1) A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again – David Foster Wallace
2) How to Travel with a Salmon – Umberto Eco
3) The Great Shark Hunt – Hunter S. Thompson
4) Stranger than Fiction – Chuck Palahniuk
5) Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs – Chuck Klosterman
6) Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
7) Consider the Lobster – David Foster Wallace
8) How to be Alone – Jonathan Franzen
9) Armageddon in Retrospect – Kurt Vonnegut
10) The Secret Miracle – Daniel Alarcon
Honorable Mentions:
- The New Journalism – Tom Wolfe
- On Literature – Umberto Eco
- 13 Ways of Looking at a Novel – Jane Smiley
- On Writing – Ernest Hemingway
- A Man Without a Country – Kurt Vonnegut
- Mentors, Muses and Monsters – Elizabeth Benedict
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