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10.7 - I Think We Can Handle The Truth
July 7th is Tell The Truth Day - In honor of this event read a book of non-fiction written by an author who also writes fiction (EXAMPLE: The Murder of King Tut).

If you need suggestions OR have suggestions for books to read for this task post them here.

What's the verdict on A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. Does this count as nonfiction?

Dionisia wrote: "What's the verdict on A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. Does this count as nonfiction?"

No.

Hahaha. Just checking.

Is philosophy non-fiction? I was thinking of using The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, but I did not know if it would count.

Here's a suggestion for others:
John Lanchester writes primarily fiction (see: The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel ); he also wrote the non-fiction book I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay . (I've already read I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay which is Lanchester's only non-fiction book, so I have to keep looking for an author.)

Alison Weir also writes both fiction and non-fiction centered on medieval England.

Suggestions:

On Writing - Stephen King
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments - David Foster Wallace
The Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
Uncensored: Views & (Re)views - Joyce Carol Oates
Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
Palm Sunday - Kurt Vonnegut
Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
Travels with Charley: In Search of America - John Steinbeck

Cait wrote: "Suggestions:

On Writing - Stephen King
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver
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This is why we are reading bff's! I so want to read [book:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Nicole wrote: "Cait wrote: "Suggestions:

On Writing - Stephen King
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver
[book..."

a couple more [book:I, Asimov: A Memoir|41814] by Isaac Asimov (he has also written a number of other nonfiction books),
and The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham

Frances Mayes (Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy, or Bella Tuscany) would work. Swan is one of her works of fiction.

Oh! Also Speak, Memory by Nabokov.

Manday wrote: "Is philosophy non-fiction? I was thinking of using The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, but I did not know if it would count."

Yes philosophy would be non-fiction.

Non-fiction by Mark Twain:

Would an autobiography of an author count?

Alice wrote: "Would an autobiography of an author count?"

Yeah

I highly recommend:
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
by John Steinbeck
My favorite road trip book.

Permanent Midnight: A Memoir by Jerry Stahl
My favorite book about drug addiction. His biographical fiction book, I Fatty, about Fatty Arbuckle is awesome too.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Fantastic if your interested in the Beats and/or 60s culture. Again, his fiction is good too, especially Bonfire of the Vanities.

Toni Morrison
Playing in the Dark : Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case


Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Nancy Kress
Dynamic Characters
Beginnings, Middles, and Ends
Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint

Elizabeth Berg

Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True
Family Traditions: Celebrations for Holidays and Everyday

Does it have to be a work about a single subject, or could I use a collection of essays like Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities?

Jen B wrote: "Does it have to be a work about a single subject, or could I use a collection of essays like [book:Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities..."

That's fine.

Sandy wrote: "Nicole wrote: "Cait wrote: "Suggestions:

On Writing - Stephen King
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barba..."

I was going to mention innocent man...awesome, didn't get to read it for this challenge, i'l be able to read it for next!

Nicole wrote: "Cait wrote: "Suggestions:

On Writing - Stephen King
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver
[book..."

I highly recommend it! One of my top 5 favorites of all-time.

The non-fiction can be a memoir, correct? I'm thinking of using The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan.

I don't think these have been mentioned yet:

Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir by Mary Higgins Clark
A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family by Lisa See would work.

The View from Serendip by Arthur C. Clarke. He has a couple other nonfiction books, too.

The Exploration of Space. New York: Harper, 1951
Voice Across the Sea. New York: Harper, 1958
Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age. New York: Harper & Row, 1965
Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography. London: Gollancz, 1989
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! : Collected Works 1934-1998. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999
The View From Serendip. Random House. ISBN 0394417968. 1977

I think I'm going with Kick Ass: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen . There's no corruption like South Florida corruption!

Another one which works:
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks

Would Blockade Billy work? I've been trying to figure out what genre it's classified under. The description says it's a true story, but I can't find any other info. Anyone know?

Leigh Ann wrote: "Would Blockade Billy work? I've been trying to figure out what genre it's classified under. The description says it's a true story, but I can't find any other info. Anyone know?"

Hi Leigh Ann. Blockade Billy is a novella, a work of fiction. Here is the .

K! Thanks!

John Scalzi writes sci-fi. He also has a book called Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded. Since this about about real peoples comments on his blog, can I use that?

Jason wrote: "John Scalzi writes sci-fi. He also has a book called Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded. Since this about about real peoples comments on his blog, can I use that?"

That's fine.

Stephen Hawking (A Briefer History of Time) co-authored 2 fiction books with his daughter Lucy. Would this work?

Shannon wrote: "Stephen Hawking (A Briefer History of Time) co-authored 2 fiction books with his daughter Lucy. Would this work?"

That's fine.

I was going to read Piercing Proverbs by Melody Carlson but it's only 84 pages. I'm guessing it's a no?

Lalie Belle (Lavendarlol) wrote: "I was going to read Piercing Proverbs by Melody Carlson but it's only 84 pages. I'm guessing it's a no?"

That's correct it needs to be 100+ pages.

Julie Andrews (Julie Andrews Edwards) has written several children's books, so could I use her memoir Home: A Memoir of My Early Years for this task?

Nicole wrote: "Julie Andrews (Julie Andrews Edwards) has written several children's books, so could I use her memoir Home: A Memoir of My Early Years for this task?"

yes

Does this count as nonfiction?

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28...

Eilis wrote: "Does this count as nonfiction?

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28..."

Yes