John Goodman
Top 10 Nonfiction Books
1. Mark Leiren-Young – The Killer Whale Who Changed the World (Greystone)
Leiren-Young has been researching the story of Moby Doll for many years. He won a Jack Webster Award in 2015 for a CBC Ideas radio documentary on the subject and his new book puts all of his work in context. Many of the people featured in Moby Doll’s story (including longtime Vancouver Aquarium director Murray Newman, who passed away at the age of 92 in March of this year) lived on the North Shore. The killer whale himself (a young male, at first misidentified as female) was first brought to North Vancouver in 1964 after being captured off Saturna Island. A fantastic read. For some of the back story visit: nsnews.com/entertainment/dossier/moby-doll-of-the-salish-sea-1.1021436.
2. Francis Wilson – Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey (Bloomsbury)
3. Lesley M.M. Blume – Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
4. Joshua Hammer – The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts (Simon & Schuster)
5. Hannah Sparling and Meg Vogel – Finding Home (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
6. Jean Stein – West of Eden: An American Place (Random House)
7. Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad (Doubleday)
8. Arthur Lubow – Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer (Ecco)
9. Olivia Laing – The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Picador)
10. Bob Mehr – Trouble Boys: The True Story of The Replacements (Da Capo Press).
