San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearNonfiction2014

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Other Names: San Francisco Chronicle Favorite Books of the Year
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WorkYear
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy
2014
Updike by Adam Begley
2014
The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham
2014
Epilogue: A Memoir by Will Boast
2014
Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild by Novella Carpenter
2014
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Vikram Chandra
2014
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz Chast
2014
E. E. Cummings: A Life by Susan Cheever
2014
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz
2014
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush by Geoff Dyer
2014
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig
2014
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
2014
Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
2014
The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle (Mexico City Chronicles) by Francisco Goldman
2014
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World by Russell Gold
2014
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein
2014
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
2014
Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha
2014
Unremarried Widow: A Memoir by Artis Henderson
2014
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs
2014
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
2014
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer
2014
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade by Walter Kirn
2014
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
2014
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
2014
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
2014
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy
2014
The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus
2014
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
2014
The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI by Betty Medsger
2014
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
2014
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel
2014
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein
2014
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention by Matt Richtel
2014
Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction by Gabrielle Selz
2014
Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
2014
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
2014
The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature by Ben Tarnoff
2014
Bulletproof Vest: The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter by Maria Venegas
2014

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