The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls

The Mighty Fitz
by Michael Schumacher

Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic
by George W. Hilton

Night
by Elie Wiesel

I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
by Livia Bitton-Jackson

Hana's Suitcase
by Karen Levine

Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned from a Combat Hospital
by Heidi Squier Kraft

Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank

Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
by Jim Sheeler

A Child Called It
by David Pelzer

Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom

Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer

Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
by Theda Perdue

The Concubine's Children
by Denise Chong

(can order through interlibrary loan)

Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser