Non-Fiction Reading List: Autobiographies, Memoirs, Travel Writing, History,

Commentary and Satire

In Cold Blood Truman
Capote
I Know Why the Caged Birds
Sing Maya Angelou
Fast Food Nation Eric

Untold Stories Alan Bennett

Tickling the English Dara
OBriain
Long Walk to Freedom Nelson
Mandela

Schlosser

Anne Frank: The Diary of a

On Writing Stephen King

Young Girl Anne Frank

Maus: A Survivors Tale Art Spiegalman

Eat Pray Love Elizabeth Gilbert

Hiroshima John Hersey

Goodbye to All That Robert

Graves

A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson

The Truth Michael Palin

The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X

A Room of Ones Own Virginia Woolf
A Moveable Feast Ernest

Around the World in 80 Days Michael Palin

Hemingway

1969-1979: The Python Years Michael Palin

Dreams from my Father Barack

Notes from a Small Island

Obama

Bill Bryson

Why We Cant Wait Martin

Shakespeare: The World as

Luther King Jnr.

a Stage Bill Bryson

Orientalism Edward Said

I Can Make You Hate Charlie

The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt

Homage to Catalonia George Orwell
A Child Called It Dave Pelzer
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Bill Bryson
My Booky Wook Russell Brand

Brooker
Back Story David Mitchell
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education
and was Shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafza
Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War by
P.M.H. Bell

The Fry Chronicles Stephen Fry

Remember: One of the best ways to search for non-fiction
that interests you is to search local/internet bookstores
for subjects or people that inspire you! Or you could, of
course, ask your English teacher!