Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearNonfiction: The Top 252010

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25 Works 45,655 Books 1,802 Reviews 4.1
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Years:
All, 2010 (25)
WorkYear
Murder city : Ciudad Juárez and the global economy's new killing fields by Charles Bowden
2010
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley
2010
Madison and Jefferson by Andrew Burstein
2010
Composed: A Memoir by Rosanne Cash
2010
Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life by Richard Cohen
2010
Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine by George Dohrmann
2010
There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America by Philip Dray
2010
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
2010
Mentor: A Memoir by Tom Grimes
2010
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
2010
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang
2010
Soul Mining: A Musical Life by Daniel Lanois
2010
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
2010
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
2010
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
2010
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick
2010
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
2010
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
2010
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides
2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2010
Just Kids by Patti Smith
2010
Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater by Larry Stempel
2010
Amexica: War Along the Borderline by Ed Vulliamy
2010
The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer by Gene Weingarten
2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
2010

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