Top 5 books I'm dying to read when the book challenge is over

1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs (a classic of city planning)
2. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (woooo impulse buy)
3. Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin by Gray A. Brechin (about San Francisco's elite and the political and environmental havoc they wreaked on California)
4. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
5. Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang

Being on a nonfiction kick is slightly inconvenient when you're in the home stretch of the dumbest New Year's resolution you ever made and trying to finish 6 books in just over a week. Unlike Matt, though, I'm totally willing to sacrifice content for bragging rights and an opportunity to shit-talk. Hello, The Niigata Sake Book!