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Non-Fiction Narrative Reading Assignment
Suggested Titles

Please note: If you are unfamiliar with a title that sounds interesting, simply check out
the description or plot summary on barnesandnoble.com or amazon.com. If the book is
not available in the school library, try Great River Regional Library or Hennepin County
Library. I may have access to some of the titles or even be willing to order some. See me.
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Philip Carlo
Grayson by Lynne Cox
Tabloid Love: Looking for Mr. Right in All the Wrong Places by Bridget Harrison
Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers
by Amy Sutherland
Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante- Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick D. Winters / Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Beautiful Stranger: A Memoir of an Obsession with Perfection by Hope Donahue Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House by Helen Thomas An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride / Tender Bar: A Memoir by J. R. Moehringer The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder A Million Little Pieces by James Frey The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings by Amy Tan The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story of Longing for Acceptance and Friendship by Dave Pelzer Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks 700 Sundays by Billy Crystal Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad byMike Greenberg A Piece of Cake: A Memoir by Cupcake Brown Battle Ready byTom Clancy Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster My Friend Leonard by James Frey Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc On the Run: A Mafia Childhood by Gregg Hill Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin The Last Season by Eric Blehm Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home by Nando Parrado Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent by Anthony Rapp At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Frederick Douglass Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million by Mark Bowden Black Boy by Richard Wright Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family by Mike Leonard Honeymoon with My Brother: A Memoir by Franz Wisner Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood by Jeffrey Marx Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh American Soldier by Tommy Franks Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman by Joan Anderson 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer / This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s by Margaret Sartor Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller Black like Me by John Howard Griffin Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away by June Cross Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia by Tim Bascom The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life by Laurie Notaro Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love by Carole Radziwill A Walk on the Beach: Tales of Wisdom from an Unconventional Woman by Joan Anderson Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life by Michael Lewis The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny: Life Lessons from Teaching by Phillip Done Rocket Boys: A Memoir by Homer Hickam Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, Vol. 1 by Jean Sasson Sybil by Flora Rhea Schreiber Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations & Reflections on & off the Court by John Wooden You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again: The True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny by Suzanne Hansen When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back by Claire Fontaine Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File by Alan Levy
American Childhood by Annie Dillard
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female by Willa Shalit (Editor)
Cash: An Autobiography by Johnny Cash
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
A Strong West Wind: A Memoir by Gail Caldwell
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless by Susan Jane Gilman
Skin Game: A Memoir by Caroline Kettlewell
Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig
Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy Leggatt (Translator)
Just Checking by Emily Colas
Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D by Lizzie Simon
Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain by Marilee Strong
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas
Name All the Animals: A Memoir by Alison Smith
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem by Marcus J. Borg
The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss
Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table by Ruth Reichl
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina

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