Non-fiction reading list

by thecloudforest

As if I don’t already have enough to read, I made this list of additional non-fiction — and one book of poetry — to check out, because I can’t seem to concentrate enough to actually read something today. (It doesn’t help that Alaina is always watching TV in the next room.)

1. The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds — Marilyn Yalom

2. A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlenghetti

3. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured and Allied Victory — Ben Macintyre

4. The English Castle — John Goodall

5. Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company — Ray Morris Jr.

6. Bad Land: An American Romance — Jonathan Raban

7. Beyond the 100th Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West — Wallace Stegner

8. The Snow Leopard — Peter Matthiessen

9. Roughing It — Mark Twain

10. We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance — David Howarth

11. Oscar Wilde — Richard Ellmann