In recommending an award-winning non-fiction text for our English course, I decided to base my selections on the following personal criteria: the texts must be attractive, informative, engaging and life-transforming for readers. Based on these personal criteria as well as those given by our instructor, I selected the following three top choices: The first text is Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys And The Dawn Of a New America, by Gilbert King. The second text is The Year of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, by Saul Friedländer and my third choice is The Emperor of All Maladies: The Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Although all three texts met my criteria, we were asked to recommend only one text. The Emperor of All Maladies will be my first choice because I find it to be the most life-transforming and engaging of the three, based on text reviews. It's also the least likely text you'll find in an English class, which makes it even more interesting. According to a recent statistic from the Canadian Cancer Society, an estimated 187,600 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in 2013 and approximately 75,500 people will die. from there. Cancer is the leading cause of death in Canada, accounting for approximately 30% of all deaths. Children are not safe from the harm committed by this implacable enemy of our society. In his review of "The Emperor of All Diseases," critic Alexander Linklater noted that Harold Varmus, while accepting his Nobel Prize for the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes in 1989, turned to Beowulf : “We only saw our monster more clearly and described its scales and fangs. in a new way – ways that reveal that a cancer cell is, like Grendel, a distorted version of our normal environment......rver, September 16, 2007. Web November 24, 2013. .King, Gilbert, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America, 2012. Print.Linklater, Alexander Rev. from The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee. The Observer, January 23, 2011. Web. November 24, 2013. Mukherjee, Siddhartha The Emperor of All Diseases: The Biography of Cancer, 2010. Print.Taylor, Peter Shawn. The Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America, by Gilbert King Library Book Review, November 24. 2013.Tzu, Soleil. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1771.Sun_Tzu November 24, 2013. Weiner, Jonathan. “The spirit of an illness”. Reverend of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee. The New York Times, November 12, 2010.|