2010 Staff Non-Fiction Picks
CADL Staff picks their favorite non-fiction titles.
Non-Fiction Picks
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who
Cook by Anthony Bourdain
The Shallows: What the
Internet is doing to our brains by Nicholas Carr
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from
1960 to the Present by Gail Collins
Substituting
Ingredients: The A to Z Kitchen Reference by Becky Sue
Epstein
Stuff: Compulsive
hoarding and the meaning of things by Randy O. Frost and Gail
Steketee
Kids’ Cakes from the
Whimsical Bakehouse and other treats for colorful celebrations by
Liv Hansen & Kaye Hansen
Little Girls Can be
Mean: Four Steps to Bully-Proof Girls in the Early Grades by
Michelle Anthony and Reyna Lindert
Carjacked: The culture of
the automobile and its effect on our lives by Catherine Lutz and
Anne Lutz Fernandez
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race
the World has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
The Great Dinosaur
Discoveries by Darren Naish (
staff review)—Noted as the “Best dinosaur book of 2010” and
check out his blog: Tetrapod
Zoology
Not My Boy!: A father, a
son, and one family's Family’s Journey with Autism by Rodney
Peete
The new good life:
Living better than ever in an age of less by John Robbins
Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (
staff review)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Migration by
Isabel Wilkerson
Biography & Memoir
I am Nujood, age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
Composed: a memoir by Rosanne Cash (staff
review)
My Reading Life by Pat Conroy
An Actor and a
Gentleman by Louis Gossett Jr.
Foxy: My Life in Three
Acts by Pam Grier
I’m Still Standing: from
Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen by Shoshana Johnson
The Bucolic Plague: How two Manhattanites became gentlemen farmers: an
unconventional memoir by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Hoda: How I survived War
Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer and Kathie Lee by Hoda Kotb
The Other Wes Moore: One name, two fates by Wes Moore (staff
review)
Cakewalk: a memoir
by Kate Moses
The Grace of Silence
by Nichele Norris
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Just Kids by Patti
Smith—National Book Award Winner
Warrior Princess:
Fighting for Life with Courage and Hope by Princess Kasune
Zulu
