Kirkus Reviews: Best Nonfiction of 2011 (authoritative list)

This series contains 63 books.

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   The Storm of War (2009)

   A New History of the Second World War

   by Andrew Roberts

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   The Swerve (2011)

   How the World Became Modern

   by Stephen Greenblatt

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   The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937

   by David Welky

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   The Threat Matrix

   The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror

   by Garrett M. Graff

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   Tiger, Tiger

   A Memoir

   by Margaux Fragoso

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   Tolstoy

   A Russian Life

   by Rosamund Bartlett

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   Townie (2011)

   by Andre Dubus III

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   An Unquenchable Thirst

   Following Mother Teresa in Search of Love, Service, and an Authentic Life

   by Mary Johnson

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   We Meant Well (2011)

   How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (American Empire Project)

   by Peter Van Buren

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    Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein

    by Julie Salamon

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    Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir

    by Robert Jay Lifton

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    Your Voice in My Head (2011)

    by Emma Forrest

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    Halfway To Hollywood (2009)

    Diaries 1980 to 1988: The Film Years

    by Michael Palin

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