Lists of Bests: FrancisFrownsalot's "Nonfiction I Want To Read" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/58721 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:06:05 GMT en-us 0 50 579 50 0 My Own Country: A Doctor's Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51526 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51526"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679752927.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44909289_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Abraham Verghese</div> Fugitive Spring: Coming of Age in the '50s and '60s http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1157478 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deborah Digges</div> Shot in the Heart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10266 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10266"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385478003.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mikal Gilmore</div> Migrations to Solitude (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1097612 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1097612"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679742417.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sue Halpern</div> Dream Lovers: The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/852665 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/852665"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446517682.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dodd Darin</div> Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/984852 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/984852"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312420595.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Frazier</div> Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961171 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961171"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573229628.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Wurtzel</div> The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/333442 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/333442"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/044651862X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Redfield</div> Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24181 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24181"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802141447.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sanyika Shakur</div> Couplehood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/245918 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/245918"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553573136.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Reiser</div> The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13527 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449911713.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurence Leamer</div> Autobiography of a Face http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/918 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/918"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060569662.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124914252_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucy Grealy</div> Den of Lions: A Startling Memoir of Survival and Triumph http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3851159 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3851159"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NMKSWAGEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terry Anderson</div> Death : The Trip of a Lifetime http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2075695 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Greg Palmer</div> Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1194989 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1194989"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060595647.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Monette</div> In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118741 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118741"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679760237.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tobias Wolff</div> Westward Whoa: In the Wake of Lewis and Clark http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1326400 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. Hodding Carter</div> Breaking the Surface http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/404787 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/404787"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1402206666.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Greg Louganis</div> Mozart: A Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1513551 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1513551"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060883448.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maynard Solomon</div> Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Capital Punishment (Law, Meaning, and Violence) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/504460 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/504460"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0472031236.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Von Drehle</div> 9 Highland Road : Sane Living for the Mentally Ill (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19009 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19009"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679761608.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Winerip</div> An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18985 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18985"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679756973.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oliver Sacks</div> One Boy at War: My Life in the AIDS Underground http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5137231 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul A. SERGIOS</div> Old Friends http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962166 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962166"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039571088X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tracy Kidder</div> Speed Tribes: Days and Night's with Japan's Next Generation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1238 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1238"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060926651.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Taro Greenfeld</div> Fatal Vision http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/489446 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/489446"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0451165667.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joe McGinniss</div> West With the Night (Virago Travellers) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3557010 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3557010"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01C492FG53L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Beryl Markham</div> Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2210670 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim and Kluger Jeffrey Lovell</div> Red Azalea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1055559 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1055559"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096987.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anchee Min</div> Sleepers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7795 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7795"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345404114.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056437019_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lorenzo Carcaterra</div> Days of Grace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65848 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65848"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345386817.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056436991_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Ashe</div> Remembering Denny http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/434738 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/434738"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374529744.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Calvin Trillin</div> The Genius and the Goddess http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2060107 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Last Wish http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3556039 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3556039"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/017XhXggpxL.jpg" /></a></div> Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21097 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21097"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743246985.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jung Chang</div> The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/136818 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/136818"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679759611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44908880_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Putnam Demos</div> A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/481925 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/481925"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743238540.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Reynolds Price</div> Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1170259 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1170259"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802136907.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis B. Puller</div> Gal: A True Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961807 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961807"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451204700.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ruthie Bolton</div> Flat Rock Journal: A Day in the Ozark Mountains http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1800826 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1800826"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0062502751.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Carey</div> Riding for My Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5192653 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Breakdown: Sex, Suicide and the Harvard Psychiatrist: Breakdown: Sex, Suicide and the Harvard Psychiatrist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5200024 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eileen McNamara</div> Patrimony : A True Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177882 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177882"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679752935.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28562 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28562"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0967673747.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V66861062_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean P. Sasson</div> Secret Ceremonies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/638807 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/638807"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440217806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deborah Laake</div> Legwork: An Inspiring Journey Through a Chronic Illness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5237867 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5237867"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VQERN8BBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ellen Macfarlane Burstein</div> When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10064 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10064"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385314280.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson</div> Killing for Company: The Story of a Man Addicted to Murder http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/966755 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/966755"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440220432.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056443366_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brian Masters</div> The Liars' Club: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75174 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75174"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143035746.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Karr</div> JFK, reckless youth / Nigel Hamilton http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4442539 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nigel Hamilton</div>