25 Books - 25 Years - Non-Fiction

A BOOK LIST FOR THE 25th

Here is a list of 25 non-fiction books that we have loved over the years. Please note that these are not necessarily the "best" books (although they are all very good ones). This is primarily a list of books that are all too often overlooked as new books are published. So it is not necessary to include a book like Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis, which is still merrily selling. Know also that we could have made the list twice as long and that some of the books that we wanted to include are not in publication at this time.

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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)

By Tracy Kidder
$18.00
ISBN-13: 9780812980554
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 8/2009
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)

By Simon Winchester
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780060839789
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Published: Harper Perennial, 7/2005
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The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933 (Paperback)

By Amos Elon
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780312422813
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Published: Picador, 12/2003
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Paperback)

By Alexandra Fuller
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780375758997
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 3/2003
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story (Paperback)

By Abraham Verghese
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780679752929
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Published: Vintage, 1/1994
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A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League (Paperback)

By Ron Suskind
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780767901260
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Published: Broadway, 1/1998
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Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction (Paperback)

By Melissa Fay Greene
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780306815171
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Published: Da Capo Press, 8/2006
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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Paperback)

By Lawrence Wright
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9781400030842
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Published: Vintage, 9/2007
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History of God (Paperback)

By Karen Armstrong
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780345384560
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Published: Ballantine Books, 8/1994
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All Will Be Well (Paperback)

By John Mcgahern
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781400079865
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Published: Vintage, 4/2007
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (Paperback)

By Doris Kearns Goodwin
$19.99
ISBN-13: 9780684804484
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 1/2007
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A Tale of Love and Darkness (Paperback)

By Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780156032520
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Published: Mariner Books, 11/2005
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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (Paperback)

By George Packer
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780374530556
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 9/2006
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)

By Anne Fadiman
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780374525644
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1/1997
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (Paperback)

By Thomas L. Friedman
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780385499347
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Published: Anchor, 1/1999
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Eleni (Paperback)

By Nicholas Gage
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780345410436
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Published: Ballantine Books, 9/1996
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)

By Doris Kearns Goodwin
$21.00
ISBN-13: 9780743270755
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 9/2006
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)

By Azar Nafisi
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780812971064
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 12/2003
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)

By Brian Greene
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780375708114
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Published: Vintage, 2/2000
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Paperback)

By Anne Lamott
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780385480017
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Published: Anchor, 9/1995
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Paperback)

By James M. McPherson
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9780195168952
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Published: Oxford University Press, 10/2003
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Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero (Paperback)

By David Maraniss
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780743299992
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 4/2007
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King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American Hero (Paperback)

By David Remnick
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780375702297
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Published: Vintage, 10/1999
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
$20.00
ISBN-13: 9780375726262
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Published: Vintage, 4/2006
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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language (Paperback)

By Eva Hoffman
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780140127737
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 3/1990
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