ALA Notable Books - Nonfiction

The ALA Notable Books - Nonfiction are listed below. The star rating and number of reviews are from Amazon.com. In parentheses after the star rating and number of reviews are the number of pages in the book and any other awards that the book was a finalist for. Award names in red indicate the the book was the winner of that award. Click the buy from Amazon.com link to be taken to the Amazon.com website where you can purchase the book from the premier online bookseller.

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2010 ALA Notable Books - Nonfiction

Columbine by Dave Cullen 269 reviews (2009) (432p) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers 154 reviews (2009) (352p) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Good Soldiers by David Finkel 86 reviews (2009) (304p) (NYTimes Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann 296 reviews (2009) (352p) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders by Emmanuel Guibert 12 reviews (2009) (288p) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes 45 reviews (2009) (576p) (NBCCA Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe 56 reviews (2009) (432p) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall 542 reviews (2009) (304p) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman 92 reviews (2009) (480p) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury 37 reviews (2009) (352p) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Stitches: A Memoir by David Small 85 reviews (2009) (336p) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson 36 reviews (2009) (416p) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page