Los Angeles Times' 2010 Nonfiction Book Picks

1.
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,205 ratings
2.
Just Kids
Just Kids 4.21 avg rating — 333,687 ratings
3.
Washington: A Life
Washington: A Life 4.16 avg rating — 79,886 ratings
4.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,288 ratings
5.
Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness
Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness 3.84 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
6.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 4.30 avg rating — 168,096 ratings
7.
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition 3.80 avg rating — 8,727 ratings
8.
Life
Life 3.89 avg rating — 97,139 ratings
9.
The Promise: President Obama, Year One
The Promise: President Obama, Year One 4.03 avg rating — 2,738 ratings
10.
White House Diary
White House Diary 3.84 avg rating — 829 ratings
11.
All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism
All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism 3.45 avg rating — 647 ratings
12.
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet 4.01 avg rating — 2,031 ratings
13.
Decision Points
Decision Points 3.81 avg rating — 42,107 ratings
13.
Frank: The Voice
Frank: The Voice 4.13 avg rating — 2,523 ratings
15.
Cleopatra: A Life
Cleopatra: A Life 3.73 avg rating — 121,458 ratings
16.
A Journey: My Political Life
A Journey: My Political Life 3.57 avg rating — 4,638 ratings
17.
Bob Dylan in America
Bob Dylan in America 3.84 avg rating — 1,856 ratings
18.
Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon 4.24 avg rating — 64,212 ratings
19.
Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford
Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford 3.58 avg rating — 906 ratings
20.
Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution
Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution 4.03 avg rating — 197 ratings
21.
Steve McQueen: The Life and Legend of a Hollywood Icon
Steve McQueen: The Life and Legend of a Hollywood Icon 3.96 avg rating — 233 ratings
22.
Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers
Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers 3.73 avg rating — 2,191 ratings
23.
Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille
Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille 4.26 avg rating — 133 ratings
24.
Children of Fire: A History of African Americans
Children of Fire: A History of African Americans 4.05 avg rating — 73 ratings
25.
Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century 3.89 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
26.
The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953
The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953 3.72 avg rating — 282 ratings
27.
Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney
Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney 3.79 avg rating — 1,240 ratings
28.
The match : complete strangers, a miracle face transplant, two lives transformed
The match : complete strangers, a miracle face transplant, two lives transformed 3.82 avg rating — 115 ratings
29.
The Secret History of MI6
The Secret History of MI6 3.51 avg rating — 572 ratings
30.
Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain
Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain 4.06 avg rating — 167 ratings
31.
My Spiritual Journey: A Riveting Life Story and Intimate Portrait of the Dalai Lama, Exploring Tibetan Buddhism, Meditation, and the Quest for a Richer Spiritual Life
My Spiritual Journey: A Riveting Life Story and Intimate Portrait of the Dalai Lama, Exploring Tibetan Buddhism, Meditation, and the Quest for a Richer Spiritual Life 3.98 avg rating — 2,835 ratings
32.
Obama's Wars
Obama's Wars 3.82 avg rating — 9,073 ratings
33.
Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century
Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century 3.86 avg rating — 133 ratings
34.
The Sixties, Diaries, Vol 2: 1960-1969
The Sixties, Diaries, Vol 2: 1960-1969 4.25 avg rating — 117 ratings
35.
Spoken from the Heart Collector's Edition
Spoken from the Heart Collector's Edition really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8,182 ratings
36.
Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership 3.91 avg rating — 319 ratings
37.
Grant Wood: A Life
Grant Wood: A Life 3.57 avg rating — 180 ratings
38.
Hollywood: A Third Memoir
Hollywood: A Third Memoir 3.28 avg rating — 382 ratings
39.
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship 3.96 avg rating — 12,229 ratings
40.
Listen to This
Listen to This
by: Alex Ross
3.95 avg rating — 2,905 ratings
41.
Mad As Hell: How the Tea Party Movement Is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System
Mad As Hell: How the Tea Party Movement Is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System 3.18 avg rating — 50 ratings
42.
Monk Eastman: The Gangster Who Became a War Hero
Monk Eastman: The Gangster Who Became a War Hero 4.10 avg rating — 39 ratings
43.
My Nuclear Family: A Coming-of-Age in America's Twenty-first-Century Military
My Nuclear Family: A Coming-of-Age in America's Twenty-first-Century Military 3.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
44.
My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, a Daughter, a Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence
My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, a Daughter, a Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence 3.47 avg rating — 166 ratings
45.
Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider
Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider 3.68 avg rating — 334 ratings
46.
A Renegade History of the United States
A Renegade History of the United States 3.81 avg rating — 1,782 ratings
47.
They Call Me Baba Booey
They Call Me Baba Booey 3.67 avg rating — 2,096 ratings
48.
A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir
A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir 3.51 avg rating — 672 ratings