College Writing
8/31/15
Non-fiction Reading Assignment
Choose from the list below or choose another non-fiction book. Mrs. Schadt must approve your book choice.
You will write a formal passage analysis essay and a short-short book review as well as keep a vocabulary list for this outside reading assignment. All written work is due on 3 due dates: 9/4, 9/18 and 10/2.
Media, Technology & Popular Culture
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherri Turkle
Are you Smart Enough to work for Google?by William Poundstone
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
IGods: How Technology Shapes our Spiritual and Social Lives by Craig Detweiler
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girly-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein
Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins
Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music by Greg Kot
Race:
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Tatum
Sports:
Men at Work by George Will
The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time Football by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyan
The Sport’s Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
Business, Success & Psychology:
A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink.
Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink.
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcom Gladwell
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcom Gladwell
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcom Gladwell
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcom Gladwell
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explains the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley
Continued. . . .
Health, Medicine and Science:
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery by Richard Selzer
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skoot
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
Other Great Non-Fiction:
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Missoula by Jon Krakauer
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Erenreich
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv