Because of our guild's varied tastes, we ended up with many books that were only nominated once or twice. Even with the rank each guild member gave their nominated titles, it was impossible to break all the ties. So, we have compromised. The nonfiction section first provides the top 5 favorites, and as most of the rest only received one vote each, the remainder of the nominated books are listed alphabetically.

The Guild of Booklovers Top 5 Favorite Nonfiction:

The Favorite Nonfiction List

1001 Cookie Recipes, Gregg R. Gillespie 5 Weeks to Winning Bridge, Alfred Sheinwold An Actor Prepares...To Live in New York City: How to Live Like a Star Before You Become One, Craig Wroe An Actor's Guide: Making It in New York City, Glenn Alterman Adult Children of Alcoholics, Janet Woititz An African Experience, Simon Combes All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things, Robert Fulghum Alphonse Mucha, Jiri Mucha American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Various Authors The American Sign Language Sign Phrase Book, Louie J Fort Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt Anger, Thich Nhat Hanh Animal Training, Ken Ramirez Are You Dave Gorman, Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace The Art of War, Sun-Tzu The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron Asimov's Chronology of Science & Discovery, Issac Asimov ASPCA Complete Guide to Cats, James R Richards Autobiography, Agatha Christie The Back of Beyond, David Yeadon Bad Girls Guide to the Open Road, Cameron Tuttle The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud, Sigmund Freud Betty Crocker's New Cookbook, Betty Crocker Editors Bhagavad Gita, Various Authors Bible, Various Authors Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott The Book of Heroic Failures, Stephen Pile Book of Psalms, Various Authors The Breathing Book, Donna Farhi The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, Bob Woodward The Cartoon History of the Universe, Larry Gonick Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale The Cats of Lamu, Jack Couffer Chaos, James Gleick Chicken Soup For the Christian Soul, Jack Cranfield & Mark Victor Hansen Chicken Soup for the Pet Lovers Soul, Jack Cranfield & Mark Victor Hansen Chicken Soup For The Soul One, Jack Cranfield & Mark Victor Hansen Children, David Halberstam Cosmos, Carl Sagan Creating A Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children, Sylvia Ann Hewlett Critical Literacy in Action : Writing Words, Changing Worlds/A Tribute to the Teachings of Paulo Freire, Ira Shor and Caroline Pari Crossing the Threshold of Hope, His Holiness John Paul II Dancing at the Edge of the World, Ursula K. LeGuin Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down!, Dave Barry Dave Barry's Greatest Hits, Dave Barry Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean Denial Is Not a River in Egypt, Sandi Bachom The Diagnosis and Correction of Vocal Faults, James C. McKinney Disappointment With God, Philip Yancy Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion, Robert Siegel Don't Shoot the Dog , Karen Pryor The Double Helix, James Watson The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense, John Ralston Saul Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards Dreams of My Russian Summers, Andrei Makine Education for Critical Consciousness, Paulo Freire E. M. Forster - A Life, P. N. Furbank Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everday Magic, Martha Beck Faberge Eggs: Imperial Russian Fantasies, Christopher Forbes & Larry Stein Family Health Book, Harvard Medical School Fat!So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size!, Marilyn Wann Find It Fast in the Bible, Ron Rhodes The Five Dialogues, Plato The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman Food In History, Reay Tannahill Geisha, Liza Dalby The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence, Gavin de Becker Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy, Vicki Iovine Gospel of Matthew, Matthew Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Ramakrishna The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux A Grief Observed, CS Lewis Guiness Book of Records, Various Authors A History of Western Music, Grout and Palisca, Ed. The Hot Zone, Richard Preston How to Hold a Crocodile, The Diagram Group How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie HTML: The Complete Reference, Thomas A Powell I and Thou, Martin Buber I Dreamed of Africa, Kuki Gallman I Hate This Place: The Pessimist's Guide to Life, Jimmy Fallon & Gloria Fallon I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: An Authentic Historical Narrative, Linda Brent The Incredible Voyage, Tristan Jones Inner Tennis, W. Timothy Gallwey Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer Jesus Freaks, DC Talk and Voice of the Martyrs John Adams, David McCullough Joy of Signing, Linda Lascelle Hillebrande & Lottie L Riekehof Kenya: The National Epic, Jim Bailey Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain Kitchen Table Wisdom, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD A Larger Memory: A History of our Diversity with Voices, Ronald Takaki Last Chance to See, Douglas Adams The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II, Edvard Radzinskii & Marian Schwartz Le Scaphandre et le Papillon, Jean-Dominique Bauby The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas Friedman The Liars' Club, Mary Karr Life on Earth, David Attenborough The Long Walk, Slavomir Rawicz Man Meets Dog, Konrad Lorenz Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, Gail Bederman Men at Work, George Will Men to Match My Mountains, Irving Stone Mexican Voices, American Dreams, Marilyn Davis The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh The Moosewood Low-fat Vegetarian Cookbook, Moosewood Collective Moosewood Restaurant: New Classics, Unknown My Experiments With Truth, Mahatma Gandhi My Forbidden Face: Growing up under the Taliban, Latifa My Gender Workbook, Kate Bornstein My Life as Me a Memoir, Barry Humpries Myths to Live By, Joseph Campbell The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris The New Science of Strong Materials, J E Gordon Nicolas II, the Last Tsar, Henri Troyat Night, Elie Wiesel Nights of Ice, Spike Walker Nisa: The Life and Words of !Kung Woman, Marjorie Shostak No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green, Melody Green and David Hazard No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Name Bullies, Naomi Klein No Place to Hide: Facing Shame so We Can Find Self-Respect, Michael Nichols Not Without My Daughter, Betty Mahmoody Nutritional Healing: A Step to Step Guide, Denise Mortimore One Child, Torey Hayden One-Pot Cakes, Andrew Schlosser The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin Out of a Limb, Heather Mills Cartney The Pact, Davis, Jenkins, & Hunt Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Thich Nhat Hanh Penguin Book of Epigrams, M.J.Cohen Personality Plus, Florence Littauer Philosophical Dictionary, Voltaire The Pilates Body, Unknown The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, Sei Shonagon The Places That Scare You, Pema Chodron The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Richard Feynman Portraits, Steve McCurry Power Performance for Singers, Shirlee Emmons The Prelude, William Wordsworth The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester The Prophet, Khalil Gibran Rachel's Tears, Darrell Scott Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Albert Einstein A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson Riding the Iron Rooster, Paul Theroux Roget's International Thesaurus 6th Edition, Barbara Ann Kipfer, Ed. Rotten Reviews: A Literary Companion, Bill Henderson Rules for the Radical, Saul Alinsky Ryan White: My Own Story, Ryan White Samurai and Silk, Haru Matsukata Reischauer Savages, Joe Kane Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap, Peggy Orenstein Signing Made Easy, Rod Butterworth Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, Sarah Ban Breathnach Small Places, Large Issues, Thomas Hyllan Eriksen Sold: One Woman's True Account of Modern Slavery, Zana Muhsen Stories, James Herriot Structures, J.E. Gordon Stylishly Drawn, Laird Borelli Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman, Richard P Feynman The Surgeon of Crowthorne, Simon Winchester Surprised By Joy, C.S.Lewis The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip Tales from Out of Africa, Kamante 'Tambo (Life in an Andean Village), Julia Meyerson The Tao of Bow Wow: Understanding and Training Your Dog the Taoist Way, Deborah Wood The Tao of Meow: Understanding and Training Your Cat the Taoist Way, Deborah Wood Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl Training Soprano Voices, Richard Miller The Trials of Life, David Attenborough Under the Black Flag, David Cordingly Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer Visionary Voices: Women on Power: Conversations With Shamans, Activists, Teachers, Artists and Healers, edited by Penny Rosenwasser Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson The Way of the Shaman, Michael Harner When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold Kushner Who Wrote the Bible, Richard Elliott Friedman Why War?, Sigmund Freud The Wisdom of No Escape, Pema Chodron Women's Day Cook Book, Kathy Farrell-Kingsley World Almanac and Book of Facts, Ken Park Yoga Sutras, Various Authors Yookoso: An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese, Yaso-Hiko Tohsaku Zen Miracles: Finding Peace in an Insane World, Brenda Shoshanna

Here's the site that inspired this list mania, if you need even more suggestions: BBC - The Big Read

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