Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
- Packing For Mars by Mary Roach
- The Legacy by David Suzuki
- Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg
- Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth by James M. Tabor
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben
- Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell
- Keeping the Bees: Why All Bees Are at Risk and what We Can Do to Save Them by Laurence Packer
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in various media outlets. If you see one that I haven't covered, please let me know at jdupuis at yorku dot ca or in the comments.
I am picking up a lot of lists from Largehearted Boy.
Earlier entries in this year's list of lists can be found here and the 2009 summary post here.
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Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure. This list is the Holiday Reading list from the Toronto Star Public Policy Forum, picked from individual lists in today's print newspaper.
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Along with tacky an inescapable Christmas music, December brings lists, as every publication that deals with music at all puts out their own compilation of songs or albums of the year.
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