Great 2017 Nonfiction
49thShelf Editor Kerry celebrates some of the best nonfiction she read in 2017 and some of the books still on her to-be-read list. Read on!
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Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist
A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic
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Euclid's Orchard and Other Essays
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My Conversations With Canadians
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Snacks
A Canadian Food History
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Feast
Recipes and Stories from a Canadian Road Trip: A Cookbook
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Turning
A Year in the Water
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The Weekend Effect
The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork
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Gutenberg’s Fingerprint
Paper, Pixels and the Lasting Impression of Books
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Birds Art Life
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Seven Fallen Feathers
Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
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Baseball Life Advice
Loving the Game That Saved Me
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Following the River
Traces of Red River Women