A list of non-fiction books for students to explore.
Other Opening Class reading lists can be found at the bottom of this page.
Down Under or Notes From a Big Country or A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Joe Cinque’s Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law – Helen Garner
Outliers or The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell
Hiroshima – John Hersey
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster – Jon Krakauer
Into The Wild – Jon Krakauer
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal – Eric Schlosser
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man’s Miraculous Survival – Joe Simpson
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation – Lynne Truss
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again – David Foster Wallace
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