Reading and Discussing Nonfiction
What nonfiction books are reading groups discussing? In a recent ReadingGroupGuides.com newsletter we asked you to tell us --- and did you ever. We received more email responses than for any question we've asked to date. Well over 100 titles were mentioned. Here are the top 15 (in alphabetical order), including established reading group favorites along with lesser-known books. Tomorrow we'll share comments from group members on specific titles.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik LarsonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar NafisiThe River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
posted by Carol Fitzgerald at
10:00 AM
4 Comments:
Three of those are titles my book group has discussed, two others are ones I've read on my own, and five are already on my TBR list - this is a GREAT group of books!
I read Eat Pray Love .... a couple of the others as well. I really enjoy these type of books especially about other countries. I just find that fascinating.
I've read seven of the books on this list - five of them with my four book clubs!
My book clubs have read 7 of the listed nonfiction choices. We often prepare for the discussion differently when reading nonfiction. Some do miss the fictional storytelling aspect but most members really enjoy and learn when we feature a nonfiction selection.
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