Outside Reading Selections                                                              Ms. Chapman

Spring Semester, List 1                                                                     English 10HP

                                   Nonfiction/Memoir List

Select one of the following books to read independently.  Please choose a book that you have not read before. 

Get the book to have in class on Monday, January 30^th (from either the library or a bookstore), and

complete pgs. 1 – 50 by next Friday, February 3^rd.

*The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

*Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

*Bossypants by Tina Fey

*Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich

*Color of Water by James McBride

*Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

*Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

*Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner

*The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

*Growing Up Asian American by Maria Hong (editor)

*Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution by Thomas Friedman

*I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

*In the Land of Giants: My Life in Basketball by Tyrone Bogues

*Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (Into Thin Air or Where Men Win Glory too) 

*Jarhead by Anthony Swoffer

*The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas

*My Forbidden Face: Growing up Under the Taliban by Latifah

*Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher

*Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

*Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion (The Year of Magical Thinking too)

*Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

*The Soloist by Steve Lopez

*Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

*The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Blink or Outliers too)

*Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

*The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

*Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand