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1. Ronald Reagan. Edited by Douglas Brinkley.
   The Reagan Diaries
   Selections from the 40th president’s daily White House diaries.
    

2. Al Gore
   The Assault on Reason
   How the Bush administration has degraded the political environment through secrecy, fear and the rejection of fact-based reasoning.
    

3. Christopher Hitchens
   God Is Not Great
   Religion as a malignant force in the world.
    

4. Walter Isaacson
   Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007)
   A biography based on newly released personal letters.
    

5. Ishmael Beah
   A Long Way Gone
   A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.
    

6. Nora Ephron
   I Feel Bad About My Neck
   A witty look at aging from a novelist and screenwriter (“When Harry Met Sally”).
    

7. Carl Bernstein
   A Woman in Charge: THE LIFE OF HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
   The Pulitzer Prize-winning Watergate reporter presents a detailed portrait of Clinton from her Midwestern girlhood to her service as New York’s junior senator, with special attention to her marriage.
    

8. Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
   Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
   The novelist and her family spend a year eating homegrown or local food; an argument for diversified farms and sustainable agriculture.
    

9. Benedict XVI
   Jesus of Nazareth
   The pope discusses Jesus’ identity as revealed in the Gospels.
    

10. Michael Beschloss
    Presidential Courage
    Profiles of nine presidents who had the courage to make unpopular decisions.

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1. Elizabeth Gilbert
   Eat, Pray, Love
   A writer's yearlong journey in search of self takes her to Italy, India and Indonesia.
    

2. Malcolm Gladwell
   Blink
   The author of "The Tipping Point" explores the importance of hunch and instinct to the workings of the mind.
    

3. Jeannette Walls
   The Glass Castle
   The author recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved.
    

4. Malcolm Gladwell
   The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
   A journalist’s study of social epidemics, otherwise known as fads.
    

5. Don Piper with Cecil Murphey
   90 Minutes in Heaven
   A minister's otherworldly experience after an accident.
    

6. Mike Evans
   The Final Move Beyond Iraq
   The author, a political conservative, says America should act decisively in confronting radical Islam and restricting Iran’s nuclear plans. (†)
    

7. Elie Wiesel
   Night
   The horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
    

8. Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
   Three Cups of Tea
   A former climber builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
    

9. Sidney Poitier
   The Measure of a Man
   The movie actor's spiritual autobiography.
    

10. Nathaniel Philbrick
    Mayflower
    How America began, from the author of “In the Heart of the Sea.”