{"id":4018,"date":"2014-08-26T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T13:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2014-08-26T09:46:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T13:46:02","slug":"silas-hansens-fantastic-cnf-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=4018","title":{"rendered":"Silas Hansen’s Fantastic CNF Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love a good reading list.<\/p>\n

The student in me still wants to know what she’s missed and what she should be reading next, whereas the teacher in me is always looking for resources to use and pass on to her students.<\/p>\n

So, when Silas Hansen casually posted this great CNF reading list on Facebook, I asked if I could share it. He points out that it’s not an exhaustive list, nor does he love every book on it. For my part, I often tell my students that reading books that you don’t love can be really good for you too: authors and books with whom I have a combative relationship often stay with me longer than the ones I eat up like candy.<\/p>\n

All this is to say that the list is a start. I predict you’ll find something of interest on it. Happy reading, and thank you, Silas. You can learn more about Silas Hansen here. <\/a><\/p>\n

The List (in no particular order…):<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Notes from No Man\u2019s Land<\/em> by Eula Biss<\/p>\n

Waist-High in the World<\/em> by Nancy Mairs<\/p>\n

Neck Deep and Other Predicaments<\/em> by Ander Monson<\/p>\n

The Partly Cloudy Patriot<\/em> by Sarah Vowell<\/p>\n

Take the Cannoli<\/em> by Sarah Vowell<\/p>\n

Half Empty<\/em> by David Rakoff<\/p>\n

Bad Feminist<\/em> by Roxane Gay<\/p>\n

Portrait of My Body<\/em> by Phillip Lopate<\/p>\n

Somehow Form a Family<\/em> by Tony Early<\/p>\n

Such a Life<\/em> by Lee Martin<\/p>\n

Notes of a Native Son<\/em> by James Baldwin<\/p>\n

The Empathy Exams<\/em> by Leslie Jamison<\/p>\n

The Boys of My Youth<\/em> by Jo Ann Beard<\/p>\n

Men Explain Things to Me<\/em> by Rebecca Solnit<\/p>\n

Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe<\/em> by Bill Bryson<\/p>\n

My Misspent Youth<\/em> by Meghan Daum<\/p>\n

From Our House<\/em> by Lee Martin<\/p>\n

Between Panic and Desire<\/em> by Dinty W. Moore<\/p>\n

Men We Reaped<\/em> by Jesmyn Ward<\/p>\n

Planet of the Blind<\/em> by Stephen Kuusisto<\/p>\n

Wild<\/em> by Cheryl Strayed<\/p>\n

The Last Street Before Cleveland<\/em> by Joe Mackall<\/p>\n

The Year of Magical Thinking<\/em> by Joan Didion<\/p>\n

Hitless Wonder: My Life in Minor League Rock and Roll<\/em> by Joe Oestreich<\/p>\n

Fever Pitch<\/em> by Nick Hornby<\/p>\n

Songbook<\/em> by Nick Hornby<\/p>\n

The Day After the Day After: My Atomic Angst<\/em> by Steven Church<\/p>\n

Carrier: Untangling the Danger in My DNA<\/em> by Bonnie J. Rough<\/p>\n

A Strong West Wind<\/em> by Gail Caldwell<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s Take the Long Way Home<\/em> by Gail Caldwell<\/p>\n

Drinking: A Love Story<\/em> by Caroline Knapp<\/p>\n

Road Song<\/em> by Natalie Kusz<\/p>\n

Brother, I\u2019m Dyin<\/em>g by Edwidge Danticat<\/p>\n

Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy<\/em> by Ira Sukrungruang<\/p>\n

One Hundred Demons<\/em> by Lynda Barry<\/p>\n

Fun Home<\/em> by Alison Bechdel<\/p>\n

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City<\/em> by Nick Flynn<\/p>\n

Angela\u2019s Ashes<\/em> by Frank McCourt<\/p>\n

The Truth Book<\/em> by Joy Castro<\/p>\n

Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa<\/em> by Rigoberto Gonzalez<\/p>\n

I\u2019m Sorry You Feel That Way<\/em> by Diana Joseph<\/p>\n

The Color of Water<\/em> by James McBride<\/p>\n

The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White, Anglo-Saxon Jew<\/em> by Sue William Silverman<\/p>\n

Brothers and Keepers<\/em> by John Edgar Wideman<\/p>\n

This Boy\u2019s Life<\/em> by Tobias Wolff<\/p>\n

Townie<\/em> by Andre Dubus III<\/p>\n

Colored People<\/em> by Henry Louis Gates Jr.<\/p>\n

Stealing Buddha\u2019s Dinner<\/em> by Bich Minh Nguyen<\/p>\n

Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Shadow of Rocky Flatts<\/em> by Kristen Iversen<\/p>\n

Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream<\/em> by H.G. Bissinger<\/p>\n

Assassination Vacation<\/em> by Sarah Vowell<\/p>\n

Slouching Toward Bethlehem<\/em> by Joan Didion<\/p>\n

The White Album<\/em> by Joan Didion<\/p>\n

Salvador<\/em> by Joan Didion<\/p>\n

Pulphead<\/em> by John Jeremiah Sullivan<\/p>\n

Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America<\/em> by B.J. Hollars<\/p>\n

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/em> by Rebecca Skloot<\/p>\n

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife<\/em> by Mary Roach<\/p>\n

Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers<\/em> by Mary Roach<\/p>\n

Salvation on Sand Mountain<\/em> by Dennis Covington<\/p>\n

Motherless Daughters<\/em> by Hope Edelman<\/p>\n

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down<\/em> by Anne Fadiman<\/p>\n

The Orchid Thief<\/em> by Susan Orlean<\/p>\n

In Cold Blood<\/em> by Truman Capote<\/p>\n

Killer Stuff and Tons of Money<\/em> by Maureen Stanton<\/p>\n

A Supposedly Fun Thing I\u2019ll Never Do Again<\/em> by David Foster Wallace<\/p>\n

Consider the Lobster<\/em> by David Foster Wallace<\/p>\n

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