1. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, by Rhoda Janzen
2. Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers, Vintage
3. Inside of a Dog, by Alexandra Horowitz, Scribner
4. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin
5. Where Men Win Glory, by Jon Krakauer, Anchor
6. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, Scribner
7. Traveling With Pomegranates, by Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor, Penguin
8. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, by Allison Hoover Bartlett, Riverhead
9. Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin
10. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2011, by Old Farmer's Almanac
11. Half the Sky, by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Vintage
12. The Big Burn, by Timothy Egan, Mariner
13. Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer, Back Bay
14. Lit, by Mary Karr, Harper Perennial
15. Dewey, by Vicki Myron, Grand Central
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21. When Everything Changed, by Gail Collins, Back Bay
Collins recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years
