Great 2017 Nonfiction
49thShelf Editor Kerry celebrates some of the best nonfiction she read in 2017 and some of the books still on her to-be-read list. Read on!

Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist
A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic

Euclid's Orchard and Other Essays

My Conversations With Canadians

Snacks
A Canadian Food History

Feast
Recipes and Stories from a Canadian Road Trip: A Cookbook

Turning
A Year in the Water

The Weekend Effect
The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork

Gutenberg’s Fingerprint
Paper, Pixels and the Lasting Impression of Books

Birds Art Life

Seven Fallen Feathers
Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

Baseball Life Advice
Loving the Game That Saved Me

Following the River
Traces of Red River Women