NONFICTION
An Altar in the World: A
Geography of Faith Taylor (HarperOne,
2009) by Barbara Brown
Crossing Waters, Crossing
Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press, 2006) edited by Tiya Miles and Sharon
P. Holland
Dark Sun: The
Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
(Simon & Schuster, 1995) by Richard Rhodes
Fast Food
Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) by Eric
Schlosser
Fearless
Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir (University of Georgia Press, 2009) by Sue Silverman
God Is Not
Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Twelve, 2007) by Christopher Hitchens
Hell's Angels: A Strange and
Terrible Saga (Random House, 1967) by
Hunter S. Thompson
In Defense of
Food: An Eater's
Manifesto (Penguin, 2008) by Michael Pollen
Letters to Poets: Conversations
About Poetics, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia,
2008) edited by Jennifer Firestone and Dana Teen Lomax
The Letters of
Vincent Van Gogh (Touchstone,
2008) edited by Mark Roskill
Life After
Death: The Burden of Proof (Harmony
Books, 2006) by Deepak Chopra
Life List: A Woman's Quest for
the World's Most Amazing Birds (Bloomsbury,
2008) by Olivia Gentile
Native
American Literatures
(Continuum, 2004) by Suzanne Evertsen Lundquist
On Photography (Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1977) by Susan Sontag
Origins of the
Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language (Random House, 2009) by Patricia T. O'Conner and Stewart
Kellerman
Out of Order, Out of Sight, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (MIT Press, 1996) by Adrian Piper
Ozark Magic
and Folklore (Dover
Publications, 1964) by Vance Randolph
Ozarks Fiddle
Music (Mel Bay
Publications, 2008) by Drew Beisswenger and Gordon McCann
A People's History of
Christianity: The Other Side of the Story
(HarperOne, 2009) by Diana Butler Bass
Queer Eye for
the Straight Guy (Clarkson
Potter, 2004) by Ted Allen et al.
The Rose Metal Press Guide to
Writing Flash Fiction (Rose Metal Press,
2009) edited by Tara L. Masih
Simón Bolívar: A Life
(Yale University Press, 2006) by John Lynch
Sister Nations: Native American
Women Writers on Community (Minnesota
Historical Society Press, 2002) edited by Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe
Twilight of
the Clockwork God: Conversations on Science and Spirituality at the End of an
Age (Council Oak Books,
1999) by John David Ebert
Underground America: Narratives
of Undocumented Lives (McSweeney's Books,
2008) edited by Peter Orner
Words
Overflown by Stars: Creative Writing Instruction and Insight From the Vermont College MFA Program (Story Press, 2009) by
David Jauss
The Writer's
Mind: Interviews With American Authors (University of Arkansas Press, 1989) by Irv Broughton
MEMOIR
All I Need is
Jesus and a Good Pair of Jeans (Revell, 2009) by Susanna Foth Aughtmon
Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From
Iraq (Feminist Press, 2005) by Riverbend
Burro Genius (Rayo, 2004) by Victor Villaseñor
Don't Let's Go
to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Random House, 2001) by Alexandra Fuller
A Heartbreaking
Work of Staggering Genius
(Simon & Schuster, 2000) by Dave Eggers
The Mistress's Daughter (Viking, 2007) by A. M. Homes
Off the Road: My Years With
Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Morrow,
1990) by Carolyn Cassady
The Other Side of Paradise (Scribner, 2009) by Staceyann Chin
The Prince of
Frogtown (Knopf, 2008) by
Rick Bragg
Unlikely
Disciple: A
Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University (Grand Central Publishing, 2009) by Kevin
Roose
