Creative Nonfiction
  • A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
  • A Mind Apart, Suzanne Antonetta
  • The Invention of Solitude, Paul Auster
  • In the Wilderness and Hungry for the World, Kim Barnes
  • Winter, Rick Bass
  • The Boys of My Youth, Jo Ann Beard
  • Readings, Sven Birkerts
  • All But the Waltz and Balsamroot, Mary Clearman Blew
  • My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich
  • Driving with Dvorak, Fleda Brown
  • Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family, Five Thousand Days Like This One, and Clearing Land, Jane Brox
  • Billy Watson's Croker Sack, Franklin Burroughs
  • The Road to San Giovanni, Italo Calvino
  • Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee
  • Stop-Time, Frank Conroy
  • Maps to Anywhere, Truth Serum, and The Bill from my Father, Bernard Cooper
  • A Final Arc of Sky, Jennifer Culkin
  • Halls of Fame, John D'Agata
  • Orphans, Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Five Shades of Shadow, Tracy Daugherty
  • This House of Sky and Heart Earth, Ivan Doig
  • Warrenpoint, Denis Donoghue
  • Heading South, Looking North, Ariel Dorfman
  • Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nick Flynn
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
  • Hawk’s Rest, Gary Ferguson
  • Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Eduardo Galeano
  • The Meadow, James Galvin
  • On Being Blue, William Gass
  • Colored People, Henry Louis Gates
  • Many Circles, Albert Goldbarth
  • Fierce Attachments, Vivian Gornick
  • I Could Tell You Stories and The Florist’s Daughter, Patricia Hampl
  • Nola, Robin Hemley
  • Angela the Upside-down Girl, Emily Hiestand
  • Lost in Translation, Eva Hoffman
  • Falling Off the Map and The Global Soul, Pico Iyer
  • Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album, Theresa Jordan
  • The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr
  • Hole in the Sky: A Memoir, William Kittredge
  • The Last Fine Time and The Rural Life, Verlyn Klinkenborg
  • Local Wonders, Ted Kooser
  • Famous Builder, Paul Lisicky
  • Ghostbread, Sonja Livingston
  • Wild Ride: Earthquakes, Sneezes, and Other Thrills, Bia Lowe
  • A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean
  • The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, Rebecca McClanahan
  • Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
  • John McPhee, any and all
  • Crabcakes, James Alan McPherson
  • The Witness of Combines, Kent Meyers
  • Season of the Body, Brenda Miller
  • Riverwalking, Kathleen Dean Moore
  • The Untouched Minutes, Donald Morrill
  • Speak Memory, Vladimir Nabokov
  • Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Kathleen Norris
  • Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places, Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Are You Somebody?, Nuala O’Faolain
  • Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje
  • Fame & Folly, Quarrel & Quandary, and Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick
  • Increase and On Looking, Lia Purpura
  • Bad Land, Jonathan Raban
  • Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, and Brown (a trilogy), Richard Rodriguez
  • Burning the Days, James Salter
  • Staying Put and The Paradise of Bombs, Scott Russell Sanders
  • The Night Gardener, Marjorie Sandor
  • The Four-Cornered Falcon; Essays on the Interior West and Reaching Keet Seel, Reg Saner
  • The Roads Taken, Fred Setterberg
  • Just Breathe Normally, Peggy Shumaker
  • The Way Winter Comes and The Accidental Traveler: Wayfinding in Alaska, Sherry Simpson
  • Where Rivers Change Direction, Mark Spragg
  • Postcard Memoir, Lawrence Sutin
  • Making an Elephant, Graham Swift
  • Safekeeping and Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas
  • Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders and Vermeer in Bosnia, Lawrence Weschler
  • The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff
  • In Pharoah's Army: Memories of the Lost War and This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff

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Hybrid: Books Combining Fiction & Nonfiction
  • Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane
  • The Coast of Chicago, Stuart Dybek
  • The Bend for Home, Dermot Healy
  • Everything in this Country Must and Dancer, Colum McCann
  • The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
  • The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn, W. G. Sebald

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Anthologies
  • The Fourth Genre, ed. Root and Steinberg, Allyn & Bacon, 2000.
  • The Best American Essays, ed. Robert Atwan, any in the series.
  • Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction, ed. Kitchen, W. W. Norton, 2005.
  • In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction, ed. Kitchen and Jones, W. W. Norton, 1996.
  • In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal, ed. Kitchen and Jones, W. W. Norton, 1999.
  • The Georgia Review: Selected Essays 1947-1996, Vol. 60-61, Winter 2001/Spring 2002.
  • The Next American Essay, ed. John D'Agata, Graywolf, 2003.
  • Tell It Slant, ed. Miller and Paola, McGraw-Hill.

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Journals
  • Creative Nonfiction, 5501 Walnut St., Suite 202, Pittsburgh, PA 15232
  • Fourth Genre, 1405 S. Harrison Rd., 25 Manly Miles Building, East Lansing, MI 48823
  • River Teeth, Dept. of English, Ashland University, Ashland, OH 44805
  • Seneca Review (lyric essays), Hobart-William Smith College, Geneva, NY 14456
  • Brevity (on-line journal of short nonfiction pieces)

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Recent Fiction
  • Jackalope Dreams, Mary Clearman Blew
  • The Thin Place, Kathryn Davis
  • The Spies of Warsaw, Alan Furst
  • Kieron Smith, Boy, James Kelman
  • Atonement, Ian McEwan
  • Twisted Tree, Kent Meyers
  • Strange as this Weather Has Been, Ann Pancake
  • Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson

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Recent Poetry
  • Want, Rick Barot
  • Flight, Linda Bierds
  • Dixmont, Rick Campbell
  • Famous, Kathleen Flenniken
  • Dear Ghosts, Tess Gallagher
  • Winter Tenor, Kevin Goodan
  • The Kitchen Sink, Albert Goldbarth
  • Old Glory, David Huddle
  • The One-Strand River, Richard Kenney
  • The House of Blue Light, David Kirby
  • The Shadow of Sirius, W. S. Merwin
  • Old Heart, Stanley Plumly
  • Failure, Philip Schultz

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