15 best nonfiction books of 2011: CSMonitor picks

They'll take you from Mount Hebron to Silicon Valley. These are the 15 nonfiction titles that Monitor book reviewers found to be the most outstanding of 2011.

1. "Day of Honey," by Annia Ciezadlo

In Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War (Simon & Schuster, 382 pp.), Middle East correspondent and occasional Monitor contributor Annia Ciezadlo writes with warmth and style about how a fervent enthusiasm for local cuisine helped to create an air of normalcy for her and her husband during their assignments in Baghdad, Beirut, and other war-torn locales. Monitor reviewer Steve Weinberg praised Ciezadlo for her gifts as a writer, adding that “Her theme is marvelous, too.” (CSMonitor.com review, 3/7/11)

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