What’s the best nonfiction book you’ve read this year? Share it in the comments and we’ll add it to our new literary mixtape of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2010.
This GalleyCat editor makes an annual mixtape (CD actually, but the idea is the same) collecting his favorite songs from the year–allowing his friends and family to sample great music. We love reading “Best Books of …” lists, but we want to build a “mixtape” focused exclusively on sample chapters of your suggestions–we’ve started the list below.
Share your favorite novel in the comment section. We’ve already created mixtapes for the Best Novels of 2010, the Best YA Books of 2010, and the Best eBooks of 2010. Cassette tape photo via The Alieness.
The Possessed by Elif Batuman
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor by John W. Dower
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
Wander the Rainbow by David Jedeikin
A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb by Amitava Kumar
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
London Calling by Barry Miles
Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature’s Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lovers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes by Bill Peschel
None of Us Were Like This Before by Joshua E. S. Phillips
Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward by Justin Spring
Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War by Megan K. Stack
The Black Book by Adlai Stevenson