Great Nonfiction of 2007 - part two of two

I haven't read any studies, but my guess is that more Americans read fiction than read nonfiction every year. Nonfiction tends to be inaccessible by its nature. Qualities that I like in nonfiction are readability, accuracy, and a writing style that keeps you turning pages. I also like to learn something that I didn't know before.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Birth as an American Rite of Passage by Robbie Davis-Floyd
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss -- and the Myths and Realities of Dieting by Gina Kolata
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Whores and Other Feminists edited by Jill Nagle
Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky
Line Drawings of Picasso by Picasso
A Place of My Own by Michael Pollan
Don't Shoot the Dog! by Karen Pryor
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel

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ringing in the New Year right

Can anyone suggest a New Year's Eve event in the Boston area?

The ideal event for me would be indoors, not super-noisy, and with less than fifty people there.

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a poll about books

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