Creative Nonfiction Book Plugs

 

Jo Ann Beard                           The Boys of my Youth

H.G. Bissinger                          Friday Night Lights

Bruce Chatwin                          The Songlines

Harry Crews                            Blood and Grits

                                                A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

Joan Didion                              Slouching Toward Bethlehem

                                                Salvador

Annie Dillard                            An American Childhood

                                                Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Teaching a Stone to Talk

Gretel Ehrlich                            The Solace of Open Spaces

Michael Herr                            Dispatches

A.J. Jacobs                              The Know-It-All

Sebastian Junger                       Fire

The Perfect Storm

Jon Krakauer                           Into Thin Air

Peter Matthiessen                     The Snow Leopard

John McPhee                           Coming into the Country

                                                The Control of Nature

                                                Levels of the Game

                                                Looking for a Ship

Vladimir Nabokov                    Speak, Memory

Stephen O’Shea                       Back to the Front

George Plimpton                       Paper Lion

Ron Rosenbaum                       Travels with Dr. Death

Mark Salzman                          Iron & Silk

Terry Tempest Williams            Refuge