The Book List: Nonfiction selections including essay collections and memoirs.

Alexander, Elizabeth. The Light of the World

Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son 
 
Buechner, Frederick. Telling Secrets
 
Biss, Eula. Notes from No Man’s Land
 
Bremer, Krista. My Accidental Jihad: A Love Story 
 
Caswell, Kurt. In the Sun’s House
 
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me
 
D’Aoust, Renee E. Body of a Dancer
 
Deraniyagala, Sonali. Wave 
 
Deulen, Danielle Cadena. The Riots
 
Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking, also Slouching Toward Bethlehem
 
Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, also An American Childhood
 
Dubus III, Andre. Townie

Fitzgerald, Isaac and MacNaughton, Wendy. Knives and Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) 

Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria. Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life, also Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams 
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Fowler, Connie May. When Katie Wakes

Fujimura, Makoto. Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering
 
Gay, Roxane. Bad Feminist

Gay, Roxane. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Gee, Alison Singh. Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home

Gutkind, Lee. You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction

Haag, Christina. Come to the Edge: A Love Story
 
Irby, Samantha. Meaty
 
Jamison, Leslie. The Empathy Exams
 
Junger, Sebastian. A Perfect Storm, also Tribe
 
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air
 
Kupperman, Kim Dana. I Just Lately Started Buying Wings
 
Lazar, David. The Body of Brooklyn, also Occasional Desire
 
Lamott, Anne. Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
 
Madden, Patrick. Quotidiana, also Sublime Physick
 
Martin, Lee. From Our House, also Turning Bones
 
Merton, Thomas. The Seven Storey Mountain
 
Moore, Dinty W. The Accidental Buddhist

Murakami, Haruki. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
 
Paley, Grace. Just As I Thought
 
Passarello, Elena. Let Me Clear My Throat
 
Quist, Donald. Harbors
 
Riess, Jana. Flunking Sainthood

Riggs, Nina. The Bright Hour

Rhimes, Shonda. Year of Yes
 
Rodriguez, Luis. It Calls You Back. 
 
Roorbach, Bill. Summers With Juliet, also Temple Stream

Scott, Sophfronia. Love's Long Line

Scott, Sophfronia. ​This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World
 
Shapiro, Dani. Devotion
 
Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
 
Strayed, Cheryl. Wild
 
Vivian, Robert. Mystery My Country, also The Least Cricket of Evening
 
Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose
 
Wiesel, Elie. Night
 
Wolff, Tobias. This Boy’s Life
 
Zagajewski, Adam. Another Beauty