Non Fiction for High School
     Reading List

Bessinger, H. G.  Friday Night Lights
Burroughs, Augusten Running With Scissors:  A Memoir
Capote, Truman In Cold Blood
Crafts, Hannah &
Henry Louis Gates Jr.  The Bondwoman’s Narrative
Didion, Joan A Year of Magical Thinking
Dillard, Annie Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Doig, Ivan This House of Sky
Douglass, Frederick A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Fadiman, Anne The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Fuller, Alexandra Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight:  An African Childhood
Gilbert, Elizabeth Eat Pray Love
Goldberg, Natalie The Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
Grisham, John The Innocent Man
Hemmingway, Ernest A Moveable Feast
Hooks, Bell Bone Black: A Childhood Memoir
Karr, Mary The Liar’s Club
Cherry
Katz, Jon Katz on Dogs
Kidder, Tracy Mountains Beyond Mountains
King, Stephen On Writing
Larson, Eric Isaac’s Storm
The Devil in White City
McCourt, Frank Angela’s Ashes
‘Tis
Teacher Man
Moehringer, J.R.  The Tender Bar
Mortenson, Greg Three Cups of Tea
Nafisi, Azar Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nazer, Mende Slave
O’Brien, Tim If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home
Sebold, Alice Lucky
Steinbeck, John Travels with Charley
Stewart, Rory The Places in Between
Tammet, Daniel Born on a Blue Day—(Asperger’s)
Thoreau, Henry David Walden
Truss, Lynne Eats, Shoots and Leaves (Grammar)
Walls, Jeanette The Glass Castle:  A Memoir
Wolff, Tobias This Boy’s Life