Category: Non-fiction
Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim OBrien (2019)
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (2015)
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD (1997/2017)
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (2018)
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi (2020)
Burn the Place by Iliana Regan (2019)
Heartland by Sarah Smarsh (2018)
On Tyrany: Twenty lessons from the 20th c by Timothy Snyder (2017)
The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley (2013)
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan (2017)
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein (2019)
Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson (2019) and The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (2017)
The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates (2019)
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi (2019)
Waking up White by Debby Irving (2014)
What the Eyes Don’t See by Mona Hanna-Attisha (2018)
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions byValeria Luiselli (2017)
Becoming by Michelle Obama (2018)
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (2018)
The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko (2013)
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (2018)
I Was at the Auschwitz Crematorium (2011) and I was Doctor Mendel’s Assistant (2001)
Evicted by Matthew Desmond (2016)
American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee (2017)
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (2016)
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathanial Philbrick (2000)
Deep South by Paul Theroux (2015)
Missoula by Jon Krakauer (2015)
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy (2013)
Becoming Nicole: the Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt (2015)
The Opposite of Loneliness: stories and essays by marina Keegan (2014)
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb (2013)
Excellent essays from a variety of 2012-2015 essay anthologies
A few books I’ve enjoyed that are worth noting
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (2014)
The Snow Leopard by Peter Mattheissen (1978; Penguin Classics edition 2008)
On a Farther Shore: Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Sounder (2012)
The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London (1911; 2000 Dover edition)
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (2010)
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1996)
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman (2011)
Time Out by David A. Kelly (2009)
Hidden Americaa by Jeanne Marie Laskas (2012)
Quiet by Susan Cain (2012)
Let’s Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (2013)
**The Best American Essays 2012 ed. by David Brooks
*Mortality by Christopher Hitchens (2012)
