There are approximately four in the running for me but one outstanding read was Michael Lewis's The Blind Side: Evolution Of A Game. If page-turning non-fiction was a genre Mr. Lewis would be top of the list, as he’s taken relatively boring subjects (the rise of the left tackle in football, scouting in baseball via sabermetrics, etc.) and written stories I want to read. His newest book takes on the story of Michael Oher, an illiterate black youth who is one of thirteen children born to a crack addicted mother in West Memphis who is eventually taken in by a white, evangelical Christian family in East Memphis and turned into the hottest high school offensive line prospect in the nation.
Even if you aren't interested in football don't let that keep you from Lewis's writing. He's the heir to Tom Wolfe's lead in New Journalism, which Wolfe describes as "journalism that is literature of a high order."
~Brian On Jan 1, 2007, at 6:38 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
So what was the single best book you read last year?
