Another bunch of shorter lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Concurring Opinions (Privacy books)
- The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki
- The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick
- Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
(The Skloot book probably deserves a special award for so often being the only science book on a list.)
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in various media outlets. If you see one that I haven't covered, please let me know at jdupuis at yorku dot ca or in the comments.
I am picking up a lot of lists from Largehearted Boy.
Earlier entries in this year's list of lists can be found here and the 2009 summary post here.
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Just finished listening to Rebecca Skloot talking about her book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, on
Hella HeLa!