Best Non-Fiction 2009

Here is a list of books compile by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list (a reader's advisory listserve) of the Best Non-Fiction of 2009.

• Agassi, Andre - Open

• Albom, Mitch - Have a Little Faith

• Bourke, Anthony & Rendell, John - A Lion Called Christian

• Burton, Gabrielle - Searching for Tamsen Donner

• Chattman, Lauren - Cakekeeper Cakes

• Cooper, Gwen - Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat (2 votes)

• Cullen, David - Columbine (6 votes)

• Editors of Fine Cooking Magazine - Absolutely Chocolate

• Edsel, Robert M - Monuments Men (2 votes)

• Eggers, Dave - Zeitoun  (2 votes)

• Friedman, Andrew - Knives at Dawn: America's Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d'Or Competition
  

• Grann, David - Lost City of Z: A tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon 

• Gulley, Phillip - I Love You, Miss Huddleston: and Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood
  

• Hazleton, Lesley - After the Prophet: the epic story of the Shia-Sunni split in Islam 

• Hedges, Chris - Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2 votes)
  

• Karz, Zippora - Sugarless plum : a ballarina's triumph over diabetes
  

• Kennedy, Ted - True Compass

• Kidder, Tracy - Strength in what remains (2 votes)

• Krakauer, Jon - Where men win glory the odyssey of Pat Tillman

• Kurlansky, Mark - The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food was Seasonal

• Lindstrom, Martin - Buyology

• Lobdell, William - Losing My Religion

• McClure, Tori - A Pearl in the Ocean

• McDougall, Christopher - Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen  (3 votes)

• McGrath, Campbell - Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 

• McPherson, James M. - Abraham Lincoln

• Mezrich, Ben - Accidental Billionaires: the founding of Facebook 

• Nelson, Craig - Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

• Okrent, Arika - In the Land of Invented Languages

• Patterson, James - Against Medical Advice

• Penzler, Otto (editor) - The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives

• Plait, Philip - Death from the skies!: these are the ways the world will end 

• Reisen, Harriet - Louisa May Alcott: the woman beind Little Women 

• Sabbag, Rober - Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival

• Satran, Pamela Redmond - How Not to Act Old: 185 Ways to Pass for Phat, Sick, Hot, Dope, Awesome, or at Least Not Totally Lame

• Sayrafiezadeh, Said - When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political    Childhood

• Stockton, Shreve - The Daily Coyote: a Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming

• Thornton, Sarah - Seven Days in the Art World

• Uhlberg, Myron - Hands of My Father

• Wendell, Sarah and Tan, Candy - Beyond Having Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels