10 best nonfiction titles of 2014

Here are the 10 nonfiction titles that the Monitor’s book critics admired most in 2014.

4. "In the Kingdom of Ice," by Hampton Sides

A rapt nation watched as young US Navy officer George Washington De Long and his crew headed north to the Arctic in 1879, only to experience an unimaginable series of catastrophes. De Long’s heartfelt correspondence with his wife adds a marvelously human dimension to this dramatic story.

A rapt nation watched as young US Navy officer George Washington De Long and his crew headed north to the Arctic in 1879, only to experience an unimaginable series of catastrophes. De Long’s heartfelt correspondence with his wife adds a marvelously human dimension to this dramatic story. (Doubleday, 480 pp.)

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