Best of the Best: Nonfiction

As promised, below are Publishers Weekly's top picks for non-fiction in 2014! For more information or to place a hold, click on the book cover.
Burning Down the House by Nell Bernstein
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story by Rick Bragg
Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard by John Branch
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis
John Wayne: the Life and Legend by Scott Eyman
The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas by Anand Giridharadas
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble by Marilyn Johnson
Garden of Marvels by Ruth Kassinger
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Tennessee Williams: A Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man by Thomas Page McBee
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local-and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Regan by Rick Perlstein
Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights by Katha Pollitt
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Helen Thorpe
A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren

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