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Favorite non-fiction.

'Nuff said.

A book about the whole idea of "mass collaboration" a la Wikipedia and similar sites, and how it can present opportunities for companies to innovate and all that good stuff.

I heard a piece about it on NPR, and it sounds really interesting.

An interesting take on the reference book. 45 writers take words such as arroyo, badlands, eddy, and the like and define them.

That's it. These writers are known though for their "intimate connections" to particular places.

Sounds really cool; sort of an American landscape dictionary.

A book about diagramming sentences. I don't know about everyone else, but back in eighth grade, I *loved* diagramming sentences.

This book delves into the history of it, as well as discusses everything related to it. I heard an interview on NPR with the author about the book, and as seemingly boring a subject diagramming sentences may be, this one looks interesting.

This is the followup to Devil in the White City. Not a sequel per se, but written in the same vain.

Larson again follows the stories of two men, seemingly opposites, who's paths inevitably cross as Marconi toils endlessly to invent a device that could utilize wireless communication, while Dr. H. H. Crippen goes on a murder spree of sorts.

I read Devil in the White City, and it was awesome. This looks just as good if not even better.

This seems like a really interesting book. It's about the cholera outbreak in London in the 1850s. Apparently, it was really bad, especially when, apparently, two million people were squeezed into 30 square miles.