazon Editor Top 100 #98 Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse by James L. Swanson Amazon Editor Top 100 #99 The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean Amazon Editor Top 100 #100 The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 Hudson Booksellers Best Nonfiction of 2010 Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Books of 2010 Composed: A Memoir by Rosanne Cash Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Nonfiction Books Top 25 Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 Barnes and Nobles Best Books of 2010 Booklist Editors’ Choice 2010 ALA Notable Books - Nonfiction LA Times Book Prize Finalist - History About a Mountain by John D'Agata Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance by David V. Herlihy Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Nonfiction Books Top 25 Booklist Editors’ Choice 2010 LA Times Book Prize Finalist - Biography The Grace of Silence: A Memoir by Michele Norris Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 Booklist Editors’ Choice 2010 Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed by Judy Pasternak Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 Let the Swords Encircle Me: Iran-A Journey Behind the Headlines by Scott Peterson Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 Listen to This by Alex Ross Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margins of Error by Kathryn Schulz Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War by Daniel Swift Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the American Woman by Sam Wasson Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 Janet Maslin’s Top 10 Books of 2010 The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu Publisher’s Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2010 New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites of 2010 Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010 Economist Books of the Year ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis By Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites of 2010 LA Times Book Prize Finalist - Current Interest BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women By Rebecca Traister New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 THE BOOK IN THE RENAISSANCE. By Andrew Pettegree New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 THE BRIDGE: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama By David Remnick New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 Economist Books of the Year Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Nonfiction Books Top 25 CHANGING MY MIND: Occasional Essays. By Zadie Smith New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 CHARLIE CHAN: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History. By Yunte Huang New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites of 2010 Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Nonfiction Books Top 25 CHRISTIANITY: The First Three Thousand Years. By Diarmaid MacCulloch New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites of 2010 COMMON AS AIR: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. By Lewis Hyde New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites of 2010 ENCOUNTER. By Milan Kundera. Translated by Linda Asher New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 THE FIERY TRIAL: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery By Eric Foner New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 HITCH-22: A Memoir. By Christopher Hitchens New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Nonfiction Books Top 25 Booklist Editors’ Choice 2010 LA Times Book Prize Finalist - Biography THE HONOR CODE: How Moral Revolutions Happen. By Kwame Anthony Appiah New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 INSECTOPEDIA. By Hugh Raffles New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 KOESTLER: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. By Michael Scammell New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 LAST CALL: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. By Daniel Okrent New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 Hudson Booksellers Best Nonfiction of 2010 Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Nonfiction Books Top 25 ALA Notable Books - Nonfiction THE LAST HERO: A Life of Henry Aaron. By Howard Bryant New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 THE LAST STAND: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. By Nathaniel Philbrick New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 ALA Notable Books - Nonfiction LONG FOR THIS WORLD: The Strange Science of Immortality. By Jonathan Weiner New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 THE MIND’S EYE. By Oliver Sacks New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 ORIGINS: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives. By Annie Murphy Paul New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 PARISIANS: An Adventure History of Paris. By Graham Robb New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 PEARL BUCK IN CHINA: Journey to “The Good Earth." By Hilary Spurling. New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 Economist Books of the Year POPS: A Life of Louis Armstrong. By Terry Teachout New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 THE PRICE OF ALTRUISM: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness. By Oren Harman New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 ALA Notable Books - Nonfiction LA Times Book Prize Finalist - Science THE PROMISE: President Obama, Year One. By Jonathan Alter New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 LA Times Book Prize Finalist - Current Interest THE PUBLISHER: Henry Luce and His American Century. By Alan Brinkley New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites of 2010 RATIFICATION: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788. By Pauline Maier New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 THE SABBATH WORLD: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time. By Judith Shulevitz New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 SCORPIONS: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices. By Noah Feldman New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 SUPREME POWER: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court. By Jeff Shesol New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorites of 2010 THE TALENTED MISS HIGHSMITH: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith. By Joan Schenkar New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 THE TENTH PARALLEL: Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam. By Eliza Griswold New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 THE WAVE: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean. By Susan Casey New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 Hudson Booksellers Best Nonfiction of 2010 WILLIE MAYS: The Life, the Legend. By James S. Hirsch. New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 |
