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What nonfiction books are reading groups discussing? In a recent ReadingGroupGuides.com newsletter we asked you to tell us --- and did you ever. We received more email responses than for any question we've asked to date. Well over 100 titles were mentioned. Here are the top 15 (in alphabetical order), including established reading group favorites along with lesser-known books. Tomorrow we'll share comments from group members on specific titles.


The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow

Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman