Nonfiction 2009: A Chapter a Day
Explore the best nonfiction of 2009 with our curated Chapter a Day list—featuring Malcolm Gladwell's *What the Dog Saw*, Randy Pausch's *The Last Lecture*, *Outliers*, and more.
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What the Dog Saw
by Malcolm Gladwell
Collects the author's best "New Yorker" pieces, including essays on such topics as why there are so many kinds of mustard but only one type of ketchup, a surprising assessment of what makes a safer car, and an examination of a machine built to predict hit movies.
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The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch
Reflections of a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor who lectured on "Really achieving your childhood dreams," shortly after having been diagnosed with terminal cancer. His advice concerned seizing the moment while living, rather than dying.
