[High School - English] Any Nonfiction suggestions?

[indigo23]

For my AP English class we can select any nonfiction book to read and then write about. I'm having trouble finding a book that will keep my interest. Does anyone know of any great ones?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you! =]

[bluguerrilla]

What type of nonfiction?

[indigo23]

It can be any kind of nonfiction at all! Very vague, which is making it harder to find something...

[devonin]

You might try one of the Constable and Robinson Ltd "A brief history of" series of books.

They are non-fiction accounts of various aspects of history, but written with enough narrative to still be interesting to read and not like a textbook.

I've read the Brief history of the Hundred Years War, and the Crimean War and found them both really interesting.

1 A Brief History of 1917: Russia's Revolutionary Year Roy Bainton
2 A Brief History of British Kings & Queens Mike Ashley
3 A Brief History of British Sea Power David Howarth
4 A Brief History of CBT Chris Hamilton
5 A Brief History of Christianity Bamber Gascoigne
6 A Brief History of Circumnavigators Derek Wilson
7 A Brief History of Cocaine Steven Karch
8 A Brief History of Globalization Alexander McGillivary
9 A Brief History of Infinity Brian Clegg
10 A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain Michael Paterson
11 A Brief History of Medicine Paul Strathern
12 A Brief History of Medieval Warfare Peter Reid
13 A Brief History of Misogyny Jack Holland
14 A Brief History of Modern Warfare Richard Connaughton
15 A Brief History of Mutiny Richard Woodman
16 A Brief History of Napoleon in Russia Alan Palmer
17 A Brief History of Painting Roy Bolton
18 A Brief History of Rock 'n' Roll Nick Johnstone
19 A Brief History of Science Thomas Crump
20 A Brief History of Secret Societies David V. Barrett
21 A Brief History of Stonehenge Aubrey Burl
22 A Brief History of the Age of Steam Thomas Crump
23 A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons Geoffrey Hindley
24 A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis Nigel Jones
25 A Brief History of the Boxer Rebellion Diana Preston
26 A Brief History of the Celts Peter Berresford Ellis
27 A Brief History of the Cold War John, Colonel Hughes-Wilson
28 A Brief History of the Crimean War Alexis Troubetzkoy
29 A Brief History of the Crusades Geoffrey Hindley
30 A Brief History of the Druids Peter Berresford Ellis
31 A Brief History of the End of the World Simon Pearson
32 A Brief History of the Freemasons Jasper Ridley
33 A Brief History of the Future Oona Strathern
34 A Brief History of the Great Moghuls Bamber Gascoigne
35 A Brief History of the Hundred Years War Desmond Seward
36 A Brief History of the Magna Carta Geoffrey Hindley
37 A Brief History of the Middle East Christopher Catherwood
38 A Brief History of the Normans Francois Neveux
39 A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors Anthony Blond
40 A Brief History of the Royal Flying Corps Ralph Barker
41 A Brief History of the Tudor Age Jasper Ridley
42 A Brief History of the Universe J.P. McEvoy
43 A Brief History of the Vikings Jonathan Clements
44 A Brief History of the Wars of the Roses Desmond Seward
45 A Brief History of Women and the Vote Jad Adams

[esupin]

Angela's Ashes. It's an autobiography written like a novel.

[GuidoHunter]

Zero: the biography of a bad idea (Charles Seife)

Pretty easy read, and interesting how young the mathematical concept is and how it was reasoned/developed.

For some much heavier (though not much more complicated) reading, read "Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life". AMAZING book which explains how almost every part of life can be reduced simply to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

--Guido

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