{"id":7736,"date":"2012-01-07T22:18:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T02:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=7736"},"modified":"2012-02-04T23:23:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T03:23:11","slug":"2011-sonderbooks-standouts-nonfiction-for-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=7736","title":{"rendered":"2011 Sonderbooks Standouts: Nonfiction for Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one is one of the hardest categories to rank my favorites in.  They are all so different!  So, once again, I&#8217;m going to go with just my gut feelings about each book listed here.  They are all wonderful books, for different reasons.  In the end, I decided to divide them into Biography, and Everything Else.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my favorite adult nonfiction books that I read in 2011:<br \/>\nBiography:<br \/>\n1.  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/traveling_with_pomegranates.html\">Traveling with Pomegranates<\/a><\/em>, by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor<br \/>\n2.  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/little_princes.html\">Little Princes<\/a><\/em>, by Conor Grennan<br \/>\n3.  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/radioactive.html\">Radioactive<\/a><\/em>, by Lauren Redniss<br \/>\n4.  <em>Sex, Mom, and God<\/em>, by Frank Schaeffer<br \/>\n5.  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/dressmaker_of_khair_khana.html\">The Dressmaker of Khair Khana<\/a><\/em>, by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon<br \/>\n6.  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/heaven_is_for_real.html\">Heaven Is For Real<\/a><\/em>, by Todd Burpo<\/p>\n<p>Other Nonfiction:<br \/>\n1.  <em>Faith and Will<\/em>, by Julia Cameron<br \/>\n2.  <em>The Gifts of Imperfection<\/em>, by Brene Brown<br \/>\n3.  <em>Naked Spirituality<\/em>, by Brian McLaren<br \/>\n4.  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/love_wins.html\">Love Wins<\/a><\/em>, by Rob Bell<br \/>\n5.  <em>Mathematics 1001<\/em>, by Dr. Richard Elwes<\/p>\n<p>I have the reviews for most of these books written, just not posted yet.  That will happen all in good time!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Happy Reading!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is one of the hardest categories to rank my favorites in. They are all so different! So, once again, I&#8217;m going to go with just my gut feelings about each book listed here. They are all wonderful books, for different reasons. In the end, I decided to divide them into Biography, and Everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-review","category-stand-outs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}