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Los Angeles Times' 2010 Nonfiction Book Picks
The Los Angeles Times' 2010 forty-seven selection nonfiction book gift list.
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 993,369 ratings
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Just Kids
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Patti Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 339,023 ratings
score: 473,
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5 people voted
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Washington: A Life
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4.16 avg rating — 80,706 ratings
score: 453,
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 114,232 ratings
score: 448,
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5 people voted
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Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness
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3.84 avg rating — 1,130 ratings
score: 441,
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5 people voted
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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4.30 avg rating — 168,776 ratings
score: 388,
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4 people voted
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
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3.80 avg rating — 8,779 ratings
score: 384,
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4 people voted
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Life
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3.89 avg rating — 97,520 ratings
score: 367,
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4 people voted
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The Promise: President Obama, Year One
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Jonathan Alter (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 2,741 ratings
score: 357,
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4 people voted
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White House Diary
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3.84 avg rating — 833 ratings
score: 344,
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All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism
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3.45 avg rating — 647 ratings
score: 294,
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3 people voted
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Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
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4.01 avg rating — 2,039 ratings
score: 292,
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Decision Points
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George W. Bush (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 42,242 ratings
score: 282,
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3 people voted
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Frank: The Voice
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4.13 avg rating — 2,552 ratings
score: 282,
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Cleopatra: A Life
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Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 121,998 ratings
score: 281,
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3 people voted
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A Journey: My Political Life
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3.57 avg rating — 4,678 ratings
score: 280,
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Bob Dylan in America
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3.84 avg rating — 1,864 ratings
score: 275,
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Empire of the Summer Moon
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4.25 avg rating — 65,110 ratings
score: 266,
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3 people voted
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Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford
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3.58 avg rating — 914 ratings
score: 251,
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3 people voted
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Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution
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4.03 avg rating — 199 ratings
score: 249,
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Steve McQueen: The Life and Legend of a Hollywood Icon
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3.96 avg rating — 233 ratings
score: 239,
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Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers
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Adriana Trigiani (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 2,206 ratings
score: 190,
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Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille
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4.26 avg rating — 133 ratings
score: 183,
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Children of Fire: A History of African Americans
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4.05 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 181,
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2 people voted
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Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
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3.89 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
score: 178,
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2 people voted
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The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953
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3.72 avg rating — 283 ratings
score: 173,
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2 people voted
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Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney
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Howard Sounes (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 1,239 ratings
score: 172,
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2 people voted
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The match : complete strangers, a miracle face transplant, two lives transformed
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3.82 avg rating — 115 ratings
score: 169,
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The Secret History of MI6
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3.51 avg rating — 575 ratings
score: 164,
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2 people voted
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Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain
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4.06 avg rating — 167 ratings
score: 161,
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My Spiritual Journey: A Riveting Life Story and Intimate Portrait of the Dalai Lama, Exploring Tibetan Buddhism, Meditation, and the Quest for a Richer Spiritual Life
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3.98 avg rating — 2,836 ratings
score: 155,
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Obama's Wars
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3.82 avg rating — 9,094 ratings
score: 152,
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Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century
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3.85 avg rating — 135 ratings
score: 149,
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The Sixties, Diaries, Vol 2: 1960-1969
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4.23 avg rating — 119 ratings
score: 143,
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2 people voted
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Spoken from the Heart Collector's Edition
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8,202 ratings
score: 141,
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Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
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Lewis Hyde (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 319 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Grant Wood: A Life
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3.57 avg rating — 182 ratings
score: 86,
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Hollywood: A Third Memoir
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3.29 avg rating — 387 ratings
score: 85,
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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
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3.96 avg rating — 12,263 ratings
score: 82,
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Listen to This
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3.95 avg rating — 2,913 ratings
score: 80,
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Mad As Hell: How the Tea Party Movement Is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System
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3.18 avg rating — 50 ratings
score: 77,
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Monk Eastman: The Gangster Who Became a War Hero
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Neil Hanson (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 75,
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My Nuclear Family: A Coming-of-Age in America's Twenty-first-Century Military
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3.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
score: 74,
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My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, a Daughter, a Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence
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Lauren Kessler (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 166 ratings
score: 72,
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1 person voted
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Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider
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3.68 avg rating — 335 ratings
score: 69,
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1 person voted
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A Renegade History of the United States
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3.81 avg rating — 1,782 ratings
score: 66,
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They Call Me Baba Booey
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3.67 avg rating — 2,103 ratings
score: 60,
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A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir
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3.51 avg rating — 673 ratings
score: 58,
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