Week 8: Assignment 3: 16 Nonfiction Genre Types and 4 books to recommend

1. Contemporary Social Issues: Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates (305.8009)

2. Disaster/Survival: Unbroken by Lauren Hildenbrand (BIO Zamperini)

3. Food: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (BIO Bourdain)

4. Crime: The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule (364.1523)


Assignment 4:

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Any of Bourdain's books are highly entertaining, humorous, and just a little bit TMI. (Don't you ruin Hollandaise sauce for me, Bourdain!!!) His first is a jaunt into the back world of a restaurant I really didn't need to know, but couldn't put down. Anyone familiar with his shows or his brash judging on previous seasons of Top Chef would enjoy his books. Great fiction pairings would be Kitchens of the Great Midwest or Like Water for Chocolate.


The Stranger Beside Me and Any Other Book by Ann Rule.

Know anyone who is addicted to procedural crime shows? Ann Rule's writing style is approachable and knowledgeable. She really gets into the details of the most notorious crimes of the 20th century. Ann Rule's books could also go over well with the crowd who loves fast-paced mysteries.