10 best nonfiction titles of 2014

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

10. "Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy" by Karen Abbott

Four women – two Union sympathizers and two proud Rebels – served their causes in surprising fashions during the US Civil War. Karen Abbott’s narrative gifts turn these real-life stories of espionage and remarkable derring-do into a true page turner.  (Harper, 528 pp.)

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