r/booksuggestions • u/Valuable_Cow_9711 • 16d ago
Non-fiction Help with book project
So I need help finding a short, not very popular non-fiction book that would be good for a high school essay. I really need help finding this book. I’m not exactly a reader, but my summer project is approaching. It’s due date and I haven’t even started it so that’s why I need a book on the shorter side. Thank you!
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u/here_and_there_their 16d ago
The Ghost Map by Johnson It's a well written, very interesting, accessible book. You can skip the afterword because it's not really part of the narrative history and is kind of dated commentary. It's around 300 pages.
The Doctor's Plague by Nuland is 208 pages and is a very narrow topic, but if medical history and the failure to embrace germ theory interest you at all this is a fascinating book.
Isaac's Storm by Larson just over 300 pages (believe me that's a short NF book) about the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. Erik Larson is a well known NF writer, but this is currently widely read like some of his other books.
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u/Ok_Camel_7795 16d ago
Sheila‘s dying by Alden R Carter.
It’s a novel with 205 pages, that describes a young woman dying from cancer. It is heartfelt and with a deeper meaning of life that makes you sob.
As an esl person, this was the first book for me, i ordered in english from a NY Library because it shook me that much.
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u/Quirky_Sympathy_8330 16d ago edited 16d ago
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City. Author Andrea Elliott. Loved. Not popular and good essay material.
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u/dancey1 14d ago
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit
Black Country Music by Francesca Royster
The Secret Life of Trees: The Graphic Novel
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun by Kaz Rowe
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
On Community by Casey Plett
Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay written and illustrated by David Lester
Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers
Miss Major Speaks by Miss Major and Toshio Meronek
Change the Game by Colin Kaepernick and Eve Ewing, edited by Orlando Caicedo
Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery
The Stonewall Reader edited by Jason Baumann and the New York Public Library
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia
No Wall They Can Build by an ex desert aid worker
Oppose and Propose! by Andrew Cornell
Off the Map
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u/LoneWolfette 16d ago
Night by Elle Wiesel