NON-FICTION WORKSHOP READING LIST

Here is the list of books that Barry mentioned at the workshop. Sorry it has taken so long to be posted.

WARRIOR QUEENS by Antonia Fraser
ARC OF JUSTICE: A SAGA OF RACE, CIVIL RIGHTS AND MURDER IN THE JAZZ AGE by Kevin Boyle
A TASTE OF COUNTRY COOKING by Edna Lewis
HOW TO COOK A WOLF by MFK Fisher
UP IN THE OLD HOTEL by Joseph Mitchell
THE PINE BARRENS by John McPhee and Burt Curtsinger
THE BOOK ON THE BOOK SHELF by Henry Petroski
PENCIL: A HISTORY OF DESIGN AND CIRCUMSTANCE by Henry Petroski
STRANGER ON A TRAIN by Jenny Diski
SHIP OF GOLD IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA by Gary Kinder
UNDERTAKING: LIFE STUDIES FROM THE DISMAL TRADE by Thomas Lynch
A HISTORY OF READING by Alberto Manguel
CLOISTER WALK by Kathleen Norris
SHORT WALK IN THE HINDU KUSH by Eric Newby
CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC: DISPATCHES FROM THE UNFINISHED CIVIL WAR by Tony Horwitz
BLUE LATITUDES: BOLDLY GOING WHERE CAPTAIN COOK HAS GONE BEFORE by Tony Horwitz
LONGITUDE: THE TRUE STORY OF A LONE GENIUS WHO SOLVED THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC PROBLEM OF
HIS TIME by Dava Sobel
PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK by Annie Dillard
FARM: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN FARMER by Richard Rhodes
AN AMERICAN PLAGUE: THE TRUE AND TERRIFYING STORY OF THE YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC OF 1793
by Jim Murphy
FROZEN WATER TRADE by Gavin Weightman
CONNECTIONS by James Burke
BOTANY OF DESIRE: A PLANT'S-EYE VIEW OF THE WORLD by Michael Pollan
THE EARTH MOVED: ON THE REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENTS OF EARTHWORMS by Amy Stewart
JULIE AND JULIA: MY YEAR OF COOKING DANGEROUSLY by Julie Powell
UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN by Frances Mayes
SALT: A WORLD HISTORY by Mark Kurlansky
A YEAR IN PROVENCE by Peter Mayle
HOLLAND MANIA by Annette Stott
GRAVE (EVENTUALLY): THOUGHTS ON FAITH by Anne Lamott
FATHER JOE: THE MAN WHO SAVED MY SOUL by Tony Hendra
MY GRANDFATHER'S BLESSINGS: STORIES OF STRENGTH, REFUGE AND BELONGING by Rachel Naomi
Remen
CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD: AND UNCOMMON DIALOGUE by Neale Donald Walsch
IN THE PRESENCE OF MY ENEMIES by Gracia Burnham and Dean Merrill
THROUGH THE GATES OF SPLENDOR by Elizabeth Elliot
A HISTORY OF GOD by Karen Armstrong
TREASURE by Clive Cussler
AMONG GRIZZLIES: LIVING WITH WILD BEARS IN ALASKA by Timothy Treadwell
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE by Aron Ralston
ALIVE by Piers Paul Read
SHADOW DIVERS by Robert Kurson
SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET by Heinrich Harrer
THE UNUSUAL SUSPECT: MY CALLING TO THE NEW HARCORE MOVEMENT OF FAITH by Stephen Baldwin
YOU GOT NOTHING COMING: NOTES FROM A PRISON FISH by Jimmy A. Lerner
THE DEVIL'S TEETH: A TRUE STORY OF OBSESSION AND SURVIVAL AMONG AMERICA'S GREAT WHITE
SHARKS by Susan Casey
AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: POLITICS, PEOPLE AND THE AIDS EPIDEMIC by Randy Shilts
FLU: THE STORY OF THE GREAT INFLUENZA PANDEMIC OF 1918 AND THE SEARCH FROM THE VIRUS
THAT CAUSED IT by Gina Kolata