Nonfiction for AP Lang

Biographies & Memoirs

• American Sniper
• Angela's Ashes
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
  • https://becomingmichelleobama.com/ 
  • CNN Fast Facts about Micheel Obama
• Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
• Galileo's Daughter
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

  • Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells -  (Smithsonian.com) Journalist Rebecca Skloot’s new book investigates how a poor black tobacco farmer had a groundbreaking impact on modern medicine

  • USPHS Syphilis Study

  • Medical Ethics - Opposing Viewpoints (See Mrs. Bosley for the password.)

• Unbroken
  • World War II - History.com
  • 8 things you may not know about Louis Zamperini
  • Biography.com
• Undaunted Courage
  • C-SPAN interview with Professor Ambrose
  • Westward expansion
  • Manifest Destiny
• Hillbilly Elegy by J.D.Vance
  • The Lives of Poor White People
  • LibGuide from Bowling Green State University

Adventure | Nature | Science

• Blink by Malcom Gladwell
  • Gladwell CSPAN speech 2005
  • Why "Blink" Matters: The Power of First Impressions
• Longitude
• The Map That Changed the World
  • Author Interview

  • Rediscovered 'Map That Changed the World' Unveiled to Public

  • Strata Smith: The Man & The Map

  • Simon Winchester at TEDxEast, 2013

• Mapheads
• No Time to Lose
• Plastic
  • Plastic pollution facts and information - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/plastic-pollution/
  • Plastic pollution topic overview via Explora database - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=t6o&AN=87323342 
• Salt
• Stiff
• Talking to Strangers by Malcom Gladwell
  • NPR book review
• The Omnivore's Dilemma

Business

• The Tipping Point
  • Interview with Malcom Gladwell
  • Malcom Gladwell TED Talk - Choice, Happiness, and Spaghetti Sauce
• The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
  • Disney CEO Robert Iger talks with Oprah Winfrey about his life and career at Disney

History

• 1421
• Argo
• The Devil in the White City
  • Gilded Age Pathfinder
• Guns, Germs, and Steel
• The World is Flat
• The Professor and the Madman
• Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan
• What Was Asked of Us
• The Bookseller of Kabul
  • Bookseller of Kabul v. Journalist of Oslo; A Host Is Surprised by His Guest's Account of the Condition of Afghan Women
• Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly
• Killing Kennedy: the end of Camelot by Bill O'Reilly
• Killing Reagan: the violent assault that changed a presidency by Bill O'Reilly
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

• The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb

• The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

Sports

• Eight Men Out
• Glory Road (Don Haskins)
• Red Card 
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/sports/fifa-teixeira-qatar-2022-bribes.html 
  • https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sepp-blatter-announces-resignation-fifa-corruption 

True Crime

• BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All by Bruce Porter
• Columbine by Dave Cullen
  or
  A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold
  • 'A Mother's Reckoning' book review from the New York Times
  • Columbine High School Shootings - history.com
  • Silence is Broken - a Diane Sawyer Special
• A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation by Catherine Crier
  • 2003 Interview with Diane Sawyer 
• Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters by Peter Vronsky
• See What I Have Done (Lizzie Borden) by Sarah Schmidt
• The Lynching of Emmett Till
  • The death of Emmett Till - History.com
  • Jim Crow laws
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • National Civil Rights Museum
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

• Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (by John E. Douglas)

Societal Issues

• American Girls by Nancy Jo Sales
  • Reader's Guide

  • Teen Girls And Social Media: A Story Of 'Secret Lives' And Misogyny - NPR interview with author

• Dopesick by Beth Mac

  • Jump In Overdoses Shows Opioid Epidemic Has Worsened

  • Bashing Big Pharmahttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6461324/

  • Dispatches From A 'Dopesick' America - NPR interview with author

• Evicted by Matthew Desmond
  • Official website - http://www.evictedbook.com/