Narrative Nonfiction Titles for Second Choice

 

Barry, John M.             The Great Influenza: The Spic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History.

 

Berendt, John.             Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story.

 

Bowden, Mark.            Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War.

 

Bryson, Bill.                 In a Sunburned Country.

 

Grann, David.              The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon.

 

Grealy, Lucy.              Autobiography of a Face.

 

Haven, Kimmel             A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana.

 

Hochschild, Adam.      King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.

 

Horwitz, Tony             Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before.

 

Junger, Sebastian.      The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea.

 

Karr, Mary.                  The Liar's Club: A Memoir.

 

McBride, James.          The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.

 

McCourt, Frank.           Angela's Ashes: A Memoir.

 

MacIntyre, Ben.           Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal

 

Mezrich, Ben.              Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.

 

Puleo, Stephen.           Dark Tide: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919.

 

Sides, Hampton.          Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War IIÕs Most Dramatic Mission.

 

Somerset, Anne.         The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV.

 

Winchester, Simon      The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.

 

Wolff, Tobias               This Boy's Life: A Memoir.

 

Worrall, Simon.            The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery.