When recommending an award-winning nonfiction text for our English class, I decided to base my selections on the following personal criteria: the texts should be engaging, informative, engaging and life-transforming for readers. Based on these personal criteria along with those provided by our instructor, I have formulated the following top three 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 Diseases: The Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. While all three texts met my criteria, we were only asked to recommend one. The Emperor of All Diseases will be my first choice as I find it to be the most engaging and life transforming text of the three based on reviews of the lyrics. It's also the least likely text to be found in an English lesson, which makes it even more interesting. According to a recent statistic from the Canadian Cancer Society, approximately 187,600 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in 2013 and approximately 75,500 are expected to die. from it. Cancer is the leading cause of death in Canada, accounting for approximately 30% of all deaths. Children are not exempt from the evil that this implacable enemy of our society is perpetrating. In his review of "The Emperor of All Diseases," reviewer Alexander Linklater noted that Harold Varmus, while accepting the Nobel Prize for the Cellular Origin of Retroviral Oncogenes in 1989, addressed Beowulf: "We have only seen the our monster more clearly and described its scales and fangs in new ways – ways that reveal that a cancer cell is, like Grendel, a distorted version of our normal system...... half of the paper ......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. by The Emperor of All Diseases: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee. The Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America, by Gilbert King Library Book Review, November 24. 2013.Tzu, Sunday. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1771.Sun_Tzu November 24, 2013.Weiner, Jonathan. “The Mind of a Disease.” siddhartha mukherjee cancer biography. The New York Times, November 12, 2010.|