
In February 2007, she named her favorite five (non-Oxford) non-fiction books:
- Peggy Orenstein, Schoolgirls
- Mark Kurlansky, Salt
- Mary Karr, The Liar’s Club
- Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces
- V. S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival
--Marshal Zeringue