AP Language & Composition Non-Fiction
Memoirs:
Colored People, Henry Louis Gates
West with The Night, Beryl Markham
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
Growing Up, Russell Baker
This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff
Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriquez
The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff
In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin
A Monk Swimming, Malachy McCourt
Out of Africa, Isaak Dinesen
The Road From Coorain, Jill Ker Conway
An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
The Color of Water, James McBride
Hand To Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure, Paul Auster
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
Memory, Vladimir Nabokov Naked,
David Sedaris
Travel Narrative:
The Pillars of Hercules, Paul Theroux
The Seasons of Rome, Paul Hofmann
The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux
Balkan Ghosts, Robert Kaplan
Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz
A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg, TimCahill
A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle
Road Fever, Tim Cahill
Coming into the Country, John McPhee
A Walk in The Woods, Bill Bryson
Under the Tuscan Sun, Francis Mayes
Blue Highways, William Least-Heat Moon
Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
Travels with Lisbeth, Lars Eighner
Student’s Name
Essayists and other General Non-Fiction:
The White Album, Joan Didion (essays)
After Henry, Joan Didion (essays)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion (essays)
Salvador, Joan Didion (travel/essays)
The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer (war)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee and Walker Evans (hard to classify)
Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt (political)
Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell (political/war)
Walden, Henry David Thoreau (nature)
The Art of Eating, M.F.K. Fisher (food critic)
I Lost It At the Movies, Pauline Kael (film critic)
Waist-High in the World, Nancy Mairs (essays)
Lincoln at Gettysburg, Garry Wills (history)
Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson (language)
Made in America, Bill Bryson (language)
The Miracle of Language, Richard Lederer (language)
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain (food)
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (food)
Socrates Café, Christopher Phillips (philosophy)
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote (true crime)
Bad, or The Dumbing of America, Paul Fussell (cultural criticism)
Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon, Joe Queenan (cultural criticism)
The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby (cultural criticism)
The Working Poor, David K. Shipler (cultural criticism)
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (cultural criticism)
The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf (cultural criticism)
Into the Buzzsaw, Kristina Borjesson (media studies)
Killed Cartoons, David Wallis (media studies)