Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Help us choose NBRC's 100 best Nonfiction books of all time.
Each member may nominate 5 books for this list.
Once nominations close, there will be a series of polls to help choose the 100 best Nonfiction books from the books that our members have nominated.
Nominations run from September 12th to December 1st

You may nominate standalone books or books in a series. If you are an author, you may not nominate your own books.

What belongs here:
Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
History
Psychology
Science
Nature and Animals
Crafts and Cooking
Any other nonfiction

Nominations So Far:

For your consideration:

Angela's Ashes
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
The Last Lecture
The Diary of a Young Girl

Beat me to Unbroken I see, but I see me recommendation for nonfiction has been answered. Great category.

1. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
3. The Emperor of All Maladies
4. A People's History of the United States: 1492–Present

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

So fun! Non-fiction nominations....okay, mine are:

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
The Fields of Home

Under an Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Captivity
A Million Little Pieces
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

I can only think of one at the moment that hasn't been nominated already. I don't seem to read a lot of nonfiction, though there are a few nominations here that are on my TBR.

A Child Called "It"

My top 5:

Here's a couple I nominate, my other favourites are already mentioned (Stiff, Henriette Lacks and Malala)

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
At Home: A Short History of Private Life

I have some that may not be so popular but I loved them.

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Columbine
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
Your Brain: The Missing Manual
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

It was so hard to pick 5!

Devotion and Defiance: My Fight for Justice for Women
Not Without My Daughter
Ponting: At The Close Of Play
The Double Helix
Calvin

1. Stories I Only Tell My Friends
2. The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild
3. Infidel
4. Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
5. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan

Someday My Prince Will Come: True Adventures of a Wannabe Princess by Jerramy Fine

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone by Martin Dugard

Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It by Gina Kolata

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler

An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace

The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

How to Cook a Wolf

I nominate:

Mixed: My Life in Black and White
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Letter to My Daughter
The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
Man's Search for Meaning
Girl, Interrupted
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Is Thinking Fast and Slow on there? I don't see it. Please add if it's not :-)

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
The Buccaneers of America by Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin

The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son

Slave: My True Story

The Glass Castle

Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Reading Lolita in Tehran

An American Childhood
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Alice in Sunderland
Palestine

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
TrumanMemories, Dreams, Reflections
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal BehaviorThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

You have the glass castle twice on the list mods so I removed my fifth choice and will add
5. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
And the Band Played on by Randy Shilts
One Last Strike by Tony La Russa
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

We've extended the dates for nominations to December 1st in the hopes that we'll get some more nominations in.

After voting, the person responsible for picking the #1 genre book will be allowed to pick a book of the month!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Life and Death in Shanghai



https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Born Again


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
The Hiding Place


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...
A Walk in the Woods