S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.
The above are three of the finalists in the nonfiction category for the National Book Critics Circle 2010 Awards.
I mention the three, and Thomas Powers, The Killing of Crazy Horse, a finalist in biography, because I have read the beginnings of these four and found them all exceptionally engrossing. I just haven’t decided whether to continue with them as e-books or in hardbacks (and I have other books to read ahead of them, so no hurry).
Follow the link above to see all the finalists in fiction, biography, autobiography, criticism, nonfiction and poetry. The winners will be announced March 10th.