Lists of Bests: Christian Science Monitor's Best Non-Fiction of 2005 http://www.listsofbests.com/list/12900 The best non-fiction books of 2005, compiled by the Christian Science Monitor. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:28:12 GMT en-us 0 50 35 0 0 The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584324 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584324"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374292795.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas L. Friedman</div> Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32287 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32287"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/1586217194.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134536350_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Gladwell</div> When Computers Were Human http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2123835 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2123835"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691091579.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Alan Grier</div> Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (Great Discoveries) (Great Discoveries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/994153 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/994153"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328562.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Johnson</div> His Oldest Friend: The Story of an Unlikely Bond http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2123843 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2123843"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0805080600.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sonny Kleinfield</div> The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/160201 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/160201"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080214229X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Bailey</div> Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61854 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61854"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400040590.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Smiley</div> The Lady and the Panda: The First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/676481 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vicki Constantine Croke</div> The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/534941 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/534941"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/061877355X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jerome Karabel</div> Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/830296 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/830296"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/015603056X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melanie Rehak</div> Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60750 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60750"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060817089.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1135015142_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Grogan</div> When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/665593 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/665593"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684864789.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1135717141_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patricia O'Toole</div> Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288648 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288648"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805080570.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Linda Greenhouse</div> The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962986 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962986"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760849.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John F. Harris</div> Mark Twain: A Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962216 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962216"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743249011.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ron Powers</div> Mao: The Unknown Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41686 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41686"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679422714.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121450351_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jung Chang</div> The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/381261 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/381261"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767913736.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Candice Millard</div> Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962604 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962604"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743270754.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Kearns Goodwin</div> 1776 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969063 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969063"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743226720.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David McCullough</div> Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/409355 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/409355"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618641831.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nick Kotz</div> Sarah's Long Walk: How the Free Blacks of Boston and their Struggle for Equality Changed America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/174181 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/174181"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807050180.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Kendrick</div> Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2123863 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa</div> The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1118656 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1118656"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1586483986.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Meredith</div> The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/419531 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/419531"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802829767.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Bentley Hart</div> Prayer: A History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1204750 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1204750"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618773606.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V52751151_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Zaleski</div> Two Lives: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/397102 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/397102"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060599677.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vikram Seth</div> The Year of Magical Thinking http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59245 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59245"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/140004314X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1133895543_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Didion</div> Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/821356 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/821356"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593760639.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Dessaix</div> The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/308882 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/308882"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143037331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Kimmelman</div> New Art City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/137049 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/137049"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400041317.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jed Perl</div> Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/986776 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/986776"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/158648382X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Greil Marcus</div> Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/306038 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/306038"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786888415.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles R. Cross</div> The Beatles: The Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1146471 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1146471"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316013315.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bob Spitz</div> The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/865551 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/865551"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/039332897X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allen Barra</div> Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/986128 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/986128"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618710531.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Buzz Bissinger</div>