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Christian Science Monitor's Best Non-Fiction of 2005

The best non-fiction books of 2005, compiled by the Christian Science Monitor.
1. The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
  
2. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
  
3. When Computers Were Human
by David Alan Grier
  
4. Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (Great Discoveries) (Great Discoveries)
by George Johnson
  
5. His Oldest Friend: The Story of an Unlikely Bond
by Sonny Kleinfield
  
6. The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
by John Bailey
  
7. Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
by Jane Smiley
  
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 The Lady and the Panda: The First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal
by Vicki Constantine Croke
  
9. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
by Jerome Karabel
  
10. Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
by Melanie Rehak
  
11. Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
by John Grogan
  
12. When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House
by Patricia O'Toole
  
13. Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
by Linda Greenhouse
  
14. The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House
by John F. Harris
  
15. Mark Twain: A Life
by Ron Powers
  
16. Mao: The Unknown Story
by Jung Chang
  
17. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by Candice Millard
  
18. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  
19. 1776
by David McCullough
  
20. Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America
by Nick Kotz
  
21. Sarah's Long Walk: How the Free Blacks of Boston and their Struggle for Equality Changed America
by Stephen Kendrick
  
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 Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan
by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
  
23. The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
by Martin Meredith
  
24. The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?
by David Bentley Hart
  
25. Prayer: A History
by Philip Zaleski
  
26. Two Lives: A Memoir
by Vikram Seth
  
27. The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
  
28. Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev
by Robert Dessaix
  
29. The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
by Michael Kimmelman
  
30. New Art City
by Jed Perl
  
31. Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
by Greil Marcus
  
32. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
by Charles R. Cross
  
33. The Beatles: The Biography
by Bob Spitz
  
34. The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant
by Allen Barra
  
35. Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
by Buzz Bissinger
  
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