Non-fiction books for fiction lovers
Submitted by 7days on Wed, 05/16/2001 - 07:41
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- Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity - Primo Levi
- A Survivor of the Holocaust - Jack Eisner
- Playing for Time - Fania Fenelon
- A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days when God Wore a Swastika - Alfons Heck
- A Walk in the Wood: Rediscovering Life on the Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson
- All Over but the Shoutin' - Rick Bragg
- No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City - Katherine Newman
- Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There - David Brooks
- I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years Vol. I - Victor Klemperer
- The Clustered World: How We Live, What We Buy and What It All Means About Who We Are - Michael Weiss
- A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League - Ron Suskind
- Home Town - Tracy Kidder
- 8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangsters - Gini Sikes
- No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court - Edward Humes
- The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide - Robert Lifton
- Once In A House On Fire - Andrea Ashworth
- Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors - Helen Epstein
- Danger, Duty & Disillusion: The Worldview of Los Angeles Police Officers - Joan Barker
- The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride
- The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats - Jim Goad
Author Comments:
This is a list of books I have read in 2001. Since I am a compulsive reader, this list will be ever changing.
7days, this is a fascinating list and deserves to be read by all listologists. I'm dismayed to say I haven't read any of the items here, but most of them sound worthwhile.
Why thank you very much. I have a little different taste in non-fiction books because they really involve the human experience as opposed to just the facts ma'am. I'm glad you liked it.
I'm confused by the list name - why not recently read, or read in 200*? Because I read this as actually recommendations for fiction readers, and they weren't really working for me.
I mean, I'm sure they're great books, but as a fiction reader, I am usually looking to escape from harsh realities. And I don't think that books about war or the Holocaust fit that description. So the list title is quite misleading.