The 2007 books we liked best: nonfiction
Of the nonfiction books reviewed in the Monitor this year, these received the top marks.
from the December 4, 2007 edition
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Made to Stick, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (Random House, 289 pp., $29.95)
A Stanford Business School professor and his brother examine the basics of the effective – and memorable – presentation of ideas. (1/23/07)
A LONG WAY GONE: MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER, by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 229 pp., $22)This haunting memoir tells of the author's experience as a child soldier in Sierra Leone's civil war. (2/13/07)
THE KINGS OF NEW YORK, by Michael Weinreb (Gotham Books, 288 pp., $26)Sportswriter Michael Weinreb looks at the unlikely rise of America's best high school chess team at a public high school in Brooklyn. (3/6/07)
THE FATHER OF ALL THINGS, by Tom Bissell (Pantheon Books, 407 pp., $25)In a book that combines memoir, travelogue, and history, Tom Bissell tells of the 2005 trip to Vietnam he took with his father, a former Marine and Vietnam vet. (3/13/07)
AMERICAN ISLAM: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF A RELIGION, by Paul M. Barrett (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 304 pp., $25)Paul Barrett offers complex, stereotype-defying portraits of seven different Muslims living in the US. (3/20/07)
THE ATOMIC BAZAAR,by William Langewiesche (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 179 pp., $22)It may not be possible to write an enjoyable book about nuclear proliferation. But journalist William Langewiesche has at least written an intelligent and very readable work on the topic. (5/15/07)
WILD TREES: A STORY OF PASSION AND DARING,by Richard Preston (Random House, 294 pp., $25.95)Mystery writer Richard Preston explores the world of the tallest trees and the scientists who spend their lives studying them. (4/24/07)
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