Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2018

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  • The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

    • UPC: 884832131572
    • ASIN: 0143125478
    • ISBN: 9780143125471
    • Brand: Daniel James Brown
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    The #1 New York Times–bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany and now the inspiration for the PBS documentary “The Boys of ‘36'.”For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimat... [Read More]

  • We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01FRSZAUO
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.    “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour   It is t... [Read More]

  • The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

    • ASIN: 1419727729
    • ISBN: 1419727729
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    New York Times bestseller 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Winner for History & Biography Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers ... [Read More]

  • Presidents of War

    • ASIN: 0307409600
    • ISBN: 9780307409607
    • Manufacturer: Crown

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders a... [Read More]

  • Spilled Milk: Based On A True Story

    • ASIN: B00D9GY2BU

    "Randis later would testify at a criminal trial against her father, who was sentenced to prison for his crimes. He was sentenced to up to 16 years in 2004. Her painful — and ultimately triumphant — story is recounted in Randis' first novel, "Spilled Milk." - Brown, Stacy. Interview with the Pocono Record Newspaper "Spilled Milk is a story abou... [Read More]

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything

    • ASIN: 076790818X
    • ISBN: 076790818X
    • Brand: Bryson, Bill
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Austr... [Read More]

  • When Breath Becomes Air

    • UPC: 642688054472
    • ASIN: 081298840X
    • ISBN: 081298840X
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

    • ASIN: 038549565X
    • ISBN: 038549565X
    • Brand: Anchor
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    “The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)—an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp... [Read More]

  • Salt: A World History

    • ASIN: 0142001619
    • ISBN: 0142001619
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the WorldIn his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often sur... [Read More]

  • Where the Crawdads Sing

    • ASIN: B078GD3DRG
    • Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

  • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

    • ASIN: 1250062187
    • ISBN: 1250062187
    • Brand: Kolbert Elizabeth
    • Manufacturer: Picador

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTA major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyesOver th... [Read More]

  • A Life Well Played: My Stories (Commemorative Edition)

    • ASIN: 125016107X
    • ISBN: 125016107X
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

    The commemorative edition of the instant New York Times bestseller--now with a foreword by Jack Nicklaus!"A wonderful compilation that reflects who he was as a person, as a golfer, and as someone who believed in giving back. He was a champion at each turn, and it was an honor not just knowing him and competing against him for nearly 60 years, but a... [Read More]

  • The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II

    • UPC: 783324820270
    • ASIN: 0451224957
    • ISBN: 0451224957
    • Brand: Nal Caliber
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

    The astonishing, never before told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II—when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia...During a bombing campaign over Romanian oil fields, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian farmers and peasants riske... [Read More]

  • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

    • ASIN: B00XST7IX2
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South ... [Read More]

  • The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

    • ASIN: 0374303231
    • ISBN: 0374303231
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

    Stonewall Book Award Winner―Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature AwardYALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter.One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both we... [Read More]

  • The Book of General Ignorance

    • ASIN: 0307394913
    • ISBN: 0307394913
    • Brand: Harmony
    • Manufacturer: Crown

    Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more,The Book of General Ignorance is a witty “gotch... [Read More]

  • The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List

    • ASIN: B00BL0O79I
    • Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

  • Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

    • ASIN: 1250077028
    • ISBN: 1250077028
    • Brand: Flatiron Books
    • Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

    #1 New York Times Bestseller In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest:"I've often thought that people with severe depression have deve... [Read More]

  • The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home

    • ASIN: 1476794049
    • ISBN: 1476794049
    • Brand: TOUCHSTONE
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    New York Times Bestseller “A soaring and gorgeous American story” (Karen Abbott) from the author of the New York Times bestselling The Girls of Atomic City. The fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore—the largest, grandest residence ever built in the United States.The story of Biltmore spans World Wars, the ... [Read More]

  • Before We Were Yours: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0425284689
    • ISBN: 0425284689
    • Brand: WaterBrook Press
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerFor readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a “thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true-life scandal.”*Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four young... [Read More]

  • Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2018

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