Nonfiction Reading!

The Gloucester list is complete. The other list is a work in progress. (You may propose your own book-length researched argument.)
In the comment box please let me know when you have selected a book.
For each book you will submit a quotation response journal of at least ten quotations and responses. Responses should show an understanding of what the quotation means, how the quotation conveys that meaning (rhetorical strategies), how the quotation relates to the work as a whole, and how the quotation connects to yourself, other texts, and/or other learning.

Gloucester Narratives
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
The Last Fish Tale by Mark Kurlansky
The Lone Voyager by Joseph Garland
The Fish and the Falcon by Joseph Garland
The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw
Decline of Fishes by Peter Anastas
Broken Trip by Peter Anastas

Book-length Researched Argument
Technology
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff
The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath by Nicco Mele

Work and the Economy
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and 
Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naoimi Klein
Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government--and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead by David Rothkopf

Sports and Culture
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
How Soccer Explains the World: an Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer
  
Other
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Quiet: The Power of Introverts by Susan Cain [Here's a link to an interview with Cain about how teachers can better engage introverts.]
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander