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Last Updated: February 17, 2012

1. THE VOW

by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter with Dana Wilkerson

After a horrific car crash, a couple embark on a journey to fall in love all over again. The true events that inspired the movie.

2. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL

by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent

A boy’s encounter with Jesus and the angels.

3. BOSSYPANTS

by Tina Fey

A memoir from the creator of “30 Rock.”

4. THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS

by Rebecca Skloot

A woman's cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951.

5. LIFE AS I BLOW IT

by Sarah Colonna

The “Chelsea Lately” writer tells her story.

6. LADY ALMINA AND THE REAL DOWNTON ABBEY

by The Countess of Carnarvon

Inspiration and setting for the show on PBS.

7. OUTLIERS

by Malcolm Gladwell

Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.

8. THE NEW JIM CROW

by Michelle Alexander

Taking aim at the “war on drugs” and its impact on black men.

9. THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

by Erik Larson

A tale of how an architect and a serial killer were linked by the World’s Fair of 1893.

10. MONEYBALL

by Michael Lewis

How the Oakland Athletics built a successful team despite one of the smallest payrolls in baseball.

11. BORN TO RUN

by Christopher McDougall

Secrets of distance running from a Mexican Indian tribe.

12. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON

by SC Gwynne

The story of Quanah Parker, the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.

13. ____ FINISH FIRST

by Tucker Max

A tale of bad decisions, debauchery and reckless sex.

14. THE TIPPING POINT

by Malcolm Gladwell

A study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.

15. THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE

by Max Brooks

The comedy writer offers a plan for safeguarding yourself from the living dead.

16. INSIDE OF A DOG

by Alexandra Horowitz

The world from a dog's point of view.

17. UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIPS

by Jennifer S Holland

Forty-seven remarkable stories from the animal kingdom.

18. THE GLASS CASTLE

by Jeannette Walls

The author recalls her bizarre childhood, during which she was constantly on the move.

19. THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS

by Isabel Wilkerson

An account of the Great Migration of 1915-70, in which six million African-Americans abandoned the South.

20. BLOOD, BONES AND BUTTER

by Gabrielle Hamilton

A memoir by the chef and owner of the Manhattan restaurant Prune.