Non-Fiction Worth Reading

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Obviously different people have different ideas of what makes a book worth reading. But for you personally, was it worth the time it took to read?
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Viaggio con Charley
di John Steinbeck
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Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
di Peter Orner
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Nero come me
di John Howard Griffin
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79 recensioni
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Not by a Long Shot: A Season at a Hard Luck Horse Track
di T.D. Thornton
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
di Larry McMurtry
527 utenti
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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
di Ted Kooser
270 utenti
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Where Rivers Change Direction
di Mark Spragg
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All Over but the Shoutin'
di Rick Bragg
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
di Ann Patchett
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77 recensioni
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Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
di Ann Patchett
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Death and the Sun: A Matador's Season in the Heart of Spain
di Edward Lewine
61 utenti
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The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand
di Jim Harrison
317 utenti
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A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life
di Jim Harrison
110 utenti
7 recensioni
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What Now?
di Ann Patchett
387 utenti
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
di Tony Horwitz
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The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine
di Todd Kliman
98 utenti
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The Outlaw Trail: A Journey Through Time
di Robert Redford
61 utenti
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Un anno in Provenza
di Peter Mayle
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The Prince of Frogtown
di Rick Bragg
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Joy In Simplicity : An Artistic & Poetic Journey into Amish Country, featuring Original Art by Nancy Noel
di Nancy Noel
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Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction
di Will Blythe
187 utenti
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A Civil Action
di Jonathan Harr
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36 recensioni
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
di Cheryl Strayed
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Royal Blood: Fifty Years of Classic Thoroughbreds
di Jim Bolus
10 utenti
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In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas
di Larry McMurtry
245 utenti
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John Adams
di David McCullough
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199 recensioni
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Paradise
di Larry McMurtry
137 utenti
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3.2
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Literary Life: A Second Memoir
di Larry McMurtry
197 utenti
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Books: A Memoir
di Larry McMurtry
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Roads : Driving America's Great Highways
di Larry McMurtry
484 utenti
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Overnight Success: Federal Express And: Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator
di Vance Trimble
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Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
di Tom Robbins
368 utenti
18 recensioni
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84, Charing Cross Road
di Helene Hanff
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348 recensioni
4.2
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Time Was Soft There
di Jeremy Mercer
915 utenti
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Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
di Ted Kerasote
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La vita immortale di Henrietta Lacks
di Rebecca Skloot
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Sharkie35 : The way they used her cells was nothing unique, or based on her race. The author glosses over these facts so they could write a book proclaiming the medical profession as racist.
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A sangue freddo
di Truman Capote
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: No true crime
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Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World
di Lawrence Goldstone
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