Lists of Bests: vhyland's "Nonfiction shelf sitters" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/65811 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:14:01 GMT en-us 0 50 26 0 0 PERSONAL HISTORY http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2797257 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2797257"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01V0BB8B55L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Katharine Graham</div> American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19041 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19041"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679764410.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph J. Ellis</div> Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive ScrabblePlayers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3591 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3591"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142002267.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stefan Fatsis</div> On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2720471 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2720471"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375726330.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45181654_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward W. Said</div> This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2908047 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2908047"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ScOELplvL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel J. Levitin</div> All About All About Eve: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made! http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70633 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70633"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312273150.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sam Staggs</div> Walden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2641341 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2641341"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420922610.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> The Making of the President 1960 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1564152 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore H. White</div> Act One and Autobiography By Moss Hart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3455944 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Moss Hart</div> In Cold Blood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3343631 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3343631"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21YHozGHzlL.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4872863 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4872863"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lRTuID8jL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> United States http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/161759 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/161759"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767908066.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gore Vidal</div> 14 dage omkring en abort (Danish Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6551049 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Britt Kirkegaard</div> Plato: Republic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6551053 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6551053"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FyLjlp5UL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> Notes on a Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3092255 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3092255"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01VoIK1QkcL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eleanor Coppola</div> Campus Sexpot: A Memoir (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati) (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4480241 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4480241"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LWohPC%2BoL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Carkeet</div> Chic Savages The New Rich, the Old Rich, and the World They Inhabit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6551057 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John (Publisher of "Women's Wear Daily" & "W") Fairchild</div> Lives of the Poets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1705864 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1705864"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375706046.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Schmidt</div> Dior by Dior http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3955105 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3955105"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-eGWAST8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christian Dior</div> Ralph Ellison: A Biography (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2973637 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2973637"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11irh5tck8L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arnold Rampersad</div> The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/172780 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/172780"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679749055.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Manhattan, when I Was Young http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1751087 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1751087"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140232230.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056420265_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Cantwell</div> The Factory of Facts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/557423 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/557423"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679746501.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Luc Sante</div> Teleportation: The Impossible Leap http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1442580 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1442580"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471470953.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1109377544_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Darling</div> The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau (Forgotten Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5804920 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5804920"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41i-k8vIEkL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</div> This Boy's Life: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24115 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24115"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802136680.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tobias Wolff</div>