Suggested Nonfiction Titles – Please retain this list in your AP Binder – from this list you will select one
work of non-fiction to read and analyze for the SUMMER and for each marking period.
Society & Culture
Alexander, Michelle
Bayoumi, Moustafa
Cain, Susan
Callahan, David
Chang, Leslie
Cullen, David
de Graaf, John
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Gladwell, Malcolm
Gladwell, Malcolm
Gladwell, Malcolm
Glassner, Barry
Hayes, Christopher
Husseini, Rana
Iversen, Jeremy
Jackson, Brooks, & Kathleen
Jamieson
Kirkpatrick, David
Kot, Greg
Kozol, Jonathan
Levitt, Steven, & Stephen Dubner
Novogratz, Jacqueline
Pierce, Charles
Pink, David
Pink, David
Pipher, Mary
Postman, Neil
Quart, Alissa
Schlosser, Eric
Shipler, David
Turkle, Sherry
Wolf, Naomi
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Columbine
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
Murder in the Name of Honor
High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student
unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Health & Medicine
Abramson, John
Brownlee, Shannon
Cahalan, Susannah
Crosby, Mary Caldwell
Earley, Pete
Fadiman, Anne
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Gawande, Atul
Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine
Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our
History
Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and
the Collision of Two Cultures
Eating Animals
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Kidder, Tracy
Kingsolver, Barbara
Park, Clara Claiborne
Pollan, Michael
Pollan, Michael
Sacks, Oliver
Schlosser, Eric
Sheff, David
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure
the World
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter’s Life with Autism
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
Science, Environment, & Technology
Abbey, Edward
Belfiore, Michael
Bryson, Bill
Carr, Nicholas
Carson, Rachel
Casey, Susan
Dawkins, Richard
Dillard, Annie
Freinkel, Susan
Friedman, Thomas
Grandin, Temple
Greenberg, Paul
Hawking, Stephen
Lanier, Jaron
Leonard, Annie
Melville, Greg
Pollan, Michael
Reisner, Marc
Roach, Mary
Skloot, Rebecca
Swidey, Neil
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the
Internet to Artificial Limbs
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Silent Spring
The Wave: In Pursuit of Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
The Selfish Gene
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew
America
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
A Brief History of Time
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and
Our Health—And How We Can Make It Better
Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a
Greener Future
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles
into the Darkness
War
Ambrose, Stephen
Beah, Ishmael
Benedict, Helen
Bowden, Mark
Bradley, James
Caputo, Philip
Filkins, Dexter
Band of Brothers
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Flags of Our Fathers
A Rumor of War
The Forever War
Horwitz, Tony
Junger, Sebastian
Kovic, Ron
O’Brien, Tim
Packer, George
Swofford, Anthony
Wright, Evan
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
War
Born on the Fourth of July
If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Generation Kill
History
Ambrose, Stephen E
Ambrose, Stephen E
Barry, John M.
Brown, Dee
Capote, Truman
Dwyer, Jim
Fraser, Antonia
Gourevitch, Philip
Hochschild, Adam
Krakauer, Jon
Kurlansky, Mark
Larson, Erik
LeDuff, Charlie
Lefkowitz, Bernard
Levine, Bruce
Loewen, James
Temple-Raston, Dina
Tolan, Sandy
Van Tilburg, JoAnne, & Andrew
Tatham
Vowell, Sarah
Wilkerson, Isabel
Winchester, Simon
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s
Eagle’s Nest
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the
American West
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
In Cold Blood
102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories
from Rwanda
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Salt: A World History
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed
America
Detroit: An American Autopsy
Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution that
Transformed the South
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to
Easter Island
Assassination Vacation
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the
Oxford English Dictionary
Sports
Agassi, Andre
Asinof, Eliot
Barry, John M.
Benedict, Jeff
Bissinger, H.G.
Epstein, David
Open: An Autobiography
Eight Men Out: The Black Socks and the 1919 World Series
Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports
The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
Fainaru-Wada, Mark, & Steve
Fainaru
Foer, Franklin
Lewis, Michael
Lewis, Michael
McDougall, Christopher
Oates, Joyce Carol
Yost, Mark
League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for the Truth
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never
Seen
On Boxing
Varsity Green: A Behind the Scenes Look at Culture and Corruption in College Athletics
Memoirs & Biographies
Ahmedi, Farah
Albom, Mitch
Allende, Isabel
Al-Radi, Nuha
Anderson, Terry
Baldwin, James
Baker, Russell
Bragg, Rick
Burroughs, Augusten
Carroll, James
Chang, Nien
Dickerson, Debra
Dillard, Annie
Dinesan, Isak
Eggers, Dave
Filipovic, Zlata
Frankl, Viktor
Gunther, John
Haley, Alex
Harden, Blaine
Hickam, Jr., Homer
Hockenberry, John
Karr, Mary
Katz, Jon
Kaysen, Susanna
Kidder, Tracy
Kincaid, Jamaica
King, Stephen
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Krakauer, Jon
Krakauer, Jon
LaBastille, Anne
Levi, Primo
Louise, Regina
Lyden, Jacki
Malika, Oufir
The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Paula
Baghdad Diaries: A Woman’s Chronicle of War and Exile
Den of Lions: A Startling Memoir of Survival and Triumph
Notes of a Native Son
Growing Up
All Over But the Shoutin’
Running with Scissors
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us
Life and Death in Shanghai
An American Story
An American Childhood
Out of Africa
Zeitoun
Zlata’s Diary
Man’s Search for Meaning
Death Be Not Proud
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in
the West
Rocket Boys
Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
The Liars’ Club
Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho
Girl, Interrupted
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiving
A Small Place
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Into the Wild
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Woodswoman: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness
Survival in Auschwitz
Somebody’s Someone
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
Mandela, Nelson
McBride, James
McCourt, Frank
McCourt, Frank
Momaday, N. Scott
Mora, Pat
Mowat, Farley
Nasar, Sylvia
Nemat, Marina
O’Brien, Dan
Pang-Mei Chang
Plath, Sylvia
Reeve, Christopher
Rodriguez, Luis
Rodriguez, Richard
Rothenberg, Laura
Santiago, Esmerelda
Sebold, Alice
Walls, Jeannette
Williams, Gregory Howard
Wolff, Tobias
Wozniak, Steve, & Gina Smith
Yen Mah, Adeline
Yen Mah, Adeline
Zailckas, Koren
Long Walk to Freedom
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
Tis: A Memoir
Names: A Memoir
House of Houses
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman's Story of Survival Inside an Iranian Prison
Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
Bound Feet & Western Dress: A Memoir
The Bell Jar
Still Me
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriquez
Breathing for a Living: A Memoir
When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir
Lucky: A Memoir
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
This Boy’s Life
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded
Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Falling Leaves
Smashed