Social Issues
Narrative Nonfiction Genre Study
Glenview Public Library
April 2, 2020
Assignment:
Read two nonfiction books that focus on social issues, such as poverty, racism, violence, gender, sexuality, homelessness, etc.
Titles to consider:
- American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
- Mama’s Boy: A Story From our Americas by Dustin Lance Black
- The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu
- Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Parkland: A Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen
- Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female and Feminist in (white) America by Morgan Jerkins
- An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz
- Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College by Jon Krakauer
- Crazy Horse Weeps: The Challenge of Being Lakota in White America by Joseph Marshall
- Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
- Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
- The Witches are Coming by Lindy West