TWFH Team Reveals Our Favorite Nonfiction Books
April 25, 2019
Every writer knows that the key to honing their craft is to read, read, and then read some more. After all, the only way to know what good writing looks like is to study the works of good writers.
So, in order to find out where our writers get their inspiration, I sat down with some of the team from The Writers For Hire, to find out what nonfiction books are on their “must reads” list. Here’s what they said:
Barbara Adams:
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Big Sea by Langston Hughes
Stacy Clifford:
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andrés Reséndez
Stephanie Hashagen:
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
I’ll be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Suzanne Kearns:
Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
Erin Larson:
Flori Meeks:
Wintress Odom:
Darkness Visible by William Styron
As the Future Catches You by Juan Enriquez
Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
Douglas Paton:
A River Never Sleeps by Roderick Haig-Brown
Kathy Rinchiuso
Death in Yellowstone by Lee H Whittlesey
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Jennifer Rizzo
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Wells
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey