Lists of Bests: Christian Science Monitor Best Non-Fiction of 2006 http://www.listsofbests.com/list/39892 from the 11/28/06 edition Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:30:40 GMT en-us 0 50 33 0 0 The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1013249 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1013249"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618773479.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Timothy Egan</div> Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/214844 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/214844"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060826584.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Hessler</div> The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2828098 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2828098"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01niU9K1WdL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sandy Tolan</div> Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2393454 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2393454"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143111973.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45217660_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Philbrick</div> Uncommon Carriers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2613556 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2613556"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0865477396.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44119785_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John McPhee</div> The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1699265 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1699265"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345496094.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sy Montgomery</div> Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775146 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775146"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400034477.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42827024_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Buford</div> The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2214168 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ron Suskind</div> The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2611964 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2611964"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156032791.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rory Stewart</div> The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2812057 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2812057"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11xWxD5WzSL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Wright</div> There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2848553 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2848553"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11NF9UKWbxL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melissa Fay Greene</div> Tigers in Red Weather : A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640065 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640065"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0802715443.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ruth Padel</div> The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/258417 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/258417"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375503390.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60929036_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ron Rosenbaum</div> Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2392052 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas E. Ricks</div> State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766893 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bob Woodward</div> Stranger at the Gate http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1007000 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/322127 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/322127"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400041813.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adam Gopnik</div> The Architecture of Happiness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/252530 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/252530"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375424431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alain De Botton</div> Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575336 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575336"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060518502.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45303984_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James L. Swanson</div> Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/191139 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/191139"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592400787.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brook Larmer</div> Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2410395 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Carwardine</div> At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (America in the King Years (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2406946 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2406946"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684857138.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Taylor Branch</div> Modigliani: A Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1417971 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1417971"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151011788.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Meyers</div> Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2402821 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2402821"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805083197.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45126420_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles J. Shields</div> LBJ: Architect of American Ambition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2898986 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2898986"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ZCjiK2u8L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Randall B. Woods</div> The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2898988 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2898988"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11bAmlVCfuL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dunstan Prial</div> Let Me Finish http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2765801 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2765801"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/015603218X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Angell</div> My Life in France http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836563 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836563"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Qj-IKs5%2BL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julia Child</div> The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2840204 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/710898 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/710898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400044448.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Hughes</div> The Life and Times of Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2616725 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2616725"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767919378.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44870347_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Bryson</div> The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2898990 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2898990"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11fFHPg4K-L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cathleen Falsani</div> The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1913730 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1913730"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385721242.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44868829_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Armstrong</div>